ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,805, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Providing pre-computed hotword models" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, for each of multiple words or sub-words, audio data corresponding to multiple users speaking the word or sub-word; training, for each of the multiple words or sub-words, a pre-computed hotword model for the word or sub-word based on the audio data for the word or sub-word; receiving a candidate hotword from a computing dev...