Call Audio Adaptation for Hearing Level Detection and Transcription
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals with reduced hearing levels face challenges in understanding audio communications, necessitating improved methods and systems to determine their hearing levels and provide appropriate accommodations such as audio enhancements or real-time transcriptions.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that analyze communication session characteristics, user settings, and speech patterns to determine hearing levels, adjusting audio presentation settings, including volume, transcriptions, and human mouth image simulations to enhance understanding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If transcriptions and audio enhancements are provided to hard-of-hearing individuals, then communication comprehension is improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines hearing levels by analyzing communication session characteristics without requiring manual user input or configuration. The device self-adjusts audio settings and transcription provision based on analyzed characteristics, eliminating the need for complex manual setup while improving communication comprehension for hard-of-hearing individuals.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts audio presentation parameters (volume, transcription provision, enhancement levels) based on determined hearing levels. By changing these parameters automatically according to analyzed characteristics, the system improves comprehension without requiring complex manual configuration by users or technicians.
2Measurement precision
If hearing level determination is performed using communication session characteristics, then accuracy in identifying hearing needs is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs hearing level determination during the communication session itself, using characteristics from the ongoing audio exchange. By utilizing already-available communication data rather than requiring separate testing procedures, the system achieves accurate hearing level determination without significant additional processing time or computational overhead.
3Ease of operation
If audio settings are dynamically adjusted based on hearing level, then user experience is improved, but system complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts audio presentation settings (volume, transcription provision, enhancement levels) based on determined hearing levels and communication session characteristics. This dynamic adaptation improves user experience by providing personalized audio assistance while consuming energy only when and where needed, rather than continuously or through complex manual configuration.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include obtaining a first audio signal including first speech originating at a remote device during a communication session between the remote device and a communication device and obtaining a second audio signal including second speech originating at the communication device during the communication session between the remote device and the communication device. The method may also include obtaining a characteristic of the communication session from one or more of: the first audio signal, the second audio signal, and settings of the communication device and determining a hearing level of a user of the communication device using the characteristic of the communication session.