Automated Assistant Alarm Pre-Dismissal for Wake Routine Initialization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing alarm systems and automated assistants waste resources and interrupt routines when users wake up early, and require unnecessary user inputs to dismiss alarms or initiate routines, leading to inefficient computational and network usage.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where situational conditions are used to pre-emptively dismiss alarms and initiate routines, such as user input conditions, where an automated assistant can be invoked preemptively dismiss the output corresponding to the scheduled operation, and the automated assistant can be invoked by user actions, such as a button tap or another spoken utterance, thereby reducing the need for processing voice data corresponding to the spoken utterance, thereby dismissing the output, thereby reducing the need for processing voice data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If the automated assistant operates in constant listening state to detect hot words, then the assistant can respond quickly to user requests, but computational resources and network bandwidth are continuously consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing audio data locally on the device before transmitting to the server. The device samples audio data and performs initial analysis to detect hot words, only transmitting relevant data when needed. This preliminary local processing reduces the frequency and volume of network communications while maintaining quick response capability.
2Reliability
If the alarm is triggered at the scheduled time to wake the user, then the user can start their morning routine, but power and computational resources are wasted when the user is already awake
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from multiple sensors (motion sensors, light sensors, camera) to continuously monitor whether the user is already awake before triggering the alarm. This feedback mechanism allows the system to make informed decisions about alarm execution, suppressing the alarm when the user is detected to be awake, thereby avoiding energy waste while maintaining alarm reliability when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs environmental sensors and device state information to automatically determine whether alarm suppression is appropriate, without requiring explicit user input. The system serves itself by using its own sensor data to make intelligent decisions about alarm execution, reducing energy consumption while maintaining reliability.
3Ease of operation
If the user provides a trigger phrase to invoke the automated assistant, then the assistant can perform speech-to-text processing and semantic analysis, but the user must interrupt their routine to provide the input
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of the user's wake state using sensors before requiring any user input. When the user is detected to be awake through sensor feedback, the system proactively suppresses the alarm and can automatically initiate assistant routines without requiring the user to provide a trigger phrase, thus eliminating routine interruption.
4Measurement precision
If the spoken utterance is transmitted to a separate server for processing, then accurate speech recognition and semantic processing can be achieved, but network bandwidth is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and processes only the essential audio data locally on the device, performing preliminary speech-to-text conversion and hot word detection before transmitting minimal necessary data to the server. This extraction approach separates local preprocessing functions from server-based semantic processing, reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining recognition accuracy.
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AI summary
Implementations set forth herein relate to initializing performance of an automated assistant routine and/or dismissing an alarm pre-emptively according to satisfaction of one or more conditions. A condition can be satisfied by a user acknowledging the alarm when the alarm is going off, or causing the alarm to be dismissed prior to a time at which the alarm was scheduled for. The user can cause the alarm to be dismissed pre-emptively by interacting with the automated assistant prior to the time the alarm was scheduled for and/or interacting with a device, which is known to the automated assistant, prior to the time that the alarm was scheduled for. In this way, actions that cause an alarm to be dismissed can be recognized and used to initialize other processes, such as an automated assistant routine, thereby reducing a number of inputs needed from a user.