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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120035928 | SPEAKER ADAPTATION OF VOCABULARY FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION A phonetic vocabulary for a speech recognition system is adapted to a particular speaker's pronunciation. A speaker can be attributed specific pronunciation styles, which can be identified from specific pronunciation examples. Consequently, a phonetic vocabulary can be ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110224985 | MODEL ADAPTATION DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM THEREOF A model adaptation device includes a text database that stores a plurality of sentences containing predetermined phonemes; a sentence list that includes a plurality of sentences that describe the contents of the input voice; an input unit to which the input voice is inp... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110213613 | Automatic Language Model Update A method for generating a speech recognition model includes accessing a baseline speech recognition model, obtaining information related to recent language usage from search queries, and modifying the speech recognition model to revise probabilities of a portion of a so... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110196676 | ADAPTIVE VOICE PRINT FOR CONVERSATIONAL BIOMETRIC ENGINE A computer-implemented method, system and/or program product update voice prints over time. A receiving computer receives an initial voice print. A determining period of time is calculated for that initial voice print. This determining period of time is a length of time... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110161072 | LANGUAGE MODEL CREATION APPARATUS, LANGUAGE MODEL CREATION METHOD, SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A frequency counting unit (15A) counts occurrence frequencies (14B) in input text data (14A) for respective words or word chains contained in the input text data (14A). A context diversity calculation unit (15B) calculates, for the res... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110137652 | ENHANCED ACCURACY FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION GRAMMARS Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based on th... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110119059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STANDARDIZED SPEECH RECOGNITION INFRASTRUCTURE Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for selecting a speech recognition model in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure. The system receives speech from a user, and if a user-specific supervised speech model associated wit... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110082697 | METHOD FOR THE CORRECTION OF MEASURED VALUES OF VOWEL NASALANCE A method is described for correcting and improving the functioning of certain devices for the diagnosis and treatment of speech that dynamically measure the functioning of the velum in the control of nasality during speech. The correction method uses an estimate of the ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110077942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING REPEAT QUERIES DUE TO WRONG ASR OUTPUT Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for handling expected repeat speech queries or other inputs. The method causes a computing device to detect a misrecognized speech query from a user, determine a tendency of ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20100318355 | MODEL TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION FROM IMPERFECT TRANSCRIPTION DATA Techniques and systems for training an acoustic model are described. In an embodiment, a technique for training an acoustic model includes dividing a corpus of training data that includes transcription errors into N parts, and on each part, decoding an utterance with an... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH PERSONALIZATION BY NEED Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for speaker recognition personalization. The method recognizes speech received from a speaker interacting with a speech interface using a set of allocated resources,... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100256978 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM A method for performing speech recognition relating to an object for the purpose of affecting automatic processing of the object by a processing system. The object carries information with at least a character string of processing information. The character string spoke... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100204988 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD A speech recognition method includes receiving a speech input signal in a first noise environment which includes a sequence of observations, determining the likelihood of a sequence of words arising from the sequence of observations using an acoustic model, adapting the... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100191530 | SPEECH UNDERSTANDING APPARATUS A speech understanding apparatus includes a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of an utterance using multiple language models, and outputs multiple speech recognition results obtained by the speech recognition, a language understanding unit which ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100179812 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING A VOICE COMMAND THEREOF Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing voice commands, the apparatus including: a voice command recognition unit which recognizes an input voice command; a voice command recognition learning unit which learns a recognition-targeted voice command; and a con... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100169094 | SPEAKER ADAPTATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREOF A speaker adaptation apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an acoustic model including HMMs and decision trees for estimating what type of the phoneme or the word is included in a feature value used for speech recognition, the HMMs having a pluralit... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100100380 | Multitask Learning for Spoken Language Understanding A system, method and computer-readable medium provide a multitask learning method for intent or call-type classification in a spoken language understanding system. Multitask learning aims at training tasks in parallel while using a shared representation. A computing dev... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094629 | WEIGHT COEFFICIENT LEARNING SYSTEM AND AUDIO RECOGNITION SYSTEM A weighting factor learning system includes an audio recognition section that recognizes learning audio data and outputting the recognition result; a weighting factor updating section that updates a weighting factor applied to a score obtained from an acoustic model and... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100076968 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS Implementations relate to systems and methods for aggregating and presenting data related to geographic locations. Geotag data related to geographic locations and associated features or attributes can be collected to build a regional profile characterizing a set of loca... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100023329 | EXTENDED RECOGNITION DICTIONARY LEARNING DEVICE AND SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM Speech recognition of even a speaker who uses a speech recognition system is enabled by using an extended recognition dictionary suited to the speaker without requiring any previous learning using an utterance label corresponding to the speech of the speaker. An extende... