ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,884, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Hotword detection on multiple devices" 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 hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a first value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further incl...