US Patent 12002442 Method and device for personalized sound masking in vehicle

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for sound masking. The method includes identifying one class among a plurality of classes based on frequency characteristics of a voice of a first occupant in a vehicle, obtaining reference voice data corresponding to the identified class, generating a personalized masking sound for the first occupant by synthesizing the reference voice data with white noise, and controlling an output of the personalized masking sound.