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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Vladimir Sejnoha, Lexington, MA (US);
Paul Adrian Van Mulbregt, Wayland, MA (US);
Glen Edward Wilson, Maynard, MA (US);
William F. Ganong, Iii, Brookline, MA (US);
Vladimir Sejnoha, Lexington, MA (US);
Paul Adrian Van Mulbregt, Wayland, MA (US);
Glen Edward Wilson, Maynard, MA (US);
William F. Ganong, III, Brookline, MA (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving, by the mobile device, acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command from a user without requiring receipt of an explicit trigger from the user, and initiating responding to the detected voice command.