Patent ID: 7970115
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a conference call including at least three conference call participants, comprising: during a multiparty conference call, a processor receiving from a second conference call participant a request to discriminate between first and third conference call participants, wherein the request identifies the first and third participants; generating a profile associated with each conference call participant; during the conference call, refining each profile based on one or more of speech profiling and prosodic analysis; in response to the request, automatically comparing the profiles for the first and third conference call participants to determine similarities in one or more spectral characteristics; in response to the comparison, automatically isolating, by the processor, a first spectral characteristic of a received voice stream of one of the first and third conference call participants to form a modified voice stream of the one of the first and third conference call participants; adjusting the modified voice stream by one or more suitable speech modifiers determined by a speech modification agent; and providing, by the processor, the modified voice stream to a communication device for audible presentation to the second conference call participant.