Voice command masking systems and methods

A method of masking speech commands using a telecommunication device, the method comprising:

• acquiring an acoustic signal representative of ambient sound;
• generating acoustic data representative of the acoustic signal;
• identifying at least one speech command within the acoustic data;
• masking the at least one speech command within the acoustic data to generate masked acoustic data;
• and
• transmitting the masked acoustic data to another telecommunications device.

A non-transient computer readable medium encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process for masking speech commands using a telecommunication device to be carried out, the process comprising:

• acquiring an acoustic signal representative of ambient sound;
• generating acoustic data representative of the acoustic signal;
• identifying at least one speech command within the acoustic data;
• masking the at least one speech command within the acoustic data to generate masked acoustic data;
• and
• transmitting the masked acoustic data to another telecommunications device.

An audio processing device comprising:

• a memory;
• a microphone;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the memory and the microphone and configured to:
• acquire, via the microphone, an acoustic signal representative of ambient sound;
• generate acoustic data representative of the acoustic signal;
• identify at least one speech command within the acoustic data;
• mask the at least one speech command within the acoustic data to generate masked acoustic data;
• and
• store the masked acoustic data in the memory.

A method of masking speech commands using an audio processing device comprising a memory, the method comprising:

• acquiring an acoustic signal representative of ambient sound;
• generating acoustic data representative of the acoustic signal;
• identifying at least one speech command within the acoustic data;
• masking the at least one speech command within the acoustic data to generate masked acoustic data;
• and
• storing the masked acoustic data in the memory.