A vehicular apparatus having at least one of a voice calling function and a voice recognition function, the apparatus comprising a voice input unit including a plurality of microphones, the voice input unit being disposed between a driver's seat and a passenger seat with respect to a vehicle width direction; and a control unit configured to control a directionality direction and a gain level of each of the plurality of microphones, wherein the control unit controls the directionality directions of the plurality of microphones in two directions, the two directions being a driver's seat side and a passenger seat side, and controls a gain level on the passenger seat side to be lower than a gain level on the driver's seat side.

An apparatus includes a CPU and a memory storing a program that causes the apparatus to function as the following units. A first amplification unit that amplifies a the sound signal from a first microphone for acquiring an environment sound, a second amplification unit that amplifies a sound signal from a second microphone for acquiring a noise of a noise source in accordance with a amplification amount, a conversion unit that performs Fourier transform on sound signals from the first amplification unit and the second amplification unit, a reduction unit that reduces noise from first sound data using noise data. The amplification amount is set based on at least one of a level of the sound signal from the second amplification unit and a type of the noise source.

A computing device is configured to perform functions comprising: receiving via a network microphone device of a media playback system, a voice command detected by at least one microphone of the network microphone device, wherein the media playback system comprises a plurality of zones, and the network microphone device may be a member of a default playback zone. The computing device may be further configured to perform functions comprising: dynamically selecting an audio response zone from the plurality of zones to play an audio response to the voice input and foregoing selection of the default playback zone. The selected zone may comprise a playback device, and the dynamically selecting may comprise determining that the network microphone device is paired with the playback device. The computing device may cause the playback device of the selected zone to play the audio response.

An audio system includes an audio apparatus, a charger, and a conveyer. The audio apparatus includes a sound receiver to receive ambient sound, and a battery. The charger charges the battery of the audio apparatus. The conveyer includes a motor to transport the audio apparatus.

A computing device is described. In an example implementation, the computing device includes a housing including a display screen on a front surface, the housing and display screen being collectively positionable in a plurality of physical orientations, an input device that includes a first selection mechanism and a second selection mechanism, the first selection mechanism being actuatable to adjust a setting of an output of an application displayed on the display screen, the second selection mechanism being actuatable to adjust the setting of the output of the application displayed on the display screen, and an orientation sensor configured to determine which physical orientation of the plurality of physical orientations that the display screen is positioned in, and change a first input polarity of the first selection mechanism to correspond to the determined physical orientation of the display screen.

An active sound design (ASD) tuning device and a method thereof may include an ASD device that generates a virtual engine sound for each vehicle situation and a control device that outputs a composite sound by correcting and synthesizing the virtual engine sound and an internal sound measured for each vehicle situation based on a binaural vehicle impulse response (BVIR).

A method for operating a bone conduction communication system can include establishing a communicable connection, operating a transducer in an input mode wherein the bone conduction transducers are configured to detect a vibration associated with a bone of the user; transmitting an audio signal over the communicable connection; and operating the transducers responsive to the audio signal.

A device includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions to determine a first phase based on a first audio signal of first audio signals and to determine a second phase based on a second audio signal of second audio signals. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to apply spatial filtering to selected audio signals of the first audio signals and the second audio signals to generate an enhanced audio signal. The one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to generate a first output signal including combining a magnitude of the enhanced audio signal with the first phase and to generate a second output signal including combining the magnitude of the enhanced audio signal with the second phase. The first output signal and the second output signal correspond to an audio zoomed signal.

An integrated audio microphone system simultaneously provides in-room amplification and remote communication during a collaboration session with one or more local participants in a shared space and one or more remote participants. The integrated audio microphone system includes at least one microphone array and speaker system located in the shared space, at least one microphone system for amplification located in the shared space, an audio processor connected to the microphone system and the microphone array and speaker system, and a computer connected to the audio processor. The audio processor is configured to generate a plurality of virtual microphone bubbles and to amplify received audio signals from the microphone system for in-room audio amplification. The amplified audio signals are output to speakers of the microphone array and speaker system. Audio signals from the microphone system and the arrays of microphones are output to the computer to send the audio signals to one or more remote participants.

This disclosure provides a speaker control method and a mobile terminal. The method is performed by the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal includes at least two speakers. The method includes obtaining a use state of the mobile terminal, and determining corresponding audio mode information based on the use state of the mobile terminal, where the audio mode information includes audio modes of the at least two speakers. The method further includes controlling each speaker to work in a corresponding audio mode in the audio mode information.