Patent Document ID: 9257122
Application ID: 13960798

Base Claim:
1. A method of alerting a user of condescending speech comprising: receiving speech from at least one user; processing the speech to identify one or more phonemes; processing the identified one or more phonemes wherein the processing identifies the duration, the maximum duration, and the location(s) of the one or more phonemes to identify at least one feature of the speech; comparing the at least one feature to previously determined features; and alerting the user that the received speech contains condescending speech if the comparison exceeds a threshold.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of processing the speech to identify the energy of the speech, speaking rate, duration of pauses, frequency of pauses, Mel-frequency spectral coefficients, zero-crossing rate, linear prediction coefficients, and/or one or more formants.