Patent ID: 11924624
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
obtaining one or more speech signals using a plurality of audio acquisition devices from a microphone array, thus defining audio encounter information;
selecting a reference audio acquisition device from the plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system based upon, at least in part, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the audio encounter information from each audio acquisition device of the plurality of audio acquisition devices;
encoding the audio encounter information of the reference audio acquisition device, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information;
generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between the reference audio acquisition device and the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system; and
transmitting the encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions.