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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130717 | Real-time Animation for an Expressive Avatar Techniques for providing real-time animation for a personalized cartoon avatar are described. In one example, a process trains one or more animated models to provide a set of probabilistic motions of one or more upper body parts based on speech and motion data. The proc... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109654 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING SPEECH SYNTHESIS Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating speech synthesis. A method may include generating a plurality of input models representing an input by using a statistical model synthesizer to statistically model the input. The method may further include determinin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109653 | Very Low Bit Rate Signal Coder and Decoder Improved oscillator-based source modeling methods for estimating model parameters, for evaluating model quality for restoring the input from the model parameters, and for improving performance over known in the art methods are disclosed. An application of these innovati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING VOICE SYNTHESIS Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other par... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120046788 | SPEECH SYSTEM USED FOR ROBOT AND ROBOT WITH SPEECH SYSTEM A speech system (2) used for a robot (1) and a robot (1) with the speech system (2) are provided. The speech system (2) includes an audio file storage unit (200) and a speech control unit (300). The audio file storage uni... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120016674 | Modification of Speech Quality in Conversations Over Voice Channels Techniques are disclosed for modifying speech quality in a conversation over a voice channel. For example, a method for modifying a speech quality associated with a spoken utterance transmittable over a voice channel comprises the following steps. The spoken utterance i... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110313770 | ELECTRONIC EMERGENCY MESSAGING SYSTEM An electronic alert apparatus comprises a radio frequency receiver configured to receive and identify an emergency message preamble that indicates an impending transmission of an emergency message sent at a first data rate and an emergency message addressed to a shared ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313771 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUDIBLY INSTRUCTING A USER TO INTERACT WITH A FUNCTION A method for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function. A function is associated with a user-written selectable item. The user-written selectable item is recognized on a surface. In response to recognizing the user-written selectable item, a first instructi... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110283190 | ELECTRONIC PERSONAL INTERACTIVE DEVICE An interface device and method of use, comprising audio and image inputs; a processor for determining topics of interest, and receiving information of interest to the user from a remote resource; an audiovisual output for presenting an anthropomorphic object conveying t... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110246200 | PRE-SAVED DATA COMPRESSION FOR TTS CONCATENATION COST Pre-saved concatenation cost data is compressed through speech segment grouping. Speech segments are assigned to a predefined number of groups based on their concatenation cost values with other speech segments. A representative segment is selected for each group. The c... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246199 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER According to one embodiment, a speech synthesizer generates a speech segment sequence and synthesizes speech by connecting speech segments of the generated speech segment sequence. If a speech segment of a synthesized first speech segment sequence is different from the ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110210822 | REFRIGERATOR A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a voice recognition unit for recognizing a voice of a name of food, a memory for storing location information of the food received in a storage chamber, a controller for determining the voice recognized by the voice ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110153314 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL A method for dynamically adjusting the spectral content of an audio signal, which increases the harmonic content of said audio signal, said method comprising translating an encoded digital signal into data bands, creating a psychoacoustic model to identify sections of s... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144997 | VOICE SYNTHESIS MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, VOICE SYNTHESIS MODEL GENERATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING VOICE SYNTHESIS MODEL A voice synthesis model generation device, a voice synthesis model generation system, a communication terminal device, and a method for generating a voice synthesis model all of which are capable of preferably acquiring a user's voice. A voice synthesis model generation... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110119061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIALOG ENHANCEMENT A method and system for enhancing dialog determined by an audio input signal. In some embodiments the input signal is a stereo signal, and the system includes an analysis subsystem configured to analyze the stereo signal to generate filter control values, and a filterin... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110093272 | MEDIA PROCESS SERVER APPARATUS AND MEDIA PROCESS METHOD THEREFOR A media process server apparatus has a speech synthesis data storage device for storing, after categorizing into emotions, data for speech synthesis in association with a user identifier, a text analyzer for determining, from a text message received from a message serve... | 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 |
| 20110077048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA CORRELATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREFOR The invention relates to a system for data correlation, having: a receiving device 1 having an image acquisition element 10 and a data set generator 12 for generating at least one object data set from at least one acquired first image, which represe... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110066438 | CONTEXTUAL VOICEOVER A method for providing voice feedback with playback of media on an electronic device is provided. In one embodiment, the method may include determining one or more characteristics of the media with which the voice feedback is associated. For instance, the media may incl... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054902 | SINGING VOICE SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS A singing voice synthesis system is provided. The storage unit stores at least one tune. The tempo unit provides a set of tempo cues in accordance with a selected tune from the at least one tune. The input unit receives a plurality of original voice signals correspondin... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110046955 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM There is provided a speech processing apparatus including: a data obtaining unit which obtains music progression data defining a property of one or more time points or one or more time periods along progression of music; a determining unit which determines an output tim... