Patent ID: 7501934

Claim:
A system for utilizing vehicle sound fonts to augment the engine sounds of a vehicle, comprising: memory for storing at least one vehicle sound font; a processor operative to: retrieve a vehicle sound font from the memory as a result of receiving a sound font selection corresponding to the vehicle sound font, and initiate playback of at least one recording from the vehicle sound font in response to vehicle acceleration or deceleration; an audio player operatively associated with the processor, wherein the audio player is further operative to; simultaneously play more than one recording from a vehicle sound font corresponding to different recording locations, and transmit the simultaneous playbacks on separate channels for playback on separate speakers; means for detecting vehicle acceleration and deceleration; means for monitoring real-time audio from the vehicle's engine; means for transmitting vehicle acceleration and deceleration detections and the real-time audio from the vehicle's engine to the processor, wherein the processor is further operative to compare the vehicle sound font to the real-time audio from the vehicle's engine and augment the playback of the at least one recording from the vehicle sound font to more closely resemble at least one source audio for the at least one recording from the vehicle sound font.