Bose Corporation

Neurable Inc.

Bose Corproation

Jamie Michael Alders

Elio Dante Querze

Shiufun Cheung

Eric John Freeman

Zukui Song

Arjun Daniel Srinivas

Ramses Alcaide

James Hamet

Dereck Padden

David B Stanley

Jegan Candassamy

Adam Molnar

Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Analytics Engine that receives one more signal files that include neural signal data of a user based on voltages detected by one or more electrodes on a set of headphones worn by a user. The Analytics Engine preprocesses the data, extracts features from the received data, and feeds the extracted features into one or more machine learning models to generate determined output that corresponds to at least one of a current mental state of the user and a type of facial gesture performed by the user. The Analytics Engine sends the determined output to a computing device to perform an action based on the determined output.

Monitoring of biometric data to determine mental states and input commands

Various aspects include approaches for intelligent acoustic beam steering. In particular aspects, a computer-implemented method of controlling a microphone array includes: generating an acoustic map including an acoustic description of a physical environment proximate the speaker system; focusing the microphone array in a direction based upon the acoustic map prior to receiving a voice command input at the microphone array, where generating the acoustic map includes: detecting a location of at least one noise source in the physical environment; and creating a microphone array filter configured to at least partially reject the at least one noise source; receiving voice feedback input from a user at the microphone array; and updating the acoustic map of the physical environment based upon the received voice feedback input.

Intelligent beam steering in microphone array

A method of operating a situationally aware speaker associated with a virtual personal assistant (VPA) service provider that comprises receiving an indication of at least one parameter of an environment proximate the situationally aware speaker, and delivering the response to the vocal query to the user formatted as speech through an audio output of the situationally aware speaker, at least one audio parameter of the response set based on the indication of the at least one parameter.

Dynamic text-to-speech response from a smart speaker

Various aspects include approaches for intelligent acoustic beam steering. In some implementations, a method of controlling a microphone array in a speaker system is disclosed. In other implementations, a speaker system is disclosed. In particular aspects, a computer-implemented method of controlling a microphone array includes: generating an acoustic map including an acoustic description of a physical environment proximate the speaker system; and focusing the microphone array in a direction based upon the acoustic map prior to receiving a voice command input at the microphone array.

Example systems may perform operations for: receiving, information about an activity scheduled for a user of an audio playback device; determining a timing associated with the activity based on the information; determining that audio content is being played on the audio playback device at the time of the activity; and controlling playback of the audio content on the audio playback device based on the timing to alert the user of the activity.

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Jamie Michael Alders