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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175873 | System and method for referring to entities in a discourse domain Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for referring to entities. The method includes receiving domain-specific training data of sentences describing a target entity in a context, extracting a speaker history and a visual context from the train... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170872 | Incorporating user emotion in a chat transcript Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to chat transcript generation for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state transcription for chat sessions. In an embodiment of the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165876 | Method and apparatus for data capture using a voice activated workstation A method and apparatus for capturing data in a workstation, wherein a large number of data associated with a sample which is viewed, by a user, through an optical device, such as a microscope, is to be entered in a computer related file. The optical device can be mo... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155958 | Speech-to-text system, speech-to-text method, and speech-to-text program [PROBLEMS] To provide a speech-to-text system and the like capable of matching edit result text acquired by editing recognition result text or edit result text which is newly-written text information with speech data. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A speech-to-text sy... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155956 | Voice query extension method and system A voice query extension method and system. The voice query extension method includes: detecting voice activity of a user from an input signal and extracting a feature vector from the voice activity; converting the feature vector into at least one phoneme sequence an... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155957 | Medical transcription system including automated formatting means and associated method An automated transcription system includes an housing on a PC, and a portable electronic device including a mechanism for creating and managing a plurality of predetermined templates with a plurality of headings and sub-headings that are automatically populated in r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150689 | Distributed dictation/transcription system A distributed dictation/transcription system is provided. The system provides a client station, dictation manager, and dictation server networked such that the dictation manager can select a dictation server to transcribe audio from the client station. The dictation... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131545 | Aligning a transcript to audio data The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including receiving audio data and a transcript of the audio data. The method further includes generating a language model including a factor automaton ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121838 | Method and system for automatic transcription prioritization A visual toolkit for prioritizing speech transcription from a plurality of speech recognition tasks is provided. The toolkit can include a logger (102) for capturing information from a speech recognition system, a processor (104) for determining an acc... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108212 | Speech recognition method, speech recognition system, and server thereof A speech recognition method comprises model selection step which selects a recognition model based on characteristic information of input speech and speech recognition step which translates input speech into text data based on the selected recognition model. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090579 | Automatic identification of repeated material in audio signals A system and method are described for recognizing repeated audio material within at least one media stream without prior knowledge of the nature of the repeated material. The system and method are able to create a screening database from the media stream or streams.... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090580 | Systems and methods for maintenance knowledge management Knowledge-based information can be captured and processed to create a library of such knowledge. A maintenance worker performing a task for an asset can record audio and/or video information during the performance, and can upload the recording to a maintenance syste... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086453 | Automatic detection and application of editing patterns in draft documents An error detection and correction system extracts editing patterns and derives correction rules from them by observing differences between draft documents and corresponding edited documents, and/or by observing editing operations performed on the draft documents to ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086454 | Message transcription, voice query and query delivery system A message transmission system accepts a telephone call from a user who wishes to send an e-mail message, send an SMS message, perform an Internet query or retrieve his or her electronic mail. The voice call is transcribed and the message is sent, or the question in ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082149 | Methods and apparatuses for myoelectric-based speech processing A method for myoelectric-based processing of speech. The method includes capturing a myoelectric signal from a user using at least one electrode, wherein the electrode converts an ionic current generated by muscle contraction into an electric current. The method als... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065143 | Providing text input using speech data and non-speech data Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060365 | Dialog processing system, dialog processing method and computer program A dialog processing system which includes a target expression data extraction unit for extracting a plurality of target expression data each including a pattern matching portion which matches an utterance pattern, which are inputted by an utterance pattern input uni... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8046220 | Systems and methods to index and search voice sites A method includes crawling and indexing voice sites and storing results in an index; receiving a search request in voice from a user via a telephone; performing speech recognition on the voice search request and converting the request from voice to text; parsing the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041565 | Precision speech to text conversion A speech-to-text conversion module uses a central database of user speech profiles to convert speech to text. Incoming audio information is fragmented into numerous audio fragments based upon detecting silence. The audio information is also converted to numerous tex... