Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a local assistant system responding to voice input using an ear-wearable device. The system detects a wake-up signal and receives a first voice input communicating a first query content. The system includes speech recognition circuitry to determine the first query content, speech generation circuitry, and an input database of locally-handled user inputs. If the first audio input matches one of the locally-handled user inputs, then the system takes a local responsive action. If the first audio input does not match one of the locally-handled user inputs, then the system transmits at least a portion of the first query content over a wireless network to a network resource.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for only including portions of a user's environment that have been approved by a user in a video conference while excluding portions that have not been approved. This may be accomplished by a device receiving a policy identifying one or more approved objects of a scene of a video stream. The device may then generate a filtered video stream by only including portions of the scene that comprise the one or more objects that were approved by the policy in the filtered video stream. The filtered video stream may be combined with other video streams to generate a video conference that is transmitted and/or stored by one or more devices participating in the video conference.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for gaming headset with enhanced off-screen awareness. An audio system that is used for outputting audio signals to a user may be configured for identifying in audio signals, based on parameters or criteria associated with a user of the system, one or more components in the audio signals; determining characteristics of the one or more components based on perception of the audio signals by the user; and adjusting based on the characteristics of the one or more components, the one or more components and/or one or more other components in the audio signals. The audio system may include circuits for handling the required functions. The circuits may include a detection circuit configured for identify the one or more components, one or more adjustment circuits for applying the adjustments, and a controller circuit for controlling applying the adjustments.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for gaming headset with enhanced off-screen awareness. An audio system that is used for outputting audio signals to a user may be configured for identifying in audio signals, based on parameters or criteria associated with a user of the system, one or more components in the audio signals; determining characteristics of the one or more components based on perception of the audio signals by the user; and adjusting based on the characteristics of the one or more components, the one or more components and/or one or more other components in the audio signals. The audio system may include circuits for handling the required functions. The circuits may include a detection circuit configured for identify the one or more components, one or more adjustment circuits for applying the adjustments, and a controller circuit for controlling applying the adjustments.

Abstract: Playback devices comprising a network interface, an optional speaker(s), and one or more processors are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the playback device is configured to communicate with a computing system that stores configuration data corresponding to each of a plurality of users. The playback device detects one or more users near the playback device and retrieves user configuration data corresponding to each of the one or more detected users, and thereafter, uses the user configuration data of the one or more detected users to process voice commands, play media content, and/or perform other voice and/or media related functions.

Abstract: A network alignment method comprises the steps of: receiving two networks as inputs and performing a neural network operation respectively, vectorizing a plurality of nodes of each of the two networks; calculating a dual-perception similarity based on an embedding similarity between the vectorized nodes of each of the two networks, and a Tversky similarity representing a ratio of the number of previously aligned nodes included in a neighboring node to the normalized number of neighboring nodes of each combined node when configuring a node pair by combining nodes that are not aligned in the two networks; and selecting node pairs to be aligned among a plurality of nodes of the two networks based on the dual-perception similarity, thereby partially aligning the two networks so that the number of node pairs aligned in the two networks gradually increases according to the dual-perception similarity updated according to the two partially aligned networks.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for gaming headset with enhanced off-screen awareness. An audio system that is used for outputting audio signals to a user may be configured for identifying in audio signals, based on parameters or criteria associated with a user of the system, one or more components in the audio signals; determining characteristics of the one or more components based on perception of the audio signals by the user; and adjusting based on the characteristics of the one or more components, the one or more components and/or one or more other components in the audio signals. The audio system may include circuits for handling the required functions. The circuits may include a detection circuit configured for identify the one or more components, one or more adjustment circuits for applying the adjustments, and a controller circuit for controlling applying the adjustments.

Abstract: A text generation machine performs a method of generating custom text. The text generation machine accesses a skill profile that specifies one or more skills of a user. The text generation machine determines a set of one or more words based on the one or more skills specified by the skill profile. The text generation machine then generates custom text for the user, and the generated custom text includes the determined set of words. The text generation machine then causes presentation of the generated custom text. A trainer machine performs a method of training a learning machine, based on one or more reference stories, to perform all or part of the method of generating custom text. The trained learning machine is configured to generate custom text based on one or more inputted words, which may be selected or otherwise determined based on a user's skill profile.

Abstract: A method for detecting and flagging problems in videoconferencing is provided. The method includes collecting, by a processing device of a user videoconferencing device, one or more sets of acoustic parameters associated with a conference room. Each set of the one or more sets of acoustic parameters is associated with a video conference attended by a corresponding plurality of users. The method further includes determining whether a first set of the one or more sets of acoustic parameters suggest an action to be performed to improve the first set of acoustic parameters associated with the video conference. The method further includes providing at least one of the one or more sets of acoustic parameters associated with the conference room or the action to be performed to improve the first set of acoustic parameters.

