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Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Stanislaw Ignacy Pasko, Zawonia, PL;

Ross William McGowan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Aliaksei Kuzmin, Gdansk, PL;

Rui Liu, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G10L 15/19 (2013.01);
Abstract

A speech interface device is configured to perform natural language understanding (NLU) processing in a manner that optimizes the use of resources on the speech interface device. In an example process, a domain classifier(s) is used to generate domain classifier scores associated with multiple candidate domains, and the candidate domains can then be evaluated, one candidate domain at a time, in accordance with the domain classifier scores (e.g., starting with a highest scoring candidate domain). For each candidate domain undergoing the evaluation, input data is by that domain's NLU model(s), and, as soon as a domain-specific NLU model(s) produces a NLU result with a confidence score that satisfies a threshold confidence score, the evaluation can be stopped for any remaining candidate domains.


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