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AssigneesToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsBenjamin Piya Austin, George M. Evans, Philip J. Babian
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A system and method employ vibration sensors on board a vehicle to effectively identify and implement voice commands. The vibration sensors provide vibration signals corresponding to the speech of vehicle occupants to a controller. The controller may verify the content of the voice commands and identify a speaker of the voice commands with the vibration signals. The voice command may be implemented by operating a controlled device in a specific passenger zone of the vehicle. In some implementations, the speech of a specific occupant may be designated as voice commands to be transmitted over a videoconference or voice call and the speech of surrounding vehicle occupants may be designated as noise to be excluded from transmission. Further, driver voice commands may be given priority when conflicting commands are given by other vehicle passengers.
A voice recognition system for operating a controlled device on board a vehicle, the system comprising:
A computer-implemented method for operating a controlled device on board a vehicle, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having machine-readable instructions stored thereon, which are executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
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