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036889 | Systems and methods for filtering dictated and non-dictated sections of documents A system and method for filtering documents to determine section boundaries between dictated and non-dictated text. The system and method identifies portions of a text report that correspond to an original dictation and, correspondingly, those portions that are not ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036890 | Speech recognition circuit using parallel processors A speech recognition circuit comprises an input buffer for receiving processed speech parameters. A lexical memory contains lexical data for word recognition. The lexical data comprises a plurality of lexical tree data structures. Each lexical tree data structure co... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032372 | Dictation selection A computer program product for computing a correction rate predictor for medical record dictations, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a draft medical transcrip... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024185 | Vocal command directives to compose dynamic display text Methods, apparatus, products are disclosed for displaying speech for a user of a surface computer, the surface computer comprising a surface, the surface computer capable of receiving multi-touch input through the surface and rendering display output on the surface,... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005673 | Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program A voice recognition device, method, and program for operating a plurality of control objects recognizing a plurality of user-provided verbal commands. The voice recognition device determines a control object and control content from predefined types of control objec... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991613 | Analyzing audio components and generating text with integrated additional session information Systems and methods for analyzing audio components of communications are provided. In this regard, a representative system incorporates an audio analyzer operative to: receive information corresponding to an audio component of a communication session; generate text ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979276 | Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method Voices are prevented from being recognized with poor accuracy when a speaker is not close to a sound pickup device. A speech recognition apparatus (10) includes a sound pickup device (16) picking up sounds, a photographing device (18) photograph... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970608 | Providing contextual information for spoken information Techniques are described for providing relevant information to users (e.g., information that is at least potentially of interest to the users). Relevant information for a user may be automatically determined based on a determined context of the user and/or on a requ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966180 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for spoken language grammar evaluation A method, system, and computer program product for spoken language grammar evaluation are provided. The method includes playing a recorded question to a candidate, recording a spoken answer from the candidate, and converting the spoken answer into text. The method f... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966181 | System and method for processing speech files A system and method for speech file processing which provides users with differentially selectable speech file transcripts which can be sent to one or more other users. The speech files may be voicemail messages from which respective voicemail transcripts are create... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966554 | Financial disclosure content synchronizing software An apparatus and method for providing security disclosure information in at least two aligned formats, the apparatus including security disclosure data in an audio format, a processor for receiving the audio security disclosure data and for inserting a first marker ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953597 | Method and system for voice-enabled autofill A computer-implemented method and system are provided for filling a graphic-based form field in response to a speech utterance. The computer-implemented method includes generating a grammar corresponding to the form field, the grammar being based on a user profile a... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949524 | Speech recognition correction with standby-word dictionary At least one recognized keyword is presented to a user, and the keyword is corrected appropriately upon receipt of a correction for the presented result. A standby-word dictionary used for recognition of uttered speech is generated according to a result of the corre... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941316 | Combined speech and alternate input modality to a mobile device A method of entering information into a mobile device includes receiving a multi-word speech input from a user, performing speech recognition on the speech input to obtain a multi-word speech recognition result, and sequentially displaying, in a display, words in th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937268 | Facilitating navigation of voice data A system, system, and program for facilitating navigation of voice data are provided. Tokens are added to voice data based on predefined content criteria. Then, bidirectional scanning of the voice data to a next token within the voice data is enabled, such that navi... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933772 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921010 | Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and data signal An information processing apparatus, comprising: an acquisition section that acquires a plurality of items of document information to be time-sequentially presented and movie information which includes speech that time-sequentially changes in association with the pl... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7908142 | Apparatus and method for identifying prosody and apparatus and method for recognizing speech A prosody identifying apparatus for identifying input speech on the basis of prosodic features of the input speech is provided. The prosody identifying apparatus includes a sound analyzing section for acquiring an amount of change in movement of a feature distributi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908141 | Extracting and utilizing metadata to improve accuracy in speech to text conversions A computer-based system and method for speech to text conversion preprocessing of a presentation with a speech audio, useable in real time. The method captures a presentation speech audio input to be converted into text, temporally associates the speech audio input ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899670 | Server-based speech recognition A computer program product for transcribing a medical dictation in real-time includes instructions for causing a computer to obtain a user identification from a user at a client via a computer network, the user identification being associated with medical personnel ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899669 | Multi-voice speech recognition Multi-voice speech recognition systems and methods are provided. A speech recognition apparatus may include a plurality of speech recognition means operating in parallel; means for determining the best scoring hypothesis for each speech recognition means and the bes... | 03/01/2011 |
