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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2019
Applicant:
Ronald J. Zenk, Excelsior, MN (US);
Inventor:
Ronald J. Zenk, Excelsior, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/02 (2006.01); G10K 11/175 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H03G 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/175 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); G10K 2210/108 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of selectively preventing surreptitious listening by a smart speaker by placing an audible interference device into physical proximity with the microphone(s) on the smart speaker, and whenever ensured privacy is desired toggling a feature on the audible interference device from a listening mode, wherein the device allows the microphone to receive and the smart speaker to interact with intelligible speech from the surrounding environment, and a deaf mode wherein the device inhibits reception of intelligible speech by the microphone and thereby prevents both desired and surreptitious listening by the smart speaker.