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US 2018/0025724 A1Published application
Natural language voice assistant
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJames Anthony Hunt, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Nathan J. Peterson
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Abstract
A voice assistant of a device is activated not by a key word being spoken but by recognizing speech and determining whether context of the speech indicates that audible voice assistance is appropriate.
Claims20
A first device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- storage accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to:
- receive speech;
- without receiving a user command to enter voice recognition mode, execute voice recognition on the speech to return plural words;
- using the plural words as entering argument, access a database to correlate the plural words to ancillary information;
- and
- return the ancillary information.
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A computer readable storage medium (CRSM) that is not a transitory signal, the computer readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor to:
- activate voice assistant at a device not by receiving a spoken key word but by recognizing speech in natural language;
- determine whether context of the speech indicates that audible voice assistance is appropriate.
A method, comprising:
- receiving speech;
- executing, without receiving a user command to enter voice recognition mode, voice recognition on the speech to return plural words;
- accessing, using the plural words as entering argument, a database to correlate the plural words to ancillary information;
- and
- returning the ancillary information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.