Apple Inc.

Eric H Zhang

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Taylor Gerard Carrigan

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Pedro Mari

Nathan De Vries

Nicholas D Felton

David L Biderman

Darin Benjamin Adler

Aroon Pahwa

Joseph M Williams

Eamon Francis Gilravi

Ian M Fisch

John Woodruff

Tyrone T Chen

Jakub Mazur

Ruchi Goswami

Jing Xia

Ramsey Deeb Abouzahra

Andriy Suden

David Harrison

Joe Williams

A method performed by a first device, which includes performing an audio call with a second device by transmitting a microphone signal as an uplink signal and receiving a downlink signal for driving a first speaker and while performing the audio call, performing a joint media playback session in which both devices independently stream a piece of media content for synchronous playback such that both devices receive an audio signal of the piece of media content for driving respective speakers at the same time, determining that a voice activity detection (VAD) signal indicates that the downlink signal includes speech, in response to determining that the VAD signal indicates that the downlink signal includes speech, processing the audio signal of the piece of media content by applying a scalar gain, and driving the first speaker with a mix of the downlink signal and the audio signal.

Method and system for processing remote active speech during a call

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Eric H Zhang