Patent ID: 11869505
Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A local assistant system for responding to voice input, comprising:
an ear-wearable device comprising a first speaker, a first microphone, a first processor, a first memory storage, and a first wireless communication device;
detection circuitry programmed to detect a wake-up signal, wherein the wake-up signal comprises one or more keywords in an audio input stream;
input circuitry programmed to, after detecting the wake-up signal, receive, at the local assistant system, a first voice input communicating a first query content;
speech recognition circuitry programmed to recognize speech within the first voice input to determine the first query content;
speech generation circuitry programmed to generate speech output to the first speaker of the ear-wearable device;
an input database stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory comprising locally-handled user inputs;
triage circuitry to determine whether the first query content matches one of the locally-handled user inputs;
local response circuitry, programmed to, if the first audio input matches one of the locally-handled user inputs, then take a local responsive action; and
network communication circuitry, configured to, if the first audio input does not match one of the locally-handled user inputs, transmit at least a portion of the first query content over a wireless network to a network resource;
wherein the one or more keywords in the audio input stream indicate that a user has misplaced an item, and the local assistant system is configured to assist the user in locating the item.