Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Phillip A Chou

Zhengyou Zhang

Alejandro Acero

Christian F Huitema

Ross Garrett Cutler

Dinei A Florencio

Daniel Allen Rosenfeld

William Buxton

Kori Marie Quinn

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can preprocess audio portions of communications in order to enrich multiparty communication sessions or environments. In particular, the architecture can provide both a public channel for public communications that are received by substantially all connected parties and can further provide a private channel for private communications that are received by a selected subset of all connected parties. Most particularly, the architecture can apply an audio transform to communications that occur during the multiparty communication session based upon a target audience of the communication. By way of illustration, the architecture can apply a whisper transform to private communications, an emotion transform based upon relationships, an ambience or spatial transform based upon physical locations, or a pace transform based upon lack of presence.

Audio transforms in connection with multiparty communication

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Phillip A Chou