Abstract: The system and methods disclosed include a Drop-In Video-as-a-Service (DIVaaS) system that provides two-way video-based communications on demand, such as instant, interactive video conferences. Drop-in video sessions can be added directly to business websites (e.g., Live Office Hours), shared and accessed via a URL or activated from the SoHive app or website. The Drop-In-Video-as-a-Service (DIVaaS) system is distinctly designed to provide “drop-in” video sessions that do not require having a prior awareness of all participants (e.g., names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.) or prompting the participants (e.g., emailing each participant prior to the video conference) in order to access the video communication session in a manner that supports spontaneous inclusion and collaboration globally.

Abstract: A device including: first and second input units providing first and second input signals of first and second audio tracks, a decomposition unit to decompose the first input audio signal to obtain decomposed signals, a playback unit to start playback of a first output signal obtained from recombining at least first and second decomposed signals at first and second volume levels, respectively, and a transition unit for performing a transition between playback of the first output signal and playback of a second output signal obtained from the second input signal. The transition unit is adapted for reducing the first/second volume levels according to first/second transition functions. The device includes an analyzing unit to analyze an audio signal to determine a song part junction between two song parts. The transition time interval of at least one of the transition functions is set such as to include the song part junction.

Abstract: Systems for capturing and organizing team-generated content produced during a meeting defined/facilitated by a third-party meeting tool or service. In particular, a server system includes a memory allocation and a processor allocation configured to cooperate to instantiate an instance of a bridge service configured to communicably couple to API endpoints of the third-party meeting tool and to one or more collaboration tools. The bridge service can use meeting data obtained from a third-party meeting tool to obtain task information from a task management system for task associated with a current meeting being hosted by the third-party meeting tool. The bridge service can analyze the task information to determine a status of the tasks, and generate graphical summaries of the task associated with the event. The graphical summaries can be displayed to participants of the current meeting.

Abstract: A vibrator including a housing, a transducer positioned within the housing such that there is a gap between the transducer and housing, and a damper assembly, disposed in the gap between the housing and at least a portion of the transducer, the damper assembly extending a sub-distance of the total distance of the gap.

Abstract: A hearing device adapted to be worn by a user and for picking up sound containing the user's own voice is provided. The hearing device includes an input unit having first and second input transducers for converting sound to first and second electric input signals, respectively, representing the sound. The hearing device is configured to provide that the first and second input transducers are located on the user so that the user experiences first and second, acoustically different, acoustic environments, respectively, when the user wears the hearing device. The first acoustic environment may be defined as an environment where the own voice signal primarily originates from vibrating parts of the bones and skin or tissue. The second acoustic environment may be defined as an environment where the own voice signal primarily originates from the user's mouth or nose and is transmitted through air from said mouth or nose to the second input transducer(s). A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system, method, apparatus and computer program for generating a modified audio signal associated with a computer generated three-dimensional, 3D environment in which a computer generated character is located at a character location.

Abstract: An accompaniment classification method and apparatus is provided. The method includes the following. A first type of audio features of a target accompaniment is obtained (S301, S401). Data normalization is performed on each kind of audio features in the first type of audio features of the target accompaniment to obtain a first feature-set of the target accompaniment and the first feature-set is input into a first classification model for processing (S302, S402). A first probability value output by the first classification model for the first feature-set is obtained (S303, S403). An accompaniment category of the target accompaniment is determined to be a first category of accompaniments when the first probability value is greater than a first classification threshold (S404). The accompaniment category of the target accompaniment is determined to be other categories of accompaniments when the first probability value is less than or equal to the first classification threshold.

Abstract: Presented herein are binaural hearing prosthesis systems that are configured to provide a recipient with pitch cues at both ears, while preserving/retaining binaural timing cues.

Abstract: A display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a seamless look between adjacent display modules. The substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames extracted from audio data corresponding to an utterance. During a first pass, the method includes processing the sequence of acoustic frames to generate N candidate hypotheses for the utterance. During a second pass, and for each candidate hypothesis, the method includes: generating a respective un-normalized likelihood score; generating a respective external language model score; generating a standalone score that models prior statistics of the corresponding candidate hypothesis; and generating a respective overall score for the candidate hypothesis based on the un-normalized likelihood score, the external language model score, and the standalone score. The method also includes selecting the candidate hypothesis having the highest respective overall score from among the N candidate hypotheses as a final transcription of the utterance.

Abstract: A method (400) for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance (310) having at least one word (240), and selecting an utterance embedding (204) for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable (230) and each syllable has at least one phoneme (220). The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration (238) of the syllable by decoding a prosodic syllable embedding (232, 234) for the syllable based on attention by an attention mechanism (340) to linguistic features (222) of each phoneme of the syllable and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted frames (260) based on the predicted duration for the syllable.

