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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Komminist Weldemariam, Nairobi, KE;

Abdigani Diriye, Nairobi, KE;

Michael S. Gordon, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Heike E. Riel, Rueschlikon, CH;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 2015/0638 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A volume and speech frequency level adjustment method, system, and computer program product include learning a preferred level and a characteristic of at least one of volume and speech frequency from a historical conference conversation, detecting a context characteristic of an ongoing conversation and an interaction of a user with a device, determining a cognitive state and a contextual situation of the user in relation to the ongoing conversation as a function of at least one of the context characteristic, a preferred level and a characteristic of the volume or the speech frequency, and the interaction, determining at least one factor to trigger an audio level modulation based on the function, and dynamically adjusting audio levels of the ongoing conversation for the user based on the at least one factor.


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