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100004931 | Apparatus and method for speech utterance verification An apparatus is provided for speech utterance verification. The apparatus is configured to compare a first prosody component from a recorded speech with a second prosody component for a reference speech. The apparatus determines a prosodic verification evaluation for th... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090313017 | Language model update device, language Model update method, and language model update program A framework in which a numerical value that represents a statistical appearance tendency of each of words in a language model is set with respect to the words not only as a constant, but also as an update function that changes in time, is included. The numerical value t... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090198494 | RESOURCE CONSERVATIVE TRANSFORMATION BASED UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION The present invention discloses a solution for conserving computing resources when implementing transformation based adaptation techniques. The disclosed solution limits the amount of speech data used by real-time adaptation algorithms to compute a transformation, which... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090150153 | GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION USING ACOUSTIC DATA Described is the use of acoustic data to improve grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for speech recognition, such as to more accurately recognize spoken names in a voice-dialing system. A joint model of acoustics and graphonemes (acoustic data, phonemes sequences, grapheme s... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090119105 | Acoustic Model Adaptation Methods Based on Pronunciation Variability Analysis for Enhancing the Recognition of Voice of Non-Native Speaker and Apparatus Thereof The example embodiment of the present invention provides an acoustic model adaptation method for enhancing recognition performance for a non-native speaker's speech. In order to adapt acoustic models, first, pronunciation variations are examined by analyzing a non-nativ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090119104 | Switching Functionality To Control Real-Time Switching Of Modules Of A Dialog System Systems and methods are described that automatically control modules of dialog systems. The systems and methods include a dialog module that receives and processes utterances from a speaker and outputs data used to generate synthetic speech outputs as responses to the u... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090112587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A PHRASE PRONUNCIATION A system and method for a speech recognition technology that allows language models to be customized through the addition of special pronunciations for components of phrases, which are added to the factory language models during customization. It allows components of a ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090086934 | Device for Modifying and Improving the Behaviour of Speech Recognition Systems A speech recognition system comprises a controller application, a speech recogniser, and a modification apparatus disposed between them. The controller application has an output arranged to produce a speech signal, an input arranged to receive a recognised speech result... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090063145 | Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding Combined active and semi-supervised learning to reduce an amount of manual labeling when training a spoken language understanding model classifier. The classifier may be trained with human-labeled utterance data. Ones of a group of unselected utterance data may be selec... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090055177 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NOISE ADAPTIVE ACOUSTIC MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENT MIGRATION INCLUDING NOISE ADAPTIVE DISCRIMINATIVE ADAPTATION METHOD Provided are an apparatus and method for generating a noise adaptive acoustic model including a noise adaptive discriminative adaptation method. The method includes: generating a baseline model parameter from large-capacity speech training data including various noise e... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090030680 | Method and System of Indexing Speech Data A method and system of indexing speech data. The method includes indexing word transcripts including a timestamp for a word occurrence; and indexing sub-word transcripts including a timestamp for a sub-word occurrence. A timestamp in the index indicates the time and dur... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090006092 | Speech Recognition Language Model Making System, Method, and Program, and Speech Recognition System [PROBLEMS] To provide a speech recognition language model making system for making a speech recognition language model so as to recognize a meaningful speech necessary for application of speech recognition, such as a speech in conversation at a call center. 01/01/2009 | |
| 20090006093 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION VIA VOICE SAMPLE BASED ON MULTIPLE NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIERS A speaker recognition system generates a codebook store with codebooks representing voice samples of speaker, referred to as trainers. The speaker recognition system may use multiple classifiers and generate a codebook store for each classifier. Each classifier uses a d... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080288252 | SPEECH RECOGNITION OF SPEECH RECORDED BY A MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where rec... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080243503 | MINIMUM DIVERGENCE BASED DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION A method of providing discriminative training of a speech recognition unit is discussed. The method includes receiving an acoustic indication of an utterance having a hypothesis space and comparing the hypothesis space against a reference. The method measures the Kullba... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080208579 | Session recording and playback with selective information masking A computer-implemented method for session processing includes identifying a type of data item that is presented to a user by a computerized system. A session in which the user interacts with the computerized system is recorded. A data item of the identified type is auto... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080201145 | Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent Methods are disclosed for automatic accent labeling without manually labeled data. The methods are designed to exploit accent distribution between function and content words.... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080195380 | Voice recognition dictionary construction apparatus and computer readable medium Disclosed is a voice recognition dictionary construction apparatus that includes a scanner unit to read a document; and a control unit to conduct character recognition of a term which is included in the document that has been read, and to update a dictionary for voice r... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080147404 | System and methods for accent classification and adaptation Speech is processed that may be colored by speech accent. A method for recognizing speech includes maintaining a model of speech accent that is established based on training speech data, wherein the training speech data includes at least a first set of training speech d... | 06/19/2008 |
