Abstract: Oxygen breathing masks with a sound pickup device. A microphone capsule of the sound pick-up device is positioned at the base of a mouth-piece whose aperture is placed just before the mask user's mouth. Such a mask may find particular application for aircraft pilots.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enhanced-performance sound source spatialization system used in particular to produce a spatialization system compatible with an integrated modular avionics type system. It comprises a filter database comprising a set of head-related transfer functions specific to the listener, a data presentation processor receiving information from each source and comprising in particular a module for computing the relative positions of the sources in relation to the listener and a module for selecting the head-related transfer functions with a variable resolution suited to the relative position of the source in relation to the listener, a unit for computing said monophonic channels by convoluting each sound source with head-related transfer functions of said database estimated at said source position.

Abstract: The disclosed method uses the Wiener frequency filtering to suppress noise in noisy sound signals (u(t)). This method includes a preliminary step in which the sound signals (u(t)) to be noise-suppressed are digitized by sampling and subdivided into frames. The method then includes a first series of steps including the creation of a noise model on N frames, the estimating of the spectral density of the noise and of the energy of the noise model and the computing of a coefficient that reflects the statistical dispersion of the noise. It also includes a second series of steps including the computation of the spectral density of the signals to be noise-suppressed fore each frame. The coefficients of the Wiener filter are modified for each successively processed frame, by the parameters determined at the end of the two series of steps, so as to introduce an energy compensation and an adaptive overestimation of the noise.

Abstract: A process for the denoising of audio signals picked up in a noisy environment, for example in the cockpit of an aircraft or of another vehicle, and more precisely to the searching for a noise model in the audio signals. Input signals are digitized, and these signals are processed on the basis of a noise model, in principle with a view to eliminate as far as possible the noise corresponding to the model.

Abstract: A process for voice recognition in a harsh environment such as the cockpit of a military aircraft. An acquisition device is connected to an acoustico-phonetic decoding device which is then connected to a recognition supervisor. The acquisition device is also connected to a voice recognition device which is also connected to the recognition supervisor. The voice recognition device is also connected to a dictionary and to a syntax describing device. The syntax describing device is connected to a dialogue model as well as the recognition supervisor.

Abstract: The system of the invention includes a sound-capture and listening system for a helmet in a noisy environment, and is characterized in that it includes, on the sound-capture side, at least one microphone (20) followed by a sampling device (25), by a decimator (26), by a device (27) for compensating for signal distortions arising within the whole of the upstream acoustic chain, and on the listening side, an interpolator (5) followed by a device for compensating for the defects of audiometry of the operator (6) and by an active noise reduction loop (10, 11, 7, 12, 13, 14).

Abstract: A sound spatialization including, for each monophonic channel to be spatialized, a binaural processor with two paths of convolution filters linearly combined in each path, this processor or these processors being connected to an orienting device for the computation of the spatial localization of the sound sources, the device itself being connected to at least one localizing device. The convolution is done between the monophonic signal and the user's <<left ear>> and <<right ear>> transfer functions, these transfer functions being proper to this user. This improves the efficiency of the system in localizing the monophonic sound source.