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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7010483 | Speech processing system A speech processing system is provided which is operable to receive sets of signal values representative of a speech signal generated by a speech source. The system is operable to determine a measure of the quality of the speech signal by performing a statistical an... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010481 | Method and apparatus for performing speech segmentation In a method for performing a segmentation operation upon a synthesizing speech signal and an input speech signal, a synthesized speech signal and a speech element duration signal are generated from the synthesizing speech signal A first feature parameter is extracte... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010485 | Method and system of audio file searching A system, method, and computer program product for locating an audio segment includes an input device for transmitting an input sample indicative of the audio segment and a media player for playing audio information stored on the storage device. The system further i... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006974 | Voice controller and voice-controller system having a voice-controller apparatus A voice controller controls a voice-controlled apparatus, such as a television set, and includes a receiver for receiving sound information from a corresponding transmitter, which is associated with at least one sound source, for example an amplifier or the televisi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006971 | Recognition of a speech utterance available in spelled form This invention relates to a method of recognizing a speech utterance (s) available in spelled form, comprising a processing stage in which a corresponding letter sequence (r) is estimated by means of a letter speech recognition unit (2) based on... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003463 | System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003458 | Automated voice pattern filter An automated voice pattern filtering method implemented in a system having a client side and a server side is disclosed. At the client side, a speech signal is transformed into a first set of spectral parameters which are encoded into a set of spectral shapes that a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003459 | Method and system for predicting understanding errors in automated dialog systems This invention concerns a method and system for monitoring an automated dialog system for the automatic recognition of language understanding errors based on a user's input communications. The method includes determining whether a probability of understanding the us... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003455 | Method of noise reduction using correction and scaling vectors with partitioning of the acoustic space in the domain of noisy speech A method and apparatus are provided for reducing noise in a training signal and/or test signal. The noise reduction technique uses a stereo signal formed of two channel signals, each channel containing the same pattern signal. One of the channel signals is “clean... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999930 | Voice dialog server method and system A voice user interface for accessing data is provided. This method and system receives a set of variables from a voice recognizer processing a voice request for information in a backend system; processes an integration method using the set of variables returned from... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999933 | Editing during synchronous playback A speech recognition device (1) processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and thus establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (1), during the... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999914 | Device and method of determining emotive index corresponding to a message The invention includes a method and a device for determining an emotive index for a message. In the method, a message is received and words in the message are identified for analysis. An emotive index corresponding to the identified words is then determined. The emo... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999915 | Process and device for translation expressed in two different phonetic forms The present invention relates to a process and a device for translation of words and/or expressions from at least one language of origin into at least one destination language, in which, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, and for each de... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999923 | System and method for control of lights, signals, alarms using sound detection A system and method for detecting the presence of a particular source of audible content using an automatic speech recognizer component which is trained to recognize specific non-speech sounds. Training of the automatic speech recognizer component is accomplished by... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999924 | System and method for characterizing voiced excitations of speech and acoustic signals, removing acoustic noise from speech, and synthesizing speech The present invention is a system and method for characterizing human (or animate) speech voiced excitation functions and acoustic signals, for removing unwanted acoustic noise which often occurs when a speaker uses a microphone in common environments, and for synth... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999932 | Language independent voice-based search system A language independent, voice based user interface method includes receiving voice input data spoken by a user, identifying a language spoken by the user from the voice input data, converting the voice input data into a first text in the identified language by recog... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995309 | System and method for music identification A system and method that allows users to find a song name, artist and performance without having to proceed through many false results. In one aspect, the system and method use signal matching to produce reliable matches. In another aspect, the system and method use... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996068 | Audio testing in a packet switched network An audio test system for analyzing and quantifying audio data losses during network-based telephony sessions between communication devices such as telephony-enabled computers and Internet telephones. A transmit device converts an input audio signal to a stream of da... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996525 | Selecting one of multiple speech recognizers in a system based on performance predections resulting from experience A method for selecting a speech recognizer from a number of speech recognizers in a speech recognition system. The speech recognition system receives an audio stream from an application and derives enabling information. The speech recognition system then enables at ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996526 | Method and apparatus for transcribing speech when a plurality of speakers are participating A method and apparatus are disclosed for transcribing speech when a number of speakers are participating. A number of different speech recognition systems, each with a different speaker model, are executed in parallel. When the identity of all of the participating s... