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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Rebecca Kleinberger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Erkkinen, Cambridge, MA (US);
George Stefanakis, Jamaica, NY (US);
Akito van Troyer, Cambridge, MA (US);
Satrajit Ghosh, Wayland, MA (US);
Janet Baker, West Newton, MA (US);
Tod Machover, Waltham, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A feedback system may play back, to a user, an altered version of the user's voice in real time, in order to reduce stuttering by the user. The system may operate in different feedback modes at different times. For instance, the system may detect when the severity of a user's stuttering increases, which is indicative of the user habituating to the current feedback mode. The system may then switch to a different feedback mode. In some cases, the feedback modes include at least a Whisper mode, a Reverb mode, and a Harmony mode. In Whisper mode, the user's voice may be transformed to sound as if it were whispering in the user's ears. In Harmony mode, the user's voice may be altered as if the user were harmonizing with himself or herself. In Reverb mode, the user's voice may be altered so that it reverberates.