Patent Document ID: 9318107
Application ID: 14675932

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance; before beginning automated speech recognition processing on the audio data, processing the audio data using a classifier that classifies audio data as including a particular hotword or as not including the particular hotword; determining, based on the processing of the audio data using the classifier that classifies audio data as including a particular hotword or as not including the particular hotword, a first value that reflects a first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword; receiving a second value that reflects a second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, as determined by a second computing device; comparing the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword and the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword; and based on comparing the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword to the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, determining whether to begin performing automated speech recognition processing on the audio data.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , comprising: based on comparing the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword to the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, determining that the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword is greater than the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, wherein determining whether to perform automated speech recognition processing on the audio data comprises: based on determining that the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword is greater than the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, determining to begin performing automated speech recognition processing on the audio data.