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| 20120130709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING AND EVALUATING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION VIA AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMER INTERFACE Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for building an automatic speech recognition system through an Internet API. A network-based automatic speech recognition server configured to practice the method receives feature ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109643 | ADAPTIVE AUDIO TRANSCODING A system and method provide an audio/video coding system for adaptively transcoding audio streams based on content characteristics of the audio streams. An audio stream metadata extraction module of the system is configured to extract metadata of a source audio stream. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109644 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL There is a need to enable decompression of a speech signal even if no network synchronizing signal is output from a baseband processing portion. For this purpose, an information processing device includes a first serial interface. The first serial interface includes a n... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084079 | Integration of Embedded and Network Speech Recognizers A method, computer program product, and system are provided for performing a voice command on a client device. The method can include translating, using a first speech recognizer located on the client device, an audio stream of a voice command to a first machine-readabl... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084078 | Method And Apparatus For Voice Signature Authentication A scalable voice signature authentication capability is provided herein. The scalable voice signature authentication capability enables authentication of varied services such as speaker identification (e.g. private banking and access to healthcare account records), voic... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072207 | DOWN-MIXING DEVICE, ENCODER, AND METHOD THEREFOR Provided are a down-mixing method and an encoder, wherein a high quantization performance can be realized when a balance adjustment operation due to a balance weight coefficient and a removal operation of a main component are combined. In the encoder (100), a dow... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072206 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND SPEECH PROCESSING PROGRAM A terminal apparatus configured to obtain positional information indicating a position of another apparatus; to obtain positional information indicating a position of the terminal apparatus; to obtain a first direction, which is a direction to the obtained position of t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053932 | Method and System for Automatic Transmission of Status Information A method for automatic transmission of status information from a first communications terminal set up for speech communication to a second communications terminal set up for text communication is provided. The speech communication between communications terminals is pro... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046941 | DIGITAL VOICE COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD A digital audio communication control apparatus includes a first mixing unit that mixes a voice input from a voice input unit and uttered by a specific speaker with a voice input from a digital audio packet receiving unit and uttered by at least one speaker except for t... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046943 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION QUALITY IN MOBILE TERMINAL An apparatus and a method for voice communication of a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for clearly receiving a counterpart user's voice signal in a mobile terminal positioned at a place where a noise occurs are provided. The ap... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041760 | VOICE RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND METHOD In a voice recording equipment and method, voice data from a speaker is received using a microphone. Threshold values T1 and T2 of surrounding environment of the voice recording equipment are determined. If an intensity of the voice data is less than or eq... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041761 | VOICE DECODING APPARATUS AND VOICE DECODING METHOD Disclosed is a voice decoding apparatus wherein the processor may be continuously employed for other applications for a prescribed time but, in response to an urgent interrupt, the processor can generate synthesised sound even when being used for other applications, wit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041759 | Mobile Replacement-Dialogue Recording System A mobile replacement-dialogue recording system enables the creation of replacement-dialogue items by mobile users not at a media recording studio. Studio-users prepare guide media video, audio and text data which are made available to mobile users through a media server... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035918 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING A BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE PAYLOAD FORMAT In a method of providing a backward and forward compatible speech codec payload format, the following steps are included: providing S10 an RTP package; including S20 payload according to a first codec into the provided RTP package, and appending S50... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028642 | CODEC RATE ADAPTATION FOR RADIO CHANNEL RATE CHANGE Speech signals to be sent between a first node and a second node via a wireless communication system are Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) encoded. A need to change the first node's first data transmission rate over a radio interface to a second different data transmission rate... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SECURE STORAGE OF AUDIO SIGNALS In one embodiment, a method, system and apparatus for recording audio is provided so that the recording can be authenticated. The system may be implemented as a central server that is accessed via one or more lines for audio communication, or as a stand-alone unit. The ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029911 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED AUDIO TRANSCODING IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS A method for streaming audio data in a network, the audio data having a sequence of samples, includes encoding the sequence of samples into a plurality of coded base bitstreams, generating a plurality of enhancement streams, and transmitting the coded base bitstreams an... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016666 | Audiovisual (AV) Device and Control Method Thereof According to one embodiment, an AV device comprises a receiving section, a processing section, a storage section and a control section. The receiving section receives a digital voice signal. The processing section applies a predetermined signal processing operation to t... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016668 | Energy Envelope Perceptual Correction for High Band Coding In accordance with an embodiment, A method of encoding an audio bitstream at an encoder includes encoding an original low band signal at the encoder by using a closed loop analysis-by-synthesis approach to obtain a coded low band signal, encoding an original high band s... