ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,405, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Speech-processing system" was invented by Kunal Dewan Pahwa (Seattle) and Patrick Sheehy (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include first and second speech-processing systems with corresponding first and second wakewords. An utterance may contain two or more wakewords. The system determines which speech-processing system to use to perform further audio processing and to determine a response to the utterance."
The patent was filed on June 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/327,487.
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