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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Thomas Schaaf, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Stan Weidner Salvador, Tega Cay, SC (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
In some cases, a handheld device that includes a microphone and a scanner may be used for voice-assisted scanning. For example, a user may provide a voice input via the microphone and may activate the scanner to scan an item identifier (e.g., a barcode). The handheld device may communicate voice data and item identifier information to a remote system for voice-assisted scanning. The remote system may perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) operations on the voice data and may perform item identification operations based on the scanned identifier. Natural language understanding (NLU) processing may be improved by combining ASR information with item information obtained based on the scanned identifier. An action may be executed based on the likely user intent.