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Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2022
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Hoseon Shin, Suwon-si, KR;

Chulmin Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 2025/783 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device and method are provided. The method includes identifying a speech section of a user and a speech section of a neighbor in a received audio signal, identifying a user utterance in the speech section of the user and a neighbor answer to the user utterance in the speech section of the neighbor, obtaining preference information associated with the user utterance, giving a first reliability to the neighbor answer and a second reliability to an agent answer of an artificial intelligence agent generated in response to the user utterance, based on the preference information, not responding to the user utterance when the second reliability is lower than the first reliability, and outputting the agent answer when the second reliability is equal to or higher than the first reliability.


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