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

Claim 8:
9. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations that comprise:
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.