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996531 | Automated database assistance using a telephone for a speech based or text based multimedia communication mode An interface for remote human input for reading a database, the interface including an automatic voice question unit for eliciting speech input, a speech recognition unit for recognizing human speech input, and a data recognition unit for recognizing remote data inp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993119 | Network and method for providing a flexible call forwarding telecommunications service with automatic speech recognition capability A network for providing a telecommunications service with automatic speech recognition to a telecommunications user, including a switch in communication with a telecommunications device used by the telecommunications user for detecting a trigger specific to the tele... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990639 | System and process for controlling electronic components in a ubiquitous computing environment using multimodal integration The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless point... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6990445 | System and method for speech recognition and transcription The present invention comprises a method and system for speech recognition. The method includes the steps of receiving digital data representation of speech having at least one word, which includes a waveform representation of the at least one word. The method inclu... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6985858 | Method and apparatus for removing noise from feature vectors A method and computer-readable medium are provided for identifying clean signal feature vectors from noisy signal feature vectors. The method is based on variational inference techniques. One aspect of the invention includes using an iterative approach to identify t... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983244 | Method and apparatus for improved speech recognition with supplementary information A method for improving recognition results of a speech recognizer uses supplementary information to confirm recognition results. A user inputs speech to a speech recognizer. The speech recognizer resides on a mobile device or on a server at a remote location. The sp... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980949 | Natural language processor A computer program product for controlling the computer's processor to perform responsive actions a natural language input has: (1) vocabulary, phrase and concept databases of words, phrase and concepts, respectively, that can be recognized in the inputted communica... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980952 | Source normalization training for HMM modeling of speech A maximum likelihood (ML) linear regression (LR) solution to environment normalization is provided where the environment is modeled as a hidden (non-observable) variable. By application of an expectation maximization algorithm and extension of Baum-Welch forward and... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978237 | Speech recognition support method and apparatus A speech recognition support method in a system to retrieve a map in response to a user's input speech. The user's speech is recognized and a recognition result is obtained. If the recognition result represents a point on the map, a distance between the point and a ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977992 | System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with real-time database queries A method and system for accomplishing real-time queries in conjunction with interactive, real-time, voice transmission of information to a user is disclosed. A voice-based communication between a user and a first system is established and a report is transmitted to ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975991 | Wearable display system with indicators of speakers Methods and systems for creating a comfortable, user-friendly environment that allows a hearing impaired user to identify who is speaking and preferably what is being said during interactions with other individuals, e.g., at any form of meeting. In accordance with t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975985 | Method and system for the automatic amendment of speech recognition vocabularies The present invention provides a method and system to improve speech recognition using an existing audio realization of a spoken text and a true textual representation of the spoken text. The audio realization and the true textual representation can be aligned to re... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973428 | System and method for searching, analyzing and displaying text transcripts of speech after imperfect speech recognition A speech conversation is changed to a text transcript, which is then pre-processed and subjected to text mining to determine salient terms. Salient terms are those terms that meet a predetermined level of selectivity in a collection. The text transcript of the speec... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973532 | Memory architecture for dialogue systems A dialogue system (8) comprises a plurality of memory units (4) each of which is able to store an information unit and at least one logical connection between two or more of said memory units (4). An information unit is stored in one memory unit... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970935 | Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols Conversational protocols for implementing distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over a co... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970185 | Method and apparatus for enhancing digital images with textual explanations A photographer adds explanatory text to a captured image by speaking the text at approximately the time the image is captured by the digital camera. The spoken information is reduced to text by recognizing the user's speech, and is associated with the digital image.... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970817 | Method of associating voice recognition tags in an electronic device with records in a removable media for use with the electronic device A device (102) that can perform voice recognition operates with a removable media or memory (104) that is used to store information records (126). To save memory space in the removable media, voice recognition tags (118), used to perform ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968310 | Method, system, and apparatus for speech recognition The present invention can be used to improve speech recognition accuracy, especially with regard to characters, words and the like which can correspond to a plurality of readings. The same person can be apt to maintain the same reading in the same conversation. For ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965863 | Speech recognition user interface A speech recognition system having a user interface that provides both visual and auditory feedback to a user. The user interface includes an audio sound or speech generator that produces three distinct sounds: an “on” sound signifying that the speech recognitio... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963836 | Speechdriven setting of a language of interaction A voice controlled electronic device includes a controller (12, 13, 14) for initiating individual functions of the electronic device. The controller also establishes a language attribute associated with a language for interaction with the user. The controller... | 11/08/2005 |
