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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7082393 | Head-worn, trimodal device to increase transcription accuracy in a voice recognition system and to process unvocalized speech A voice recognition device and method allows position-stabilized capture of spoken sounds with great repeatability and accuracy. The voice recognition device may additionally provide two channels of lip movement information to supplement the usual audible speech com... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082392 | Management of speech technology modules in an interactive voice response system This invention relates to the management, in an interactive voice response system, of a plurality of speech technology modules. In particular it relates to an apparatus and a method for dynamically determining which of a plurality of speech technology modules to use... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082391 | Automatic speech recognition A system for responding to spoken commands enables a computer system to avoid some synchronization problems. In certain embodiments, object oriented programming may be utilized to create an object which seamlessly coordinates between an application program and a spe... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081581 | Method and device for characterizing a signal and method and device for producing an indexed signal In a method for characterizing a signal, which represents an audio content, a measure for a tonality of the signal is determined, whereupon a statement is made about the audio content of the signal based on the measure for the tonality of the signal. The measure for... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080013 | Categorization and recall methodology for physical media in large carousel systems A method and system allowing a user to associate media elements (such as CDs or DVDs) with unique identification tags and channel groupings. A user can cause a given element to be played by voice controlled interface. Speaking the identification tag of a media eleme... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080011 | Speech label accelerators and techniques for using same Speech Label Accelerators (SLAs) are provided that comprise an indirect memory, atom value memory, and adder circuitry. Optionally, the SLAs also comprise an accumulator, a load/accumulate multiplexer (mux), and a control unit. There are a variety of different confi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080002 | Bi-lingual system and method for automatically converting one language into another language A bi-lingual conversion system and method which automatically converts an unrecognizable character stream of one language into another language based on the respective list rule and the pronunciation rule. The bi-lingual conversion method includes storing an incomin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079948 | Navigation apparatus and display method thereof A navigation system for displaying the information on at least the situations of a user in the screen x of a display unit. The entirety of the screen X can be so switched that a plurality of display modes may be automatically displayed at a suitable timing by the se... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076428 | Method and apparatus for selective distributed speech recognition An apparatus and method for selective distributed speech recognition includes a dialog manager (104) that is capable of receiving a grammar type indicator (170). The dialog manager (104) is capable of being coupled to an external speech recognit... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072836 | Speech processing apparatus and method employing matching and confidence scores A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which each utterance matched to a feature model within a feature model memory (110) is associated with a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of the word being correctly matched, gi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072833 | Speech processing system A system is provided for detecting the presence of speech within an input audio signal. The system includes a memory for storing a predetermined function which gives, for a given set of audio signal values, a probability density for parameters of a predetermined spe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072696 | Solar-powered mobile telephone A mobile telephone apparatus is disclosed in which a solar power source is used to supplement battery power. A solar cell array is positioned on the surface of the telephone and supplies electric current to the telephone. A preferred embodiment of the present invent... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069221 | Non-target barge-in detection A speech recognition system plays prompts to a user in order to obtain information from the user. If the user begins to speak, the prompt should stop. However, the system may receive sounds other than speech from the user while playing a prompt, in which case the pr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069215 | Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices Finite-state systems and methods allow multiple input streams to be parsed and integrated by a single finite-state device. These systems and methods not only address multimodal recognition, but are also able to encode semantics and syntax into a single finite-state ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069213 | Influencing a voice recognition matching operation with user barge-in time A system, method and computer program product for automated voice recognition using the barge-in time of a user's utterance is provided. A list of items is audibly provided to a user. The user selects one item from the list by providing an utterance representing the... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065544 | System and method for detecting repetitions in a multimedia stream Large amounts of multimedia data are transmitted over information networks in the form of a digital stream, analog video, or text captioning. Often, repetitions such as paid advertisements, theme music at the commencement of a TV broadcast, and common jingles and sl... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065490 | Voice processing method based on the emotion and instinct states of a robot An voice synthesizing unit performs voice synthesizing processing, based on the state of emotion of a robot at an emotion/instinct model unit. For example, in the event that the emotion state of the robot represents “not angry”, synthesized sound of “What is i... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065488 | Speech recognition system with an adaptive acoustic model At the time of the speaker adaptation, first feature vector generation sections (7, 8, 9) generate a feature vector series [Ci, M] from which the additive noise and multiplicative noise are removed. A second feature vector generation section (12... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065487 | Speech recognition method, program and apparatus using multiple acoustic models The present invention provides a speech recognition method for achieving a high recognition rate even under an environment where plural types of noise exist. Noise is eliminated by the spectral subtraction noise elimination method from each of speech data on which d... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062444 | Architecture for DSR client and server development platform A comprehensive, practical and efficient architecture for a DSR client and server development platform is disclosed. A system comprising: DSR client module for capturing speech, extracting speech features, interpreting markup content and displaying content; DSR gate... