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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2011
Lisa J. Stifelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anne K. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam D. Elman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Larry Paul Heck, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stephanos Tryphonas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kamran Rajabi Zargahi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ken H. Thai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lisa J. Stifelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anne K. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam D. Elman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Larry Paul Heck, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stephanos Tryphonas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kamran Rajabi Zargahi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ken H. Thai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described herein that are capable of satisfying specified intent(s) based on multimodal request(s). A multimodal request is a request that includes at least one request of a first type and at least one request of a second type that is different from the first type. Example types of request include but are not limited to a speech request, a text command, a tactile command, and a visual command. A determination is made that one or more entities in visual content are selected in accordance with an explicit scoping command from a user. In response, speech understanding functionality is automatically activated, and audio signals are automatically monitored for speech requests from the user to be processed using the speech understanding functionality.