Systems and methods are described herein for providing media guidance. Control circuitry may receive a first voice input and access a database of topics to identify a first topic associated with the first voice input. A user interface may generate a first response to the first voice input, and subsequent to generating the first response, the control circuitry may receive a second voice input. The control circuitry may determine a match between the second voice input and an interruption input such as a period of silence or a keyword or a phrase, such as “Ahh,”, “Umm,”, or “Hmm.” The user interface may generate a second response that is associated with a second topic related to the first topic. By interrupting the conversation and changing the subject from time to time, media guidance systems can appear to be more intelligent and human.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to synthetic call status updates. In some implementations, a method includes determining, by a task manager module, that a triggering event has occurred to provide a current status of a user call request. The method may then determine, by the task manager module, the current status of the user call request. A representation of the current status of the user call request is generated. Then, the generated representation of the current status of the user call request is provided to the user.

A speech interface device is configured to detect an interrupt event and process a voice command without detecting a wakeword. The device includes on-device interrupt architecture configured to detect when device-directed speech is present and send audio data to a remote system for speech processing. This architecture includes an interrupt detector that detects an interrupt event (e.g., device-directed speech) with low latency, enabling the device to quickly lower a volume of output audio and/or perform other actions in response to a potential voice command. In addition, the architecture includes a device directed classifier that processes an entire utterance and corresponding semantic information and detects device-directed speech with high accuracy. Using the device directed classifier, the device may reject the interrupt event and increase a volume of the output audio or may accept the interrupt event, causing the output audio to end and performing speech processing on the audio data.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a speech system for a vehicular device holder. The speech system can include a sensor base embedded with an inductive circuit chip and a surface for holding a device. The inductive circuit chip can comprise at least one identification code. The speech system may also include a mobile computing device coupled to the sensor base and configured with a local terminal application. The mobile computing device can be placed within the surface of the sensor base to transmit the at least one identification code. The speech system may also include a remote server that is configured to received the identification code from the mobile computing device, and authenticate the identification code, and transmit an acknowledge signal to the mobile computing device. The speech system may also include an input device coupled to the remote server and mobile computing device.

Provided are a meeting support system, a meeting support method, and a program. The meeting support system includes a meeting support device used by a first participant and a terminal used by a second participant. The meeting support device includes an acquisition unit acquiring utterance information of the first participant, a display unit displaying at least the utterance information of the first participant, and a processing unit determining whether an utterance of the first participant is interrupted when acquiring a wait request from the terminal and changing display of the display unit according to the wait request when it is determined that the utterance of the first participant is interrupted.

Systems and methods are described for handling interruptions during a digital assistant session between a user and a digital assistant by detecting if an interruption event is to occur during the digital assistant session. In response to detecting that the interruption event is to occur, an operation that addresses the interruption event may be caused to be performed.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one instruction, and at least one processor where the at least one processor is configured to execute the instruction to obtain voice data from a conversation of at least one user, convert the voice data to text data, determine at least one parameter indicating characteristic of the conversation based on at least one of the voice data or the text data, adjust a condition for triggering intervention in the conversation based on the determined at least one parameter, and output a feedback based on the text data when the adjusted condition is satisfied.

The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, at a processing system, a first signal including an output of a speaker device and an additional audio signal. The method also includes determining, by the processing system, based at least in part on a model trained to identify the output of the speaker device, that the additional audio signal corresponds to an utterance of a user. The method further includes initiating a reduction in an audio output level of the speaker device based on determining that the additional audio signal corresponds to the utterance of the user.

Systems and methods are described herein for providing media guidance. Control circuitry may receive a first voice input and access a database of topics to identify a first topic associated with the first voice input. A user interface may generate a first response to the first voice input, and subsequent to generating the first response, the control circuitry may receive a second voice input. The control circuitry may determine a match between the second voice input and an interruption input such as a period of silence or a keyword or a phrase, such as “Ahh,”, “Umm,”, or “Hmm.” The user interface may generate a second response that is associated with a second topic related to the first topic. By interrupting the conversation and changing the subject from time to time, media guidance systems can appear to be more intelligent and human.

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a microphone, a speaker and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a first voice input through the microphone, outputting a response related to a function through the speaker, based on the first voice input, when a second voice input is received through the microphone during output of the response, interrupting the output of the response and continue to receive the second voice input, and executing the function based on content of the received second voice input and content of the response output up to one of: a first time point when the second voice input was initially received, and a second time point when the output of the response was interrupted.