US 2017/0256256 A1Published application

Developer voice actions system

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsBo Wang, Sunil Vemuri, Barnaby John James, Scott B. Huffman, Pravir Kumar Gupta

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, by a voice action system, data specifying a new voice action for an application different from the voice action system. A voice action intent for the application is generated based at least on the data, wherein the voice action intent comprises data that, when received by the application, requests that the application perform one or more operations specified for the new voice action. The voice action intent is associated with trigger terms specified for the new voice action. The voice action system is configured to receive an indication of a user utterance obtained by a device having the application installed, and determines that a transcription of the user utterance corresponds to the trigger terms associated with the voice action intent. In response to the determination, the voice action system provides the voice action intent to the device.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a voice action system, data defining a new voice action that does not currently exist for a software application installed on one or more devices, the software application being different from said voice action system, the data indicating one or more operations for the software application to perform the new voice action and one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
generating, by the voice action system, a voice action passive data structure based at least on the data defining the new voice action, wherein the voice action passive data structure comprises data that, when received by the software application, causes the software application to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action;
associating, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure with the one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
receiving, by the voice action system, a user command utterance obtained by a user device, the user device having the software application installed;
determining, by the voice action system, that a transcription of the user command utterance corresponds to the one or more trigger terms associated with the voice action passive data structure;
and
in response to the determination, providing, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure to the user device which is remote from the voice action system, thereby causing the software application installed on the user device to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action.

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A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a voice action system, data defining a new voice action that does not currently exist for a software application installed on one or more devices, the software application being different from said voice action system, the data indicating one or more operations for the software application to perform the new voice action and one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
generating, by the voice action system, a voice action passive data structure based at least on the data defining the new voice action, wherein the voice action passive data structure comprises data that, when received by the software application, causes the software application to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action;
associating, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure with the one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
receiving, by the voice action system, a user command utterance obtained by a user device, the user device having the software application installed;
determining, by the voice action system, that a transcription of the user command utterance corresponds to the one or more trigger terms associated with the voice action passive data structure;
and
in response to the determination, providing, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure to the user device which is remote from the voice action system, thereby causing the software application installed on the user device to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a voice action system, data defining a new voice action that does not currently exist for a software application installed on one of more devices, the software application being different from said voice action system, the data indicating one or more operations for the software application to perform the new voice action and one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
generating, by the voice action system, a voice action passive data structure based at least on the data defining the new voice action, wherein the voice action passive data structure comprises data that, when received by the software application, causes the software application to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action;
associating, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure with the one or more trigger terms for triggering the new voice action;
receiving, by the voice action system, a user command utterance obtained by a user device, the user device having the software application installed;
determining, by the voice action system, that a transcription of the user command utterance corresponds to the one or more trigger terms associated with the voice action passive data structure;
and
in response to the determination, providing, by the voice action system, the voice action passive data structure to the user device which is remote from the voice action system, thereby causing the software application installed on the user device to perform the one or more operations to perform the new voice action.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/057,453Filed 1 Mar 2016
Published: 7 Sep 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G10L 15/1822
Using natural language modelling: parsing for meaning understanding
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…

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