Patent attributes
There is provided a method for operating a speaker device able to be activated by receiving and recognizing a predetermined wake up word. The method is executable at a server. The method comprises: capturing, by the speaker device, an audio signal having been generated in a vicinity of the speaker device; retrieving, by the speaker device, a processing filter, the processing filter being indicative of a pre-determined signal augmentation pattern representative of an excluded portion that has been excluded from an originating utterance having the wake up word, the originating utterance to be reproduced by an other electronic device; applying, by the speaker device, the processing filter to determine presence of the pre-determined signal augmentation pattern in the audio signal; based on determining the presence of the pre-determined signal augmentation pattern in the audio signal, determining that the audio signal has been produced by the other electronic device.