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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2018
Lena Foundation, Boulder, CO (US);
Jeffrey A. Richards, Boulder, CO (US);
Stephen M. Hannon, Arvada, CO (US);
LENA FOUNDATION, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A method including receiving one or more datasets of audio data of a key child captured in a natural sound environment of the key child. The method also includes segmenting each of the one or more datasets of audio data to create audio segments. The audio segments include cry-related segments and non-cry segments. The method additionally includes determining periods of the cry-related segments that satisfy one or more threshold non-sparsity criteria. The method further includes performing a classification on the periods to classify each of the periods as either a cry period or a fussiness period. Other embodiments are described.