Abstract: A system for detection of at least one designated wake-up word for at least one speech-enabled application. The system comprises at least one microphone; and at least one computer hardware processor configured to perform: receiving an acoustic signal generated by the at least one microphone at least in part as a result of receiving an utterance spoken by a speaker; obtaining information indicative of the speaker's identity; interpreting the acoustic signal at least in part by determining, using the information indicative of the speaker's identity and automated speech recognition, whether the utterance spoken by the speaker includes the at least one designated wake-up word; and interacting with the speaker based, at least in part, on results of the interpreting.

Abstract: A system for interacting with an audio stream to obtain lyric information, control playback of the audio stream, and control aspects of the audio stream. In some instances, end users can request that the audio stream play with a lead vocal track or without a lead vocal track. Obtaining lyric information includes receiving via a text to speech module an audio playback of the lyric information.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and other implementations for noise suppression, including a method that includes obtaining a sound signal sample, determining a noise reduction profile, from a plurality of noise reduction profiles, for processing the obtained sound signal sample, and processing the sound signal sample with a machine learning system to produce a noise suppressed signal. The machine learning system implements (executes) a single machine learning model trained to controllably suppress noise in input sound signals according to the plurality of noise reduction profiles. The processing of the sound signal sample is performed according to the determined noise reduction profile.

Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command.

Abstract: A system and method of responding to a vocal utterance may include capturing and converting the utterance to word(s) using a language processing method, such as natural language processing. The context of the utterance and of the system, which may include multimodal inputs, may be used to determine the meaning and intent of the words.

Abstract: A voice assistant system for a vehicle includes a microphone configured to detect an audio signal from a user of the vehicle; a speaker configured to output a dialogue in response to the audio signal; and a processor programmed to responsive to detecting a conversation in which the user is involved, decrease a lengthiness setting of the voice assistant system to reduce the length of the dialogue, and increase an independency setting of the voice assistant system to prevent a confirmation question from the voice assistant system.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing information services to a user in a vehicle includes an automotive concierge, a prompter, and an interaction mode. The automotive concierge is hosted by an infotainment system in the vehicle and engages in an interaction with the user based on context. The prompter generates a prompt for a model in response to an instruction from the automotive concierge, the instruction being based on the context information and the prompt being selected to cause the model to generate content that invites a choice from the user. The interaction mode delivers the content to the user and provides information from the user to the automotive concierge.

Abstract: A vehicle gaming system for a vehicle includes one or more computing devices configured to obtain body gesture data indicative of one or more recognized poses of a user of a video game; obtain speech data indicative of one or more recognized words spoken by the user in a passenger cabin of the vehicle; generate a multimodal gaming input by combining the body gesture data and the speech data; identify one or more game commands for the video game being played from a game command datastore based on the multimodal gaming input; and transmit the one or more game commands to a remote gaming server to obtain gaming codes associated with the one or more game commands to cause the video game to perform an action associated with the one or more game commands.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising an infotainment system including a proactive automotive assistant that executes a first action and a second action, wherein the first action is that of permitting spontaneous communication to an occupant in a vehicle and the second action is that of providing information indicating that spontaneous communication with the occupant is impermissible. The automotive assistant is configured to receive information selected from the group consisting of vehicle-status information concerning operation of the vehicle and occupant-status information concerning the occupant and to base the first and second actions at least in part on the information.

Abstract: A system for routing commands issued by a passenger of a vehicle to a Smart Home and/or an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem via a connection manager. Issued commands are obtained from utterances using speech recognition and analyzed using natural language understanding and natural language processing. Using the output of the natural understanding analysis, the connection manager determines where to send the command by identifying a target Smart Home and/or IoT ecosystem.

Abstract: A method for synthesizing speech from a textual input includes receiving the textual input, the textual input including native words in a native language and foreign words in a foreign language, and processing the textual input to determine a phonetic representation of the textual input. The processing includes determining a native phonetic representation of the of the native words, and determining a nativized phonetic representation of the foreign words. Determining the nativized phonetic representation includes forming a foreign phonetic representation of the foreign words using a foreign phoneme set, and mapping the foreign phonetic representation to the nativized phonetic representation according to a model of a native speaker's pronunciation of foreign words.

Abstract: A vehicle and many dynamic features move relative to the same reference frame. An infotainment system responds to a request from an occupant of a vehicle to provide information concerning a particular dynamic feature. The occupant provides the infotainment system with information concerning a bearing to the dynamic feature and the infotainment system identifies the dynamic feature in response.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin, an internal-loudspeaker set an external-microphone set, and a signal processor that filters a raw audio signal that has been received by the external-microphone set broadcasts the resulting filtered audio signal into the cabin using the internal-loudspeaker set.

Abstract: A vehicle control system executing a voice control system for facilitating voice-based dialog with a driver to enable the driver or autonomous vehicle to control certain operational aspects of an autonomous vehicle is provided. Using environmental and sensor input, the vehicle control system can select optimal routes for operating the vehicle in an autonomous mode or choose a preferred operational mode. Occupants of the autonomous vehicle can change a destination, route or driving mode by engaging with the vehicle control system in a dialog enabled by the voice control system.

Abstract: A method that includes receiving information indicative of a location of a vehicle. The vehicle has an occupied-vehicle state that includes an occupant state. This occupant state represents the state of one or more occupants within the vehicle. The method further includes receiving information indicative of this occupant state. The information indicative of the occupant state results from an observation by a detector that is in communication with an infotainment system within the vehicle. The method continues with using both the information indicative of the occupant state and the information indicative of the location to select an advertisement from a database of advertisements. This selected advertisement is one that is ultimately for presentation to the occupant.

Abstract: A voice-based system is configured to process commands in a flexible format, for example, in which a wake word does not necessarily have to occur at the beginning of an utterance. As in natural speech, the system being addressed may be named within or at the end of a spoken utterance rather than at the beginning, or depending on the context, may not be named at all.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A vehicle gaming system for a vehicle includes one or more computing devices configured to obtain body gesture data indicative of one or more recognized poses of a user of a video game; obtain speech data indicative of one or more recognized words spoken by the user in a passenger cabin of the vehicle; generate a multimodal gaming input by combining the body gesture data and the speech data; identify one or more game commands for the video game being played from a game command datastore based on the multimodal gaming input; and transmit the one or more game commands to a remote gaming server to obtain gaming codes associated with the one or more game commands to cause the video game to perform an action associated with the one or more game commands.

Abstract: An automotive assistant that is connected to microphones and loudspeakers that are associated with different seats in a passenger vehicle includes a dialog manager that is configured to initiate a dialog based on an utterance received at a first one of the microphones and to advance that dialog based on an utterance received from another of the microphones.

Abstract: Touring circuitry for managing an immersion tour as a vehicle traverses a path through a touring theatre receives location information and provides control signals to an augmented-reality system based on a location of the vehicle in the touring theater. The control signals cause the augmented-reality system to stimulate at least two sensory inputs of a passenger.