US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 26 for "Adapting hotword recognition based on personalized negatives" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,654, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adapting hotword recognition based on personalized negatives" was invented by Aleksandar Kracun (New York) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adapting hotword recognition includes receiving audio data characterizing a hotword event detected by a first stage hotword detector in streaming audio captured by a user device. The method also includes processing, using a second stage hotword detector, the audio data to determine whether a hotword is detected by the second stage hotword detector in a first segment ...