Patent ID: 11893350
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform following operations:
receiving, via a microphone of a computing device, audio data of a spoken utterance, of a user, that omits any hotword;
determining that the spoken utterance does not include any hotword indicating that the user is addressing the spoken utterance to the computing device;
in response to determining that the spoken utterance does not include any hotword:
determining whether a transcription, of the spoken utterance, includes a query that is directed to content that is displayed via a user-facing display of the computing device; and

based on determining that the transcription of the spoken utterance includes the query that is directed to the content that is displayed via the user-facing display:
causing the computing device to perform an operation responsive to the spoken utterance.