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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raziel Alvarez Guevara, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Hyun Jin Park, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/16 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one neuron. Each neuron includes a respective memory component, a first stage configured to perform filtering on audio features of each input frame individually and output to the memory component, and a second stage configured to perform filtering on all the filtered audio features residing in the respective memory component. The method also includes determining whether the probability score satisfies a hotword detection threshold and initiating a wake-up process on the user device for processing additional terms.


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