Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Jonathan E Eklund

Amit Kumar Agrawal

Boby Iyer

Adrian M Schuster

Andrew K Wells

Wen Hao Zhang

Sanjay N Kadiwala

Prabhu Anabathula

An electronic device, method, and computer program product provide acoustic limiting of an audio output using a feed-forward, filter-based, acoustic control system. An audio signal is received that has more than one acoustic frequency spectra intended for conversion to an acoustic output by transducers of an electronic device. A determination is made of an expected acoustic magnitude respectively for each acoustic frequency spectrum of the more than one acoustic frequency spectra. A determination is made whether the expected acoustic magnitude of any acoustic frequency spectra will exceed an acoustic output threshold. The acoustic control system attenuates the first acoustic frequency spectrum to generate a filtered audio signal with an attenuated acoustic frequency spectrum that is less than or equal to the acoustic output threshold. The filtered audio signal is transmitted to the at least one transducer to the produce the audio output that does not exceed.

Feed-forward, filter-based, acoustic control system

A method includes generating a voice assist message in a device, queueing the voice assist message responsive to a state of a microphone in the device indicating an active state, and executing the queued voice assist message on the device responsive to identifying the state of the microphone in the device indicating an inactive state. A device includes a microphone, a speaker, and a processor coupled to the microphone and the speaker. The processor is to generate a voice assist message, queue the voice assist message responsive to a state of a microphone indicating an active state, and execute the queued voice assist message on the speaker responsive to identifying the state of the microphone indicating an inactive state.

Queueing voice assist messages during microphone use

A method includes generating an alert message in a device. The device is one of a plurality of connected devices. The alert message is suppressed in the device responsive to a state of a microphone of any of the plurality of connected devices indicating an active state. A device includes a microphone, a speaker, and a processor coupled to the microphone and the speaker. The processor is to generate an alert message and suppress the alert message responsive to a state of a microphone of any of a plurality of connected devices including the device indicating an active state.

Suppressing alert messages based on microphone states of connected devices

A method on a mobile device for providing an audio output to a user at a determined loudness level is described. A text input is received. A loudness level of an audio output, corresponding to the text input, is determined based on a volume setting of the mobile device and a non-linear adjustment of the volume setting. The audio output is provided to an audio output component at the determined loudness level.

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