Conditionally assigning various automated assistant function(s) to interaction with a peripheral assistant control device

#Humans may engage in human-to-computer dialogs with interactive software applications referred to herein as “automated assistants” (also referred to as “digital agents,” “chatbots,” “interactive personal assistants,” “intelligent personal assistants,” “assistant applications,” “conversational agents,” etc.). For example, humans (which when they interact with automated assistants may be referred to as “users”) may provide commands and/or requests to an automated assistant using spoken natural language input (i.e. utterances), which may in some cases be converted into text and then processed, and/or by providing textual (e.g., typed) natural language input. An automated assistant responds to a request by providing responsive user interface output, which can include audible and/or visual user interface output.

#In many cases, users provide spoken utterances to cause an automated assistant to perform various actions. However, extensive computational and/or network resources can be utilized in processing spoken utterances to perform automated assistant actions. For instance, an automated assistant action of turning on a smart light can be accomplished by transmitting a corresponding command to the smart light directly, or to a third-party server that processes the command, then transmits a corresponding command to the smart light. However, in performing such an action in response to a spoken utterance of “Assistant, turn on smart light X”, speech-to-text processing is performed on audio data that captures the spoken utterance, natural language processing is performed based on the resulting text, and then the corresponding command is determined. Further, where speech-to-text and/or natural language processing is performed remotely, audio data and/or other data will need to be transmitted over one or more networks.

#Implementations set forth herein relate to causing an automated assistant to perform one or more actions responsive to a user interacting with a peripheral assistant control device. The peripheral assistant control device can be paired (e.g., via Bluetooth or other communications protocol) with an assistant computing device that includes an automated assistant interface and that alone and/or through interaction with remote automated assistant components, enables performance of various automated assistant functions. In response to user interaction with the peripheral assistant control device, output can be provided by the peripheral assistant control device to the paired assistant computing device. In response to receiving the output, the paired assistant computing device can initiate the performance of one or more automated assistant actions/functions. Implementations described herein may serve to increase the utility of peripheral assistant control devices such that fewer peripheral assistant control devices may be required to enable performance of a given number of automated assistant functions. In addition, some implementations may facilitate/reduce the complexity of configuration of the peripheral assistant control devices. Furthermore, since the peripheral assistant control devices may reduce the amount of speech recognition processing (and associated bandwidth usage etc.) that is required by the automated assistant system, increasing the utility/functionality of the peripheral assistant control devices may serve to further reduce the processing, bandwidth etc. that is utilized by the automated assistant system as a whole.

#FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B illustrate views of a peripheral assistant control device having functions that are separately assigned according to whether a particular user is determined to be present in an area that includes the peripheral assistant control device.

#FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B illustrate views of control of one or more functions being assigned to a peripheral assistant control device based on a location of the peripheral assistant control device.

#FIG. 3 illustrates a system for assigning control, over one or more executable assistant functions, to a peripheral assistant control device according to whether one or more different conditions are satisfied.

#FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B illustrate a view 100 and a view 130 of a peripheral assistant control device 112 having functions that are separately assigned according to whether a particular user is determined to be present in an area that includes the peripheral assistant control device 112. Specifically, FIG. 1A illustrates a view 100 of a peripheral assistant control device 112 being assigned a first assistant function when a first user 106 is determined to be present in a location of the peripheral assistant control device 112, and/or otherwise determined to be proximate to the peripheral assistant control device 112. For example, when a first user 106 is determined to be located within an area 128 of their home 126 (e.g., a kitchen of the home), the peripheral assistant control device 112 can reassigned control of a first assistant function (e.g., turn on/off kitchen lights). However, when the user is determined to have relocated away from the area 128 and/or the home 126, as illustrated in FIG. 1B, and/or a second user 108 is determined to the present within the area 128 of the home 126, and/or otherwise proximate to the peripheral assistant control device 112, the peripheral assistant control device 112 can be assigned to control of a second assistant function (e.g., play music at a first client device 110).

#For instance, the first user 106 can provide a request to an application accessible via a computing device for requesting that the peripheral assistant control device 112 control lights in their kitchen when the first user 106, specifically, is interacting with the peripheral assistant control device 112. Additionally, the second user 108 can also use an application for requesting that the peripheral assistant control device 112 control music rendered by the first client device 110 when the second user 108, specifically, is interacting with the peripheral assistant control device 112. Thereafter, when the first user 106 is determined to by present and interacting with the peripheral assistant control device 112, the peripheral assistant control device 112 can be assigned control over the lights in the kitchen. Therefore, any interaction with between the first user 106 and the peripheral assistant control device 112 at that time will result in operations of the kitchen lights being modified. Furthermore, when the first user 106 is no longer present, but the second user 108 is present and interacting with the peripheral assistant control device 112, any interactions between the second user 108 and the peripheral assistant control device 112 will result in causing the first client device 110 to render music based on the interactions.

#In some implementations, a server device 120 and/or a client device can consider either the first user 106 or the second user 108 “active” with respect to their ability to influence assignment of controls for the peripheral assistant control device 112. Furthermore, whether a particular user is “active” with respect to the peripheral assistant control device 112 can be based on a voice identification of the first user 106 and/or the second user 108. For instance, and with previous permission from the first user 106, the first client device 110 and/or the server device 120 can perform speech processing to determine whether the first user 106 has provided a recent spoken utterance to the first client device 110. If the first user 106 has been identified, based on voice characteristics of the first user 106, to have been the user who most recently provided the spoken utterance, the peripheral assistant control device 112 can be assigned control over one or more particular functions (e.g., controlling the kitchen lights) as preferred by the first user 106. Furthermore, the second user 108 can subsequently interact with the first client device 110 by providing a spoken utterance. The first client device 110 and/or the server device 120 can identify the second user 108 as the user who provided the subsequent spoken utterance, and cause the peripheral assistant control device 112 to be assigned control over one or more other particular functions (e.g., controlling music rendered by the first client device 110) as preferred by the second user 108.