MULTI-MODAL INPUT ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160403
A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-independent input method editor, and receiving a spoken input from the user. The spoken input corresponds to input to an application and is converted to text that represents the spoken input. The text is provided as input to…
Switched Multi-Cell Battery System
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240162726
This disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for a switched multi-cell battery system for electronic devices. In some aspects, a switched multi-cell battery system may transfer, via a plurality of power control switches electrical power from a power adapter to components of the electronic device by charging battery cells in series and by discharging the battery cells in parallel or as a single battery cell. As a result, the switched multi-cell battery system may reduce or…
Short-Lived Repeat Voice Commands
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240161741
A method for detecting short-lived repeat voice commands includes activating a set of one or more warm words each associated with a respective action for controlling a long-standing operation performed by a digital assistant. While the digital assistant is performing the long-standing operation, the method includes receiving audio data, and detecting, in the audio data, a warm word from the activated set of one or more warm words. In response to detecting the warm word, the method…
Multi-Assistant Warm Words
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240161740
A method using multi-assistant warm words includes, for each digital assistant in a group of digital assistants enabled on a multi-assistant device, receiving a respective active set of warm words that each specify a respective action to perform. Based on the respective active set of warm words, the method also includes executing a warm word arbitration routine to enable a final set of warm words for detection, each warm word in the final set of warm words selected from the respective…
MULTI-DIALECT AND MULTILINGUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240161732
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable media, for speech recognition using multi-dialect and multilingual models. In some implementations, audio data indicating audio characteristics of an utterance is received. Input features determined based on the audio data are provided to a speech recognition model that has been trained to output score indicating the likelihood of linguistic units for each of multiple different language or…
Parallel Tacotron Non-Autoregressive and Controllable TTS
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240161730
A method for training a non-autoregressive TTS model includes receiving training data that includes a reference audio signal and a corresponding input text sequence. The method also includes encoding the reference audio signal into a variational embedding that disentangles the style/prosody information from the reference audio signal and encoding the input text sequence into an encoded text sequence. The method also includes predicting a phoneme duration for each phoneme in the input…
Authentication Management Through IMU and Radar
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240161542
This document describes techniques and systems for authentication management through IMU and radar. The techniques and systems use inertial sensor data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and/or radar data to manage authentication for a computing device. By so doing, the techniques conserve power, improve accuracy, or reduce latency relative to many common techniques and systems for computing-device authentication.
TRAINING IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION NEURAL NETWORKS
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160937
A method includes obtaining a source training dataset that includes a plurality of source training images and obtaining a target training dataset that includes a plurality of target training images. For each source training image, the method includes translating, using the forward generator neural network G, the source training image to a respective translated target image according to current values of forward generator parameters. For each target training image, the method includes…
DISTRIBUTED DATABASE CONFIGURATION
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160641
Replicas are selected in a large distributed network, and the roles for these replicas are identified. In one example, a leader is selected from among candidate computing clusters. To make this selection, an activity monitor predicts or monitors the workload of one or more clients. Different activities of the workload are given corresponding weights. The delay in performing requested activities, modified by these weights is found, and the candidate leader with the lowest weighted delay…
Augmenting Handling of Logs Generated in PaaS Environments
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160499
A method for augmenting handling of logs generated in platform as a system (PaaS) environments includes transmitting, to an external cloud computing environment, an application programming interface (API) request. The API request includes a trace identification (ID), a concealment indicator, and a policy ID. The method also includes updating the first entry in the first log corresponding to the API request based on the trace ID and the concealment indicator. The method also includes…
Spatial Rediscovery Using On-Device Hardware
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160399
This document describes systems and techniques for facilitating spatial rediscovery using on-device hardware. For example, an audio input mechanism associated with a compact device can be activated and an audio signal can be generated by an audio output mechanism associated with an external device. The audio signal can be received at the audio input mechanism associated with the compact device. The receipt of the audio signal may cause the audio input mechanism to produce electrical…
GARBAGE COLLECTION FOR DATA STORAGE
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160375
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reclaiming storage space in a storage environment. In one aspect, the method includes actions of aggregating data that is indicative of access to one or more data objects, determining a future storage cost associated with each of a plurality of data objects, determining an access window for each of the plurality of data objects, identifying a data object based on (i) the future storage cost…
POINT AND GESTURE CONTROL OF REMOTE DEVICES
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160298
Techniques for controlling a remotely controllable device are described. In an example, a mobile device detects a remotely controllable device, measures a distance and direction from the mobile device to the remotely controllable device, and determines from the distance and direction that the mobile device is pointing at the remotely controllable device. In response to determining that the mobile device is in a handheld position, is pointing at the remotely controllable device, or both,…
Display Assistant Device
Granted: May 16, 2024
Application Number:
20240160251
This application is directed to a display assistant device that acts as a voice-activated user interface device. The display assistant device includes a base, a screen and a rear speaker. The base is configured for sitting on a surface. The screen has a rear surface and is supported by the base at the rear surface. A bottom edge of the screen is configured to be held above the surface by a predefined height, and the base is substantially hidden behind the screen from a front view of the…
Determining Expected Hash-Values in Functions with Control Flow
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240152361
This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable determining expected hash-values in functions with control flow. A computing device receives a function comprising function instructions within at least three basic blocks connected via multiple execution paths. Hash-input instructions are inserted within a plurality of the basic blocks that indirectly force hash values at the respective insertion points. Hash values at ends of the plurality of the basic blocks are set to a…
Systems and Methods for Monitoring High Charge Levels in Rechargeable Batteries
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240154435
An indexed sequence of bits in a buffer is allocated for tracking a battery charging state. The indexed sequence of bits has a first number of bits. A battery voltage of a rechargeable battery is sampled at a sampling rate. For each sampled battery voltage, the battery voltage is compared with a voltage threshold. A next bit position in the indexed sequence of bits is identified. In accordance with a determination that a comparison result is true, a predefined first value is added to the…
HOTWORD DETECTION ON MULTIPLE DEVICES
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240153507
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining that the utterance likely includes a particular, predefined hotword. The actions further include transmitting (i) data indicating that the computing device likely received the particular,…
Contextual Biasing With Text Injection
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240153498
A method includes receiving context biasing data that includes a set of unspoken textual utterances corresponding to a particular context. The method also includes obtaining a list of carrier phrases associated with the particular context. For each respective unspoken textual utterance, the method includes generating a corresponding training data pair that includes the respective unspoken textual utterance and a carrier phrase. For each respective training data pair, the method includes…
Multi-Output Decoders for Multi-Task Learning of ASR and Auxiliary Tasks
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240153495
A method includes receiving a training dataset that includes one or more spoken training utterances for training an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Each spoken training utterance in the training dataset paired with a corresponding transcription and a corresponding target sequence of auxiliary tokens. For each spoken training utterance, the method includes generating a speech recognition hypothesis for a corresponding spoken training utterance, determining a speech recognition…
EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ARCHITECTURE SELECTION
Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number:
20240152809
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a machine learning model that is trained to perform a machine learning task. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving a request to train a machine learning model on a set of training examples; determining a set of one or more meta-data values characterizing the set of training examples; using a mapping function to map the set of meta-data values characterizing the set of…
