Patent ID: 8874448

Claim:
A method comprising: outputting, by a computing device associated with a user and for playback at a first volume level by an audio output device, first audio data; receiving, by the computing device, audio input data; responsive to determining, by a speech recognition module of the computing device, that the audio input data includes speech associated with an entity different from the user, determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the audio input data, whether to output second audio data; responsive to determining to output the second audio data: determining, by the computing device, a second volume level lower than the first volume level; outputting, by the computing device and for playback at the second volume level by the audio output device, the second audio data; and responsive to the computing device detecting that speech associated with the entity different from the user has ended, outputting, by the computing device and for playback at the first volume level by the audio output device, third audio data.