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062440 | Monitoring text to speech output to effect control of barge-in A speech system has a speech input channel including a speech recognizer, and a speech output channel including a text-to-speech converter. Associated with the input channel is a barge-in control for setting barge-in behavior parameters determining how the apparatus... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062435 | Apparatus, method and computer readable memory medium for speech recognition using dynamic programming A method for matching an input pattern with a number of stored reference patterns using a dynamic programming matching technique is described. The reference patterns of a reference signal which are at the end of a dynamic programming path for a current input pattern... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062433 | Method of speech recognition with compensation for both channel distortion and background noise A method of speech recognition with compensation is provided by modifying HMM models trained on clean speech with cepstral mean normalization. For all speech utterances the MFCC vector is calculated for the clean database. This mean MFCC vector is added to the origi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062018 | Method and system for an automated departure strategy A method and system for an automated departure strategy from an automated system includes a track engine and an error engine. The track engine allows for the tracking and storing of one or more utterances spoken by a caller in response to one or more prompts. In add... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058573 | Speech recognition system to selectively utilize different speech recognition techniques over multiple speech recognition passes Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058575 | Integrating keyword spotting with graph decoder to improve the robustness of speech recognition An arrangement is provided for integrating graph decoder with keyword spotting to improve the robustness of speech recognition. When a graph decoder based speech recognition mechanism fails to recognize a word sequence from input speech data, a keyword based speech ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058580 | Client-server speech processing system, apparatus, method, and storage medium The system implements high-accuracy speech recognition while suppressing the amount of data transfer between the client and server. For this purpose, the client compression-encodes speech parameters by a speech processing unit, and sends the compression-encoded spee... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058569 | Fast waveform synchronization for concentration and time-scale modification of speech A synthesis method for concatenative speech synthesis is provided for efficiently concatenating waveform segments in the time-domain. A digital waveform provider produces an input sequence of digital waveform segments. A waveform concatenator concatenates the input ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058568 | Voice quality improvement for voip connections on low loss network The type of audio stored in the payload of a data packet transmitted over a data network is identified as speech audio or non-speech audio through the use of a non-speech identifier included in a header in the data packet. Upon detection of data packet containing no... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058163 | System and method for ex post facto preserving a recorded conversation For use with an automated call placement system (ACP) having a switching service unit (SSU), a call monitoring unit capable of monitoring a selected one of lines coupled to the switching service unit and a method of making a recording of a conversation occurring on ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054817 | User interface for speech model generation and testing A computer system is provided including a control module 20 and data collection module 22 which generate user interfaces enabling a user to identify a vocabulary and a number of speakers from whom utterances are to be obtained. The data collection modu... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054814 | Method and apparatus of selecting segments for speech synthesis by way of speech segment recognition A speech segment search unit searches a speech database for speech segments that satisfy a phonetic environment, and a HMM learning unit computes the HMMs of phonemes on the basis of the search result. A segment recognition unit performs segment recognition of speec... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054813 | Automatic generation of efficient grammar for heading selection A method of generating a grammar for recognizing headings in a speech recognition system can include identifying, within a data store, at least one heading selection associated with a content item. At least a first word from the identified heading selections can be ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054812 | Database annotation and retrieval A system is provided for determining a sequence of sub-word units representative of at least two words output by a word recognition unit in response to an input word to be recognized. In a preferred embodiment, the word alternatives output by the recognition unit ar... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054810 | Feature vector-based apparatus and method for robust pattern recognition N sets of feature vectors are generated from a set of observation vectors which are indicative of a pattern which it is desired to recognize. At least one of the sets of feature vectors is different than at least one other of the sets of feature vectors, and is pres... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050979 | Apparatus and method for converting a spoken language to a second language A speech interpreting device. Speech is input in a first language. The input speech is recognized. One or more word strings of the first language are extracted and displayed. The word strings correspond to a result of the speech recognition. A word string is selecte... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050974 | Environment adaptation for speech recognition in a speech communication system A speech communication system comprising a speech input terminal and a speech recognition apparatus which can communicate with each other through a wire or wireless communication network wherein the speech input terminal comprises speech input unit, a unit for creat... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050924 | Test signalling The perceptibility of degradations caused to signals transmitted over a transmission medium is measured by generating one or more predetermined transmission degradation conditions (et) and subjecting a test signal (St) to the transmission degra... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050560 | Directory assistance dialog with configuration switches to switch from automated speech recognition to operator-assisted dialog A method of providing a caller with a directory assistance dialog. The dialog is configurable, at any level of the dialog, from an automated speech recognition (ASR) dialog to an operator-assisted (OP) dialog. The dialog is handed off to an operator if any level of ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050388 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 05/23/2006 |
