System for mitigating mechanical rattle in a computing device

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a host device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the host device to a part of the host device, the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to adjust a tuning of the attenuation function based on an input to the rattle mitigation subsystem indicative of a type of audio content represented by the audio signal.

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a host device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the host device to a part of the host device, the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to adjust a parameter of the attenuation function based on a type of audio content represented by the audio signal.

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a host device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the computing device to a part of the computing device, the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to select one of a plurality of attenuation functions to apply based on an input to the rattle mitigation subsystem indicative of a type of audio content represented by the audio signal.

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a computing device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the computing device to a part of the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises a lid portion and a body portion the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to adjust a tuning of the attenuation function based on an orientation of the lid portion and/or an orientation of the body portion.

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a host device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the computing device to a part of the computing device, the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to adjust a parameter of the attenuation function based on an indication of ageing of the host device.

A system for mitigating mechanical rattle in a host device arising due to a mechanical coupling of a speaker of the computing device to a part of the computing device, the system comprising:

• a rattle mitigation subsystem operative to apply an attenuation function to attenuate a component of an audio signal output to the speaker,
• wherein the rattle mitigation subsystem is configured to adjust a parameter of the attenuation function based on user-selected attenuation function configuration.