Patent ID: 11967332
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A computer system for correcting muffled speech caused by facial coverings, comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer-readable storage media, and
computer program instructions, the computer program instructions being stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by the one or more computer processors, the computer program instructions including instructions to:
monitoring a user's speech for speech distortion;
determining that the user's speech is distorted;
comparing one or more current soundwaves of the user's speech to a trained model, wherein the trained model is generated based on examining both unmuffled and muffled speech patterns of a user, information from a profile of a listener, information from a profile of the user, and environmental conditions, for detecting distorted speech associated with the particular type of facial covering to determine that a cause of the user's speech distortion is based, at least in part, on a presence of a particular type of facial covering; and
automatically correcting the speech distortion of the user based, at least in part, on the particular type of facial covering causing the speech distortion, wherein the automatically correcting the speech distortion of the user comprises selecting one or more speech unmuffling policies, based, at least in part, on acoustic signal characteristics of the particular type of facial covering causing the speech distortion, the unmuffled speech patterns of the user, the environmental conditions, the information found in the profile of the user, and the information found in the profile of the listener.