Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device including a processor configured to: detect a failed reception of time synchronization information at a follower device, wherein the time synchronization information provides an update of a clock of the follower device for synchronization to a clock of a leader device; determine whether a clock drift between the clock of the follower device and the clock of the leader device is less than a predefined drift threshold; and in the case that the clock drift is less than the predefined drift threshold, instruct an update of the clock of the follower device based on time synchronization information previously received at the follower device.

Abstract: An apparatus for a communication device, the apparatus may include a processor configured to: obtain channel metrics for a plurality of radio communication channels, each obtained channel metric is associated with a respective radio communication channel of the plurality of radio communication channels, generate a plurality of channel hopping sequences, each channel hopping sequence is representative of an allocation of the plurality of radio communication channels for a plurality of time slots, wherein a number of time slots allocated for each radio communication channel within each channel hopping sequence is based on the respective obtained channel metric, and select one of the plurality of channel hopping sequences based on a predefined criterion to communicate with a further communication device.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a plurality of portions of recognized speech from a plurality of devices. Each portion includes an associated confidence score and time stamp. For one or more time stamps associated with the plurality of portions, the method identifies two or more confidence scores for two or more of the plurality of portions of recognized speech. For the one or more time stamps, one of the two or more of the plurality of portions of recognized speech is selected based on the two or more confidence scores for the two or more of the plurality of portions. The method generates a transcript using the one of the two or more of the plurality of portions of recognized speech selected for the respective one or more time stamps.