Speech-responsive portable speaker
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMarcello Typrin, Steve Hoonsuck Yum, Chris Stewart Hagler
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Abstract
An electronic device may operate in different modes of operations. In a first mode of operation, the electronic device may receive user speech via a microphone, generate an audio signal that represents the user speech, and then send the audio signal to one or more remote computing device for analysis. In a second mode of operation, the electronic device may receive audio data from a peripheral device and then output audible content represented by the audio data. In some instances, the electronic device may operate in the first mode of operation and/or the second mode of operation based on whether the electronic device can communicate with the one or more computing devices over a wide-area network.
Claims20
A first electronic device, comprising:
- at least one microphone;
- at least one speaker;
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- causing the first electronic device to operate in a first mode;
- generating, while the first electronic device is operating in the first mode, first audio data representing user speech captured by the at least one microphone;
- causing the first audio data to be analyzed;
- determining that the first electronic device is communicatively coupled to a second electronic device;
- causing, based at least in part on determining that the first electronic device is communicatively coupled to the second electronic device, the first electronic device to switch from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode;
- receiving, while the first electronic device is operating in the second mode, second audio data from the second electronic device;
- and
- outputting, using the at least one speaker, audible content represented by the second audio data.
A method comprising:
- determining that a first electronic device is operating in a first mode;
- while the first electronic device is operating in the first mode:
- generating first audio data representing sound captured by at least one microphone of the first electronic device;
- sending the first audio data to one or more remote computing devices;
- and
- receiving, from the one or more remote computing devices, at least one of second audio data or information for acquiring the second audio data;
- determining that the first electronic device is operating in a second mode;
- receiving, while the first electronic device operating in the second mode, third audio data from a second electronic device;
- and
- outputting audible content represented by the third audio data.
A first electronic device, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- operating the first electronic device in a first mode;
- generating, while operating the first electronic device in the first mode, first audio data representing user speech;
- determining that the first electronic device is not communicatively coupled to one or more remote computing devices;
- causing, based at least in part on determining that the first electronic device is not communicatively coupled to the one or more remote computing devices, the first electronic device to switch from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode;
- receiving, while operating the first electronic device in the second mode, second audio data from a second electronic device;
- and
- outputting audible content represented by the second audio data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.