Patent №
US 8,340,267
Granted
2012-12-25
Filed 2009
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
2
nlp · speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12365949
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can preprocess audio portions of communications in order to enrich multiparty communication sessions or environments. In particular, the architecture can provide both a public channel for public communications that are received by substantially all connected parties and can further provide a private channel for private communications that are received by a selected subset of all connected parties. Most particularly, the architecture can apply an audio transform to communications that occur during the multiparty communication session based upon a target audience of the communication. By way of illustration, the architecture can apply a whisper transform to private communications, an emotion transform based upon relationships, an ambience or spatial transform based upon physical locations, or a pace transform based upon lack of presence.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 222090216
Assignors
FLORENCIO, DINEI A., ACERO, ALEJANDRO, BUXTON, WILLIAM, CHOU, PHILLIP A., CUTLER, ROSS G., GARMS, JASON, HUITEMA, CHRISTIAN, QUINN, KORI M., ROSENFELD, DANIEL ALLEN, ZHANG, ZHENGYOU
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