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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Avani Deshpande, Bothell, WA (US);
Jie Liang, Bothell, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/07 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G06N 5/042 (2013.01); G10L 15/005 (2013.01); G10L 15/07 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system is provided for using voice characteristics in determining a user intent corresponding to an utterance. The system processes a NLU hypothesis and voice characteristics data, using a trained model, to determine an alternate NLU hypothesis based on the voice characteristics data. The voice characteristics data may indicate if a user's level of uncertainty when speaking the utterance, an age group of the user, a sentiment of the user when speaking the utterance, and other data.