Patent Document ID: 8983832
Application ID: 13001856

Base Claim:
1. A method for enhancing a speech sound, said method comprising: identifying a first consonant-vowel (CV) speech sound from among a plurality of CV sounds; identifying a second CV speech sound, that is different than the first CV speech sound, from among the plurality of CV sounds; locating a first feature within the first speech sound, the first feature at least partially encoding the first speech sound, wherein the first feature includes a first time value and a first frequency value that together locate the first feature within the first speech sound; locating a second feature within the second speech sound, the second feature at least partially encoding the second speech sound, wherein the second feature includes a second time value and a second frequency value that together locate the second feature within the second speech sound and that are different than the first time value and the first frequency value, respectively; in an electronic device, increasing, based at least in part on the first time value and based at least in part on the first frequency value, the contribution of the first feature to the first speech sound; and in the electronic device, increasing, based at least in part on the second time value and based at least in part on the second frequency value, the contribution of the second feature to the second speech sound.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , said step of locating said first feature further comprising: generating an importance function for the first speech sound; and identifying, based on a portion of the importance function, a time at which said first feature occurs in said first speech sound, wherein the portion of the importance function corresponds to the first feature.