RU161757U1 - INSTANT EXCHANGE OF INSTANT AUDIO MESSAGES - Google Patents

Abstract

An instant audio message exchange device comprising a functionally interconnected processor in a single package, a memory associated with it, which is an instant audio message storage means, an input module, an output module, an instant audio message creation tool, an instant audio message selection tool, an instant audio message transmission means, an instant audio receiver, means for reproducing instant audio messages; wherein said input module is associated with said instant audio message creation means, said instant audio message creation means is associated with said instant audio message storage means, said instant audio message storage means is associated with said instant audio message selection means, said instant audio message selection means is associated with said instant audio message transmission means , said means for receiving instant audio messages is associated with the mentioned means for storing instant audio messages and said means for reproducing instant audio messages, said means for reproducing instant audio messages is associated with said output module; wherein said audio message comprises a user-created audio file, wherein the instant audio message exchange device comprises editing means for said audio file associated with said instant audio message creating means, wherein said audio file editing means is configured to change the tempo of the audio file

Description

INSTANT EXCHANGE OF INSTANT AUDIO MESSAGES

FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY

The claimed utility model relates to solutions in the field of data transmission, and more particularly, to instant messaging devices in which instant messages are instant audio messages.

BACKGROUND

The prior art (US 2010/0205539 A1, publ. 12.08.2010, G06F 3/01, 27 l.) Known device for exchanging instant audio messages containing means for creating instant audio messages, means for storing instant audio messages, means for selecting instant audio messages, means for transmitting instant audio messages, means for receiving instant audio messages and means for reproducing instant audio messages, said audio message comprising a user-created audio file, the device comprising editing means mentioned audio file.

A disadvantage of the known device is its limited functionality in terms of editing transmitted audio messages.

A known device can be selected as the closest analogue (prototype).

DISCLOSURE OF A USEFUL MODEL

Thus, the objective of the claimed utility model is to create a new technical tool - a device for exchanging instant audio messages with advanced editing capabilities for instant audio messages.

The technical result is the implementation of a device for exchanging instant audio messages with enhanced editing capabilities for audio files contained in instant audio messages, namely, with additional options for changing the tempo of the audio file, the tonality of the audio file, the pitch of the audio file.

The technical result is achieved due to the fact that the device for exchanging instant audio messages contains a functionally interconnected processor in a single package, its associated memory, which is a means of storing instant audio messages, an input module, an output module, a means for creating instant audio messages, a means for selecting instant audio messages, a transmission means instant audio messages; means for receiving instant audio messages; means for reproducing instant audio messages; moreover, said input module is associated with said means for creating instant audio messages, said means for creating instant audio messages

associated with said instant audio message storage means, said instant audio message storage means are associated with said instant audio message selection means, said instant audio message selection means are associated with said instant audio message transmission means, said instant audio message reception means are associated with said instant audio message storage means and said playback means instant audio messages, said reproducing means Nia instant audio messages associated with said output module; wherein said audio message comprises a user-created audio file, wherein the instant audio message exchange device includes editing means for said audio file associated with said instant audio message creating means, wherein said audio file editing means is adapted to change the tempo of the audio file, the tone of the audio file, the pitch of the audio file, and further configured to provide overlay of the specified sound effects on said th audio file.

IMPLEMENTATION OF A USEFUL MODEL

Terms used:

The term “instant audio message” means any message transmitted in an instant audio messaging system and containing any audio file (audio recording), in particular, created by a user of an instant audio messaging system or received by a user of an instant audio messaging system from other users, and the received audio file is not necessarily created by the system exchange instant audio messages and optionally contains a recording of the user's speech, and the duration of such udiofayla limited small time interval, wherein the connection, in addition to the audio file comprises a text caption (title) of the audio file, the audio file is a text header small limited number of characters.

The term "small period of time" means the duration of the audio file, which provides acceptable playback quality with a small size of the audio file.

The term "small size of the audio file" means such sizes of audio files transmitted and / or placed in the instant audio messaging system and / or instant messaging system that allow you to quickly transfer such files to the message processing and storage server and quickly receive such files from the processing server and storage through an information and telecommunication network in which said systems are involved.

