US 2026/0065900 A1 · INTENT INFERENCE IN AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION SESSIONS

Abstract

In one aspect, a user's intent can be inferred based on voice analysis during a communications session, and prompts can be presented, or other actions taken, at least partly in response to the inferred intent. For example, a network microphone device (NMD) having one or more microphones can capture voice input and transmit the voice input to remote computing device(s) for a communication session (e.g., a videoconference). The NMD can analyze the voice input to detect one or more utterances. Based on the utterance(s), the NMD can cause a user prompt to be displayed via a display device communicatively coupled to the NMD. The particular prompt can depend at least in part on one or more context parameters associated with the communication session (e.g., a microphone state of one or more users, a screen share state of one or more users, or a recording status of the session, etc.).

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a network microphone device having one or more microphones configured to capture voice input from a first user during a communication session involving at least the first user and a plurality of other users;
one or more processors;
and
data storage having instructions stored therein that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
analyze the voice input to detect keywords;
monitor a plurality of context parameters associated with each of the plurality of other users, wherein the context parameters comprise device status, user role, and participation level;
determine which subset of the plurality of other users should receive a prompt based on the detected keywords and the monitored context parameters;
generate customized prompts for each user in the determined subset based on their respective context parameters;
and
cause the customized prompts to be selectively displayed via respective display devices associated with the determined subset of users.

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A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network microphone device, cause the network microphone device to perform operations comprising:

capturing voice input from a first user via one or more microphones of the network microphone device during a communication session involving at least the first user and a plurality of other users;
analyzing the voice input to detect keywords;
monitoring a plurality of context parameters associated with each of the plurality of other users, wherein the context parameters comprise device status, user role, and participation level;
determining which subset of the plurality of other users should receive a prompt based on the detected keywords and the monitored context parameters;
generating customized prompts for each user in the determined subset based on their respective context parameters;
and
causing the customized prompts to be selectively displayed via respective display devices associated with the determined subset of users.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Intent inference in audiovisual communication sessions

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Abstract

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