ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,802, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Wake-word detection suppression" was invented by Jonathan P. Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques involve suppressing a wake word response to a local wake word. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving audio content for playback by the playback device and providing a sound data stream representing the received audio content to a voice assistant service (VAS) wake-word engine and a local keyword engine. The playback device plays back a first portion of the audio content and detects, via the local ...