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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2021
Cerence Operating Company, Burlington, MA (US);
William F. Ganong, III, Brookline, MA (US);
Paul A. Van Mulbregt, Wayland, MA (US);
Vladimir Sejnoha, Lexington, MA (US);
Glen Wilson, Maynard, MA (US);
CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY, Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command.