Patent ID: 7120477
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: G06F,G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile computing device comprising: an antenna adapted to be oriented toward a user; a first microphone positioned on the antenna and adapted to convert audible speech from the user into speech signals; a speech sensor outputting a sensor signal indicative of whether the user is speaking based on a non-audio input generated by speech action of the user; a speech detector component outputting a speech detection signal indicative of whether the user is speaking based on the sensor signal; a speech recognition component coupled to the first microphone and adapted to perform speech recognition algorithms on the speech signals to generate speech recognition data; and an analog-to-digital converter coupling the first microphone to the speech recognition component and digitizing the speech signals, the analog-to-digital converter providing the digitized speech signals to the speech recognition component, and the speech recognition component performing the speech recognition algorithms on the digitized speech signals to generate the speech recognition data.