CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY (20250058726). VOICE ASSISTANT OPTIMIZATION DEPENDENT ON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY

VOICE ASSISTANT OPTIMIZATION DEPENDENT ON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY

Organization Name

CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY

Inventor(s)

Holger Quast of Ghent (BE)

Markus Funk of Merelbeke (BE)

Christophe Couvreur of Merelbeke (BE)

VOICE ASSISTANT OPTIMIZATION DEPENDENT ON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250058726 titled 'VOICE ASSISTANT OPTIMIZATION DEPENDENT ON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY

Original Abstract Submitted

a vehicle system for classifying spoken utterance within a vehicle cabin as one of system-directed and non-system directed, the system may include at least one microphone configured to detect at least one audio signal from at least one occupant of a vehicle, and a processor programmed to receive the at least one audio signal including at least one acoustic utterance, determine a number of vehicle occupants based at least in part on the at least one signal, determine a probability that the utterance is system directed based at least in part one the utterance and the number of vehicle occupants, determine a classification threshold based at least in part on the number of vehicle occupants, compare the classification threshold to the probability to determine whether the at least one acoustic utterance is one of a system directed utterance and a non-system directed utterance.