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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2023
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chaitanya Gharpure, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Evan Fisher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Liu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Peng Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Emily Hou, Mountain View, CA (US);
Victoria Fang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to detect when a user has discontinued reading a text source. An example method includes receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with a text source, comparing the audio data with data of the text source, determining, based on the comparing, whether a segment of the audio data corresponds to a location of the text source, and responsive to determining that the segment of the audio data does not correspond to a location of the text source, transmitting a signal indicating that a user has discontinued reading the text source, the signal causing to cease the comparing of the audio data with the data of the text source.