Smart Voice System Frequency Adjustment for Hearing Impaired Users

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current smart voice assistants cannot adjust sound frequency to accommodate users' hearing status, leading to unclear content for the elderly or hearing-impaired individuals.

Innovation Solution

A smart voice system with modules for receiving hearing evaluation data, acquiring hearing parameters, and adjusting voice message frequencies to ensure clear output, comprising a data receiving module, voice message receiving module, voice response module, and voice message output module, which generates and outputs voice messages tailored to the user's hearing capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the smart voice assistant uses standard voice output, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the voice content cannot be heard clearly by elderly or hearing impaired users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoice clarity for hearing impaired usersVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by adjusting the frequency of the voice output based on the user's hearing status. The system receives hearing evaluation data, determines appropriate frequency parameters, and generates voice messages at frequencies optimized for the user's hearing capabilities, thereby improving voice clarity without requiring complete system redesign

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by first obtaining the user's hearing evaluation data and determining the appropriate frequency parameters before generating the voice message. This preliminary assessment allows the system to pre-configure the optimal output parameters, ensuring clear communication from the start without requiring real-time adjustments during conversation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the smart voice assistant adjusts voice frequency according to hearing status, then voice clarity is improved for hearing impaired users, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user hearing statusVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements dynamics by making the voice output frequency adjustable based on real-time hearing status data. The system can dynamically adapt the frequency parameters according to the user's hearing evaluation, transitioning from a static standard output to a dynamic, user-specific output that responds to hearing capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies feedback by incorporating hearing evaluation data into the voice generation process. The system receives feedback about the user's hearing status and uses this information to adjust the output frequency, creating a closed-loop system that continuously adapts to user needs based on measured hearing characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11115539B2Smart voice system, method of adjusting output voice and computer readable memory medium
Publication Date: 2021.09.07 AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
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AI summary

A smart voice system is disclosed. The smart voice system includes a data receiving module, a voice message receiving module, a voice response module and a voice message output module. The data receiving module receives a hearing evaluation data of a user, and acquiring a hearing parameter according to the hearing evaluation data. The voice message receiving module receives a voice message inputted by the user. The voice response module acquires a response voice message corresponding to the voice message and the frequency of the response voice message is adjusted according to the hearing parameter. The voice message output module outputs the response voice message.