Patent ID: 9381110
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: A61F,G09B,G10L,G16H,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A voice enhancement device comprising: an earpiece configured to be positioned in or near an ear of a user; a microcontroller operatively coupled to the earpiece; an accelerometer operatively coupled to the microcontroller, wherein the accelerometer is configured to detect speech by the user and provide an output signal to the microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller has at least a first state in which multitalker babble is retrieved and provided to the earpiece in response to the received output signal from the accelerometer when the received output signal is above a reference level configured to indicate detected speech by the user, wherein the multitalker babble is retrieved and provided to the earpiece at all levels of detected speech by the user, and a second state without the retrieval and provision of the multitalker babble when the received output signal is below the reference level indicating an absence of detected speech by the user.