Phone communication via a voice-controlled device

摘要

A device that includes a microphone and a speaker may capture audio uttered by a user. The device, or another device, may then perform a particular operation in response to the captured audio. A user's cell phone number may be associated with the device. When an incoming call is directed to the user's cell phone, the device may generate a notification. The user may utter a command that causes the device to establish an audio connection with a cellular carrier network, thereby facilitating the phone conversation while bypassing the cell phone. Similarly, a user may make an outgoing call associated with the user's cell phone. The outgoing call is facilitated through an audio connection between the device and the cellular carrier network, bypassing the cell phone.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining that a physical proximity of a mobile cellular phone and a voice-controlled device configured to detect audio from a physical environment are within a physical threshold proximity of each other in the physical environment, wherein the threshold physical proximity is determined based at least in part on a combination of at least two of a confidence level associated with triangulation data related to the phone, a confidence level associated with detection of the phone on a network associated with the voice-controlled device, or a confidence level associated with heuristic data associated with a user of the phone; associating a phone number of the mobile cellular phone with the voice-controlled device based at least in part on the combination of confidence levels; receiving at the voice-controlled device, a notification from a network-accessible service of an incoming phone call directed to the phone number; providing, at the voice-controlled device, an indication of the incoming call; determining, from an audio signal generated from audio from the environment, that the voice-controlled device has received an answer command; and at least partly in response to determining that the voice-controlled device has received the answer command:
ceasing to indicate the incoming call;transmitting, to the network-accessible service, a notification of the received answer command;receiving an Internet protocol (IP) address from a cell carrier via the network-accessible service; andattempting to connect to a device associated with the IP address to establish a phone call connection within the environment between the voice-controlled device and another device via the cell carrier.