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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120041764 | SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A speech processing method, comprising:
| 02/16/2012 |
| 20120016672 | Systems and Methods for Assessment of Non-Native Speech Using Vowel Space Characteristics Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for assessing non-native speech proficiency. A non-native speech sample is processed to identify a plurality of vowel sound boundaries in the non-native speech sample. Portions of the non-native speech sample are ana... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110257976 | Robust Speech Recognition Speech recognition includes structured modeling, irrelevant variability normalization and unsupervised online adaptation of speech recognition parameters.... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110144987 | USING PITCH DURING SPEECH RECOGNITION POST-PROCESSING TO IMPROVE RECOGNITION ACCURACY A method of automated speech recognition in a vehicle. The method includes receiving audio in the vehicle, pre-processing the received audio to generate acoustic feature vectors, decoding the generated acoustic feature vectors to produce at least one speech hypothesis, ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110144986 | CONFIDENCE CALIBRATION IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS Described is a calibration model for use in a speech recognition system. The calibration model adjusts the confidence scores output by a speech recognition engine to thereby provide an improved calibrated confidence score for use by an application. The calibration model... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTRICTING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing speech recognition based on a masked language model. A system configured to practice the method receives a masked language model including a plurality of words, wherein a bit mask ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110099013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY USING TEXTUAL CONTEXT Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving speech recognition accuracy using textual context. The method includes retrieving a recorded utterance, capturing text from a device display associated with the spoken dialog and vi... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110046953 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING SPEECH A method for recognizing speech involves reciting, into a speech recognition system, an utterance including a numeric sequence that contains a digit string including a plurality of tokens and detecting a co-articulation problem related to at least two potentially co-art... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110029312 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTING A MODEL FOR A SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM Methods are disclosed for identifying possible errors made by a speech recognition system without using a transcript of words input to the system. A method for model adaptation for a speech recognition system includes determining an error rate, corresponding to either r... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100324901 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM Various methods and apparatus are described for a speech recognition system. In an embodiment, the statistical language model (SLM) provides probability estimates of how linguistically likely a sequence of linguistic items are to occur in that sequence based on an amoun... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318358 | RECOGNIZER WEIGHT LEARNING DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNIZING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM A speech recognition apparatus (110) selects an optimum recognition result from recognition results output from a set of speech recognizers (s1-sM) based on a majority decision. This decision is implemented with taking into account weight values, as to the... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100305948 | Phoneme Model for Speech Recognition A sub-phoneme model given acoustic data which corresponds to a phoneme. The acoustic data is generated by sampling an analog speech signal producing a sampled speech signal. The sampled speech signal is windowed and transformed into the frequency domain producing Mel fr... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100292989 | SYMBOL INSERTION APPARATUS AND SYMBOL INSERTION METHOD Enables symbol insertion evaluation in consideration of a difference in speaking style features between speakers. For a word sequence transcribing voice information, the symbol insertion likelihood calculation means 113 obtains a symbol insertion likelihood for e... | 11/18/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100209003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC MASH-UP GENERATION In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a target template and processing the target template to identify at least one component of the target template. The method also includes searching at least one collection of content to identify at least a first instance of ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100191531 | QUANTIZING FEATURE VECTORS IN DECISION-MAKING APPLICATIONS A system, method and computer program product for classification of an analog electrical signal using statistical models of training data. A technique is described to quantize the analog electrical signal in a manner which maximizes the compression of the signal while s... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100185447 | Markup language-based selection and utilization of recognizers for utterance processing Embodiments are provided for selecting and utilizing multiple recognizers to process an utterance based on a markup language document. The markup language document and an utterance are received in a computing device. One or more recognizers are selected from among the m... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100179811 | IDENTIFYING KEYWORD OCCURRENCES IN AUDIO DATA Occurrences of one or more keywords in audio data are identified using a speech recognizer employing a language model to derive a transcript of the keywords. The transcript is converted into a phoneme sequence. The phonemes of the phoneme sequence are mapped to the audi... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100145699 | ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION ACOUSTIC MODELS Methods and systems for adapting of acoustic models are disclosed. A user terminal may determine a phoneme distribution of a text corpus, determine an acoustic model gain distribution of phonemes of an acoustic model before and after adaptation of the acoustic model, de... