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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2010
Gregory M. Hart, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Ian W. Freed, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregg Elliott Zehr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle Area, WA (US);
Gregory M. Hart, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Ian W. Freed, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregg Elliott Zehr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle Area, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A user can provide input to a computing device through various combinations of speech, movement, and/or gestures. A computing device can analyze captured audio data and analyze that data to determine any speech information in the audio data. The computing device can simultaneously capture image or video information which can be used to assist in analyzing the audio information. For example, image information is utilized by the device to determine when someone is speaking, and the movement of the person's lips can be analyzed to assist in determining the words that were spoken. Any gestures or other motions can assist in the determination as well. By combining various types of data to determine user input, the accuracy of a process such as speech recognition can be improved, and the need for lengthy application training processes can be avoided.