Patent attributes
The disclosed technology relates to a process for automatically training a machine learning algorithm to recognize a custom wake word. By using different text-to-speech services, input providing a custom wake word to a text to speech service can be used in order to generate different speech samples covering different variations in how the custom wake word can be pronounced. These samples are automatically generated and are subsequently used to train the wake word detection algorithm that will be used by the computing device to recognize and detect when the custom wake word is uttered by any user nearby a computing device for the purposes of initiating a virtual assistant. In a further embodiment, “white-listed” words (e.g different words that are pronounced similar to the custom wake word) are also identified and trained in order to minimize the occurrence of erroneously initiating the virtual assistant.
