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| 20120109651 | DATA RETRIEVAL AND INDEXING METHOD AND APPARATUS A method of searching a plurality of data files, wherein each data file includes a plurality of features. The method: determines a plurality of feature groups, wherein each feature group includes n features and n is an integer of 2 or more; expresses each data file as a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072222 | Automatic Detection, Summarization And Reporting Of Business Intelligence Highlights From Automated Dialog Systems A method and system for reporting data from a spoken dialog service is disclosed. The method comprises extracting data regarding user dialogs using a dialog logging module in the spoken dialog service, analyzing the data to identify trends and reporting the trends. The ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053945 | BELIEF TRACKING AND ACTION SELECTION IN SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS An action is performed in a spoken dialog system in response to a user's spoken utterance. A policy which maps belief states of user intent to actions is retrieved or created. A belief state is determined based on the spoken utterance, and an action is selected based on... | 03/01/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110218808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPELLING RECOGNITION USING SPEECH AND NON-SPEECH INPUT A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method includes generating an unweighted grammar, selecting a database of words, generating a weighted grammar using the unweighted grammar and a statistical letter ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213616 | "System and Method for the Adaptive Use of Uncertainty Information in Speech Recognition to Assist in the Recognition of Natural Language Phrases" A speech recognition system includes a natural language processing component and an automated speech recognition component distinct from each other such that uncertainty in speech recognition is isolated from uncertainty in natural language understanding, wherein the na... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208527 | Voice Activatable System for Providing the Correct Spelling of a Spoken Word A voice activatable system for providing the correct spelling of a spoken word is disposed in an elongated body of a writing instrument such as a ball point pen. The system includes a microphone the output of which is fed to an amplifier analog to a digital converter an... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF SENTIMENT IN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPTIONS A method and apparatus for automatically detecting sentiment in interactions. The method and apparatus include training, in which a model is generated upon features extracted from training interactions and tagging information. and run-time in which the model is used tow... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202343 | CONCISE DYNAMIC GRAMMARS USING N-BEST SELECTION A method and apparatus derive a dynamic grammar composed of a subset of a plurality of data elements that are each associated with one of a plurality of reference identifiers. The present invention generates a set of selection identifiers on the basis of a user-provided... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110196668 | Integrated Language Model, Related Systems and Methods An integrated language model includes an upper-level language model component and a lower-level language model component, with the upper-level language model component including a non-terminal and the lower-level language model component being applied to the non-termina... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191099 | System and Methods for Improving Accuracy of Speech Recognition The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken lang... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191107 | Structure for Grammar and Dictionary Representation in Voice Recognition and Method for Simplifying Link and Node-Generated Grammars A speech recognition engine is provided with an acoustic model and a layered grammar and dictionary library. The layered grammar and dictionary library includes a language and non-grammar layer that supplies types of rules a grammar definition layer can use and defines ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110179006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE TO A DATABASE A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the... | 07/21/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110166852 | DIALOGUE SYSTEM USING EXTENDED DOMAIN AND NATURAL LANGUAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF A dialogue system uses an extended domain in order to have a dialogue with a user using natural language. If a dialogue pattern actually input by the user is different from a dialogue pattern predicted by an expert, an extended domain generated in real time based on use... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110166858 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING SPEECH A method for recognizing speech involves presenting an utterance to a speech recognition system and determining, via the speech recognition system, that the utterance contains a particular expression, where the particular expression is capable of being associated with a... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161079 | Grammar and Template-Based Speech Recognition of Spoken Utterances The present invention relates to a communication system, comprising a database including classes of speech templates, in particular, classified according to a predetermined grammar; an input configured to receive and to digitize speech signals corresponding to a spoken ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110137654 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT TRACKING OF MULTIPLE DIALOG STATES WITH INCREMENTAL RECOMBINATION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for tracking multiple dialog states. A system practicing the method receives an N-best list of speech recognition candidates, a list of current partitions, and a belief for each of the current pa... | 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 |
