Adaptive Playback of Media Content
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsAaron Hodges, Ismael H. Nawfal, Matthew E. Leon
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Abstract
A system for adaptive playback of media content may include a speaker to play media content including a speech portion and a non-speech portion, a microphone to pick up a sound field in an environment of a user, and a processor configured to: receive i) a speech audio signal including the speech portion, and ii) a reference audio signal including the non-speech portion; receive an ambient signal from the microphone based on the sound field; and adjust amounts of the speech audio signal and the reference audio signal based on the ambient signal to produce an adaptive playback signal to drive the speaker. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
Claims20
A system for adaptive playback of media content, comprising:
- a speaker to play media content including a speech portion and a non-speech portion;
- a microphone to pick up a sound field in an environment of a user;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive i) a speech audio signal including the speech portion, and ii) a reference audio signal including the non-speech portion;
- receive an ambient signal from the microphone based on the sound field;
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- adjust amounts of the speech audio signal and the reference audio signal based on the ambient signal to produce an adaptive playback signal to drive the speaker.
A method for adaptive playback of media content, comprising:
- receiving media content including i) a speech audio signal including a speech portion, and ii) a reference audio signal including a non-speech portion;
- receiving an ambient signal from a microphone based on a sound field in an environment of a user picked up by the microphone;
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- adjusting amounts of the speech audio signal and the reference audio signal based on the ambient signal to produce an adaptive playback signal to drive a speaker to play the media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.