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US 2015/0088501 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus for signal sharing to improve speech understanding
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorKarrie LaRae Recker
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Abstract
Methods and devices are described for allowing users to use portable computer devices such as smart phones to share microphone signals and/or closed captioning text generated by speech recognition processing of the microphone signals. Under user direction, the portable devices exchange messages to form a signal sharing group to facilitate their conversation.
Claims25
A portable computing device operated by a user, comprising:
- processing circuitry for executing programmed instructions with a display and user input interfaced thereto;
- a radio-frequency transceiver interfaced to the processing circuitry, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to transmit and receive information-carrying signals to and from other portable devices;
- wherein the processing circuitry is configured to receive audio signals from one or more microphones associated with the device, referred to as associated microphones, via wired or wireless connections, including a hearing aid microphone of the user;
- wherein the processing circuitry is programmed to operate in a signal sharing mode in a signal sharing group made up of one or more other devices also operating in the signal sharing mode by:
- receiving one or more audio signals from an associated microphone or another device of the signal sharing group, selecting a received audio signal and performing speech recognition processing on the selected audio signal to generate closed-captioning text corresponding thereto, and transmitting the closed-captioning text to the other devices of the signal sharing group;
- receiving closed-captioning texts from other devices of the signal sharing group;
- and,
- displaying generated and received closed-captioning texts.
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