Abstract: The inventive EAL may generally enhance a driver's spatial awareness by providing the driver with intuitive/familiar audible warnings with directionality which can be enhanced with visual warnings as well as other technologies such as ANC and Zoned audio. Thus, the driver can understand the meaning of the warning and where it is coming from so he can react to it faster. In a specific embodiment, a motor vehicle includes a plurality of outside microphones mounted in association with an outer surface of the vehicle. A plurality of loudspeakers are disposed within the passenger compartment of the vehicle. A processing device identifies a sound of interest in microphone signals received from the outside microphones. It is determined from the microphone signals a direction in which the sound of interest is traveling. This may also be done with sensors, GPS, V2X, etc.

Abstract: A method of operating a speech recognition system includes converting a spoken utterance by a user into an electrical voice signal by use of a local microphone associated with a local electronic device. The electrical voice signal is transmitted to a remote voice recognizer. The remote voice recognizer is used to transcribe the electrical voice signal and to produce a confidence score. The confidence score indicates a level of confidence that the transcription of the electrical voice signal substantially matches the words of the spoken utterance. The transcription of the electrical voice signal and the confidence score are transmitted from the remote voice recognizer to the local electronic device. The electrical voice signal, the transcription of the electrical voice signal, and the confidence score are used at the local device to train a local voice recognizer.

Abstract: A method of operating a speech recognition system includes converting a spoken utterance by a user into an electrical voice signal by use of a local microphone associated with a local electronic device. The electrical voice signal is transmitted to a remote voice recognizer. The remote voice recognizer is used to transcribe the electrical voice signal and to produce a confidence score. The confidence score indicates a level of confidence that the transcription of the electrical voice signal substantially matches the words of the spoken utterance. The transcription of the electrical voice signal and the confidence score are transmitted from the remote voice recognizer to the local electronic device. The electrical voice signal, the transcription of the electrical voice signal, and the confidence score are used at the local device to train a local voice recognizer.