The claimed device for exchanging instant audio messages is a device for exchanging instant audio messages, containing in a single package functionally interconnected processor, a memory associated with it, which is a means of storing instant audio messages, an input module, an output module, a means for creating instant audio messages, a means for selecting instant audio messages, a means for transmitting instant audio messages, means for receiving instant audio messages, means for reproducing instant audio messages th; wherein said input module is associated with said instant audio message creation means, said instant audio message creation means is associated with said instant audio message storage means, said instant audio message storage means is associated with said instant audio message selection means, said instant audio message selection means is associated with said instant audio message transmission means , said means for receiving instant audio messages is associated with the mentioned means for storing instant audio messages and said means for reproducing instant audio messages, said means for reproducing instant audio messages is associated with said output module; wherein said audio message comprises a user-created audio file, wherein the instant audio message exchange device comprises editing means for said audio file associated with said instant audio message creating means, wherein said audio file editing means is configured to change the tempo of the audio file, the tonality of the audio file, the pitch of the audio file, and further configured to provide overlay of the specified sound effects on said th audio file. The device can be one of: smartphone, tablet computer, phablet, handheld laptop computer, laptop. The device necessarily contains one processor, memory, input modules and output modules. As an example, the memory may include random access memory (RAM); read-only memory device (ROM); Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM); flash memory or other memory technologies typical of specific device implementations. Said output modules are, but are not limited to, typical and known from the prior art means of presenting, displaying and reproducing information inherent in a smartphone, or tablet computer, or phablet, or handheld laptop computer, or laptop: screen, display, touch screen and the like providing the presentation of the demonstration or reproduction of information. Input modules are typical and known from the prior art controls inherent in a smartphone, or

tablet computer, or phablet, or handheld laptop computer, or laptop: keyboard, joystick, touchpad, trackball, touch screen and the like, through which the user can control the claimed device. In addition, it should be obvious to a person skilled in the art that if the input module is a touch display, the same touch display can be used as an output module. The claimed device may include a combination of: means for creating instant audio messages, means for creating audio files, means for including in instant audio messages, means for storing instant audio messages in memory of means for storing instant audio messages, means for selecting instant audio messages, means for editing audio files, including means for changing the tempo of an audio file, means for changing the pitch of the audio file, means for changing the pitch of the audio file, means for overlaying specified sonic effects on audio files.

The input module is designed to enter audio information and record an audio file. The input module is connected with the means for creating instant audio messages associated with the means for storing instant audio messages associated with the means for selecting instant audio messages associated with the means for transmitting instant audio messages, configured to communicate via a network or data network with means for receiving instant audio messages from other exchange devices instant audio messages. In the claimed device, this means for receiving instant audio messages is associated with said means for storing instant audio messages and means for reproducing instant audio messages associated with the output module. The input module, respectively, is designed to enter audio information and record an audio file. As the input module, any means suitable for recording a user's speech, sounds of the surroundings, the environment surrounding the user and the like, and suitable for recording an audio file, the duration of which is limited by a short period of time, can be used. As a means of recording an audio file, any suitable means can be used, in particular, but not limited to, the microphone of a mobile communication device (smartphone, phablet), the microphone of a laptop or laptop, etc. Recording can be carried out using any of the known technologies, in particular, when recording an audio file, PTT (Push-To_Talk) or VA (Voice Activation) technologies can be used, but not limited to. After recording an audio file, such an audio file can be attached to an instant audio message, after which the means for creating an instant audio message will provide an instant audio message, which necessarily contains a recorded audio file. At the same time, at the stage of recording an audio file, the creation tool

instant audio messages, the first few words (in particular, the first 3-5) can be recognized from the speech recorded by the user, which are then converted into text and used to form the text header of the instant audio message. Speech recognition and speech-to-text conversion can be carried out using any technology known from the prior art, in particular using the technologies described in patent documents US 8583431 B2 (Harris Corporation), US 8566088 B2 (Scti Holdings, Inc.), EP 1313298 A1 (Gateway, Inc.), US 8498871 B2 (Advanced Voice Recognition Systems Inc.) and others. A special point is that the speech recognition process may not start immediately after using the audio file recorder, but after a short period of time when using the PTT technology or similar to it or immediately after using the audio file recorder using the VA technology. Moreover, in the case when the recognition process does not start immediately, only those first words that were fully recognized are converted. By means of the processor of the claimed device, sorting of stored instant audio messages can be provided. Sorting can be carried out both in relation to user-created instant audio messages, and in relation to user-received instant audio messages. Each of these messages, in turn, can be sorted in any way, for example, not limited to, by the date of creation of the instant audio message, by the date of receipt of the instant audio message, by the header of the instant audio message, by the duration of the audio file contained in the instant audio messages, etc. The location of instant audio messages in the memory of the storage means for instant audio messages can be carried out both in one data area and in different data areas, including data areas created by the user himself. After storing the instant audio message in the memory of the instant audio message storage means, such an audio message can be selected by the user using the instant audio message selection tool, after which the user can perform the following actions with the selected instant audio message: transmit the selected instant audio message to other users via the data network using the transmission medium instant audio messages or play instant audio messages using the output module and communication annogo him play means instant audio messages. The means for transmitting instant audio messages while transmitting the selected instant audio message to other users of the instant audio messaging system. The means for reproducing instant audio messages while playing back the audio file contained in the instant audio messages using the output module, which in this case can

