Configuration of voice controlled assistant
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTony David, Parag Garg
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Abstract
A voice interaction architecture has a hands-free, electronic voice controlled assistant that permits users to verbally request information from cloud services. Since the assistant relies primarily, if not exclusively, on voice interactions, configuring the assistant for the first time may pose a challenge, particularly to a novice user who is unfamiliar with network settings (such as wife access keys). The architecture supports several approaches to configuring the voice controlled assistant that may be accomplished without much or any user input, thereby promoting a positive out-of-box experience for the user. More particularly, these approaches involve use of audible or optical signals to configure the voice controlled assistant.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a computing system remote from, and not in physical proximity to, a voice controlled assistant, the computing system configured to:
- determine that a period of time has lapsed since delivery of the voice controlled assistant;
- determine that the voice controlled assistant has yet to initiate configuration;
- generate a notice based at least on the voice controlled assistant yet to initiate the configuration;
- encode configuration settings as a sequence of sounds for emission within physical proximity of the voice controlled assistant;
- and
- transfer data representative of the sequence of sounds to a device to emit the sequence of sounds in physical proximity to the voice controlled assistant;
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- the voice controlled assistant having at least one microphone and at least one speaker to facilitate audio interactions with a user, the voice controlled assistant further having a wireless network interface to communicate with a wireless network after the voice controlled assistant is configured with the configuration settings to access the wireless network, the voice controlled assistant capturing the sequence of sounds through the microphone and having a decoder to decode the sequence of sounds to recover the configuration settings.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- under control of one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions,
- determining that a period of time has lapsed since delivery of a wireless device;
- determining that the wireless device has yet to initiate configuration;
- generating a notice based at least on the wireless device yet to initiate the configuration;
- receiving configuration settings, that when used by the wireless device, provide access to a wireless network, the one or more computing devices not in physical proximity to the wireless device;
- encoding the configuration settings as audio data to be used to generate a sequence of sounds;
- and
- transmitting the audio data to another device in physical proximity to the wireless device, the another device configured to audibly emit the sequence of sounds generated from the audio data to the wireless device.
A device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable media storing instruction that, when executed by the one or more processor, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- determining that a period of time has lapsed since delivery of a wireless device;
- determining that the wireless device has yet to initiate configuration;
- generating a notice based at least on the wireless device yet to initiate the configuration;
- receiving configuration settings, that when used by the wireless device, provide access to a wireless network;
- encoding the configuration settings as audio data to be used to generate a sequence of sounds;
- and
- transmitting the audio data to another device in physical proximity to the wireless device, the another device configured to audibly emit the sequence of sounds generated from the audio data to the wireless device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.