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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130710 | ONLINE DISTORTED SPEECH ESTIMATION WITHIN AN UNSCENTED TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK Noise and channel distortion parameters in the vectorized logarithmic or the cepstral domain for an utterance may be estimated, and subsequently the distorted speech parameters in the same domain may be updated using an unscented transformation framework during online a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130711 | SPEECH DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND SPEECH DETERMINATION METHOD A signal portion per frame is extracted from an input signal, thus generating a per-frame signal. The per-frame signal in the time domain is converted into a per-frame signal in the frequency domain, thereby generating a spectral pattern of spectra. It is determined whe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130712 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND MENU CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an input to activate a voice recognition function on the mobile terminal, a memory configured to store information related to operations performed on the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to acti... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120072213 | SPEECH SOUND INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR The speech sound intelligibility assessment system includes: an output section for presenting a speech sound to a user; a biological signal measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of the user; a positive component determination section for deter... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ASR ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072211 | USING CODEC PARAMETERS FOR ENDPOINT DETECTION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION Systems, methods and apparatus for determining an estimated endpoint of human speech in a sound wave received by a mobile device having a speech encoder for encoding the sound wave to produce an encoded representation of the sound wave. The estimated endpoint may be det... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053944 | Method for Determining Compressed State Sequences A compressed state sequence s is determined directly from the input sequence of data x. A deterministic function ƒ(x) only tracks unique state transitions, and not the dwell times in each state. A polynomial time compressed state sequence inference method outperforms c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120035927 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of information input units that inputs observation information of a real space, an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification (ID) i... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING WORD-SEPARATION DURING AUDIO PLAYOUT A word-separation control capability is provided herein. An apparatus having a word-separation control capability includes a processor configured for controlling a length of separation between adjacent words of audio during playout of the audio. The processor is configu... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029916 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTICHANNEL ACOUSTIC SIGNAL, SYSTEM THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals which is characterized by calculating the feature quantity of each channel from the input signals of a plurality of channels, calculating similarity between the channels in the feature quantity of each channel, selec... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022869 | ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to an utterance recorded by a mobile device, determi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022862 | SPEECH RECOGNITION CIRCUIT AND METHOD A speech recognition circuit comprising a circuit for providing state identifiers which identify states corresponding to nodes or groups of adjacent nodes in a lexical tree, and for providing scores corresponding to said state identifiers, the lexical tree comprising a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014568 | Speech Recognition, and Related Systems In one arrangement, information useful in understanding the content of user speech (e.g., phonemes identified by a speech recognition algorithm, data indicating the gender of the speaker, etc.) is determined at an apparatus (e.g., a cell phone), and accompanies speech d... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016670 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IDENTIFYING AUDIBLE SAMPLES FOR USE IN A SPEECH RECOGNITION CAPABILITY OF A MOBILE DEVICE Techniques for provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to allow for speech recognition based, at least in part, on context information associated with at least a portion of at least one navigational region, e.g., ass... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014567 | Wireless Location and Facial/Speaker Recognition System An integrated wireless location and facial/speaker-recognition system that provides distinct advantages over facial-recognition systems and speaker-recognition systems of the prior art is disclosed. The integrated system is capable of using information from a wireless l... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110320201 | SOUND VERIFICATION SYSTEM USING TEMPLATES An audio signal verification system is presented for verifying the sound is from a predetermined source. Various methods for analyzing the sound are presented and the various methods may be combined to vary degrees to determine an appropriate correlation with a predefin... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320198 | INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PERFORMING ARTS SCRIPTS One or more embodiments present a script to a user in an interactive script environment. A digital representation of a manuscript is analyzed. This digital representation includes a set of roles and a set of information associated with each role in the set of roles. An ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320202 | LOCATION VERIFICATION SYSTEM USING SOUND TEMPLATES A system using sound templates is presented that may receive a first template for an audio signal and compares it to templates from different sound sources to determine a correlation between them. A location history database is created that assists in identifying the lo... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313762 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by alter... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307250 | Modular Speech Recognition Architecture A speech recognition system is provided. The speech recognition system includes a speech recognition module; a plurality of domain specific dialog manager modules that communicate with the speech recognition module to perform speech recognition; and a speech interface m... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307251 | Sound Source Separation Using Spatial Filtering and Regularization Phases Described is a multiple phase process/system that combines spatial filtering with regularization to separate sound from different sources such as the speech of two different speakers. In a first phase, frequency domain signals corresponding to the sensed sounds are proc... