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Controlling distributed audio outputs to enable voice output

  • US 9,898,250 B1
  • Filed: 06/29/2016
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for controlling a speaker system, the method comprising:

  • associating, by at least one server device, an audio device with a first wireless speaker;

    receiving, from the audio device by the at least one server device, input audio data corresponding to an utterance;

    performing, by the at least one server device, speech processing on the input audio data to determine a first instruction;

    generating, by the at least one server device, voice output audio data that includes synthesized speech corresponding to the first instruction;

    determining that the first wireless speaker is associated with the audio device;

    determining that the first wireless speaker is outputting first audio;

    sending a second instruction to the network-connected device to cause the network-connected device to reduce a volume level of the first audio from a first level to a second level; and

    sending, by the at least one server device, the voice output audio data to the audio device to cause the audio device to generate, while the first audio is outputting at the second level, second audio using a speaker.

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