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US 11,321,047 B2Granted
Volume adjustments
AssigneeSorenson IP Holdings, LLC
InventorMark Adams
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Abstract
A method to adjust volume may include obtaining an audio signal during a communication session between a first device and a second device. The method may also include adjusting a volume level of the audio signal so that the volume level is a particular volume level above a noise floor of the audio signal and directing the adjusted audio signal to a remote transcription system.
Claims19
A method to adjust volume, the method comprising:
- obtaining, from a communication port of a first device, an audio signal during a communication session between the first device and a second device;
- obtaining, from a microphone of the first device, a second audio signal different than the audio signal, wherein the audio signal includes an echo of the second audio signal directed by the first device to the second device during the communication session;
- comparing the audio signal and the second audio signal;
- in response to the comparison of the audio signal and the second audio signal, adjusting, at the first device, a volume level of the audio signal and a volume level of the echo included in the audio signal so that the volume level of the audio signal and the echo is a particular volume level above a noise floor of the audio signal;
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- after adjusting the volume level, directing the adjusted audio signal and the adjusting echo from the first device to a remote transcription system configured to generate text based on words within audio.
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A device comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- one or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums configured to store instructions that when executed by the processors cause or direct the device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- obtain an audio signal during a communication session with a remote device;
- adjust a volume level of first portions of the audio signal so that the volume level is a particular volume level above a noise floor of the audio signal, the particular volume level being audible by a human;
- after adjusting the volume level, direct the adjusted first portions of the audio signal to a remote transcription system configured to generate text based on words within audio;
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- obtaining, at the device, transcriptions from the remote transcription system for second portions of the audio signal and not for the adjusted first portions of the audio signal.
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A method to adjust volume, the method comprising:
- obtaining, at a first device, an audio signal that originates at a second device, the audio signal including an echo of a second audio signal transmitted by the first device to the second device;
- adjusting, at the first device, a volume level of the audio signal so that the volume level of the echo included in the audio signal is a particular volume level above a noise floor of the audio signal;
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- after adjusting the volume level, directing the adjusted audio signal with the echo at the particular volume level from the first device to a remote transcription system configured to generate text based on words within audio.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.