Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5384893 | Method and apparatus for speech synthesis based on prosodic analysis A system for synthesizing a speech signal from strings of words, which are themselves strings of characters, includes a memory in which predetermined syntax tags are stored in association with entered words and phonetic transcriptions are stored in associ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5222188 | Method and apparatus for speech recognition based on subsyllable spellings In a digital computer, there is provided a method of recognizing speech, comprising the steps of: entering a cohesive speech segment; determining gross acoustic attributes of the entered segment; determining fine acoustic attributes of the entered segment... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5208897 | Method and apparatus for speech recognition based on subsyllable spellings In a digital computer, a method for speech recognition includes steps of sampling a speaker's speech and providing speech data sample segments of predetermined length at predetermined sampling intervals based on changes in energy in the speech. Cohesive s... | 05/04/1993 |
| 4994966 | System and method for natural language parsing by initiating processing prior to entry of complete sentences A system and method for parsing natural language is provided. The system comprises a plurality of computer program code modules which address a plurality of predetermined lookup tables. Strings of characters, such as words, assigned one or more syntactica... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4980917 | Method and apparatus for determining articulatory parameters from speech data A system and method for determining from continuous speech, the instantaneous values of a set of articulatory parameters. The continuous speech data is a sequence of spectral profiles obtained by spectrally sampling continuous speech. The spectral samples... | 12/25/1990 |
