Preserving Privacy of a Conversation from Surrounding Environment

摘要

Various embodiments provide an ability to analyze an audio input signal and generate a counter audio signal based, at least in part, on the audio input signal. In some cases, combining the audio input signal with the counter audio signal renders the audio input signal incoherent and/or unintelligible to accidental listeners and/or listeners to whom the audio input signal is not directed towards. Alternately or additionally, the counter signal can mask the audio input signal to the accidental listeners.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, with a device, an audio input signal intended for one or more recipients; analyzing, using the device, the audio input signal effective to determine one or more properties associated with the audio input signal; generating, using the device, a counter signal based, at least in part, on the one or more properties associated with the audio input signal; and sending, using the device, the counter signal outwardly from the device effective to modify audible acoustic effects proximate to the device and associated with the audio input signal.