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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120035932 | 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 |
| 20110320203 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING ACCENT-INDUCED SPEECH RECOGNITION DIFFICULTIES A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The speech... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313769 | Method and System for Automatically Detecting Morphemes in a Task Classification System Using Lattices In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice. Ta... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110282650 | AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF SPOKEN SYLLABLE DURATION A very common problem is when people speak a language other than the language which they are accustomed, syllables can be spoken for longer or shorter than the listener would regard as appropriate. An example of this can be observed when people who have a heavy Japanese... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282667 | Methods and System for Grammar Fitness Evaluation as Speech Recognition Error Predictor A plurality of statements are received from within a grammar structure. Each of the statements is formed by a number of word sets. A number of alignment regions across the statements are identified by aligning the statements on a word set basis. Each aligned word set re... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110251844 | 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... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110218802 | Continuous Speech Recognition A computerized method for continuous speech recognition using a speech recognition engine and a phoneme model. The computerized method inputs a speech signal into the speech recognition engine. Based on the phoneme model, the speech signal is indexed by scoring for the ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110184737 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION ROBOT A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech input unit that receives input speech, a phoneme recognition unit that recognizes phonemes of the input speech and generates a first phoneme sequence representing corrected speech, a matching unit that matches the first p... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110166860 | SPOKEN MOBILE ENGINE Systems and methods are disclosed to operate a mobile device by capturing user input; transmitting the user input over a wireless channel to an engine, analyzing at the engine music clip or video in a multimedia data stream and sending an analysis wirelessly to the mobi... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110153329 | Audio Comparison Using Phoneme Matching Audio comparison using phoneme matching is described, including evaluating audio data associated with a file, identifying a sequence of phonemes in the audio data, associating the file with a product category based on a match indicating the sequence of phonemes is subst... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144992 | UNSUPERVISED LEARNING USING GLOBAL FEATURES, INCLUDING FOR LOG-LINEAR MODEL WORD SEGMENTATION Described is a technology for performing unsupervised learning using global features extracted from unlabeled examples. The unsupervised learning process may be used to train a log-linear model, such as for use in morphological segmentation of words. For example, segmen... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110109539 | BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD BY COMBINING IMAGE AND SPEECH A behavior recognition system and method by combining an image and a speech are provided. The system includes a data analyzing module, a database, and a calculating module. A plurality of image-and-speech relation modules is stored in the database. Each image-and-speech... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110106792 | System and method for word matching and indexing The invention provides a method for retrieving similar sounding words from an electronic database. An input or query word is first converted to a string of corresponding phonemes. The string of phonemes is then used to generate a key, with the key made up of elements co... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110093270 | REPLACING AN AUDIO PORTION A method includes identifying a first syllable in a first audio of a first word and a second syllable in a second audio of a second word, the first syllable having a first set of properties and the second syllable having a second set of properties; detecting the first s... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110066437 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR MEDIA EXPOSURE USING CONTENT-AWARE WATERMARKS Methods and apparatus to construct and transmit content-aware watermarks are disclosed herein. An example method of creating a content-aware watermark includes selecting at least one word associated with a media composition; representing the word with at least one phone... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALIGNING TEXTS A method and apparatus for aligning texts. The method includes acquiring a target text and a reference text and aligning the target text and the reference text at word level based on phoneme similarity. The method can be applied to automatically archiving a multimedia r... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110054892 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING SPEECH INTERVAL AND RECOGNIZING CONTINUOUS SPEECH IN A NOISY ENVIRONMENT THROUGH REAL-TIME RECOGNITION OF CALL COMMANDS The present invention relates to a continuous speech recognition system that is very robust in a noisy environment. In order to recognize continuous speech smoothly in a noisy environment, the system selects call commands, configures a minimum recognition network in tok... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110040774 | Searching Spoken Media According to Phonemes Derived From Expanded Concepts Expressed As Text According to one embodiment, searching media includes receiving a search query comprising search terms. At least one search term is expanded to yield a set of conceptually equivalent terms. The set of conceptually equivalent terms is converted to a set of search phoneme... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110010175 | TEXT DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, TEXT DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING TEXT DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM Provided is to a text data processing apparatus, method and program to add a symbol at an appropriate position. The apparatus according to this embodiment is a text data processing apparatus that executes edit of a symbol in input text, the apparatus including symbol ed... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004473 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED SPEECH RECOGNITION A method and apparatus for improving speech recognition results for an audio signal captured within an organization, comprising: receiving the audio signal captured by a capturing or logging device; extracting a phonetic feature and an acoustic feature from the audio si... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332231 | LEXICAL ACQUISITION APPARATUS, MULTI DIALOGUE BEHAVIOR SYSTEM, AND LEXICAL ACQUISITION PROGRAM A lexical acquisition apparatus includes: a phoneme recognition section 2 for preparing a phoneme sequence candidate from an inputted speech; a word matching section 3 for preparing a plurality of word sequences based on the phoneme sequence candidate; a d... