Dynamic voice assistant system for a vehicle
AssigneeCerence Operating Company
InventorCassandra LEE
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Abstract
A voice assistant system for a vehicle includes a microphone configured to detect an audio signal from a user of the vehicle; a speaker configured to output a dialogue in response to the audio signal; and a processor programmed to responsive to detecting a conversation in which the user is involved, decrease a lengthiness setting of the voice assistant system to reduce the length of the dialogue, and increase an independency setting of the voice assistant system to prevent a confirmation question from the voice assistant system.
Claims19
A voice assistant system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a microphone configured to detect an audio signal from a user of the vehicle;
- a speaker configured to output a dialogue in response to the audio signal;
- and
- a processor programmed to:
- responsive to detecting a conversation in which the user is involved, decrease a lengthiness setting of the voice assistant system to reduce the length of the dialogue, and increase an independency setting of the voice assistant system to prevent a confirmation question from the voice assistant system.
A method for a voice assistant system of a vehicle, comprising:
- detecting, via a microphone, an utterance from one of a plurality of users of the vehicle;
- identifying the one user of the plurality of users who made the utterance;
- determining a user characteristic associated with the one user;
- and
- adjust a plurality of voice assistant settings between a least one lower bound and at least one upper bound based on the user characteristic.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions when executed by a processor of a vehicle, cause the vehicle to:
- detect, via a microphone, an utterance from one of a plurality of users of the vehicle;
- identify, via the processor, the one user of the plurality of users who made the utterance;
- determine, via the processor, a user characteristic associated with the one user;
- adjust, via the processor, a plurality of voice assistant settings between a least one lower bound and at least one upper bound based on the user characteristic;
- and
- output, via a speaker, a dialogue based on plurality of voice assistant settings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.