Ultrasonic speech recognition
US11323800B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 7, 2020 |
| Grant date | May 3, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 7, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04R2217/03
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing ultrasonic signals to recognize mouthed articulations. One of the methods includes generating an ultrasonic carrier signal and coupling the ultrasonic carrier signal to a person's vocal tract. The method includes detecting a modulated ultrasonic signal, the modulated ultrasonic signal corresponding to the ultrasonic carrier signal modulated by the person's vocal tract to include information about articulations mouthed by the person; analyzing, using a data processing apparatus, the modulated ultrasonic signal to recognize the articulations mouthed by the person from the information in the modulated ultrasonic signal; and generating, using the data processing apparatus, an output in response to the recognized articulations.
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