Timothy Reynolds Calhoun

US Patent:

20210210099, Jul 8, 2021

Filed:

Jan 6, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/735677

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
Evelyn Jiang - Cupertino CA, US
Matthias Eichstaedt - San Jose CA, US
Timothy Calhoun - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

SoundHound, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G10L 15/32
G10L 15/22

Abstract:

A method and system for responding to multiple voice requests sent from a group of devices in substantive response to a single spoken utterance of a user. In one embodiment, if the devices have a same group ID, a server determines if any of the group of received voice requests are duplicate. In one embodiment, voice requests received within a predetermined time window are examined to determine if they are duplicate. If so, the server deems one of the received voice requests as non-duplicate and the others as duplicate and sends a substantive response for the non-duplicate voice request. In some embodiments, a no-op is sent to the devices that do not receive the substantive response.