US 12,108,228 B2
Voice processing system and voice processing method
Tatsuya Nishio, Osaka (JP); and Maaki Shozu, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/672,198.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-038028 (JP), filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0295184 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 3/12 (2013.01) [G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04R 1/026 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A voice processing system for enabling transmission and reception of audio data representing voice spoken by a plurality of users between a plurality of microphone-speaker devices that is wearable and that is worn, respectively, by the plurality of users, the voice processing system comprising:
the plurality of microphone-speaker devices;
a voice acquirer that acquires the audio data from each of the plurality of microphone-speaker devices;
a voice transmitter that transmits the audio data acquired by the voice acquirer to other microphone-speaker devices;
a determination processor that determines whether a predetermined condition is met with respect to a factor that affects a progress of a conference; and
a notification processor that causes, when the predetermined condition is met, a microphone-speaker device, selected from the plurality of microphone-speaker devices based on the factor that affects the progress of the conference, to provide specific information related to the predetermined condition, wherein
the specific information corresponds to an importance level of the predetermined condition,
each of the plurality of microphone-speaker devices has a first speaker and a second speaker, and
the notification processor causes both of the first and second speakers of the selected microphone-speaker device to provide the specific information when the importance level of the predetermined condition is a first importance level, and causes either the first speaker or the second speaker of the selected microphone-speaker device to provide the specific information when the importance level of the predetermined condition is a second importance level, which is lower than the first importance level.