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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120109650 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING ACOUSTIC MODEL Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for creating an acoustic model. The apparatus includes a binary tree creation unit, an information creation unit, and a binary tree reduction unit. The binary tree creation unit creates a binary tree by repeatedly merging a pl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110172999 | System and Method for Building Emotional Machines A system, method and computer-readable medium for practicing a method of emotion detection during a natural language dialog between a human and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user in a natural language dialog, receivi... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110166857 | Human Voice Distinguishing Method and Device A human voice distinguishing method and device are provided. The method involves: taking every n sampling points of the current frame of audio signals as one subsection, wherein n is a positive integer, judging whether two adjacent subsections have transition relative t... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20100324896 | TURN-TAKING CONFIDENCE A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another embo... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100277579 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VOICE BASED ON MOTION INFORMATION Disclosed are an apparatus and method of deducing a user's intention using motion information. The user's intention deduction apparatus includes a speech intention determining unit configured to predict a speech intention regarding a user's speech using motion informati... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20080255839 | 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 ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20070239448 | Speech recognition using channel verification A method for automatic speech recognition includes determining for an input signal a plurality scores representative of certainties that the input signal is associated with corresponding states of a speech recognition model, using the speech recognition model and the de... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070185712 | Method, apparatus, and medium for measuring confidence about speech recognition in speech recognizer A method of measuring confidence of speech recognition in a speech recognizer compares a phase change point with a phoneme string change point and uses a difference between the phase change point and the phoneme string change point and a likelihood ratio, and an apparat... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070100618 | Apparatus, method, and medium for dialogue speech recognition using topic domain detection An apparatus, method, and medium for dialogue speech recognition using topic domain detection are disclosed. An apparatus includes a forward search module performing a forward search in order to create a word lattice similar to a feature vector, which is extracted from ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20060235686 | Speech recognition device Disclosed is a speech recognition device using a hidden Markov model and a two-level dynamic programming scheme. The speech recognition device includes an analog to digital converter for sampling and quantizing speech signals into digital speech signals; a noise elimina... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060161432 | Hochwald construction of unitary matrix codebooks via eigen coordinate transformations A method of deriving a codebook including deriving a first codeword P1 in Euclidean coordinates, transforming the first codeword into eigen-coordinates, applying a Hochwald construction to the first codeword in eigen-coordinates to derive a plurality of codew... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060143006 | Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method The present invention relates to a speech recognition apparatus and a speech recognition method for speech recognition with improved accuracy. A distance calculator 47 determines the distance from a microphone 21 to a user uttering. Data indicating the det... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060106603 | Method and apparatus to improve speaker intelligibility in competitive talking conditions A system, wireless device (102) and method improve speaker intelligibility in a multi-party call by receiving a plurality of individual voice signals, determining a pitch contour for each individual voice signal, determining that the pitch contours for at least t... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060031068 | Analysis method An analysis method is disclosed. At least one layer is disposed on a substrate, covering a pre-analysis pattern and a reference pattern. A portion of the layer is removed to expose the reference pattern, and locate the unexposed pre-analysis pattern, using the reference... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050187767 | Dynamic N-best algorithm to reduce speech recognition errors A method for reducing speech recognition errors. The method includes receiving an N-best list associated with a user utterance. The N-best list includes one or more hypotheses and associated confidence values. The user utterance is classified in response to the N-best l... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050187768 | Dynamic N-best algorithm to reduce recognition errors A method for reducing recognition errors. The method includes receiving an N-best list associated with an input of a computer based recognition system. The N-best list includes one or more hypotheses and associated confidence values. The input is classified in response ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050149888 | Method and apparatus for minimizing weighted networks with link and node labels A method and apparatus are provided for optimizing finite state machines with labeled nodes. Under the method, labels from the nodes are shifted onto the labels of the links connected to the nodes. The finite state machine is then optimized. After optimization, the labe... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050114135 | Signal variation feature based confidence measure Based on the insight that variations in a speech input signal are different depending on the origin of the signal being a speech or a non-speech event, the present invention proposes method for predicting a misrecognition in a speech recognition system with steps for re... | 05/26/2005 |
