US 10,313,845 B2 · Proactive speech detection and alerting

Proactive speech detection and alerting

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsAnirudh Koul, Venkata Naga Vijaya Swetha Machanavajhala, Stéphane Morichère-Matte, David Dai Wei Zhang, Anass Al-Wohoush, Jan Ervin Mickel Takata Clarin, Sheng-Ting Lin, Sitthinon Jinaphant, Shery Sharonjit Sumal

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Abstract

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe proactive speech detection on behalf of a user and alerting the user when a specific word, name, etc. is detected. Speech detection is actively executed through a computing device, where the speech detection analyzes spoken utterances in association with a dynamic grammar file stored locally on the computing device. An alert is generated that indicates when a spoken word of the utterances matches a word stored in the dynamic grammar file. The alert may be displayed, for example, through the computing device. The alert provides indication that the spoken word is identified in the spoken utterances. In further examples, a buffered window of the spoken utterances is captured which is associated with a detection of the specific word. A live transcription of the content in the buffered window is generated and provided to a computing device of the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, through a user computing device, a user input identifying a word for a user-defined grammar file;
dynamically updating the user-defined grammar file to comprise the word;
actively executing, through the computing device, speech detection that analyzes a spoken utterance in association with the user-defined grammar file stored locally on the computing device;
detecting that a spoken word of the spoken utterance matches the word stored in the user-defined grammar file;
generating, based on the detecting, an alert that indicates that the word is identified in the spoken utterance;
and
displaying, through the computing device, the alert.

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A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a memory, operatively connected with the at least one processor, storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to execute a method that comprises:
receiving, through a user computing device, a user input identifying a word for a user-defined grammar file;
dynamically updating the user-defined grammar file to comprise the word;
actively executing, through the computing device, speech detection that analyzes a spoken utterance in association with the user-defined grammar file stored locally on the computing device;
detecting that a spoken word of the spoken utterance matches the word stored in the user-defined grammar file;
generating, based on the detecting, an alert that indicates that the word is identified in the spoken utterance;
and
displaying, through the computing device, the alert.

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A computer storage media computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to execute a method comprising:

receiving, through a user computing device, a user input identifying a word for a user-defined grammar file;
dynamically updating the user-defined grammar file to comprise the word;
actively executing, through the computing device, speech detection that analyzes a spoken utterance in association with the user-defined grammar file stored locally on the computing device;
detecting that a spoken word of the spoken utterance matches the word stored in the user-defined grammar file;
generating, based on the detecting, an alert that indicates that the word is identified in the spoken utterance;
and
displaying, through the computing device, the alert.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/615,607Filed 6 Jun 2017

Published

US 2018/0352390 A16 Dec 2018

Granted

4 Jun 2019

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Classification10 codes

H04W 4/12
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
G10L 15/08
Speech recognition: speech classification or search
G10L 15/26
Speech recognition: speech to text systems
G10L 15/30
Constructional details of speech recognition systems: distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network…