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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CHALLENGE UTTERANCES FOR SPEAKER VERIFICATION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media relating to speaker verification. In one aspect, a system receives a first user identity from a second user, and, based on the identity, accesses voice characteristics. The system ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109648 | Speech Morphing Communication System A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109627 | Speech Morphing Communication System A networked communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal from a client over a network and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109628 | Speech Morphing Communication System A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication system also including a speech analyzer configured to re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084086 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPEN SPEECH RECOGNITION Disclosed herein are systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing speech recognition across different applications or environments without model customization or prior knowledge of the domain of the received speech. The disclosure includes ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120053937 | GENERALIZING TEXT CONTENT SUMMARY FROM SPEECH CONTENT A text content summary is created from speech content. A focus more signal is issued by a user while receiving the speech content. The focus more signal is associated with a time window, and the time window is associated with a part of the speech content. It is determin... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053936 | System and Method for Generating Videoconference Transcriptions A method for generating a transcription of a videoconference includes matching human speech of a videoconference to writable symbols. The human speech is encoded in audio data of the videoconference. The writable symbols are parsed into a plurality of statements. For ea... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053935 | SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL In one implementation, speech or audio is converted to a searchable format by a speech recognition system. The speech recognition system uses a language model including probabilities of certain words occurring, which may depend on the occurrence of other words or sequen... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053938 | Advanced Voicemail Features Without Carrier Voicemail Support In one embodiment, a communication request from a remote requester is intercepted at the computing device. Based on the intercepted communication request, one or more voicemail features are enabled at the computing device, independent of carrier voicemail support. The r... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120041758 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF AN INPUT TEXT OF A SPEECH WITH A RECORDING OF THE SPEECH A method and system for synchronizing words in an input text of a speech with a continuous recording of the speech. A received input text includes previously recorded content of the speech to be reproduced. A synthetic speech corresponding to the received input text is ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035924 | DISAMBIGUATING INPUT BASED ON CONTEXT In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, ambiguous user input that indicates more than one of a plurality of commands; and determining a current context associated with the mobile computing device that indica... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035926 | Platform for Enabling Voice Commands to Resolve Phoneme Based Domain Name Registrations A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing machine representations of phonemes to generate and manage domain names, and/or messaging addresses. A user of a computing device may provide an audio input signal such as obtained from human language sounds... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035925 | Population of Lists and Tasks from Captured Voice and Audio Content Automatic capture and population of task and list items in an electronic task or list surface via voice or audio input through an audio recording-capable mobile computing device is provided. A voice or audio task or list item may be captured for entry into a task applic... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035907 | TRANSLATING LANGUAGES A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035923 | IN-VEHICLE TEXT MESSAGING EXPERIENCE ENGINE The disclosed invention provides a system and apparatus for providing a telematics system user with an improved texting experience. A messaging experience engine database enables voice avatar/personality selection, acronym conversion, shorthand conversion, and custom au... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE VOICEMAIL TRANSCRIPTION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for selectively transcribing messages. Five general approaches are disclosed herein. The first approach is directed to checking for a transcription capable client, which transcribe... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING, SEARCHING, AND SHARING SPOKEN CONTENT IN MEDIA FILES Systems for recording, searching for, and sharing media files among a plurality of users are disclosed. The systems include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources,... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030712 | NETWORK-INTEGRATED REMOTE CONTROL WITH VOICE ACTIVATION A method and system for network-integrated remote control includes voice activation of a user interface context on a remote control device. A user may utter a voice command, which the remote control device may use to obtain a user interface context from a network server... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029917 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server including a controller to receive audio signals and content identification information from a media processor, generate text representing a voice message based on the audio... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022853 | Multi-Modal Input on an Electronic Device A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-ind... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022865 | System and Method for Efficiently Reducing Transcription Error Using Hybrid Voice Transcription A system and method for efficiently reducing transcription error using hybrid voice transcription is provided. A voice stream is parsed from a call into utterances. An initial transcribed value and corresponding recognition score are assigned to each utterance. A transc... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022868 | Word-Level Correction of Speech Input The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022866 | Language Model Selection for Speech-to-Text Conversion Methods, computer program products and systems are described for converting speech to text. Sound information is received at a computer server system from an electronic device, where the sound information is from a user of the electronic device. A context identifier ind... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022867 | Speech to Text Conversion Methods, computer program products and systems are described for speech-to-text conversion. A voice input is received from a user of an electronic device and contextual metadata is received that describes a context of the electronic device at a time when the voice input... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016671 | Tool and method for enhanced human machine collaboration for rapid and accurate transcriptions A system and methods for transcribing text from audio and video files including a set of transcription hosts and an automatic speech recognition system. ASR word-lattices are dynamically selected from either a text box or word-lattice graph wherein the most probable tex... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010883 | TRANSCRIPTION DATA EXTRACTION A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation bei... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010876 | VOICE INTEGRATION PLATFORM A voice integration platform and method provide for integration of a voice interface with a data system that includes stored data. The voice integration platform comprises one or more generic software components, the generic software components being configured to enabl... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004911 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying Video Program Material or Content via Nonlinear Transformations A system for identification of video content in a video signal is provided via a sound track audio signal. The audio signal is processed with filtering and non linear transformations to extract voice signals from the sound track channel. The extracted voice signals are ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005701 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying Video Program Material or Content via Frequency Translation or Modulation Schemes A system for identification of video content in a video signal is provided via a sound track audio signal. The audio signal is processed with filtering, frequency translation, and or non linear transformations to extract voice signals from the sound track channel. The e... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004910 | System and method for speech processing and speech to text Systems and method for processing speech from a user is disclosed. In the system of the present invention, the user's speech is received as input audio stream. The input audio stream is converted text that corresponds to the input audio stream. The converted text is con... | 01/05/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110320199 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING VOICED PHONEME UNITS IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH According to one embodiment, an apparatus for fusing voiced phoneme units in Text-To-Speech, includes a reference unit selection module configured to select a reference unit from the plurality of units based on pitch cycle information of the each unit and the number of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321008 | MULTI-MODAL CONVERSION TOOL FOR FORM-TYPE APPLICATIONS GUI form code comprising a set of GUI elements can be imported. A user interface description can be generated from the GUI form code that has an element corresponding to each GUI element. For each user interface element converted from a corresponding to one of the GUI e... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320197 | METHOD FOR INDEXING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and language models adapted for the ASR process at least before the latter processes the multi... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313764 | System and Method for Latency Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Partial Multi-Pass Results A system and method is provided for reducing latency for automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, intermediate results produced by multiple search passes are used to update a display of transcribed text.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110307254 | SPEECH RECOGNITION INVOLVING A MOBILE DEVICE A system and method of speech recognition involving a mobile device. Speech input is received (202) on a mobile device (102) and converted (204) to a set of phonetic symbols. Data relating to the phonetic symbols is transferred (206) from the... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307255 | System and Method for Conversion of Speech to Displayed Media Data A method for instantaneous and real-time conversion of sound into media data and with the ability to project, print, copy, or manipulate such media data. The invention relates to a method for converting speech to a text string, recognizing the text string, and then disp... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301951 | ELECTRONIC QUESTIONNAIRE A questionnaire is presented to a user in a more efficient manner in which the user is more likely to participate. The questionnaire is sent electronically to the user's vehicle and presented audibly to the user. The user responds audibly to the questions in the questio... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301937 | ELECTRONIC READING DEVICE The present invention provides an electronic reading device. At the device, a voice is captured by a capturing unit, and then the reference information stored in a storing unit is received by a processing unit for converting the voice to a visual image signal based on t... | 12/08/2011 |
