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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Alon Konchitsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alon Konchitsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/002 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02087 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device and a method to improve quality of a signal in a lossy communication system are disclosed. One or more samples of the signal are received from a first and second microphone transducers. The received samples are processed and filtered to obtain a processed signal. A voice activity detector is provided for iteratively identifying speech regions and non-speech regions of the signal. All samples received by the microphones are continuously monitored and quality of each sample is improved by reducing or eliminating the noise detected in the non-speech regions of the processed signal.