Abstract: In some implementations, a front-end device may receive a physical identifier associated with the user. Accordingly, the front-end device may select a plurality of images, where each image corresponds to a unique integer of integers zero through nine. The front-end device may show, on a display, the plurality of images and receive audio that includes a sequence of words that describe a subset of the plurality of images. Accordingly, the front-end device may map the sequence of words to the subset of the plurality of images and determine a first sequence of numbers corresponding to the subset of the plurality of images. Therefore, the front-end device may authenticate the user based on the first sequence of numbers matching a second sequence of numbers associated with the user.

Abstract: An assembly of at least one radiation detector, at least one radiation emitter and a housing configured to be positioned inside the ear canal of a person or animal, the detector(s) and emitter(s) being provided in or on the housing, the emitter(s) being configured to emit radiation away from the housing and the detector(s) being configured to receive radiation directed toward the housing. No overlap may be provided between the field of view of the radiation detector(s) and the emitter(s), such as by providing a blocking element.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cut sheet-like piezoelectric film which includes electrode layers on both surfaces of a piezoelectric layer and is capable of preventing a short circuit of the electrode layers. The object is achieved by providing a cut sheet-like piezoelectric film including a piezoelectric layer which contains piezoelectric particles in a matrix containing a polymer material, and electrode layers which are provided on both surfaces of the piezoelectric layer, in which a distance between the electrode layers at an end portion in a thickness direction is 40% or greater with respect to a thickness of the piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: Message-based interactive voice response (IVR) menu reconnection is used to reconnect a calling device to a destination at a specific node of a call path after the calling device disconnects from a call with the destination. Menu options of an IVR service presented during a call between the calling device and the destination are determined responsive to the calling device disconnecting from the call. A message including one or more selectable elements each associated with one of the menu options is then transmitted to the calling device. Responsive to a selection of a selectable element at the calling device, the calling device is connected to a destination endpoint. Thus, where the calling device had partially or fully traversed an IVR service during the call, the message-based IVR menu reconnection disclosed herein enables the calling device to reconnect to the destination without having to repeat that IVR service traversal.

Abstract: A sound bar having a mounting assembly configured to pivotally secure the bar. The sound bar includes an elongated, at least partially hollow, housing. The housing has a body extending between two opposing ends. A speaker array is positioned in the body. At least one speaker is positioned in at least one end of the bar. The end speaker(s) are preferably bass speakers in fluid communication with the hollow housing. A grill is preferably positioned over at least one of the housing ends. The grill preferably has a center hub affixed to an outer rim by spokes defining open spaces in the grill to facilitate the emission of sound. A mount is attached to the sound bar to secure the bar to a structure while allowing the bar to pivot along its longitudinal axis. Preferably, the mount is secured to the center hub of the grill.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of real time speech translation wherein at least a source speech and a human interpretation of the source speech are transcribed using an automatic speech recognition system and machine translated into a common language. A best source of data is then selected repeatedly and data from the best source are machine translated into at least one another language.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for extracting features from digital audio signals which exhibit variations in pitch, timbre, decay, reverberation, and other psychoacoustic attributes and learning, from the extracted features, an artificial neural network model for generating contextual latent-space representations of digital audio signals. A method and system are also provided for learning an artificial neural network model for generating consistent latent-space representations of digital audio signals in which the generated latent-space representations are comparable for the purposes of determining psychoacoustic similarity between digital audio signals.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, functional elements on a first main surface of the substrate, an outer support portion on the substrate around a region where the functional elements are disposed, a cover portion opposed to the first main surface of the substrate with the outer support portion interposed therebetween, a support portion in a hollow space defined by the substrate, the outer support portion, and the cover portion, a wiring pattern electrically connected to the functional elements, and a through electrode extending through the substrate and electrically connected to the wiring pattern. A gap is provided between the support portion and the cover portion. A distance from the first main surface of the substrate to an upper surface of the support portion is greater than a distance from the first main surface of the substrate to an upper surface of the functional elements.

Abstract: At least some embodiments are directed to an entity classification system receives informational data associated with an entity. The informational data includes sentences associated with the entity. The entity classification system utilizes a first machine learning model to determine a first contextual meaning among words of a sentence associated with the entity based on a first word embedding technique, and determines at least one category associated with the entity based at least in part on the first contextual meaning. The entity classification system utilizes a second machine learning model to determine a second contextual meaning shared by a set of sentences based on a second embedding technique, and determines a subcategory of the category associated with the entity based at least in part on the second contextual meaning. The entity classification system generates an output including the category and subcategory associated with the entity.