Attention-based dynamic audio level adjustment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9431981-B2
Application number	US-201414493941-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Apr 1, 2014
Publication date	Aug 30, 2016
Grant date	Aug 30, 2016

Abstract

In one example, a technique may include outputting, by a computing device associated with a user and for playback at a first volume level by an audio output device, first audio data, receiving, by the computing device, audio input data, and responsive to determining, by the computing device, that the audio input data includes speech associated with an entity different from the user, determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the audio input data, whether to output second audio data. The method may also include, responsive to determining to output the second audio data: determining, by the computing device, a second volume level lower than the first volume level, and outputting, by the computing device and for playback at the second volume level by the audio output device, the second audio data.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
outputting, by a computing device associated with a user, for playback by an audio output device at a first volume level, first audio output data;
receiving, by the computing device, audio input data;
responsive to determining, by the computing device, that the audio input data includes speech associated with an entity different from the user and that the speech includes a conversational keyword, determining, by the computing d…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Kauffmann Alejandro José
• Keely Lee Brandon

Classifications

• G10L25/78 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L25/21

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L17/00

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04M1/6058

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G10L21/034

  Physics · mapped topic