Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an interaction method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method includes: generating, in response to determining that a request input by a user satisfies a guiding condition, guiding information, and feeding back the guiding information to the user, the guiding condition including one of the following: associating with a plurality of query intents, or associating with no query intent; and generating, based on the request and a feedback input by the user corresponding to the guiding information, an intent-clear request, and feeding back push information bound with the intent-clear request to the user. Realizing that in the process of interacting with the user, for conditions such as the request input by the user is associated with a plurality of query intents or incompleteness, an intent-clear request associated with an explicit query intent is determined through the interaction with the user.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling external noise in an audio output device. A speech signal is detected in the vicinity of the audio output device. The speech signal is transcribed into text. The transcribed text is compared with reference text. When at least a portion of the transcribed text matches with a portion of the reference text, it is determined to reduce at least one of a level of active noise reduction or a level of noise masking to enable a user of the audio output device to hear sounds external to the audio output device.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer system and computer program product are provided for transferring in a BOT conversation. According to the method, a user input is received, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processing units, from a user. A first response from a conversation BOT responding to the user input is obtained by the device. The first response is evaluated by the device according to configured rules to determine whether a human agent is needed, wherein the evaluation according to at least one of the configured rules is carried out by a trained engine of a reinforcement learning model. Finally, responding to determine the human agent is needed, a transferring recommendation is sent to the user by the device.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for dialoguing based on a mood of a user, where the method includes: collecting first audio data from the user, determining the mood of the user according to a feature of the first audio data, and dialoguing with the user using second audio data corresponding to the mood of the user. The method and the apparatus for dialoguing based on the mood of the user provided by the present disclosure may make different responses according to the mood of the user when dialoguing with the user. Therefore, it further enriches response that the electronic device may make according to voice data of the user, and further improves the user experience during dialoguing with the electronic device.

Abstract: A method of analyzing sentiments includes receiving one or more strings of text, identifying sentiments related to a first topic from the one or more strings of text, and assigning a sentiment score to each of the sentiments related to the first topic, where the sentiment score corresponds to a degree of positivity or negativity of a sentiment of the sentiments. The method further includes calculating an average sentiment score for the first topic based on the sentiment score for each of the sentiments related to the first topic, determining a percentile for the first topic based on a frequency of sentiments related to the first topic, where the percentile for the first topic is determined with respect to a maximum frequency of sentiments related to one or more other topics, and computing an X-Score based on the average sentiment score and the percentile of the first topic.

Abstract: A response sentence that is satisfactory to a user is formed. A response device (1) includes: a related term searching section (13) configured to, in a case where an input sentence contains an unknown word, detect a related term, which is a known word that shares, with the unknown word, at least one shared word; and a response sentence forming section (16) configured to form the response sentence whose content is related to the related term that has been detected by the related term searching section (13).

Abstract: There is provided a speech classification apparatus for hearing devices with electroencephalography, EEG, dependent sound processing, comprising a sound processing unit configured to capturing sound input signals from at least one external microphone and segmenting said captured sound input signals into segmented sound signals, a speech classification unit comprising a speech cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate a speech cepstrum for each segmented sound signal, an EEG cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate an EEG cepstrum for an EEG signal of a user's brain, a mapping unit configured to select a predetermined number of coefficients from each calculated sound cepstrum and from the calculated EEG cepstrum, and a correlation unit configured to calculate a correlation value for each captured sound input signal based on a correlation of the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the respective calculated sound cepstrum with the predetermined number of selected coefficients from

Abstract: A system and method obtaining structured information from a conversation including receiving a first input from a user, determining a first set of slots filled based on the first input using natural language processing and a non-linear slot filling algorithm, determining first conversation based on the first set of slots filled, determining a first empty slot associated with the first conversation, prompting the user for a second input, the second input associated with the first empty slot, filling the first empty slot using natural language processing and the non-linear slot filling algorithm, determining that the slots associated with the first conversation are filled; and, responsive to determining that the slots associated with the first conversation are filled, initiating an action associated with the conversation.

Abstract: A sub-band processing system for reducing computational complexity and memory requirements is disclosed. The sub-band processing system includes: a first logic that partitions and stores a frequency spectrum of bins of real and imaginary data into a smaller number of sub-bands; a second logic that executes a first lossy compression for a first set of the sub-bands, wherein the first set includes those sub-bands having indices that are greater than or equal to a first index; and a third logic that executes, subsequent to a frequency spectrum processing of the lossy compressed data rendered by the second logic, a second lossy compression for a second set of the sub-bands, wherein the second set includes those sub-bands having indices that are less than the first index and greater than or equal to a second index.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input from a client system associated with a user, generating a plurality of candidate responses by a natural-language generation module in response to the user input, determining a quality-indication by a filtering module for each candidate response of the plurality of candidate responses based on one or more classification models and one or more classification rules, wherein the classification models and classification rules are based on one or more acceptance-criteria, selecting one or more candidate responses from the plurality of candidate responses based on their respective quality-indications, ranking the selected candidate responses based on one or more ranking-criteria, and sending instructions for presenting a top-ranked candidate response to the user to the client system associated with the user responsive to receiving the user input.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for transmitting bundles of silence indicator (SID) frames during a voice call among a plurality of access terminals. In an aspect, a source access terminal detects a transition to a silence state, generates, in response to detection of the transition, at least a first bundle of SID frames, wherein each SID frame of the at least the first bundle of SID frames includes data representing comfort noise to be played at one or more target access terminals of the plurality of access terminals during the silence state, and transmits the at least the first bundle of SID frames to a base station serving the source access terminal. In an aspect, the base station receives the at least the first bundle of SID frames, and periodically forwards SID frames of the at least the first bundle of SID frames to the one or more target access terminals.

