ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,549, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Gatekeeping for voice intent processing" was invented by Valentin Fage (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France), Daniel Fernandez-Castro (Paris), Bjay Watanabe Kamwa (Paris), Dokyun Kim (Paris), Sebastien Maury (Paris), Rosa Stern (Paris) and Joseph Dureau (Pantin, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an audio playback device having at least one microphone captures a voice input. The playback device detects, within the voice input, at least one keyword from among a plurality of command keywords supported by the playback device. The playback device dete...