ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,716, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Wakewordless voice quickstarts" was invented by Alice Coucke (Paris), Theodore Bluche (Paris), Julien Balian (Paris) and Raffaele Tavarone (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As noted above, example techniques relate to local voice control. A device may monitoring an input sound-data stream representing sound detected by the one or more microphones for keywords and generate a first keyword detection event corresponding to a voice input when one or more keyword engines detect sound data matching at least one first keyword of the one or more keywords. The device de...