公开(公告)号：US20210210094A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17146997

申请日：2021-01-12

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Samuel Scott Gigliotti ,  Scott Southwood ,  Ran Mokady ,  Hale Sostock ,  Roman Yusufov

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L13/08

Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.

公开(公告)号：US11024303B1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-01

申请号：US15708874

申请日：2017-09-19

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Farookh Mohammed ,  James Alexander Stanton ,  Brandon Taylor ,  Peter Chin ,  Mahesh Rajagopalan

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/30 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G06F3/16 ,  H04R3/12 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G06F40/169 ,  G06F40/205

Abstract: Techniques for communicating announcements across devices are described. A system performs speech processing on input audio data to determine a command to output an announcement. The system determines devices outputting indicators representing users are proximate thereto. The system generates output audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the input audio data corresponding to announcement content. The system sends the output audio data to the devices along with instructions to output audio corresponding to the output audio data.

公开(公告)号：US20210144230A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-13

申请号：US17101662

申请日：2020-11-23

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Christopher Geiger Parker ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  James Alexander Stanton ,  Aaron Takayanagi Barnet ,  Venkatesh Kancharla ,  Gregory Michael Hart

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/533 ,  H04M1/72433

Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.

公开(公告)号：US20190371304A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-05

申请号：US16431343

申请日：2019-06-04

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Neil Christopher Fritz ,  Lakshya Bhagat ,  Scott Southwood ,  Katelyn Doran ,  Brett Lounsbury ,  Christo Frank Devaraj

IPC: G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30 ,  G06F17/27 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04M7/00 ,  G10L15/22

Abstract: Audio data, corresponding to an utterance spoken by a person within a detection range of a voice communications device, can include an audio message portion. The audio data can be captured and analyzed to determine the intent to send a message. Based at least in part upon that intent, a remaining portion of the audio data can be analyzed to determine the intended message target or recipient, as well as the portion corresponding to the actual message payload. Once determined, the audio file can be trimmed to the message payload, and the message payload of the audio data can be delivered as an audio message to the target recipient.

公开(公告)号：US09992642B1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-05

申请号：US14983356

申请日：2015-12-29

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan Christopher Rapp ,  Douglas Vincent O'Dell, III ,  Kathryn Lynn Parker ,  Jonathan Leonard Da Silva ,  Ian Michael Menzies ,  Christo Frank Devaraj ,  David Michael Rowell

IPC: H04W4/14 ,  H04M1/27 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W8/08

CPC classification number: H04W4/14 ,  H04M1/271 ,  H04M1/72552 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W68/005

Abstract: Approaches provide for generating an introductory text message to be delivered to a recipient when a voice-enabled communications device is used to send a message to the recipient for a first time. For example, audio input data that includes an instruction to send a text message can be received and an application can analyze the audio input data to determine an instruction to send a text message, a message body, and an intended recipient of the text message. The application can determine whether a text message has previously been sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account. In the situation where a text message has been sent, a text message is generated that includes the message body and the application causes the text message to be sent to the intended recipient. In the situation where it is determined that this is the first time a text message is being sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account, an introductory text message is generated and the application causes the introductory text message and the text message that includes the message body to be sent to the intended recipient.