CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a National Phase Entry of PCT International Application No. PCT/KR2019/008668, which was filed on Jul. 12, 2019, and claims a priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2018-0081746, which was filed on Jul. 13, 2018, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

Various embodiments disclosed in the disclosure are related to a technology for processing a user voice input.

BACKGROUND ART

For the purpose of aiming the interaction with a user, recent electronic devices have suggested various input methods. For example, an electronic device may support a voice input scheme that receives voice data according to a user utterance, based on the execution of a specified application program. Furthermore, the electronic device may recognize the received voice data to derive the intent of the user utterance and may perform a functional operation corresponding to the derived intent of the user utterance or support a speech recognition service for providing content.

DISCLOSURE

Technical Problem

In an operation of receiving voice data according to a user utterance, an electronic device may preprocess the voice data. For example, the electronic device may determine the section of the received voice data by detecting the end-point of the user utterance. However, when noise (e.g., audio of a sound medium, voices of other people, or the like) is present in the operating environment of the electronic device, noise data according to the noise may be mixed with a user's voice data in the electronic device. This may lower the preprocessing or recognition efficiency for the user's voice data.

Various embodiments disclosed in the disclosure may provide a user voice input processing method capable of clearly recognizing voice data according to the user utterance, and an electronic device supporting the same.

Technical Solution

According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a speaker, a microphone, a communication interface, a processor operatively connected to the speaker, the microphone, and the communication interface, and a memory operatively connected to the processor.

According to an embodiment, the memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first utterance through the microphone, to determine a speaker model by performing speaker recognition on the first utterance, to receive a second utterance through the microphone after the first utterance is received, to detect an end-point of the second utterance, at least partially using the determined speaker model.

Advantageous Effects

According to various embodiments, the recognition rate of voice data according to a user utterance or the reliability of speech recognition service may be improved.

According to various embodiments, the time required for an electronic device to respond to the user utterance may be shortened, and a user's discomfort according to a response waiting time may be reduced, by excluding noise data upon processing the user utterance.

Besides, a variety of effects directly or indirectly understood through the specification may be provided.

