Isolation and enhancement of short duration speech prompts in an automotive system

In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for enhancing speech prompts in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an audio processor that is electrically coupled to a plurality of loudspeakers in a vehicle. The audio processor being programmed to provide entertainment data to the plurality of l...

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Hauptverfasser:	Heber, Kevin Eric, Hosakere Shivaswamy, Samarth
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACOUSTICS CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING DEAF-AID SETS ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING ELECTRICITY LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKEACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS PHYSICS PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING SPEECH RECOGNITION STEREOPHONIC SYSTEMS
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Zusammenfassung:	In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for enhancing speech prompts in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an audio processor that is electrically coupled to a plurality of loudspeakers in a vehicle. The audio processor being programmed to provide entertainment data to the plurality of loudspeakers for playback in the vehicle and to receive a speech prompt indicative of only a spoken audio output to a driver in the vehicle. The audio processor is further programmed to mute the entertainment data that is played back on a first loudspeaker of the plurality of loudspeakers in response to the speech prompt and to provide the speech prompt to the first loudspeaker for playback to the driver in response to the speech prompt.