Communication System For Multiple Acoustic Zones
AssigneeNuance Communications, Inc.
InventorsTobias Herbig, Markus Buck, Meik Pfeffinger
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Abstract
An communication system supports communication paths within an environment by receiving speech signals of a speaker and playing it back for one or more listeners. Signal processing tasks are split into a microphone related part and into a loudspeaker related part. A sound processing system suitable for use in an environment having multiple acoustic zones includes a plurality of microphone communication instances coupled and a plurality of loudspeaker instances.
Claims1
A sound processing system having a plurality of microphones and a plurality of loudspeakers distributed in multiple acoustic zones, the system comprising:
- a plurality of microphone communication instances coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of microphones;
- a plurality of loudspeaker instances coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of loudspeakers;
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- a dynamic audio router coupled to the plurality of microphone communication instances and the plurality of loudspeaker instances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.