Voice communication apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTakeshi Otani, Taro Togawa, Yasuji Ota, Kaori Endo
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Abstract
A voice communication apparatus includes an analysis unit to analyze an outgoing conversation signal transmitted from a user of the voice communication apparatus to another party in communication or an incoming conversation signal from the another party in communication received by the voice communication apparatus, a storage unit to store a voice message to be played back, a mixing unit to perform mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal, and a control unit to control a start timing of the mixing so that the mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal is started between utterances of the user on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis unit.
Claims6
A voice communication apparatus comprising:
- an analysis unit to analyze an outgoing conversation signal transmitted from a user of the voice communication apparatus to another party in communication or an incoming conversation signal from the another party in communication received by the voice communication apparatus;
- a storage unit to store a voice message to be played back;
- a mixing unit to perform mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal;
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- a control unit to control a start timing of the mixing so that the mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal is started between utterances of the user on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis unit,
- wherein the analysis unit outputs a sound pressure in every unit time of the incoming conversation signal;
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- the control unit starts the mixing when an interval, in which the sound pressure of the incoming conversation signal is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, is continued for a predetermined time.
A voice message mixing method comprising:
- analyzing an outgoing conversation signal transmitted from a user of a voice communication apparatus to another party in communication or an incoming conversation signal from the another party in communication received by the voice communication apparatus;
- performing mixing of a voice message with the incoming conversation signal;
- determining a start timing of the mixing so that the mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal is started between utterances of the user on the basis of a result of the analysis;
- and
- performing the mixing of the voice message with the incoming conversation signal at the start timing,
- wherein the analyzing outputs a sound pressure in every unit time of the incoming conversation signal;
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- the mixing is started when an interval, in which the sound pressure of the incoming conversation signal is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, is continued for a predetermined time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.