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010877 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SPEECH SYNTHESIS WITH A CACHE OF PHONEME SEQUENCES Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech synthesis. The method embodiment comprises applying a first part of a speech synthesizer to a text corpus to obtain a plurality of phoneme sequences, the first part of the speech synthesiz... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320192 | GATEWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A gateway apparatus receives a call control signal and/or a packet with voice data stored therein in a predetermined protocol from a packet transfer apparatus on a mobile high-speed network and converts the received protocol into a circuit-switched protocol used when an... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320193 | SPEECH ENCODING DEVICE, SPEECH DECODING DEVICE, SPEECH ENCODING METHOD, AND SPEECH DECODING METHOD Provided is a speech encoding device that is capable of performing encoding in an extension encoder even when the core encoder and core decoder of each layer have been interchanged, and that is also capable of performing high precision encoding by using the appropriate ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110300840 | ON THE ROAD GROUPS A mobile or in-vehicle communication system and method facilitate communication among groups. The system and method also facilitate the creation of such groups. The system and method may convert speech from one member of the group to text for distribution to other membe... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301944 | DIVER AUDIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An underwater communications system is provided that transmits electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals to a remote receiver. The transmitter includes a data input. A digital data compressor compresses data to be transmitted. A modulator modulates compressed data onto a ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295596 | DIGITAL VOICE RECORDING DEVICE WITH MARKING FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF A digital voice recording device includes a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a recording module, a storing module, a marking module, and a playing module. The recording module converts audio into digital signals, and reco... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL CONTENT OF SPEECH A method and apparatus for automated analysis of emotional content of speech is presented. Telephony calls are routed via a network such as public service telephone network (PSTN) and delivered to an interactive voice response system (IVR) where prerecorded or synthesiz... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288857 | Distributed Speech Recognition Using One Way Communication A speech recognition client sends a speech stream and control stream in parallel to a server-side speech recognizer over a network. The network may be an unreliable, low-latency network. The server-side speech recognizer recognizes the speech stream continuously. The sp... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110264450 | SPEECH CAPTURING AND SPEECH RENDERING The invention proposes extracting one or more speech signals (151-154) as well as one or more ambient signals (131) from sound signals captured by microphones, wherein each of the speech signals corresponds to a different speaker. The invention prop... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264446 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND MEDIA GATEWAY FOR REPORTING MEDIA INSTANCE INFORMATION A method, a system, and a media gateway (MG) for reporting media instance information are disclosed. The method for reporting media instance information includes: detecting, by an MG, received media data according to a set media instance detection (MID) event; and repor... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257964 | Minimizing Speech Delay in Communication Devices Methods and apparatus for coordinating audio data processing and network communication processing in a communication device. In an exemplary method lower and upper threshold values for use by a network communication processing circuit are set, the lower and upper thresh... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257965 | INTEROPERABLE VOCODER Encoding a sequence of digital speech samples into a bit stream includes dividing the digital speech samples into one or more frames and computing a set of model parameters for the frames. The set of model parameters includes at least a first parameter conveying pitch i... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing device including a storage unit that stores music data for playing music and lyrics data indicating lyrics of the music, a display control unit that displays the lyrics of the music on a screen, a playback unit that plays the ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246187 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING A speech signal processing system comprises an audio processor (103) for providing a first signal representing an acoustic speech signal of a speaker. An EMG processor (109) provides a second signal which represents an electromyographic signal for the spea... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238414 | TELEPHONY SERVICE INTERACTION MANAGEMENT A method for managing an interaction of a calling party to a communication partner is provided. The method includes automatically determining if the communication partner expects DTMF input. The method also includes translating speech input to one or more DTMF tones and... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231184 | Correlation of transcribed text with corresponding audio In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a communication device an audio communication and a transcribed text created from the audio communication, and generating a mapping of the transcribed text to the audio communication independent of transcribing the audio... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224974 | SPEECH RECOGNITION AND TRANSCRIPTION AMONG USERS HAVING HETEROGENEOUS PROTOCOLS A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a system transaction manager that receives a speech information request from... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO BIOMETRIC DATA CAPTURE A method and apparatus for audio biometric data capture are provided. The apparatus includes in interactive head-mounted eyepiece worn by a user that includes an optical assembly through which a user views a surrounding environment and displayed content. The optical ass... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110224975 | LOW-DELAY AUDIO CODER The present invention relates to methods and devices for encoding and decoding digital audio signals, e.g. a speech signal. An audio coder and a decoder are provided wherein a modeller adds a first distribution model obtained from model parameters of past segments of th... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218798 | OBFUSCATING SENSITIVE CONTENT IN AUDIO SOURCES Techniques implemented as systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for obfuscating sensitive content in an audio source representative of an interaction between a contact center caller and a contact center agent. The techniques include per... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216905 | CHANNEL COMPRESSION Techniques implemented as systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for logging multi-channel audio signals. The techniques include receiving a first audio input signal over a first audio channel and a second audio input signal over a secon... | 09/08/2011 |
