Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining device groups
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Application No.: US15928682Application Date: 2018-03-22
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Publication No.: US10685652B1Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Venkata Snehith Cherukuri , Joseph White , Vinodth Kumar Mohanam , Rami Habal , Menghan Li
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F15/00
- IPC: G06F15/00 ; G10L15/00 ; G10L17/00 ; G10L15/22 ; G10L25/84 ; G10L15/28

Abstract:
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for determining device groupings, or clusters, for multiple voice-enabled devices. The device clusters may be determined based on metadata data for audio signals (or audio data) generated by each of the multiple voice-enabled devices. For example, a remote system may analyze timestamp data for the audio signals received from the devices, and determine that the devices detected the same voice command of a user based on the timestamp data indicating that the audio signals were received within a threshold period of time from each other. Additionally, the remote system may analyze other metadata of the audio data, such as signal-to-noise (SNR) values, and determine that the SNR values are within a threshold value. The remote system may determine device clusters for the voice-enabled devices of a user based on these, and potentially other, types of metadata of the audio signals.
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