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US 8,061,473 B1Granted
Passive personal vocal monitor
AssigneeSimply Sound
InventorSteven D. Kerr
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InventorSteven D. Kerr
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A passive personal vocal monitor is described for enhancing the sound of a singer's voice to the singer during a performance. The monitor has an earpiece with a nipple configured to be disposed snuggly within the singer's ear and having an internal channel terminating in an open end adjacent the singer's eardrum. A tubular acoustic waveguide extends from the earpiece to an open end that is positionable adjacent the singer's mouth when the nipple is in the singer's ear. A canal in the earpiece couples the tubular waveguide to the channel of the nipple so that sounds of the singer's voice are conveyed along the waveguide and to the user's eardrum during a singing performance. An adjustable ambient sound inlet is provided on the earpiece so that a singer may admit a desired amount of ambient sound to be mixed with his voice as he sings.
A passive personal vocal monitor having no electronic components, the monitor comprising:
A vocal monitor comprising a first portion configured to be inserted into a user's ear and having an internal channel terminating adjacent the user's eardrum, a second portion having an end positioned adjacent the user's mouth when the first portion is in the user's ear, the second portion having an internal channel terminating at the end, the internal channel of the first portion being acoustically coupled without electronic components to the internal channel of the second portion for conveying sound pressure waves from the vicinity of the user's mouth to the user's eardrum to allow the user to hear his voice clearly.
A device for enhancing the sound of a user's voice to the user, the device comprising an earpiece insertable in the user's ear and having a channel terminating in an open end adjacent the user's eardrum, a tubular waveguide extending from the earpiece to an end that is positionable adjacent the user's mouth when the earpiece in the user's ear, the tubular waveguide being acoustically coupled without electronic components to the channel to capture sounds of the user's voice at the end of the tubular waveguide and convey corresponding sound pressure waves through the channel and to the user's eardrum.
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