Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – One-way audio signal program distribution – Public address system
Patent
1986-11-05
1988-01-05
Kemeny, Emanuel S.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
One-way audio signal program distribution
Public address system
381169, G10L 500
Patent
active
047180960
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of microphones are disposed on a body to detect the speech of a speaker. First, second and third microphones may respectively detect the sounds emanating from the speaker's mouth, nose and throat and produce signals representing such sounds. A fourth microphone may detect the fricative and plosive sounds emanating from the speaker's mouth and produce signals representing such sounds. The signals from the different microphones are compared to allow the discrimination of certain speech sounds. For example, a high amplitude of the signal from the nose microphone relative to that from the mouth microphone indicates that a nasal sound such as m, n, or ng was spoken. Identifying signals are provided to the speech recognition system to aid in identifying the speech sounds at each instance. The identifying signals can also select a microphone whose signal can be passed on to the recognition system in its entirety. Signals may also be provided to identify that spoken words such as "paragraph" or "comma" are actually directions controlling the form, rather than the content, of the speech by the speaker. The selected signals, the identifying or classifying signals and the signals representing directions may be recovered by the system of this invention. The selected and identifying signals may be processed to detect syllables of speech and the syllables may be classified into phrases or sentences. The result may then be converted to a printed form representing the speech or utilized in the operation of another device.
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Kemeny Emanuel S.
Speech Systems, Inc.
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