Abstract: An information providing device presenting a first and a second word respectively extracted from a first and a second word group includes: a first and a second memory unit respectively storing the first and the second word group; a word extraction unit extracting a word from the second word group as the second word; a sound collection unit collecting a voice signal; and a voice recognition unit performing voice recognition on the collected voice signal, wherein the first memory unit stores a word group of a discussion theme in the first word group; the second memory unit stores a word group corresponding to the first word in the second word group, and the word extraction unit stores a new word in the second word group based on a voice recognition result of content spoken by a speaker at a meeting where the first word and the second word are presented.

Abstract: A method and device for decoding a signal, where the method includes: obtaining an average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient of a sub-band of a current frame of the audio signal, wherein the sub-band includes a plurality of spectral coefficients; obtaining a noise filling gain for the sub-band when the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is less than a classification threshold; reconstructing, according to the noise filling gain, at least some of the spectral coefficients to generate reconstructed spectral coefficients when the average quantity of allocated bits per spectral coefficient is less than a classification threshold; obtaining a frequency domain signal according to the reconstructed spectral coefficients; and generating a time domain signal based on the frequency domain signal. Therefore, a sub-band with unsaturated bit allocation in a frequency domain signal may be obtained by classification, thereby improving signal decoding quality.

Abstract: An application processor may include a host processor, a voice trigger system and an audio subsystem electrically connected to a system bus. The voice trigger system may be configured to perform a voice trigger operation and to issue a trigger event. The audio subsystem may be configured to replay an audio output stream through an audio interface. A direct bus may be configured to provide a communication path between the voice trigger system and the audio subsystem during a barge-in condition in which the voice trigger operation and the replay of the audio output stream are performed together. The application processor may be configured to generate compensated trigger data by performing an echo cancellation with respect to microphone data received from a microphone, and the voice trigger system may be configured to perform the voice trigger operation during the barge-in condition based on the compensated trigger data.

Abstract: The disclosed technology provides computer-to-wireless-voice integration methods and systems. In some implementations, the methods and systems deliver real-time voice instructions to users of required time-sensitive actions and ensure that such directives are received and a recipient effectively acts on the directives. The systems and methods include receiving a notification of an event from a terminal in a wireless active voice engine (WAVE) system, determining an active voice directive corresponding to the event with a WAVE module, converting the active voice directive into a voice event via a directive converter, and notifying a targeted recipient of the active voice directive corresponding to the event with a communications module. In some implementations, the systems and methods include sending a confirmation event via the receiver to the communications module that the active voice directive was received by the targeted recipient and communicating the active voice directive has been completed.

Abstract: A method includes interpreting sets of first language identigens to produce an entigen group which represents a most likely meaning of a string of first language words. The method further includes identifying, for each entigen of the entigen group, a corresponding set of second language identigens to identify sets of second language identigens. The method further includes selecting, for each entigen of the entigen group, a selected second language identigen from the corresponding set of second language identigens based on meaning of the entigen to produce an initial string of second language words.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to further improve the operability of user interfaces that use a voice as an input, the information processing device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire context information in a period for collection of a voice; and a control unit configured to cause a predetermined output unit to present a candidate for character information obtained by converting the voice in a mode in accordance with the context information.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively ignoring an occurrence of a wakeword within audio input data is provided herein. In some embodiments, a wakeword may be detected to have been uttered by an individual within a modified time window, which may account for hardware delays and echoing offsets. The detected wakeword that occurs during this modified time window may, in some embodiments, correspond to a word included within audio that is outputted by a voice activated electronic device. This may cause the voice activated electronic device to activate itself, stopping the audio from being outputted. By identifying when these occurrences of the wakeword within outputted audio are going to happen, the voice activated electronic device may selectively determine when to ignore the wakeword, and furthermore, when not to ignore the wakeword.

Abstract: An assignment device (1) assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with background information (HI) relating to words in the text information (TT).

Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and devices for providing word replaceability information through word vectors. Within a database system, a text document is received, then processed into a number of sub-sentences or sub-segments. The processing involved delimiting one or more sentences within the text document by one or more punctuation marks. Next, a number of n-gram combinations are generated according to co-appearances of n-grams within the sub-sentences. Distance metrics are determined between the n-gram co-appearances for each n-gram combination. Finally, word replaceability information is provided for one or more words or n-grams within the text document, based on the distance metric.