US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 25 for "Utterance feedback apparatus, utterance feedback method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,256, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Utterance feedback apparatus, utterance feedback method, and program" was invented by Kenichi Noguchi (Tokyo), Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique for providing feedback on the degree of utterance volume to an utterer. The utterance feedback device includes: an utterance volume evaluation unit that generates an evaluation value for a volume of an utterance voice (referred to as utterance volume evaluation value, hereinafter) from a first sound collection signal that is output by a first microphone installed ...