Patent ID: 9648419
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04R

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a communication device, signals using at least one acoustic microphone and at least one structural microphone, the communication device being a hands-free, neck-wearable device, wherein the at least one structural microphone is wearable on a neck portion of the communication device and the at least one acoustic microphone is incorporated in a right tip and a left tip of the communication device, thereby providing handsfree operation; calculating, by the communication device, one of first a signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio and a speech-to-noise ratio for the at least one acoustic microphone from received signals and calculating a SNR for the at least one structural microphone from received signals; comparing, by the communication device, one of the first SNR and the speech-to-noise ratio for the at least one acoustic microphone with the SNR for the at least one structural microphone; and selecting, by the communication device, one of the at least one acoustic microphone and at least one structural microphone to receive speech responsive to the comparing and placing a selected one of the at least one acoustic microphone and at least one structural microphone in a standby mode.