| 20110093271 | MULTIMODAL NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERY SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING VOICE AND PROXIMITY-BASED QUERIES The present disclosure provides a natural language query system and method for processing and analyzing multimodally-originated queries, including voice and proximity-based queries. The natural language query system includes a Web-enabled device including a speech input... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110083075 | EMOTIVE ADVISORY SYSTEM ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT An emotive advisory system for use by one or more occupants of an automotive vehicle includes a directional speaker array, and a computer. The computer is configured to determine an audio direction, and output data representing an avatar for visual display. The computer... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110077944 | SPEECH RECOGNITION MODULE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF A speech recognition module includes an acoustic front-end module, a sound detection module, and a word detection module. The acoustic front-end module generates a plurality of representations of frames from a digital audio signal and generates speech characteristic pro... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110066434 | Method for Speech Recognition on All Languages and for Inputing words using Speech Recognition The invention can recognize all languages and input words. It needs m unknown voices to represent m categories of known words with similar pronunciations. Words can be pronounced in any languages, dialects or accents. Each will be classified into one of m categories rep... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110066423 | Speech-Recognition System for Location-Aware Applications An apparatus and associated methods are disclosed that enable a speech-recognition system to perform functions related to the geo-locations of wireless telecommunications terminal users. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a geo-spatial grammar is employed t... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110046941 | Advanced Natural Language Translation System The present invention is an Advanced Natural Language Translation System (ANLTS). It discloses a method to address the most common variation in the world, which is communication gap between people of different ethnicity. Typically, communication is said to be successful... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110015928 | COMBINATION AND FEDERATION OF LOCAL AND REMOTE SPEECH RECOGNITION Techniques to provide automatic speech recognition at a local device are described. An apparatus may include an audio input to receive audio data indicating a task. The apparatus may further include a local recognizer component to receive the audio data, to pass the aud... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010177 | QUESTION AND ANSWER DATABASE EXPANSION APPARATUS AND QUESTION AND ANSWER DATABASE EXPANSION METHOD A question and answer database expansion apparatus includes: a question and answer database in which questions and answers corresponding to the questions are registered in association with each other, a first speech recognition unit which carries out speech recognition ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100318359 | APPLICATION-DEPENDENT INFORMATION FOR RECOGNITION PROCESSING Architecture for integrating application-dependent information into a constraints component at deployment time or when available. In terms of a general grammar, the constraints component can include or be a general grammar that comprises application-independent informat... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312550 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EXTENDING PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARY USED FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION An apparatus and method for extending a pronunciation dictionary for speech recognition are provided. The apparatus and the method may segment speech information of an input utterance into at least one phoneme, collect segmentation information of the at least one segmen... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299142 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF VOICE-BASED INPUT A system and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputs is provided. A user utterance may be received at an input device, and a conversational, natural language processor may identify a request from the ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100286985 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcome the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based inform... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100241431 | System and Method for Multi-Modal Input Synchronization and Disambiguation Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes a multi-modal input interface for recognizing user input in human-machine interaction (HMI) systems are described. Embodiments include a component that receives user input from a plurality of different user input mechanisms (... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100241418 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING DEVICE AND LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A speech recognition device includes one intention extracting language model and more in which an intention of a focused specific task is inherent, an absorbing language model in which any intention of the task is not inherent, a language score calculating section that ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100217592 | Dialog Prediction Using Lexical and Semantic Features The present invention provides a method for identifying a turn, such as a sentence or phrase, for addition to a platform dialog comprising a plurality of turns. Lexical features of each of a set of candidate turns relative to one or more turns in the platform dialog are... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100204994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcome the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based inform... | 08/12/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100185443 | System and Method for Processing Speech Systems and methods for processing speech are provided. A system may include a speech recognition interface and a processor. The processor may convert speech received from a call at the speech recognition interface to at least one word string. The processor may parse ea... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100153112 | PROGRESSIVELY REFINING A SPEECH-BASED SEARCH Disclosed are editing methods that are added to speech-based searching to allow users to better understand textual queries submitted to a search engine and to easily edit their speech queries. According to some embodiments, the user begins to speak. The user's speech is... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145700 | MOBILE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE Mobile systems and methods that overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech-based interfaces for telematics applications through the use of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and local or remote command environment. This environment ma... | 06/10/2010 |
