Pausing functions of an assistant device during an active telephone call

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer device to cause a computing device to:

• receive a pause instruction from the user device based on the user device detecting that a call has started on the user device;
• identify one or more assistant devices registered to the user device based on the receiving the pause instruction;
• provide the pause instruction to the one or more assistant devices, the pause instructions causing the one or more assistant devices to disable speech response functions of the respective one or more assistant devices;
• receive a resume instruction from the user device based on the user device detecting that a call has ended on the user device;
• and
• provide the resume instruction to the one or more assistant devices based on the receiving the resume instructions, the resume instruction causing the one or more assistant devices to resume speech response functions,
• wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to receive location information of the user device as part of the receiving the pause instruction, and wherein the identifying the one or more assistant devices is based on the location information.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;
• program instructions to receive a pause instruction based on a user device detecting that a call has started on the user device;
• program instructions to disable speech input response functions based on receiving the pause instruction;
• program instructions to receive a resume instruction based on the user device detecting during monitoring of calling activity on the user device that a mute function of the user device has been activated;
• and
• program instructions to resume speech input response functions based on receiving the resume instruction,
• wherein the pause instruction and the resume instruction comprise location information of the user device, and
• wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.