A vehicle-mounted device operation system, includes: an operating part that is located in a vehicle cabin, and configured to be subjected to operation for manually operating a vehicle-mounted device; a sound collector that is located in the vehicle cabin, and configured to collect speech of an occupant; and a processor configured to determine whether a command to the vehicle-mounted device is included in a content of the speech of the occupant collected by the sound collector, activate the vehicle-mounted device according to the command, when the processor determines that the command to the vehicle-mounted device is included in the content of the speech of the occupant, and highlight the operating part for the vehicle-mounted device activated by the processor.

A vehicle control and interconnection system comprises a vehicle interconnection component and a software component. The vehicle interconnection component communicably couples to a corresponding portable electronic processing device when the portable electronic processing device is suitably positioned within a corresponding vehicle. The vehicle interconnection component further couples to a vehicle subsystem within the vehicle. The software component is downloaded into the corresponding portable electronic processing device, and implements a supervisory controller, a vehicle interface and a user interface. The supervisory controller provides control information that is utilized by the vehicle subsystem connected through the vehicle interconnection component to implement a customized vehicle configuration. The vehicle interface communicates the control information from the supervisory controller to the vehicle subsystem component through the vehicle interconnection component. The user interface couples to an input device and a display to provide a common interface for the device coupled to the vehicle interconnection component.

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.

Provided is a technology for enabling an operation to be conducted through use of words shortened more for an operation item estimated to be desired stronger. A voice input assistance device includes: a shortened-phrase storing unit configured to store an operation item and a shortened phrase corresponding to a desirability of the operation item in association with each other; a desirability estimation unit configured to estimate the desirability of each operation item through use of a predetermined index, and to identify the shortened phrase from the shortened-phrase storing unit based on the desirability; and an output processing unit configured to present the shortened phrase identified by the desirability estimation unit.

A system includes a processor in communication with at least one input, and configured to control at least one vehicle system. The processor is further configured to receive a command including a subjective element. The processor is also configured to access a mapping associated with a user from whom the command originated to retrieve a user-specific meaning, the mapping defining user-specific meanings for at least one subjective element. Further, the processor is configured to apply a user-specific meaning to an implementation of the command, such that a vehicle system is adjusted in accordance with both the subjective element and the user-specific meaning associated therewith.

An information providing device includes an agent ECU that sets a reward function through the use of history data on a response, from a driver, to an operation proposal for an in-vehicle component, and calculates a probability distribution of performance of each of actions constructing an action space in each of states constructing a state space, through reinforced learning based on the reward function. The agent ECU calculates a dispersion degree of the probability distribution. The agent ECU makes a trial-and-error operation proposal to select a target action from a plurality of candidates and output the target action when the dispersion degree of the probability distribution is equal to or larger than a threshold, and makes a definitive operation proposal to fix and output a target action when the value of the dispersion degree of the probability distribution is smaller than the threshold.

A voice control method for controlling functions of a vehicle including: creating a voice instruction set including voice instructions for converting interface elements associated with related vehicle functions into voice-controllable elements without any wake-up word; acquiring one or more interface elements currently presented on a human-machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle; extracting a voice instruction corresponding to the acquired one or more interface elements from the voice instruction set; and outputting the voice instruction to a speech engine, so that the speech engine processes a voice signal detected in the vehicle according to the voice instruction.

Techniques are described for detecting a conversation between at least two people, and for reducing noise during the conversation. In certain embodiments, at least one speech metric is generated based on spectral analysis of an audio signal and is used to determine that the audio signal represents speech from a first person. Responsive to determining that the speech is part of a conversation between the first person and a second person an operating state of a device in a physical environment is adjusted such that a volume level of sound contributed by or associated with the device is reduced. The sound contributed by or associated with the device corresponds to noise, at least for the duration of the conversation. Therefore, reducing the volume level of sound contributed by or associated with the device reduces the overall noise level in the environment, resulting in a reduction in conversational effort.

Systems and methods for safe reconfiguration of a vehicle interior are provided. A method includes obtaining vehicle reconfiguration data indicative of a reconfigured interior arrangement for a vehicle interior of an autonomous vehicle. The reconfigured interior arrangement can include a number of interior vehicle components at one or more different positions within the vehicle interior than a current position of the interior vehicle components as prescribed by a current interior arrangement of the vehicle interior. The method includes obtaining sensor data indicative of one or more objects associated with the autonomous vehicle and determining a potential impact of repositioning the number of interior vehicle components from the current interior arrangement to the reconfigured interior arrangement. The method includes initiating a vehicle reconfiguration response based on the vehicle reconfiguration data and the potential impact of the reconfigured interior arrangement on the one or more objects associated with the autonomous vehicle.

The present disclosure discloses a noise reduction method and apparatus based on in-vehicle sound zones and a medium. The method includes: determining, based on voice signals obtained by sound zones, a target sound zone to which a voice signal waking up a vehicle-mounted terminal belongs, in which each sound zone has a corresponding noise reduction module; and sending a noise reduction termination instruction to noise reduction modules of sound zones other than the target sound zone, in which the noise reduction termination instruction is configured to instruct the noise reduction modules of the sound zones other than the target sound zone to terminate noise reduction algorithms in a process of performing voice interaction for the target sound zone.