AUDIO COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT

• US 20130041661A1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon New Jersey Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon New Jersey Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Woo Beum, Basra, Arvind
• Granted Patent: US 8,595,015 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/04 Speaking with audible presentation of the material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/60 for measuring the quality of voice signals

Abstract

A device may include a communication interface configured to receive audio signals associated with audible communications from a user; an output device; and logic. The logic may be configured to determine one or more audio qualities associated with the audio signals, map the one or more audio qualities to at least one value, generate audio-related information based on the mapping, and provide, via the output device during the audible communications, the audio-related information to the user.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive audio signals associated with audible communications from a user;

an output device; and

logic configured to;

determine one or more audio qualities associated with the audio signals,

determine at least one value based on at least one of;

a current location of the user, or

when the audible communications have an audience of at least one party, a current location of the at least one party, wherein the current location of the user and the current location of the at least one party differ,

map the one or more audio qualities to the at least one value,

generate audio-related information based on the mapping, and

provide, via the output device during the audible communications, the audio-related information to the user.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the logic is further configured to:

obtain at least one characteristic with respect to the at least one party, and

determine the at least one value based on the at least one characteristic.

3. The device of claim 1, the audio signals include voice data, the logic being further configured to:

obtain the current location of the at least one party,

select the at least one value based on a demographic corresponding to the current location, and

generate the audio-related information to indicate a detected speaking rate associated with the voice data.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio signals include voice data, the logic being further configured to:

obtain age information with respect to the at least one party,

select the at least one value based on an age demographic corresponding to the age information, and

generate the audio-related information to indicate a detected volume level with respect to the voice data.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein when the audible communications relate to performing a song, the logic is further configured to:

select the set of values using notes of the song, and

generate the audio-related information to indicate an assessed performance score.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein when the audible communications relate to terms of a particular language, the logic is further configured to:

select the at least one value using linguistic criteria for the particular language, and

generate the audio-related information to indicate an assessed linguistic accuracy associated with the terms.

7. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display to display scripted text related to the audible communications, wherein the logic is further configured to;

select the at least one value based on the scripted text, and

generate the audio-related information to indicate notations corresponding to the at least one value.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein when the audio signals relate to voice data, the logic is further configured to:

generate the audio-related information to indicate a timeline representative of a chronological order of the voice data.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the output device is configured to transmit, via a wireless protocol, the audio-related information to a user device associated with the user, wherein the audio-related information comprises at least two of:

visual information,

audible information, or

tactile information.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein when the audio signals relate to voice data, the logic is further configured to:

convert the voice data to text using language recognition, and

analyze the text to determine the one or more audio qualities.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein when the at least one value comprises a maximum threshold and a minimum threshold, the logic is further configured to:

generate the audio-related information when the results of the mapping indicate that the maximum threshold or the minimum threshold has been exceeded.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile phone including:

a microphone configured to receive voice data, used to generate the audio signals, during a communication session with a communication device, associated with the at least one party, via a network, and

a transceiver to transmit the audio signals to the communication device.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile phone comprising:

a plurality of output devices configured to present the audio-related information.

14. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a global positioning system (GPS) device configured to obtain location information associated with the user device during the audible communications, wherein the logic is further configured to select the at least one value using the location information.

15. A method comprising:

receiving audible communications associated with a communication session;

converting the audible communications to text;

analyzing the text to determine one or more linguistic qualities;

comparing at least one of the one or more linguistic qualities to a particular range of values set for the one or more linguistic qualities; and

outputting information indicative of results of the comparing.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein when an audience of at least party is associated with the communication session, the method further comprises:

setting the particular range of values based on information obtained with respect to the at least one party.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

presenting the outputted information, during the communication session, to a party vocalizing the audible communications.

18. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

determine one or more qualities associated with terms uttered by a user of a user device;

generate feedback information based on the one or more qualities; and

provide the feedback information to the user via an output device of the user device.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further including instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

determine an ambient noise level associated with the user device, and

generate the feedback information based on the ambient noise level.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, further including instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

obtain information regarding an audience associated with the uttered terms, and

generate the feedback information based on at least some of the obtained information.