Voice control of a media playback system

JP Lang, M Plagge, S Jarvis, R Kadri… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Multiple aspects of systems and methods for voice control and related features and
functionality for various embodiments of media playback devices, networked microphone …

Voice control of remote device by disabling wakeword detection

P Wang, PR Naidu - US Patent 10,074,371, 2018 - Google Patents
A system configured to enable remote control to allow a first user to provide assistance to a
second user. The system may receive a command from the second user granting remote …

Systems and methods of multiple voice services

K Hartung, D Giacobello - US Patent 11,183,181, 2021 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are example techniques to identify a voice service to process a voice input.
An example implementation may involve a network microphone device (NMD) receiving, via …

Virtual assistant for media playback

RM Orr, DJ Mandel, AJ Sinesio, CJ Barnett - US Patent 11,010,127, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary method for identifying media may include receiving user input associated with
a request for media, where that user input includes unstructured natural language speech …

Voice control of a media playback system

NAJ Millington, K Corbin, M Plagge - US Patent 9,947,316, 2018 - Google Patents
A voice input comprising a command word, one or more media variable instances, and one
or more zone variable instances is received. A media playback system command which …

Intelligent device arbitration and control

K Piersol, RM Orr, DJ Mandel - US Patent 10,942,702, 2021 - Google Patents
US10942702B2 - Intelligent device arbitration and control - Google Patents US10942702B2 -
Intelligent device arbitration and control - Google Patents Intelligent device arbitration and …

Multiple voice services

D Wilberding - US Patent 10,115,400, 2018 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are example techniques to identify a voice service to process a voice input.
An example implementation may involve an NMD receiving, via a microphone, voice data …

Unconventional virtual assistant interactions

MR Vescovi, TAV GALVEZ, P Karashchuk… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
2016-07-13 Assigned to APPLE INC. reassignment APPLE INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: GRUBER, THOMAS …

Arbitration-based voice recognition

S Beckhardt, T Lin - US Patent 10,181,323, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A first voice input is detected and a first measure of confidence associated
with the first voice input is deter mined. A message is received comprising a second …

Audio response playback

JP Lang, M Plagge - US Patent 10,095,470, 2018 - Google Patents
A voice command may be received from a microphone device associated with a media
playback system comprising one or more zones. An audio response zone from the one or …