Disambiguating question answering responses by receiving voice command data associated with a first user, determining a first user identity according to the first user voice command data, determining a first user activity context according to the first user voice command data, determining a first response for the first user, receiving voice command data associated with a second user, determining a second user identity according to the second user voice command data, determining a second user activity context according to the second user voice command data, determining a second response for the second user, determining a predicted ambiguity between the first response and the second response, altering the first response according to the predicted ambiguity, and providing the first response and the second response.

Techniques for performing outputting additional content associated with but nonresponsive to an input command are described. A system receives input data from a device. The system determines an intent representing the input data and receives first output data responsive to the input data. The system determines, based on context data, that additional content associated with the first output data but nonresponsive to the input data should be output. The system receives second output data associated with but nonresponsive to the input data thereafter. The system then presents first content corresponding to the first output data and second content corresponding to the second output data.

A method includes receiving acoustic features of a first utterance spoken by a first user that speaks with typical speech and processing the acoustic features of the first utterance using a general speech recognizer to generate a first transcription of the first utterance. The operations also include analyzing the first transcription of the first utterance to identify one or more bias terms in the first transcription and biasing the alternative speech recognizer on the one or more bias terms identified in the first transcription. The operations also include receiving acoustic features of a second utterance spoken by a second user that speaks with atypical speech and processing, using the alternative speech recognizer biased on the one or more terms identified in the first transcription, the acoustic features of the second utterance to generate a second transcription of the second utterance.

Techniques for generating conversational responses for a conversational user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining user input from a user via a conversational user interface, using the user input to obtain a user emotion and a user intent, obtaining candidate probabilities for a fragment of a response to the user input using the obtained user emotion, the obtained user intent and the user input, generating the response to the user input using the candidate probabilities obtained for the fragment to select a candidate for the fragment of the response, and communicating the response to the user via the conversational user interface.

A method for facilitating a multiparty conversation is disclosed. An electronic device using the method may facilitate a multiparty conversation by identifying participants of a conversation, localizing relative positions of the participants, detecting speeches of the conversation, matching one of the participants to each of the detected speeches according to the relative positions of the participants, counting participations of the matched participant in the conversation, identifying a passive subject from all the participants according to the participations of all the participants in the conversation, finding a topic of the conversation between the participants, and engaging the passive subject by addressing the passive subject and speaking a sentence related to the topic.

Described herein are various embodiments for customizing search results in a multi-content source environment. An embodiment operates by receiving input corresponding to a search from a user and retrieving a content history indicating which content was previously viewed by the user. It is determined that the content of the content history is organized into one or more preconfigured categories. A new category of content is generated based on the content history for the user. The content of the content history for user is arranged based on both the new category and at least a subset of the one or more preconfigured categories. The arranged content is displayed in a manner customized to the user.

Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated.

A media guidance application may monitor a conversation among users, and identify keywords in the conversation, without the use of wakewords. The keywords are used to search for media content that is relevant to the on-going conversation. Accordingly, the media guidance application presents relevant content to the users, during the conversation, to more actively engage the users. A conversation monitoring window may be used to present conversation information as well as relevant content. A listening mode may be used to manage when the media guidance application processes speech from a conversation. The media guidance application may access user profiles for keywords, select content types, select content sources, and determine relevancy of media content, to provide content in context of a conversation.

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.

Hot word free adaptation, of function(s) of an automated assistant, responsive to determining, based on gaze measure(s) and/or active speech measure(s), that a user is engaging with the automated assistant. Implementations relate to techniques for mitigating false positive occurrences of and/or false negative occurrences, of hot word free adaptation, through utilization of a permissive parameter set in some situation(s) and a restrictive parameter set in other situation(s). For example, utilizing the restrictive parameter set when it is determined that a user is engaged in conversation with additional user(s). The permissive parameter set includes permissive parameter(s) that are more permissive than counterpart(s) in the restrictive parameter set. A parameter set is utilized in determining whether condition(s) are satisfied, where those condition(s), if satisfied, indicate that the user is engaging in hot word free interaction with the automated assistant and result in adaptation of function(s) of the automated assistant