Patent ID: 11900921
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a first component including at least a first processor and at least a first memory, wherein the first component is a user device; and
a second component including at least a second processor and at least a second memory, wherein the second component is a second device that uses a network connection to communicate with the first component,
the at least first memory including first instructions that, when executed by the at least first processor, cause the first component to:
receive first audio data representing a first spoken user input;
using a first node of a first machine learning (ML) model, the first ML model configured to perform spoken language understanding (SLU) processing, process a first portion of the first audio data to determine embedding data representing a partial speech recognition output of the first node;
determine, based on the embedding data, the second component is to process to generate a SLU output; and
in response to determining the second component is to process to generate the SLU output, and prior to processing the embedding data using a second node of the first ML model, send the embedding data to the second component,

the at least second memory including second instructions that, when executed by the at least second processor, cause the second component to:
process the embedding data using a second ML model to complete the SLU processing of the first audio data;
determine, using the second ML model, a first SLU output;
determine, using the first SLU output, a first output responsive to the first spoken user input; and
send the first output to the first component.