ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,416, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detecting near matches to a hotword or phrase" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for identifying a failed hotword attempt. A method includes: receiving first audio data; processing the first audio data to generate a first predicted output; determining that the first predicted output satisfies a secondary threshold but does not satisfy a primary threshold; receiving second audio data; processing the second audio data to generate a second predicted ...