公开(公告)号：US20210350803A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17306489

申请日：2021-05-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bryan HANSEN ,  Nikrouz GHOTBI ,  Yifeng GUI ,  Xinyuan HUANG ,  Benjamin S. PHIPPS ,  Eugene RAY ,  Mahesh Ramaray SHANBHAG ,  Jaireh TECARRO ,  Sumit WATTAL

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30

Abstract: This relates to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to intelligent context sharing and task performance among a collection of devices with intelligent automated assistant capabilities. An example method includes, at a first electronic device participating in a context-sharing group associated with a first location: receiving a user voice input; receiving, from a context collector, an aggregate context of the context-sharing group; providing at least a portion of the aggregate context and data corresponding to the user voice input to a remote device; receiving, from the remote device, a command to perform one or more tasks and a device identifier corresponding to a second electronic device; and transmitting the command to the second electronic device based on the device identifier, wherein the command causes the second electronic device to perform the one or more tasks.

公开(公告)号：US20210264913A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17204896

申请日：2021-03-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Karl Ferdinand SCHRAMM ,  Justin BINDER ,  Benjamin S. PHIPPS ,  Po Keng SUNG

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04M3/42

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to using voice interaction to access call functionality of a companion device. In an example process, a user utterance is received. Based on the user utterance and contextual information, the process causes a server to determine a user intent corresponding to the user utterance. The contextual information is based on a signal received from the companion device. In accordance with the user intent corresponding to an actionable intent of answering the incoming call, a command is received. Based on the command, instructions are provided to the companion device, which cause the companion device to answer the incoming call and provide audio data of the answered incoming call. Audio is outputted according to the audio data of the answered incoming call.

公开(公告)号：US20200380980A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16815984

申请日：2020-03-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephen H. SHUM ,  Corey J. PETERSON ,  Sachin S. KAJAREKAR ,  Benjamin S. PHIPPS ,  Erik MARCHI ,  Jessica PECK ,  Anumita BISWAS ,  Harry SIMMONDS ,  Chas MANNEMALA

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/00 ,  G10L17/14 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06F3/16

Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.

公开(公告)号：US20200302932A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16896426

申请日：2020-06-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Karl Ferdinand SCHRAMM ,  Justin BINDER ,  Benjamin S. PHIPPS ,  Po Keng SUNG

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04M3/42

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to using voice interaction to access call functionality of a companion device. In an example process, a user utterance is received. Based on the user utterance and contextual information, the process causes a server to determine a user intent corresponding to the user utterance. The contextual information is based on a signal received from the companion device. In accordance with the user intent corresponding to an actionable intent of answering the incoming call, a command is received. Based on the command, instructions are provided to the companion device, which cause the companion device to answer the incoming call and provide audio data of the answered incoming call. Audio is outputted according to the audio data of the answered incoming call.

公开(公告)号：US20200267222A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16867510

申请日：2020-05-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Benjamin S. PHIPPS ,  Gennaro FRAZZINGARO ,  Karl F. SCHRAMM

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/22

Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, a first instance of a digital assistant operating on a first electronic device receives a natural-language speech input indicative of a user request. The first electronic device obtains a set of data corresponding to a second instance of the digital assistant on a second electronic device, and updates one or more settings of the first instance of the digital assistant based on the received set of data. The first instance of the digital assistant performs one or more tasks based on the updated one or more settings and provides an output indicative of whether the one or more tasks are performed.

公开(公告)号：US20140297284A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-02

申请号：US14303413

申请日：2014-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Thomas R. GRUBER ,  Christopher D. BRIGHAM ,  Daniel S. KEEN ,  Gregory NOVICK ,  Benjamin S. PHIPPS

IPC: G10L15/183

Abstract: A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.

Abstract translation: 虚拟助手使用上下文信息补充用户的自然语言或手势输入。 上下文有助于澄清用户的意图，并减少对用户输入的候选解释数量，并减少用户提供过度澄清输入的需求。 上下文可以包括助理可用来补充显式用户输入以限制信息处理问题和/或个性化结果的任何可用信息。 上下文可用于在处理的各个阶段约束解决方案，包括例如语音识别，自然语言处理，任务流处理和对话生成。