METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MASKING SPEECH IN A PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 9,626,988

Granted

2017-04-18

Filed 2014

Owner

MEDICAL PRIVACY SOLUTIONS, LLC

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14202967

A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice.

Natural languageSpeechG10L 25/00G10K 11/1754G10L 21/06H04K 3/42H04K 3/43H04K 3/44H04K 3/45H04K 3/825+2 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning0.42
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MEDICAL PRIVACY SOLUTIONS, LLC

assignment · 324910814

Assignors

ARVANAGHI, BABAK, FECHTER, JOEL

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

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