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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph White, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Kiran Rachakonda, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinodth Kumar Mohanam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lalithkumar Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepak Uttam Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Maziyar Khorasani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.