Voice-based input using natural language processing for interfacing with one or more devices

A natural language processing (NLP) system for converting a natural language input into a target-specific command input for a target device, the system comprising:

• an audio sensor for receiving audio input from a user;
• a voice-to-text converter, communicatively coupled to the audio sensor, that converts the audio input from the user into text comprising a natural language input;
• an end-point interface system comprising a natural language processing (NLP) interaction end-point server that receives the natural language input from the user, the natural language input being intended for a target device from among a plurality of potential target devices;
• a transformation system that cleans the natural language input and transforms at least a portion of the cleaned natural language input into one or more properly formed commands that are target-specific for the target device, the transformation system comprising:
• an NLP input cleaning and transformation logic module, which is communicatively coupled to the end-point interface system to receive the natural language input and is communicatively coupled to a lemmatization database, that performs a lookup in the lemmatization database to convert at least some of the natural language input into a target-specific input corresponding to the target device;
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• a target-specific NLP processing engine module, which is communicatively coupled to the NLP input cleaning and transformation logic module and to a command template database, that performs a lookup in the command template database using the target-specific input to obtain a target-specific command template match for creating at least one of the one or more properly formed commands;
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• a target-device interface module that communicates the one or more properly formed commands to the target device for execution by the target device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, causes steps to be performed comprising:

• converting an audio input into text comprising a natural language input, at least a portion of the natural language input being intended for a target device from among a plurality of potential target devices that requires commands to be properly formed for the target device to be executed;
• performing natural language processing (NLP) input cleaning on the natural language input;
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• performing input transformation on at least a portion of the cleaned natural language input to convert the cleaned natural language input into one or more properly formed commands that are target-specific for the target device by performing the steps comprising:
• performing a lookup in a lemmatization database to convert at least some of the cleaned natural language input to a target-specific input that comprises target-specific vocabulary that corresponds to the target device;
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• using the target-specific input to perform a lookup in a command template database to obtain a target-specific command template match corresponding to the target-specific input that comprises target-specific vocabulary, the target-specific command template being used to create at least one of the one or more properly formed commands.