Automatic selection of audio compression for spoken commands

Voice commands are commonly used for interaction with virtual assistant applications provided via user devices such as smart speakers, appliances, smartphones, etc. When a user provides permission, some voice-enabled applications upload the user’s speech data to a server using lossless compression to enable server-based recognition of the user command. The lossless nature of the transmission can take up significant network resources and receiving a response from the server can take a significant amount of time when the user has a slow network connection. This disclosure provides techniques that enable faster transmission for server-side processing of user speech data while retaining recognition quality. Allowing loss in the transmitted audio reduces the resources required for speech data transmission. To ensure that there is no loss of quality, the user’s environment is evaluated with user permission, to determine whether lossy transmission is feasible for the particular user speech

HYPER SUGGESTION SPANS FOR IMPROVED TEXT CORRECTION

Improved techniques for correcting text transcriptions of voice input is described herein. A computing device may perform speech recognition to transcribe voice input (e.g., speech) into text, enable a user to select any of one or more consecutive words in the text transcription, and, in response, determine and output a set of alternative hypotheses for the selected one or more consecutive words, so that the user may select one alternative hypothesis in the set of alternative hypotheses in order to replace the selected one or more consecutive words with the alternative hypothesis

EDITING TEXT BASED ON INPUT MODE

This text editing system initially detects a user’s cursor placement within a selection of text. The system can then receive a text input from the user using a particular input mode. Accordingly, the system modifies the selection of text based on the received text input and the particular input mode. If the received text input is a character or the particular input mode is character-based, the system inserts the character at a point of the selection of text. If the received text input is a word or the particular input mode is word-based, the system replaces the selection of text with the received word