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Automatic volume control of a voice signal provided to a captioning communication service

  • US 10,574,804 B2
  • Filed: 06/27/2016
  • Issued: 02/25/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication device comprising:

  • a microphone configured to capture first sound and generate a near-end voice signal based on the first sound;

    communication elements configured to receive a signal that includes a far-end voice signal obtained over a network and to direct an audio stream signal to a captioning communication system remote from the communication device, the audio stream signal based on the received signal; and

    a computing system communicatively coupled to the microphone and the communication elements and configured to cause the communication device to perform operations, the operations comprising;

    determine an activity of the received signal;

    determine an activity of the near-end voice signal; and

    automatically control a volume level of audio, which is based on the audio stream signal, produced by the captioning communication system based on the activity of the received signal and the activity of the near-end voice signal, the automatically controlling the volume level of the audio including reducing the volume level of the audio in response to the received signal being inactive and the near-end voice signal being active.

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