Abstract: Embodiments provide voice model and speaker recognition features including proactive retrieval and/or sharing of voice models, but the embodiments are not so limited. A device/system of an embodiment includes speaker recognition features configured in part to proactively retrieve and/or enable sharing of voice models for use in speaker identification operations. A method of an embodiment operates in part to proactively retrieve and/or enable sharing of voice models for use in speaker identification operations. Other embodiments are included.

Abstract: Devices are often configurable to perform actions automatically in response to a condition, such as an alarm presented at a time or date of a meeting; a message associated with a location specified by a geofence; or an automated response to a received message. Such conditions may be tangentially applied to actions involving an individual (e.g., a reminder presented during an anticipated meeting or a geofence associated with the individual's office), but may result in false positives when the individual is not actually present, and false negatives when an unanticipated presence of the individual arises. Instead, a device may be configured to detect the presence of the individual with the user (e.g., capturing a photo of the environment of the user, and identifying the face of the individual in the photo), and to perform an action for the user during the detected presence of the individual with the user.