Intelligent switching between air conduction speakers and tissue conduction speakers

An apparatus comprising:

• logic, implemented in one or more of configurable logic hardware or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to:
• determine a usage configuration of a wearable device,
• set an activation state of an air conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration, and
• set an activation state of a tissue conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least part on the usage configuration,
• wherein the usage configuration is to be determined based on a set of status signals that indicate a physical position, a physical activity, a current activation state, an interpersonal proximity state and a manual user request associated with one or more of the air conduction speaker or the tissue conduction speaker.

A method comprising:

• determining a usage configuration of a wearable device;
• setting an activation state of an air conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration;
• and
• setting an activation state of a tissue conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration,
• wherein the usage configuration is determined based on a set of status signals that indicate a physical position, a physical activity, a current activation state, an interpersonal proximity state and a manual user request associated with one or more of the air conduction speaker or the tissue conduction speaker.

At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to:

• determine a usage configuration of a wearable device;
• set an activation state of an air conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration;
• and
• set an activation state of a tissue conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration,
• wherein the usage configuration is to be determined based on a set of status signals that indicate a physical position, a physical activity, a current activation state, an interpersonal proximity state and a manual user request associated with one or more of the air conduction speaker or the tissue conduction speaker.

A wearable device comprising:

• an air conduction speaker;
• a tissue conduction speaker;
• and
• logic, implemented at least partly in one or more of configurable logic hardware or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to:
• determine a usage configuration of the wearable device,
• set an activation state of the air conduction speaker based at least in part on the usage configuration, and
• set an activation state of the tissue conduction speaker based at least part on the usage configuration,
• the wearable device further including one or more sensors, wherein the usage configuration is to be determined based on a set of status signals from the one or more sensors that indicate at least an interpersonal proximity state associated with one or more of the air conduction speaker or the tissue conduction speaker.