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324900 | Searching in Audio Speech A computerized method of detecting a target word in a speech signal. A speech recognition engine and a previously constructed phoneme model is provided. The speech signal is input into the speech recognition engine. Based on the phoneme model, the input speech signal is... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100312560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION PRONUNCIATION BY ACOUSTIC MODEL RESTRUCTURING Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for recognizing speech by adapting automatic speech recognition pronunciation by acoustic model restructuring. The method identifies an acoustic model and a matching pronounc... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100217598 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULT OUTPUT METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULT OUTPUT PROGRAM A speech recognition system in which, even when the user makes an utterance including a word that satisfies a predetermined condition such as an unknown word, such a fact can be presented to the user, and the user can confirm the fact easily, is provided. The speech rec... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211390 | Speech Recognition of a List Entry The present invention relates to a method of generating a candidate list from a list of entries in accordance with a string of subword units corresponding to a speech input in a speech recognition system, the list of entries including plural list entries each comprising... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100185435 | EVALUATING SPOKEN SKILLS Techniques for evaluating one or more spoken language skills of a speaker are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more temporal locations of interest in a speech passage spoken by a speaker, computing one or more acoustic parameters, wherein the one or m... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100180174 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF CHANGING SIGNALS USING FEATURE EXTRACTION In one embodiment, a signal transmission authentication apparatus includes an input operable to receive a changing signal, a first extractor operable to extract first phoneme data from the received changing signal, a first generator including logic operable to generate ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100125457 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATIVE PRONUNCIATION MODELING FOR VOICE SEARCH Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for speech recognition. The method includes receiving speech utterances, assigning a pronunciation weight to each unit of speech in the speech utterances, each respective pronunciati... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100121642 | Speech Data Retrieval Apparatus, Speech Data Retrieval Method, Speech Data Retrieval Program and Computer Usable Medium Having Computer Readable Data Retrieval Program Embodied Therein A speech data retrieval apparatus (10) includes a speech database (1), a speech recognition unit (2), a confusion network creation unit (3), an inverted index table creation unit (4), a query input unit (6), a query conversion u... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100121643 | MELODIS CRYSTAL DECODER METHOD AND DEVICE The technology disclosed relates to a system and method for fast, accurate and parallelizable speech search, called Crystal Decoder. It is particularly useful for search applications, as opposed to dictation. It can achieve both speed and accuracy, without sacrificing o... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100100382 | Detecting Segments of Speech from an Audio Stream The disclosure describes a speech detection system for detecting one or more desired speech segments in an audio stream. The speech detection system includes an audio stream input and a speech detection technique. The speech detection technique may be performed in vario... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100100379 | VOICE RECOGNITION CORRELATION RULE LEARNING SYSTEM, VOICE RECOGNITION CORRELATION RULE LEARNING PROGRAM, AND VOICE RECOGNITION CORRELATION RULE LEARNING METHOD A speech recognition rule learning device is connected to a speech recognition device that uses conversion rules for conversion between a first-type character string expressing a sound and a second-type character string for forming a recognition result. The character st... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100092933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTERACTIVE PHONEME VIDEO GAME The interactive phoneme video game of the present invention includes an action game section where a user can collect a phoneme item. At least one phoneme item is associated with a phoneme from a word. A word and phoneme pairing challenge encourages a user to make use of... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100094630 | ASSOCIATING SOURCE INFORMATION WITH PHONETIC INDICES The present invention relates to creating a phonetic index of phonemes from an audio segment that includes speech content from multiple sources. The phonemes in the phonetic index are directly or indirectly associated with the corresponding source of the speech from whi... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100088098 | SPEECH RECOGNIZER, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech collating unit that calculates similarities at each time between a feature amount converted by a speech analyzing unit and a word model generated by a word model generating unit. The speech collating unit extracts a word ... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100057457 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM THEREFOR An unknown word is additionally registered in a speech recognition dictionary by utilizing a correction result, and a new pronunciation of the word that has been registered in a speech recognition dictionary is additionally registered in the speech recognition dictionar... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING OR UPDATING ENTRIES IN A SPEECH RECOGNITION LEXICON In a method and a system (20) for creating or updating entries in a speech recognition (SR) lexicon (7) of a speech recognition system, said entries mapping speech recognition (SR) phoneme sequences to words, said method comprising entering a respective wo... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049518 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONSISTENCY OF PRONUNCIATIONS A system for providing consistency between the pronunciation of a word by a user and a confirmation pronunciation issued by a voice server (1), said voice server comprising both a voice recognition system (20) suitable for recognizing the pronunciation of ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100040207 | System and Method for Independently Recognizing and Selecting Actions and Objects in a Speech Recognition System A system includes an acoustic input engine configured to accept a speech input, to recognize phonemes of the speech input, and to create word strings based on the recognized phonemes. The system includes a semantic engine coupled to the acoustic engine and operable to i... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090326945 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING A MIXED LANGUAGE ENTRY SPEECH DICTATION SYSTEM An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive vocabulary entry data. The processor may be further configured to determine a class for the received vocabulary entry data. The processor may be additionally configured to identify one or more languages for the ... | 12/31/2009 |
