ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,234, issued on May 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Enhancing signature word detection in voice assistants" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Maharashtra, India) and Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods detecting a spoken sentence in a speech recognition system are disclosed herein. Speech data is buffered based on an audio signal captured at a computing device operating in an active mode. The speech data is buffered irrespective of whether the speech data comprises a signature word. The buffered speech data is processed to detect a presence of the sen...