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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AUDIO PROMPTS IN A DYMANICALLY GENERATED VOICE APPLICATION A prompt collecting tool (190) for an interactive voice response system (100) includes a voice enabled application server (150), a voice simulator coupled to the voice enabled application server, and a processor coupled to the voice simulator. The p... | 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 |
| 20120109656 | AUDIO OUTPUT OF A DOCUMENT FROM MOBILE DEVICE Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-outp... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109759 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM PLATFORM A device including a processor and a memory, the processor operating software performing a method of providing content to a device, the method including the steps of receiving an input from a sending device, gathering information pertaining to the sending device or a re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109655 | WIRELESS SERVER BASED TEXT TO SPEECH EMAIL An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media player, thus eliminating the need for a unified messaging system. Email me... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108221 | AUGMENTING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS WITH APPLICATIONS Embodiments include applications as participants in a communication session such as a voice call. The applications provide functionality to the communication session by performing commands issued by the participants during the communication session to generate output da... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072224 | METHOD OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS The present invention relates to a method of text-based speech synthesis, wherein at least one portion of a text is specified; the intonation of each portion is determined; target speech sounds are associated with each portion; physical parameters of the target speech s... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NORMALIZING INPUT MEDIA A method and system for processing input media for provision to a text to speech engine comprising: a rules engine configured to maintain and update rules for processing the input media; a pre-parsing filter module configured to determine one or more metadata attributes... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054030 | INTERNET TELEMATICS SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND INTERNET TELEMATICS SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED WEB CONTENTS An Internet telematics service providing system and method that may provide various Web contents and information is disclosed. The Internet telematics service providing system may include a request information receiver to receive request information about the Internet t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053946 | COMBINED STATISTICAL AND RULE-BASED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS In response to a word of a text sequence, a first part-of-speech (POS) tag is generated using a statistical part-of-speech (POS) tagger based on a corpus of trained text sequences, each representing a likely POS of a word for a given text sequence. A second POS tag is g... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND DISTRIBUTING CUSTOM VOICE RECORDINGS OF PRINTED TEXT A speech analysis module compares a subject text to the voice of a subject person reciting the text, and generates a personal voice library of the subject's voice. The library includes audio files of actual words spoken by the subject person, as well as morphological, s... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND DISTRIBUTING A HYBRID VOICE RECORDING DERIVED FROM VOCAL ATTRIBUTES OF A REFERENCE VOICE AND A SUBJECT VOICE A first person narrates a selected written text to generate a reference audio file including one or more parameters are selected from the sounds of the reference audio file, including the duration of a sound, the duration of a pause, the rise and fall of frequency relat... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046947 | Assisted Reader An electronic reading device for reading ebooks and other digital media items combines a touch surface electronic reading device with accessibility technology to provide a visually impaired user more control over his or her reading experience. In some implementations, t... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041765 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER AND TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERTING METHOD An electronic book reader includes a text obtaining module, a text analysis module, a speech synthesis module, a control module, and an audio output device. The text obtaining module is used for obtaining a selected segment of a text. The text analysis module is used fo... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNTHETIC VOICE GENERATION AND MODIFICATION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating a synthetic voice. A system configured to practice the method combines a first database of a first text-to-speech voice and a second database of a second text-to-spe... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035907 | TRANSLATING LANGUAGES A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035934 | SPEECH GENERATION DEVICE WITH A PROJECTED DISPLAY AND OPTICAL INPUTS In several embodiments, a speech generation device is disclosed. The speech generation device may generally include a projector configured to project images in the form of a projected display onto a projection Surface, an optical input device configured to detect an inp... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029920 | Cooperative Processing For Portable Reading Machine A handheld device includes an image input device capable of acquiring images, circuitry to send a representation of the image to a remote computing system that performs at least one processing function related to processing the image and circuitry to receive from the re... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016675 | BROADCAST SYSTEM USING TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERSION A broadcast signal receiver comprises a text data receiver for receiving broadcast text data for display to a user in relation to a user interface; a text-to-speech (TTS) converter for converting received text data into an audio speech signal, the TTS converter being op... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010888 | Method and System for Speech Synthesis and Advertising Service Methods and systems for providing a network-accessible text-to-speech synthesis service are provided. The service accepts content as input. After extracting textual content from the input content, the service transforms the content into a format suitable for high-qualit... