US 2021/0343276 A1Published application

Multi-user authentication on a device

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsIgnacio Lopez Moreno, Diego Melendo Casado

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Abstract

In some implementations, an utterance is determined to include a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword. In response to determining that an utterance includes a particular user speaking a hotword based at least on a first set of samples of the particular user speaking the hotword, at least a portion of the utterance is stored as a new sample. A second set of samples of the particular user speaking the utterance is obtained, where the second set of samples includes the new sample and less than all the samples in the first set of samples. A second utterance is determined to include the particular user speaking the hotword based at least on the second set of samples of the user speaking the hotword.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a first speech-enabled device, a set of audio recordings capturing utterances of a user;
generating, by the first speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a first user voice recognition model for use by the first speech-enabled device in recognizing a voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the first speech-enabled device;
determining that the first user voice recognition model is associated with a particular user account;
receiving an indication that a second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account;
and
in response to receiving the indication that the second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account:
providing the set of audio recordings to the second speech-enabled device;
and
generating, by the second speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a second user voice recognition model for use in recognizing the voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the second speech-enabled device.

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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 first speech-enabled device, a set of audio recordings capturing utterances of a user;
generating, by the first speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a first user voice recognition model for use by the first speech-enabled device in recognizing a voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the first speech-enabled device;
determining that the first user voice recognition model is associated with a particular user account;
receiving an indication that a second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account;
and
in response to receiving the indication that the second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account:
providing the set of audio recordings to the second speech-enabled device;
and
generating, by the second speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a second user voice recognition model for use in recognizing the voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the second speech-enabled device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium 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 first speech-enabled device, a set of audio recordings capturing utterances of a user;
generating, by the first speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a first user voice recognition model for use by the first speech-enabled device in recognizing a voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the first speech-enabled device;
determining that the first user voice recognition model is associated with a particular user account;
receiving an indication that a second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account;
and
in response to receiving the indication that the second speech-enabled device is associated with the particular user account:
providing the set of audio recordings to the second speech-enabled device;
and
generating, by the second speech-enabled device and based on the set of audio recordings, a second user voice recognition model for use in recognizing the voice of the user in additional audio recordings subsequently received by the second speech-enabled device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/375,573Filed 14 Jul 2021
Priority: 20 Apr 2017
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06F 3/167
Sound input; Sound output: audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
G10L 15/08
Speech recognition: speech classification or search
G06F 16/636
Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles: by using biological or physiological data
G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints

Family

Application62/488,000Us provisional application · filed 20 Apr 2017
Application62/567,372Us provisional application · filed 3 Oct 2017
Application15/956,493Continuation · filed 18 Apr 2018
Application16/682,716Continuation · filed 13 Nov 2019
Application17/375,573Continuation
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