SILENT VOICE INPUT

Patent №

US 11,089,396

Granted

2021-08-10

Filed 2019

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16620364

Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a silent voice input solution without being noticed by surroundings. Compared with conventional voice input solutions which are based on normal speech or whispering, the proposed “silent” voice input method is performed by using ingressive voice during the user's breathing-in process. By placing the apparatus (10) very close to the user's mouth with a ultra-small gap (110) formed between the microphone (100) and the apparatus (10), the proposed silent voice input solution can realize a very small voice leakage, and thereby allowing the user (1000) to use ultra-low voice speech input in public and mobile situations, without disturbing surrounding people.

Natural languageSpeechH04R 1/083G10L 15/22G10L 25/78G10L 15/00H04R 2201/107H04R 2410/07H04R 2420/07

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.98
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 512340205

Assignors

FUKUMOTO, MASAAKI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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