SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE WITH A SPEECH-ENABLED SYSTEM THROUGH THE USE OF ARTIFICIALLY GENERATED WHITE NOISE
First Claim
1. A speech processing system comprising:
- an audible environment including at least one microphone for receiving speech input and at least one speaker for audibly presenting speech output;
a white noise generator configured to generate white noise that is audibly presented in the audible environment;
a white noise removal engine configured to digitally preprocess speech input captured by the microphone and to remove the white noise components included in the captured input; and
a speech processing system for processing the speech input after being preprocessed by the white noise removal engine and for creating the speech output.
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Abstract
A speech processing system for improving a user'"'"'s experience with a speech-enabled system using artificially generated white noise. The system can include an audible environment that includes at least one microphone and at least one speaker, a white noise generator, a white noise removal engine, and a speech processing system. The white noise generator can be configured to generate white noise to be audibly presented in the audible environment. This white noise can be captured in speech input and the white noise removal engine can digitally preprocess the input to remove the white noise components. The preprocessed input can be processed by the speech processing system and the speech processing system can create speech output based on the received input.
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20 Claims
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1. A speech processing system comprising:
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an audible environment including at least one microphone for receiving speech input and at least one speaker for audibly presenting speech output; a white noise generator configured to generate white noise that is audibly presented in the audible environment; a white noise removal engine configured to digitally preprocess speech input captured by the microphone and to remove the white noise components included in the captured input; and a speech processing system for processing the speech input after being preprocessed by the white noise removal engine and for creating the speech output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14)
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10. A method for using artificially generated white noise to raise a noise floor of a speech processing system comprising:
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audibly presenting artificially generated noise at a configurable volume level to establish a noise floor for an acoustic environment; receiving audible input containing speech obtained from the acoustic environment; digitally processing the input containing speech to remove the artificially generated noise from the input; and audibly presenting output containing artificially generated speech to the acoustic environment, wherein the artificially generated speech is generated by a speech processing system, and wherein the speech processing system receives the processed input. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 15)
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16. A method for improving a user'"'"'s experience with a speech-enabled system using artificially generated white noise comprising:
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producing white noise in an acoustic environment at an established volume level; audibly presenting automatically generated speech output in the acoustic output; capturing speech input from the acoustic environment; removing the white noise from the captured input to generate clean speech input; and speech-to-text converting the clean speech input. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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