Context-Aware Voice Control Without Wake Words

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cooperative intelligence systems require explicit wake-up words or phrases for functionality execution, limiting their responsiveness and efficiency in dynamic conversational contexts.

Innovation Solution

A system that monitors conversations to define system-directed commands through machine learning, associating conversational contexts without requiring explicit wake-up words, enabling automated functionality execution based on detected contexts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If explicit wake-up words or phrases are required for functionality execution, then system reliability is improved, but responsiveness and efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidresponsiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning by monitoring conversations and defining system-directed commands with associated conversational contexts in advance. This allows the system to recognize and execute commands based on learned contexts without requiring explicit wake-up words during operation, thereby improving responsiveness while maintaining reliability through the pre-established command-context relationships

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If explicit wake-up words or phrases are required for functionality execution, then system reliability is improved, but efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidefficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning by monitoring conversations and defining system-directed commands with associated conversational contexts in advance. This allows the system to recognize and execute commands based on learned contexts without requiring explicit wake-up words during operation, thereby improving responsiveness while maintaining reliability through the pre-established command-context relationships

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If wake-up words or phrases are required for command execution, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning by monitoring conversations and defining system-directed commands with associated conversational contexts in advance. This allows the system to recognize and execute commands based on learned contexts without requiring explicit wake-up words during operation, thereby improving responsiveness while maintaining reliability through the pre-established command-context relationships

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system monitors conversations and automatically defines system-directed commands and their associated contexts through machine learning, enabling the system to adapt to new conversational patterns and commands autonomously without requiring manual reconfiguration, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining manageable complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4268226B1Ambient cooperative intelligence system and method
Publication Date: 2026.04.15 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring a plurality of conversations within a monitored space to generate a conversation data set; processing the conversation data set using machine learning to: define a system-directed command for an ACI system, and associate one or more conversational contexts with the system-directed command; detecting the occurrence of a specific conversational context within the monitored space, wherein the specific conversational context is included in the one or more conversational contexts associated with the system-directed command; and executing, in whole or in part, functionality associated with the system-directed command in response to detecting the occurrence of the specific conversational context without requiring the utterance of the system-directed command and/or a wake-up word / phrase.