Google patents earbuds that filter background noise for AI chats
This filing describes earbuds that separate your voice from the surrounding environment to help a digital assistant understand context. The device records both your speech and the background noise, then processes them to create specific data points about the surroundings. This information is saved so the AI can recall details from previous conversations or better understand what is happening around you.
In the filing’s own words
Implementations relate to one or more electronic devices configured to identify a first data related to a user’s voice recording from earbuds and a second data from an ambient recording excluding the user’s voice. Based on these, a third data can be generated concerning a portion of the ambient recording. The third data can be stored for later use with a conversational AI assistant. Some implementations can distinguish the user's voice from other voices in the environment. Some implementations can allow users to continue discussions with the AI across multiple sessions and review previous discussions. Other implementations can be described and/or claimed.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method implemented using one or more processors of an electronic device, the method comprising: identifying a first data, wherein the first data is related to a voice recording of a user’s voice captured by one or more earbuds worn by the user; identifying a second data, wherein the second data is related to a first portion of an ambient recording captured by the one or more earbuds in a location of the user, wherein the first portion of the ambient recording excludes the user’s voice; generating, based on the first data and the second data, a third data related to a second portion of the ambient recording captured in the location of the user, wherein the second portion of the ambient recording is less than all of the first portion of the ambient recording; and storing the third data.
Facts
- Company
- Google (GOOGLE LLC)
- Official title
- EARBUD-ENHANCED CONVERSATIONAL AI WITH AMBIENT AWARENESS
- Publication number
- US20260311695A1
- Application number
- 19173464
- Filed
- Apr 8, 2025
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G10L 15/22 Physics & computingG10L 2015/223 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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