Patent ID: 9646628
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G10L

Claim:
1. A device comprising: at least one microphone configured to receive sound from an environment and to generate an audio signal representative of the sound from the environment, the audio signal including a first audio component representing user speech and a second audio component representing background noise; a memory; a processor to process the audio signal; an open microphone module, stored in the memory and executed by the processor, configured to facilitate communication using an open microphone mode of communication over a communication channel with an originating device that originates the communication, wherein the device cycles between a reception mode in which the device receives communication from the originating device and a transmission mode in which the device sends the audio signal to the originating device; a transmitter, responsive to the open microphone module, and configured to send the audio signal to the originating device through the communication channel while in the transmission mode; a receiver, responsive to the open microphone module, and configured to receive the communication from the originating device through the communication channel while in the reception mode; and whereupon receipt of an initial communication from the originating device, the open microphone module being further configured to analyze the audio signal generated by the microphone to: