Voice Analyzer for Interest-Based Speech Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing speech recognition technologies are limited in providing relevant information to users, relying on a narrow data pool and failing to deliver contextual notifications effectively, especially in situations where users may not be able to hear or understand ambient sounds.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilize a voice analyzer to recognize speech and determine relevance to a user's topic of interest, using contextual information such as schedule and location data, and output notifications in various forms like text, voice, or vibration, with the ability to learn user interests and translate languages for improved notification delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If speech recognition technology is used to provide information to users, then users can obtain relevant information, but the data pool is limited and the relevance to user interests is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by proactively monitoring ambient speech and evaluating its relevance to user interests before the user actively searches for information. The relevance evaluation unit continuously assesses captured speech against user profile data, preparing relevant information in advance so that users receive notifications only when speech matches their interests, thereby improving information delivery effectiveness while adapting to user-specific needs.
2Loss of information
If the system provides notifications for all recognized speech, then users receive comprehensive information, but users may be overwhelmed by irrelevant notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by making each notification individually tailored to the user's specific interests rather than providing uniform notifications for all speech. The relevance evaluation unit assigns different relevance scores to different speech inputs based on user profile data, and the notification provider selectively delivers only those notifications that meet the relevance threshold, ensuring each notification has high quality and personalization while maintaining overall information completeness.
3Loss of information
If the system monitors all ambient speech continuously, then no relevant speech is missed, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial action by performing speech recognition and relevance evaluation only on speech segments that meet certain criteria rather than processing every ambient sound continuously. The audio capture unit captures ambient speech, but the speech recognition unit processes only segments that appear relevant based on initial filtering, and the relevance evaluation unit performs detailed analysis only on those filtered segments, thereby reducing overall computational load and energy consumption while maintaining accurate detection of relevant speech.
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AI summary
An apparatus for notification of speech of interest to a user includes a voice analyzer configured to recognize speech, evaluate a relevance between a result of the speech recognition and a determined user's topic of interest, and determine whether to provide a notification; and an outputter configured to, in response to the voice analyzer determining to provide the notification, generate and output a notification message.


