ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,576, issued on March 24, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Semantically conditioned voice activity detection" was invented by Victor Leitman (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes recognizing words comprised by a first utterance; interpreting the recognized words according to a grammar comprised by a domain; from the interpreting of the recognized words, determining a timeout period for the first utterance based on the domain of the first utterance; detecting end of voice activity in the first utterance; executing an instruction following an amount of time after detecting end of...