represent the speaker of a mobile communication device (smartphone, phablet), the speaker of a laptop or laptop, the display of a mobile communication device (smartphone, phablet), the display of a laptop or laptop, etc. When an incoming instant audio message is received using the instant audio message receiving means, the received instant audio message can be stored in the instant audio message storage means or reproduced by the user. In this case, the reproduction of such an instant audio message can be performed immediately after receiving the instant audio message or at the request of the user. If the means for receiving instant audio messages receives several instant audio messages from multiple users at the same time, only those instant audio messages that are received from the user in the communication session with which the receiving user is involved at the time of receiving the instant audio message are reproduced. If the receiving user does not participate in a communication session with any user from whom instant audio messages are received, the playback tool notifies the user of the presence of unheard messages. Unheard messages can be played at any time at the request of the user. In this case, the reproduction of received instant messages will be carried out as part of a session with the user whose message the receiving user listened to. At the same time, playback does not stop until all unheard messages are listened to or until the receiving user terminates such a communication session. In the case when a user is in a conversation with many users, the instant messages received by him within the framework of such a communication session are played sequentially according to the time of their reception, or the playback order of such instant audio messages can be set by the user on the basis of his priorities for users from such a session communication. All of these tools can be made in the form of a single device, all of whose elements are in functional interconnection within a single housing.

In turn, the audio file editing tool serves to ensure that the user-created audio file can be edited by the user using the audio file editing tool. In this case, the audio file editing means can be additionally configured to change the tempo of the audio file, the tonality of the audio file, and the pitch of the audio file. The audio file editing means may further be configured to overlay predetermined sound effects on said audio file. Editing an audio file by the audio file editing means may be carried out by any technology or means known in the art, in particular technologies and means,

described in patents US 6360198 B1 (JAPAN BROADCASTING CORP), published March 19, 2002 on 14 liters. and KR200435595 Y1 (NAM, Young Tack), published 01.02.2007 on 12 liters, application US 20050217462 A1 (PINNACLE SYSTEMS, INC), published 06.10.2005 on 59 liters, application US 20040027369 A1 (KELLOCK PETER ROWAN and others. ), published 12.02.2004 on 40 liters. The audio file editing tool allows you to perform a combination of actions from: changing the tempo of the audio file, changing the tone of the audio file, changing the pitch of the audio file, and optionally using the audio file editing tool, the specified sound effects can be superimposed on the audio file. Such sound effects, in particular, can be various combinations of changes in the tempo of the audio file, the tonality of the audio file and the pitch of the audio file, as well as additional sound effects, such as the effects of changing the amplitude of the sound of the audio file, in particular, amplification, changing the dynamic range, mixing, normalization, panning effects based on the delay in the sound of the audio file, in particular, chorus effects, effects of simple sound delay, echo effects, reverb effects, flanger effects; audio restoration effects of the audio file, in particular, noise reduction effects, recovery effects of the “clipped” sound; loopback effects of a fragment and combinations of such effects, and combinations of such effects with changes made to the audio file at the stage of its editing.

Claims (1)

An instant audio message exchange device comprising a functionally interconnected processor in a single package, a memory associated with it, which is an instant audio message storage means, an input module, an output module, an instant audio message creation tool, an instant audio message selection tool, an instant audio message transmission means, an instant audio receiver, means for reproducing instant audio messages; wherein said input module is associated with said instant audio message creation means, said instant audio message creation means is associated with said instant audio message storage means, said instant audio message storage means is associated with said instant audio message selection means, said instant audio message selection means is associated with said instant audio message transmission means , said means for receiving instant audio messages is associated with the mentioned means for storing instant audio messages and said means for reproducing instant audio messages, said means for reproducing instant audio messages is associated with said output module; wherein said audio message comprises a user-created audio file, wherein the instant audio message exchange device comprises editing means for said audio file associated with said instant audio message creating means, wherein said audio file editing means is configured to change the audio file tempo, audio file pitch, audio file pitch and additionally configured to overlay specified sound effects on said th audio file.