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305326 | ENHANCEMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-USER REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM This invention involves additional details and uses for the invention described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 Simultaneous Multi-User Real-Time Speech Recognition System file by Poirier. The patent granted to Poirier teaches a platform based on audio events on which... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301950 | SPEECH INPUT DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the spee... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301949 | SPEAKER-CLUSTER DEPENDENT SPEAKER RECOGNITION (SPEAKER-TYPE AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION) In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that employs speaker clustering (or speaker type) for transcribing audio. A large corpus of audio with corresponding transcripts is analyzed to determine a plurality of spea... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF SPEECH CODING SCHEME Methods and systems for extracting speech from such packet streams. The methods and systems analyze the encoded speech in a given packet stream, and automatically identify the actual speech coding scheme that was used to produce it. These techniques may be used, for exa... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288859 | LANGUAGE CONTEXT SENSITIVE COMMAND SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method implements a command system in a speech recognition context in such a way as to enable a user to speak a voice command in a first spoken language to a computer that is operating an application in a second spoken language configuration. The command sy... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282661 | METHOD FOR SPEAKER SOURCE CLASSIFICATION A method for classifying a pair of audio signals into an agent audio signal and a customer audio signal. One embodiment relates to unsupervised training, in which the training corpus comprises a multiplicity of audio signal pairs, wherein each pair comprises an agent si... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282662 | Customer Service Data Recording Device, Customer Service Data Recording Method, and Recording Medium To enable determining the correlation between customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction, a speech acquisition unit 102 acquires conversations between employees and customers; an emotion recognition unit 155 recognizes employee and customer emotions b... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110281561 | Method and apparatus for call handling There is provided a system and method of call handling comprising a first communications device having an acceptor of call purpose from a first party for a call, a communications channel including a conveyor of call purpose and a second communications device coupled to ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110270605 | ASSESSING SPEECH PROSODY A method, system and computer readable storage medium for assessing speech prosody. The method includes the steps of: receiving input speech data; acquiring a prosody constraint; assessing prosody of the input speech data according to the prosody constraint; and providi... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110257969 | MAIL RECEIPT APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON VOICE RECOGNITION A mail receipt method based on voice recognition, includes receiving input voice data required for an mail receipt; and recognizing information about the mail receipt from the received input voice data. Further, the mail receipt method based on the voice recognition inc... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257970 | VOICED PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD A voiced programming system and methods are provided herein.... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110238415 | Hybrid Speech Recognition A hybrid speech recognition system uses a client-side speech recognition engine and a server-side speech recognition engine to produce speech recognition results for the same speech. An arbitration engine produces speech recognition output based on one or both of the cl... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231191 | Weight Coefficient Generation Device, Voice Recognition Device, Navigation Device, Vehicle, Weight Coefficient Generation Method, and Weight Coefficient Generation Program A weight coefficient generation device, a speech recognition device, a navigation system, a vehicle, a vehicle coefficient generation method, and a weight coefficient generation program are provided for the purpose of improving a speech recognition performance of place ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MAGNIFYING A TEXT BASED IMAGE OF AN OBJECT Method and apparatus for capturing a text based source image 5, 5A provided on an object 3 supported on a surface. Positioned above the object 3 is a camera 7 for capturing a view of the text based image 5, 5A. The camera 7, thr... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110224978 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM An information processing device includes an audio-based speech recognition processing unit which is input with audio information as observation information of a real space, executes an audio-based speech recognition process, thereby generating word information that is ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110208519 | REAL-TIME DATA PATTERN ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a real-time data-pattern analysis system includes: providing a memory module, a computational unit, and an integrated data transfer module arranged within an integrated circuit die; storing a data pattern within the memory module; transferring t... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202339 | SPEECH SOUND DETECTION APPARATUS A speech sound detection apparatus receives an input audio signal (as a sound reception unit), and computes input power that indicates a magnitude of the sound represented by the audio signal (as an input power computation unit). The apparatus estimates a correction fun... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNITION OF ALPHANUMERIC PATTERNS INCLUDING LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS Voice recognition technology is combined with external information sources and/or contextual information to enhance the quality of voice recognition results specifically for the use case of reading out or speaking an alphanumeric identifier. The alphanumeric identifier ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202337 | Method and Discriminator for Classifying Different Segments of a Signal For classifying different segments of a signal which has segments of at least a first type and second type, e.g. audio and speech segments, the signal is short-term classified on the basis of the at least one short-term feature extracted from the signal and a short-term... | 08/18/2011 |
