US Patent 10085101 Systems and methods for determining microphone position

A method for determining a relative position of a microphone may include capturing speech audio from a user's mouth with the microphone so that the microphone outputs an electrical signal indicative of the speech audio; determining an indication of a position of the microphone relative to the user's mouth, which may include providing a plurality of inputs to a computerized discriminative classifier, wherein an input of the plurality of inputs is derived from the electrical signal, and wherein an output from the computerized discriminative classifier is indicative of the position of the microphone relative to the user's mouth.