DETERMINING DIALOG STATES FOR LANGUAGE MODELS
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240428790
Systems, methods, devices, and other techniques are described herein for determining dialog states that correspond to voice inputs and for biasing a language model based on the determined dialog states. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at a computing system, audio data that indicates a voice input and determining a particular dialog state, from among a plurality of dialog states, which corresponds to the voice input. A set of n-grams can be identified that are…
Transducer-Based Streaming Deliberation for Cascaded Encoders
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240428786
A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames and generating, by a first encoder, a first higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame in the sequence of acoustic frames. The method also includes generating, by a first pass transducer decoder, a first pass speech recognition hypothesis for a corresponding first higher order feature representation and generating, by a text encoder, a text encoding for a corresponding first pass speech recognition…
CONTEXTUAL TAGGING AND BIASING OF GRAMMARS INSIDE WORD LATTICES
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240428785
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing contextual grammar selection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance. The actions include generating a word lattice that includes multiple candidate transcriptions of the utterance and that includes transcription confidence scores. The actions include determining a context of the computing device. The actions…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLIENT-DEVICE TRANSFORMATION OF STATIC IMAGE DELIVERED OVER DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER NETWORK
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240428496
A multimedia communication system for enabling an end user computing device to render a moving image on a display device. The system has an image render command generator that is arranged to provide an image rendering command that is executable by a web browser of the end user computing device to cause the end user computing device to render the moving image on a frame-by-frame basis from a still image in multimedia content by slicing the still image into a plurality of rows or columns…
AUTOMATIC CONTENT ITEM UPDATION BASED ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED INTERACTION
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240428003
Implementations described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to automatically modify a content item based on computer-mediated interaction with reference to a content item. The method includes programmatically analyzing the computer-mediated interaction between a user and a customer service agent to determine if the computer-mediated interaction is successful. The method further includes identifying information provided by the customer service agent during the…
Transcription Error Resilient Training of Neural Semantic Parsers
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240427997
A method includes obtaining a set of training queries that each specify a corresponding operation to perform and include a corresponding plurality of speech recognition hypotheses that each represent a corresponding candidate transcription of the training query, and a corresponding ground-truth transcription of the training query. For each training query, the method includes processing, using an encoder of a neural semantic parsing (NSP) model, the corresponding plurality of speech…
Undefined Lifecycle State Identifier for Managing Security of an Integrated Circuit Device
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240427944
This document describes methods and systems that use an undefined lifecycle state identifier to manage security of a system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuit (IC) device. As part of the described techniques, the SoC IC device may include a first set of logic integrated circuitry that determines that a first combination of bit values fails to correspond to a known lifecycle state identifier. The first set of logic integrated circuitry may then provide, to a second set of logic integrated…
QUERY RESTARTABILITY
Granted: December 26, 2024
Application Number:
20240427770
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for restarting a query using a token. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer from a requesting device, a query; determining, using a data storage system, a current result responsive to the query; generating, using the current result, a restart token that represents operations performed to determine a plurality of results responsive to the query including the current result…
Antenna Incorporation within a Device having a Narrow Display Bezel
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240421503
Various arrangements for positioning antennas, grounds, and a decoupling element are described herein. A display is mounted within a first area of an enclosure of the electronic device. A first antenna and second antenna that operate at one or more frequency bands are mounted within the enclosure. A decoupling element is mounted within a cavity area of the enclosure that, at least partially, isolates the first antenna from the second antenna, wherein a position of the decoupling element…
Accelerating Quantum-Resistant, Cryptographic Hash-Based Signature Computations
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240422005
This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at accelerating quantum-resistant, cryptographic hash-based signature computations. Upon receipt of an input message, one or more processors implements a hash manager. The hash manager is configured to initialize variables, load the input message and initialized variables into an input buffer, and execute a hash-based signature computation. The hash-based signature computation is repeated for a predetermined number of iterations…
AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF SYNTHESIZED SPEECH USING CROSS-MODAL AND CROSS-LINGUAL TRANSFER OF LANGUAGE ENCODING
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420726
A method for evaluating synthesized speech, including receiving a speech sample in a first language; and determining a rating of the speech sample based on an encoding of the speech sample by an artificial intelligence encoding model, the rating of the speech sample corresponding to a naturalness of the speech sample, wherein the encoding of the speech sample is based on a first training stage of the encoding model using a first set of training data and a second training stage of the…
Intelligent Dynamic Bit-Rate Rate Adjustment to Enhance Bluetooth Headset Performance
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420703
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a bit-rate of encoded audio data. A buffer may receive audio data encoded at a first bit-rate. An audio data level corresponding to the amount of audio data stored within the buffer may be determined. The audio data level of the buffer may be determined to be within a buffer zone, and a bit-rate adjustment may be initiated after determining the audio data level is within a buffer zone.
