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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6360237 | Method and system for performing text edits during audio recording playback A method for editing written text in a text editor which automatically aligns a cursor in the written text on a screen with a particular spoken word during playback of an audio recording. The method may comprise aligning the cursor in a targeted insertion... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6292779 | System and method for modeless large vocabulary speech recognition A modeless large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system is provided that represents an input utterance as a sequence of input vectors. The system includes a common library of acoustic model states for arrangement in sequences that form acoustic m... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6185524 | Method and apparatus for automatic identification of word boundaries in continuous text and computation of word boundary scores A method and device for identifying word boundaries in continuous text compares the continuous text to a set of varying length strings to identify candidate word-initial boundaries and candidate word-final boundaries in the continuous text. Each candidate... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6085160 | Language independent speech recognition A speech recognition system uses language independent acoustic models derived from speech data from multiple languages to represent speech units which are concatenated into words. In addition, the input speech signal which is compared to the language inde... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6035268 | Method and apparatus for breaking words in a stream of text A word breaker utilizing a lexicon module and a processing module to identify word breaks in a stream of Asian (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, or Korean) language text. The lexicon module is a dictionary or database containing words native to the language of the... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5970460 | Speech recognition and editing system The system disclosed herein employs a method for facilitating access to supplemental information relating to text items entered into an editing application program by a speech recognition system, e.g. alternate translations of utterances stored in a dicta... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5943648 | Speech signal distribution system providing supplemental parameter associated data A speech signal distribution system includes a transmitting subsystem and one or more receiving subsystems. The transmitting subsystem has a text to speech converter for converting text into a data stream of formant parameters. A supplemental parameter ge... | 08/24/1999 |
