Method and system for training voice patterns

摘要

One example embodiment of the present disclosure includes method and system to improve communication comprising an assembly fixedly positioned during use in close proximity to a user's ear. The assembly includes an accelerometer to detect the initiation and duration of the user's speech and an output presentation system. The output presentation system comprises a non-occlusive ear fitting that presents unintelligible noise that is unrelated to the sound-frequency or intonation of the user's current speech. The unintelligible noise is presented to the patient at a level less than 85 dB. The system further comprises a control arrangement to maintain presentation of the noise substantially throughout the detected duration of the user's speech, but substantially not at other times.

主权项

1. A voice enhancement device comprising:
an earpiece configured to be positioned in or near an ear of a user; a microcontroller operatively coupled to the earpiece; an accelerometer operatively coupled to the microcontroller, wherein the accelerometer is configured to detect speech by the user and provide an output signal to the microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller has at least a first state in which multitalker babble is retrieved and provided to the earpiece in response to the received output signal from the accelerometer when the received output signal is above a reference level configured to indicate detected speech by the user, wherein the multitalker babble is retrieved and provided to the earpiece at all levels of detected speech by the user, and a second state without the retrieval and provision of the multitalker babble when the received output signal is below the reference level indicating an absence of detected speech by the user.