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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin S. Phipps, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sachin Kajarekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eugene Ray, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kisun You, Campbell, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes for operating an intercom system via a digital assistant are provided. The intercom system is trigger-free, in that users communicate, in real-time, via devices without employing a trigger to speak. Acoustic fingerprints are employed to associate users with devices. Acoustic fingerprints include vector embeddings of speech input in an acoustic-feature vector space. Speech heard at multiple devices, as embedded in a fingerprint, may be clustered in the vector space, and the structure of the clusters is employed to associate users and devices. Based on the fingerprints, a device is mapped to a user, and the user employs that device to participate in a conversation, via the intercom service.