Appliances for providing user-specific response to voice commands
First Claim
1. A method for operating a refrigerator appliance that has a water dispensing system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the refrigerator appliance, a human speech signal, wherein the human speech signal comprises a voice command that requests that the refrigerator appliance perform one or more dispensing operations, the one or more dispensing operations comprising dispensing at least one of ice and water;
matching, by the refrigerator appliance, one or more biometrics of the human speech signal to one of a plurality of voice samples respectively associated with a plurality of enrolled users to identify one of the plurality of enrolled users as a source of the human speech signal;
obtaining, by the refrigerator appliance, one or more preset preferences associated with the identified enrolled user and stored in a memory, wherein the one or more preset preferences provide one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters associated with the one or more dispensing operations;
converting, by the refrigerator appliance the human speech signal to textual information;
determining, by the refrigerator appliance, the one or more dispensing operations requested by the human speech signal based on the textual information; and
performing, by the refrigerator appliance, the one or more dispensing operations in accordance with the one or more preset preferences, wherein performing the one or more dispensing operations comprises dispensing the at least one of ice and water that has the one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters.
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Abstract
Generally the present disclosure is directed to appliances that provide a user-specific response to a received voice command. In particular, the appliance can store a plurality of voice samples respectively associated with a plurality of users. The appliance can also store one or more preferences for each of the plurality of users. For example, the preferences can be input by the user and/or learned or inferred over time. When the appliance receives a human speech signal or voice command, it can match the received speech signal against one or more of the plurality of voice samples to identify the user. The preferences stored and associated with the identified user can then be obtained and the appliance can perform any requested operations in accordance with the obtained preferences. In such fashion, the appliance can provide a user-specific response to a received voice command.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for operating a refrigerator appliance that has a water dispensing system, the method comprising:
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receiving, by the refrigerator appliance, a human speech signal, wherein the human speech signal comprises a voice command that requests that the refrigerator appliance perform one or more dispensing operations, the one or more dispensing operations comprising dispensing at least one of ice and water; matching, by the refrigerator appliance, one or more biometrics of the human speech signal to one of a plurality of voice samples respectively associated with a plurality of enrolled users to identify one of the plurality of enrolled users as a source of the human speech signal; obtaining, by the refrigerator appliance, one or more preset preferences associated with the identified enrolled user and stored in a memory, wherein the one or more preset preferences provide one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters associated with the one or more dispensing operations; converting, by the refrigerator appliance the human speech signal to textual information; determining, by the refrigerator appliance, the one or more dispensing operations requested by the human speech signal based on the textual information; and performing, by the refrigerator appliance, the one or more dispensing operations in accordance with the one or more preset preferences, wherein performing the one or more dispensing operations comprises dispensing the at least one of ice and water that has the one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19)
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9. A refrigerator appliance comprising:
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a water dispensing system, a speech-to-text system configured to convert a human speech signal into textual information, wherein the human speech signal comprises a voice command that requests that the refrigerator appliance perform one or more dispensing actions, and wherein the one or more dispensing actions comprise dispensing at least one of ice and water; a user identification system configured to identify one of a plurality of enrolled users based on an analysis of the human speech signal, wherein the user identification system is configured to identify the one of the plurality of enrolled users by performing a matching routine with respect to the human speech signal and a plurality of voice samples respectively stored in a memory; and a feature processing system configured to determine the one or more requested dispensing actions based on the textual information; wherein the refrigerator appliance is configured to perform operations, the operations comprising; accessing from the memory one or more preferences associated with the identified enrolled user, wherein the one or more preferences describe one or more values for one or more variable parameters invoked by the one or more dispensing actions; and performing the one or more requested dispensing actions in accordance with the one or more preferences, wherein performing the one or more requested dispensing actions comprises dispensing the at least one of ice and water that has the one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A refrigerator appliance comprising:
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a water dispensing system; at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the refrigerator appliance to perform operations, the operations comprising; receiving a human speech signal from a user, wherein the human speech signal comprises a voice command that requests that the refrigerator appliance perform one or more dispensing operations, and wherein the one or more dispensing operations comprise dispensing at least one of ice and water; determining whether the user can be identified based on the human speech signal, wherein determining whether the user can be identified based on the human speech signal comprises respectively matching one or more biometrics of the human speech signal against a plurality voice samples respectively associated with a plurality of enrolled users; when the user cannot be identified based on the human speech signal, performing an enrollment process to enroll the user; and when the user can be identified based on the human speech signal; accessing one or more previously obtained preferences associated with the user, wherein the one or more previously obtained preferences describe one or more values for one or more variable parameters associated with the one or more dispensing operations; and performing the one or more requested dispensing operations in accordance with the one or more previously obtained preferences, wherein performing the one or more requested dispensing operations comprises dispensing the at least one of ice and water that has the one or more values respectively for the one or more variable parameters. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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