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320207 | CODING, MODIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH SEGMENTS The invention relates to a method for speech signal analysis, modification and synthesis comprising a phase for the location of analysis windows by means of an iterative process for the determination of the phase of the first sinusoidal component and comparison between ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INPUT DEVICE AUDIO FEEDBACK Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products configured to provide sound feedback for input devices are described. Embodiments take input from a digitizer, such as input using as stylus/pen, and produce sound feedback to enhance the user's input interface... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320205 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER An electronic book reader includes a display, an audio output device, a text obtaining module, a storing module, a text displaying module, a text analyzing module, a text highlighting module, a speech synthesis module, a player module, and a synchronization control modu... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320206 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER AND TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERTING METHOD An electronic book reader includes a text obtaining module, a text highlighting module, a speech synthesis module, a player module, and a synchronization control module. The text obtaining module obtains a selected segment of a text. The text highlighting module highlig... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313762 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by alter... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIT SELECTION TEXT-TO-SPEECH USING A MODIFIED VITERBI APPROACH Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for speech synthesis. A system practicing the method receives a set of ordered lists of speech units, for each respective speech unit in each ordered list in the set of ordered lis... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295606 | CONTEXTUAL CONVERSION PLATFORM A contextual conversion platform, and method for converting text-to-speech, are described that can convert content of a target to spoken content. Embodiments of the contextual conversion platform can identify certain contextual characteristics of the content, from which... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110281561 | Method and apparatus for call handling There is provided a system and method of call handling comprising a first communications device having an acceptor of call purpose from a first party for a call, a communications channel including a conveyor of call purpose and a second communications device coupled to ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282668 | SPEECH ADAPTATION IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS A method of and system for speech synthesis. First and second text inputs are received in a text-to-speech system, and processed into respective first and second speech outputs corresponding to stored speech respectively from first and second speakers using a processor ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276332 | SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS A speech synthesis method comprising:
| 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274311 | SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD A sign language recognition method includes a camera capturing an image of a gesture from a signer, comparing the image of the gesture with a number of gestures to find out the meanings of the gesture, and displaying or vocalizing the meanings of the gestures.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270613 | INFERRING SWITCHING CONDITIONS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN MODALITIES IN A SPEECH APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT EXTENDED FOR INTERACTIVE TEXT EXCHANGES The disclosed solution includes a method for dynamically switching modalities based upon inferred conditions in a dialogue session involving a speech application. The method establishes a dialogue session between a user and the speech application. During the dialogue se... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264446 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND MEDIA GATEWAY FOR REPORTING MEDIA INSTANCE INFORMATION A method, a system, and a media gateway (MG) for reporting media instance information are disclosed. The method for reporting media instance information includes: detecting, by an MG, received media data according to a set media instance detection (MID) event; and repor... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110260832 | SECURE VOICE BIOMETRIC ENROLLMENT AND VOICE ALERT DELIVERY SYSTEM In one embodiment, a method includes enrolling a potential enrollee for an identity-monitoring service. The enrolling includes acquiring personally-identifying information (PII) and capturing a voiceprint. Following successful completion of the enrolling, the potential ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264452 | AUDIO OUTPUT OF TEXT DATA USING SPEECH CONTROL COMMANDS Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to audio output of speech data using speech control commands. In particular, example embodiments include a mechanism for accessing text data. Example embodiments may also include a mechanism for outputting the text data as aud... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110243447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZING SPEECH Method and apparatus of synthesizing speech from a plurality of portion of text data, each portion having at least one associated attribute. The invention is achieved by determining (25, 35, 45) a value of the attribute for each of the portions of text data, sele... | 10/06/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110246201 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUDIO MESSAGES ON A MOBILE DEVICE While performing a function, a mobile device identifies that it is idle while it is downloading content or performing another task. During that idle time, it gathers one or more parameters (e.g., location, time, gender of user, age of user, etc.) and sends a request for... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244922 | MENU ICONS WITH DESCRIPTIVE AUDIO A mobile phone comprising: a user interface configured to display a menu system and to receive input; and an electronic device configured to: provide the menu system having menu levels with each menu level comprising distinct menu items, enable the user to make a prelim... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243310 | SPEECH USAGE AND PERFORMANCE TOOL A system may include a database configured to selectively store and retrieve data. The system may further include a call record parser configured to receive a plurality of call records, each call record being associated with a respective call, parse the plurality of cal... | 10/06/2011 |
