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Patent No.:

US 11157696 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

David Paul Ramos, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ameya Ashok Limaye, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for performing entity resolution as part of natural language understanding processing are described. During offline operations, a system may convert text (representing entities known to the system) into audio of various languages. The languages into which the text is converted may depend on the location where the entity is likely to be spoken by users of the system. At runtime, the system processes a user input using text-based entity resolution. If text-based entity resolution fails, the system may identify user speech corresponding to an entity to be resolved, and attempt to phonetically match the user speech to the audio of the known entities. Results of the phonetic entity resolution may then used by downstream components, such as skills.


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