Disruption of speech understanding by adding a privacy sound...

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2008-04-22

2008-04-22

{hacek over (S)}mits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Application

Reexamination Certificate

active

11588979

ABSTRACT:
A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to which of the sounds is the real source. The privacy sound may be based on the speaker's own voice or may be based on another voice. At least one characteristic of the speaker (such as a characteristic of the speaker's speech) may be identified. The characteristic may then be used to access a database of the speaker's own voice or another's voice, and to form one or more voice streams to form the privacy sound. The privacy sound may thus permit disruption of the ability to understand the source speech of the user by eliminating segregation cues that the auditory system uses to interpret speech.

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