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 monitor user or team input (and/or user input events) to the third-party meeting tool before, during, or after a meeting. Captured user input is provided to an input classifier which classifies the input as one of a set of input types. Based on the input type, parsing or analysis operations can be triggered and/or one or more API endpoints of a collaboration tool is selected such that an input to the collaboration tool, including the user input, can be provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for facilitating two-way communication sessions using serverless cloud-based functions configured in a function-as-a-service (FaaS) system. One example includes accessing a template configured to execute a response based on an event, facilitating a two-way communication session with a user device, and processing data of the two-way communication session to identify an event trigger corresponding to the template. Execution of a serverless cloud-based function associated with the event trigger is requested, and one or more outputs of the serverless cloud-based function associated with the event trigger are integrated into the two-way communication session.

Abstract: Systems and methods for surfacing natural language queries from one or more transcripts. An example method may include converting received audio to text, through automated speech recognition, to form a transcript of the audio, wherein the transcript includes text of the audio and identifications of speakers associated with portions of the text corresponding to utterances from the respective speakers; generating input signals based on at least the transcript; executing at least one of one or more heuristics or a trained machine-learning (ML) model, using the generated input signals as an input, to generate at least one of a suggested natural language query for searching the transcript or a key moment within the received audio; and causing at least one of the suggested natural language query or the key moment to be surfaced on one or more remote devices.

Abstract: System and method for processing and adjusting PCM digital audio signals using specific reverberation and equalization settings that have been determined to improve various physical health parameters measurements, as determined by conducting bio-signal testing. The system entails converting the audio signal to digital format, a digital system processor that processes the audio signal using an equalization, a reverberation and a volume setting that is measured to produce an audio output signal that has more beneficial health response on human physiological functions than an unprocessed PCM digital signal or a base measurement without any audio signal, as measured by at least one bio-sensor attached to a listener. Accordingly, the invention improves at least one physiological function of the listener as measured using bio-sensors in the Avatar health testing bio-sensor measuring system.

Abstract: A system and method of automatic transcription using a visual display device and an ear-wearable device. The system is configured to process an input audio signal at the display device to identify a first voice signal and a second voice signal from the input audio signal. A representation of the first voice signal and the second voice signal can be displayed on the display device and input can be received comprising the user selecting one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal as a selected voice signal. The system is configured to convert the selected voice signal to text data and display a transcript on the display device. The system can further generate an output signal sound at the first transducer of the ear-wearable device based on the input audio signal.

Abstract: A system includes: a server including first circuitry and a memory that stores, for each event, voice data recorded during the event, text data converted from the voice data, and time information indicating a time when the text data was generated; and a display control apparatus communicably connected with the server, including second circuitry to based on information on the event stored in the memory, control a display to display text data in an order according to the time when the text data was generated, and a graphical control region that sets playback position in a total playback time of the voice data, and in response to selection of particular text data from the text data being displayed, control the display to display the graphical control region at a location determined based on a time when the particular text data was generated.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for dynamically navigating interactive communication systems. An example method may comprise: receiving, from a user device, sound waves or audio information, the sound waves or audio information indicative of a request to initiate an interactive communication session with a communication system of a biller or merchant; interpreting, based on the sound waves or audio information, an intent of the communication session and an identity of the biller or merchant; retrieving a predetermined interaction coding associated with the biller or merchant; and initiating the interactive communication session with the communication system of the biller or merchant based on the predetermined interaction coding.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, to allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him or her, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his or her local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.

Abstract: An ear apparatus may comprise one or more of a housing, an electrode, a biometric sensor, a speaker driver, and/or other components. The housing of the ear apparatus may be configured to be attached to an ear. The electrode may be carried by the housing. The electrode may be configured to measure an electrical signal from the ear. The electrical signal may include a reference signal, a ground signal, or a bias signal. The biometric sensor may be carried by the housing. The biometric sensor may be configured to measure one or more biometric characteristics from the ear. The speaker driver may be carried by the housing. The speaker driver may be configured to produce sound.

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

Abstract: One or both of a camera and a lighting fixture are auto-focused on one of a plurality of microphones in a venue. A plurality of persons in the venue are wearing, or carrying, or holding, or speaking into a respective microphone at the venue. Only one microphone of the plurality of microphones is active at a time. The venue includes a real-time location system (RTLS) having a plurality of RTLS tags and a RTLS receiver for locating a position of each of the RTLS tags in three-dimensional space. Each of the RTLS tags is fixed to a respective microphone and transmits a signal that is received by the RTLS receiver. One of the plurality of microphones is detected as being active. The position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone is identified in three-dimensional space in the venue by using the signal transmitted from the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone and received by the RTLS receiver to calculate the position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone in three-dimensional space.