PROVIDING ANSWERS TO VOICE QUERIES USING USER FEEDBACK
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420700
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a dialog system using user feedback. According to one implementation, a method includes receiving, by a dialog engine and from a computing device, a voice input; determining, by the dialog engine, that the received voice input is classified as feedback to an answer of a question; identifying, by the dialog engine, a predetermined feedback score associated with the feedback; and…
IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR VOICE ASSISTANT ON DEVICES
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420693
An electronic device stores a voice assistant library for execution on the electronic device based on the electronic device having a first device type. The electronic device receives a verbal input from a user. It extracts request information from the verbal input by processing the verbal input using the voice assistant library executing on the device. It transmits a request to a remote system. The electronic device receives a response to the request. The response is generated by the…
Multilingual Re-Scoring Models for Automatic Speech Recognition
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420692
A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames extracted from audio data corresponding to an utterance. During a first pass, the method includes processing the sequence of acoustic frames to generate N candidate hypotheses for the utterance. During a second pass, and for each candidate hypothesis, the method includes: generating a respective un-normalized likelihood score; generating a respective external language model score; generating a standalone score that models prior…
SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE MODELS
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240420686
A method for performing speech recognition using sequence-to-sequence models includes receiving audio data for an utterance and providing features indicative of acoustic characteristics of the utterance as input to an encoder. The method also includes processing an output of the encoder using an attender to generate a context vector, generating speech recognition scores using the context vector and a decoder trained using a training process, and generating a transcription for the…
CHANGE DATA CAPTURE STATE TRACKING FOR MULTI-REGION MULTI-MASTER NOSQL DATABASE
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240419686
A method for change data capture state tracking includes accessing a distributed database including a plurality of clusters, each cluster of the plurality of clusters including a respective plurality of partitions, each cluster of the plurality of clusters configured to receive read and write operation. The method includes receiving, at a second cluster, a plurality of changes for a second table and storing the plurality of changes at a replication log. The method also includes…
SERVER SIDE HOTWORDING
Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number:
20240412734
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting hotwords using a server. One of the methods includes receiving an audio signal encoding one or more utterances including a first utterance; determining whether at least a portion of the first utterance satisfies a first threshold of being at least a portion of a key phrase; in response to determining that at least the portion of the first utterance satisfies the first threshold…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF A GUARANTEED BATCH
Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number:
20240414098
Systems and methods for providing a guaranteed batch pool are described, including receiving a job request for execution on the pool of resources; determining an amount of time to be utilized for executing the job request based on available resources from the pool of resources and historical resource usage of the pool of resources; determining a resource allocation from the pool of resources, wherein the resource allocation spreads the job request over the amount of time; determining…
Stateful Hash-Based Signing with a Single Public Key and Multiple Independent Signers
Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number:
20240413994
This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at stateful hash-based signing with a single public key and multiple independent signers. Upon obtaining a Leighton-Micali signature (LMS) randomized parameter, a provisioning server may share the LMS randomized parameter among multiple signers. Next, the provisioning server may associate a unique, starting leaf index number to each signer and notify each of the signers. The signers may then create a random SEED for…
