US 11,908,452 B1Granted

Alternative input representations for speech inputs

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSixing Lu, Chengyuan Ma, Chenlei Guo, Fangfu Li

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Abstract

Techniques for presenting an alternative input representation to a user for testing and collecting processing data are described. A system may determine that a received spoken input triggers an alternative input representation for presenting. The system may output data corresponding to the alternative input representation in response to the received spoken input, and the system may receive user feedback from the user. The system may store the user feedback and processing data corresponding to processing of the alternative input representation, which may be later used to update an alternative input component configured to determine alternative input representations for spoken inputs.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, from a device, first audio data representing a first spoken natural language input;
determining that the first spoken natural language input corresponds to a first alternative input representation for which processing data is to be collected;
determining a first number of times the first alternative input representation is to be tested;
determining a counter value for the first alternative input representation, the counter value representing a second number of times the first alternative input representation has been presented for collecting processing data;
determining the first number of times is different than the second number of times;
in response to the first number of times being different than the second number of times, generating first output data requesting confirmation to perform an action using the first alternative input representation;
sending the first output data to the device;
receiving, from the device, second audio data representing user feedback corresponding to the first output data;
and
storing the first alternative input representation and the user feedback for updating an alternative input component configured to determine alternative input representations for spoken natural language inputs.

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A system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
receive first audio data representing a spoken natural language input;
determine, based at least in part on the spoken natural language input, a first alternative input representation is to be presented to a user for collecting processing data corresponding to the first alternative input representation;
determine a counter value representing a number of times the first alternative input representation has been presented for collecting processing data;
determine the counter value is less than a threshold value;
generate first output data using the first alternative input representation;
cause presentation of the first output data;
receive user feedback corresponding to the first output data;
and
store the first alternative input representation and the user feedback for updating an alternative input component.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.