Systems and Methods for Speech Command Processing

• US 20140337037A1
• Filed: 07/28/2014
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chi, Liang-Yu (Tom)
• Application Number:
  US14/444,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20140337037A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/243 Natural language query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/632 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/638 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/48 specially adapted for particular use

Abstract

Methods and apparatus related to processing speech input at a wearable computing device are disclosed. Speech input can be received at the wearable computing device. Speech-related text corresponding to the speech input can be generated. A context can be determined based on database(s) and/or a history of accessed documents. An action can be determined based on an evaluation of at least a portion of the speech-related text and the context. The action can be a command or a search request. If the action is a command, then the wearable computing device can generate output for the command. If the action is a search request, then the wearable computing device can: communicate the search request to a search engine, receive search results from the search engine, and generate output based on the search results. The output can be provided using output component(s) of the wearable computing device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving speech input at a wearable computing device;

generating, at the wearable computing device, speech-related text corresponding to the speech input;

determining a context for the speech-related text based at least in part on a history of accessed documents and one or more databases using the wearable computing device;

determining an action based on an evaluation of at least a portion of the speech-related text and the context for the speech-related text, the action comprising at least one of a command and a search request;

wherein in response to the action comprising a command;

generating, using the wearable computing device, output based on the command; and

wherein in response to the action comprising a search request;

communicating the search request to a search engine,

receiving search results from the search engine, and

generating, using the wearable computing device, output based on the search results;

determining a number of persons providing speech input; and

providing the output using one or more output components of the wearable computing device based on the number of persons providing speech input.