Competing devices responding to voice triggers
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsBrandon J. Newendorp, Evan S. Dibiase
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Abstract
At a first electronic device with a display and a microphone: sampling audio input using the first microphone; in accordance with the sampling of audio input using the first microphone, sending stop instructions to a second electronic device with a second microphone, the second electronic device external to the first electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is configured to respond to audio input received using the second microphone, and wherein the stop instructions instruct the second electronic device to forgo responding to audio input received using the second microphone, wherein responding to audio input received using the second microphone comprises providing perceptible output.
Claims66
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a first electronic device with a first microphone, cause the first electronic device to:
- determine whether a condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met;
- responsive to determining that the condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met:
- sample an audio input using the first microphone, wherein the audio input is sampled before initiating a virtual assistant session on a second electronic device with a second microphone;
- and
- in accordance with sampling the audio input using the first microphone, send stop instructions to the second electronic device, the second electronic device external to the first electronic device,
- wherein the second electronic device is configured to respond to the audio input received using the second microphone, and
- wherein the stop instructions instruct the second electronic device to forgo responding to the audio input received using the second microphone.
A method, comprising:
- at a first electronic device with a first microphone:
- determining whether a condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met;
- responsive to determining that the condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met:
- sampling an audio input using the first microphone, wherein the audio input is sampled before initiating a virtual assistant session on a second electronic device with a second microphone;
- and
- in accordance with the sampling of the audio input using the first microphone, sending stop instructions to the second electronic device, the second electronic device external to the first electronic device,
- wherein the second electronic device is configured to respond to the audio input received using the second microphone, and
- wherein the stop instructions instruct the second electronic device to forgo responding to the audio input received using the second microphone.
A first electronic device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory;
- a first microphone;
- and
- one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- determining whether a condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met;
- responsive to determining that the condition associated with activation of the first electronic device is met:
- sampling an audio input using the first microphone, wherein the audio input is sampled before initiating a virtual assistant session on a second electronic device with a second microphone;
- and
- in accordance with the sampling of the audio input using the first microphone, sending stop instructions to the second electronic device, the second electronic device external to the first electronic device,
- wherein the second electronic device is configured to respond to the audio input received using the second microphone, and
- wherein the stop instructions instruct the second electronic device to forgo responding to the audio input received using the second microphone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.