Patent Document ID: 9666192
Application ID: 14721252

Base Claim:
1. A computing device including a speech-enabled application installed thereon, the computing device comprising: an input interface configured to receive first audio comprising speech from a user of the computing device; an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine configured to: detect based, at least in part, on a threshold time for endpointing, an end of speech in the first audio; and generate a first ASR result based, at least in part, on a portion of the first audio prior to the detected end of speech; and at least one processor programmed to: determine whether a valid action can be performed by the speech-enabled application using the first ASR result; instruct the ASR engine to process second audio when it is determined that a valid action cannot be performed by the speech-enabled application using the first ASR result; create a first hint based, at least in part, on the first ASR result, wherein the first hint prompts the user for speech input corresponding to a valid action that can be performed by the speech-enabled application; and present the first hint via a user interface of the computing device.

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Claim 2:
2. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein determining whether a valid action can be performed by the speech-enabled application using the first ASR result is based, at least in part, on a natural language understanding (NLU) result generated using the first ASR result.