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100125458 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION APPLICATIONS In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech includes receiving a first utterance from the user, receiving a subsequent utterance from ... | 05/20/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100076765 | STRUCTURED MODELS OF REPITITION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION Described is a technology by which a structured model of repetition is used to determine the words spoken by a user, and/or a corresponding database entry, based in part on a prior utterance. For a repeated utterance, a joint probability analysis is performed on (at lea... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070278 | Method for Creating a Speech Model A transformation can be derived which would represent that processing required to convert a male speech model to a female speech model. That transformation is subjected to a predetermined modification, and the modified transformation is applied to a female speech model ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100004932 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD A speech recognition system includes the following: a feature calculating unit; a sound level calculating unit that calculates an input sound level in each frame; a decoding unit that matches the feature of each frame with an acoustic model and a linguistic model, and o... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090326947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPOKEN TOPIC OR CRITERION RECOGNITION IN DIGITAL MEDIA AND CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING Systems and methods for automated analysis and targeting of digital media based upon spoken topic or criterion recognition of the digital media are provided. Pre-specified criteria are used as the starting point for a top-down topic or criterion recognition approach. In... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090276215 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CORRECTING TRANSCRIBED AUDIO FILES Methods and systems for correcting transcribed text. One method includes receiving audio data from one or more audio data sources and transcribing the audio data based on a voice model to generate text data. The method also includes making the text data available to a p... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090271201 | STANDARD-MODEL GENERATION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING A REFERENCE MODEL A standard model creating apparatus which provides a high-precision standard model used for pattern recognition such as speech recognition, character recognition, or image recognition using a probability model based on a hidden Markov model, Bayesian theory, or linear d... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090234665 | System and method for customer feedback A method for managing customer feedback. The method includes receiving a recording of spoken customer feedback in a server data processing system and transcribing the customer feedback in the server data processing system to produce a transcript. The method also include... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090157403 | HUMAN SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD A speech recognition apparatus generates a feature vector series corresponding to a speech signal, and recognizes a phoneme series corresponding to the feature vector series using sounds corresponding to phonemes and a phoneme language model. In addition, the speech rec... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090150155 | KEYWORD EXTRACTING DEVICE The present invention aims at extracting a keyword of conversation without preparations by advanced anticipation of keywords of conversation. A keyword extracting device of the present invention includes an audio input section 101 by way of which a speech sound m... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090099841 | AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS A system for calculating the look ahead probabilities at the nodes in a language model look ahead tree, wherein the words of the vocabulary of the language are located at the leaves of the tree,
| 04/16/2009 |
| 20090037172 | Method for generating a vector codebook, method and device for compressing data, and distributed speech recognition system A method for compressing data, the data being represented by an input vector having Q features, wherein Q is an integer higher than 1, including the steps of 1) providing a vector codebook of sub-sets of indexed Q-feature reference vectors and threshold values associate... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090030691 | USING AN UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPLICATION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility. A speech recognition facility generates results... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080319750 | CONCEPT MONITORING IN SPOKEN-WORD AUDIO Monitoring a spoken-word audio stream for a relevant concept is disclosed. A speech recognition engine may recognize a plurality of words from the audio stream. Function words that do not indicate content may be removed from the plurality of words. A concept may be dete... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080312928 | Natural language speech recognition calculator Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for evaluating a mathematical expression spoken in a natural language by a user. The disclosed method and system provides a natural language speech recognition calculator comprising a speech recognition engine... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080300881 | Speech Recognition Device Using Statistical Language Model [Object] To provide recognition of natural speech for a speech application in a grammar method with little effort and cost. [Solution] The present invention includes specific sente... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080294441 | Speech Recognition System with Huge Vocabulary The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech reco... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080262844 | Method and system for analyzing separated voice data of a telephonic communication to determine the gender of the communicant A method and system for determining the gender of a communicant in a communication is provided. According to the method, at least one aural segment corresponding to at least one word spoken by a communicant is identified. The aural segment is then analyzed by applying a... | 10/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 20080255844 | Minimizing empirical error training and adaptation of statistical language models and context free grammar in automatic speech recognition Architecture for minimizing an empirical error rate by discriminative adaptation of a statistical language model in a dictation and/or dialog application. The architecture allows assignment of an improved weighting value to each term or phrase to reduce empirical error.... | 10/16/2008 |