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046954 | PORTABLE AUDIO CONTROL SYSTEM AND AUDIO CONTROL DEVICE THEREOF A portable audio control system that controls an audio signal transmitted from an electronic device, including an earphone device and an audio control device. The audio control device includes an audio source receiver, a signal synthesis module, and an audio output unit... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110018889 | MEDIA PROCESSING COMPARISON SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUES A media processing comparison system (“MPCS”) and techniques facilitate concurrent, subjective quality comparisons between media presentations produced by different instances of media processing components performing the same functions (for example, instances of med... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010179 | VOICE SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING A method and an apparatus for voice synthesis and processing have been presented. In one exemplary method, a first audio recording of a human speech in a natural language is received. Then speech analysis synthesis algorithm is applied to the first audio recording to sy... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332232 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING STATUS OF SYNTHESIS FILTERS A method and device for updating statuses of synthesis filters are provided. The method includes: exciting a synthesis filter corresponding to a first encoding rate by using an excitation signal of the first encoding rate, outputting reconstructed signal information, an... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324907 | ATTENUATION OF OVERVOICING, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE GENERATION OF AN EXCITATION AT A DECODER WHEN DATA IS MISSING The invention proposes the synthesis of a signal consisting of consecutive blocks. It proposes more particularly, on receipt of such a signal, to replace, by synthesis, lost or erroneous blocks of this signal. To this end, it proposes an attenuation of the overvoicing d... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100293230 | Multilingual Support for an Improved Messaging System One or more illustrative embodiments provide a method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a session of electronic communications. In one illustrative embodiment, a language is identified using a processor for an incoming electronic communication receiv... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100286986 | Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection From a Large Speech Corpus A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a given s... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100223005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF REPETITIVE DATA SENT BY A SERVER TO A CLIENT FOR VEHICLE NAVIGATION A system and method for reducing the amount of repetitive data sent by a server to a client for vehicle navigation. The system includes a computer-based vehicle unit located in a vehicle, a gateway configured to wirelessly send and receive trip information to and from t... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217657 | ADAPTIVE INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND METHODS An adaptive information presentation apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g., dis... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217584 | SPEECH ANALYSIS DEVICE, SPEECH ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS DEVICE, CORRECTION RULE INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, SPEECH ANALYSIS SYSTEM, SPEECH ANALYSIS METHOD, CORRECTION RULE INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM A speech analysis device which accurately analyzes an aperiodic component included in speech in a practical environment where there is background noise includes: a frequency band division unit which divides, into bandpass signals each associated with a corresponding one... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211392 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT The speech synthesizing device acquires numerical data at regular time intervals, each piece of the numerical data representing a value having a plurality of digits, detects a change between two values represented by the numerical data that is acquired at two consecutiv... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100153113 | AUTOMATIC CREATION AND TRANSMISSION OF DATA ORIGINATING FROM ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AS AUDIO PODCASTS A system and method for the automatic creation and transmission of data and information originating from enterprise information systems, such as ERP, CRM, SRM, and so on, as audio podcasts, for playback on portable media players, mobile devices or personal computers.... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145702 | ASSOCIATION OF CONTEXT DATA WITH A VOICE-MESSAGE COMPONENT Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of associating a context data with a voice-message component. The context data may be encoded into a voice message signal. The context-data may be associated with the voice-message component according to an attr... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100145701 | USER VOICE MIXING DEVICE, VIRTUAL SPACE SHARING SYSTEM, COMPUTER CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM A sensation of presence of voice chat in a virtual space is enhanced. A user speech synthesizer used in a virtual space sharing system where information processing devices share the virtual space. The user speech synthesizer comprises a speech data acquiring section ( 06/10/2010 | |
| 20100134319 | Electromagnetic/acoustic underwater communications system An underwater communications system is provided that transmits electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals to a remote receiver. The transmitter includes a data input. A digital data compressor compresses data to be transmitted. A modulator modulates compressed data onto a ... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100102983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSLATING DEVELOPING CONDITIONS IN SPATIAL GEOMETRIES INTO VERBAL OUTPUT A verbal language based output system includes data defining a geometrical region, such as a building, configuration data relative to various detectors in the region, and a plurality of event inputs associated with the detectors. Verbal language generation software, in ... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100104106 | Audio processing apparatus and method of mobile device An audio processing apparatus and method for a mobile device are provided. The audio processing apparatus and method may appropriately determine sound source localizations corresponding to a voice signal and an audio signal, and thereby may simultaneously provide a voic... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100094631 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL An apparatus for synthesizing a rendered output signal having a first audio channel and a second audio channel includes a decorrelator stage for generating a decorrelator signal based on a downmix signal, and a combiner for performing a weighted combination of the downm... | 04/15/2010 |
