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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185390 | Zero-search, zero-memory vector quantization The invention comprises a method for lossy data compression, akin to vector quantization, in which there is no explicit codebook and no search, i.e. the codebook memory and associated search computation are eliminated. Some memory and computation are still required,... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155959 | Dialog system for human agent to correct abnormal output Systems and methods are described that automatically control modules of dialog systems. The systems and methods include a dialog module that receives and processes utterances from a speaker and outputs data used to generate synthetic speech outputs as responses to t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145483 | Speech recognition method for all languages without using samples The invention can recognize any several languages at the same time without using samples. The important skill is that features of known words in any language are extracted from unknown words or continuous voices. These unknown words represented by matrices are sprea... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145482 | Enhancing analysis of test key phrases from acoustic sources with key phrase training models Methods and apparatus for the enhancement of speech to text engines, by providing indications to the correctness of the found words, based on additional sources besides the internal indication provided by the STT engine. The enhanced indications comprise sources of ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140328 | User intention based on N-best list of recognition hypotheses for utterances in a dialog Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for using alternate recognition hypotheses to improve whole-dialog understanding accuracy. The method includes receiving an utterance as part of a user dialog, generatin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8090581 | Frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8069041 | Display of channel candidates from voice recognition results for a plurality of receiving units Candidates for channels of television programs to be displayed are determined in accordance with a result of voice recognition of a voice input by a user. The channel candidates are assigned to a limited number of tuners and television programs received by the tuner... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8041566 | Topic specific models for text formatting and speech recognition The present invention relates to a method, a computer system and a computer program product for speech recognition and/or text formatting by making use of topic specific statistical models. A text document which may be obtained from a first speech recognition pass i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032373 | Closed-loop command and response system for automatic communications between interacting computer systems over an audio communications channel A system and method for enabling two computer systems to communicate over an audio communications channel, such as a voice telephony connection. Such a system includes a software application that enables a user's computer to call, interrogate, download, and manage a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8015005 | Method and apparatus for voice searching for stored content using uniterm discovery A method, system and communication device for enabling voice-to-voice searching and ordered content retrieval via audio tags assigned to individual content, which tags generate uniterms that are matched against components of a voice query. The method includes storin... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015006 | Systems and methods for processing natural language speech utterances with context-specific domain agents Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based i... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996218 | User adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus A user adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed that controls user confirmation of a recognition candidate using a new threshold value adapted to a user. The user adaptive speech recognition method includes calculating a confidence score of a re... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7925505 | Adaptation of language models and context free grammar in speech recognition Architecture is disclosed herewith for minimizing an empirical error rate by discriminative adaptation of a statistical language model in a dictation and/or dialog application. The architecture allows assignment of an improved weighting value to each term or phrase ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912713 | Automatic speech recognition system and method using weighted confidence measure An automatic speech recognition method for identifying words from an input speech signal includes providing at least one hypothesis recognition based on the input speech signal, the hypothesis recognition being an individual hypothesis word or a sequence of individu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7860713 | Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition model... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853448 | Electronic instrument for speech recognition with standby time shortening and acoustic model deletion An electronic instrument includes: a display control unit for displaying a control content corresponding to the command information based on the result of the speech recognition; an instruction unit for instructing that a control for the control content displayed by... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7774202 | Speech activated control system and related methods A speech activated control system for controlling aerial vehicle components, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system can include a host processor adapted to develop speech recognition models and to provide speech command recognition. The hos... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7729910 | Zero-search, zero-memory vector quantization The invention comprises a method for lossy data compression, akin to vector quantization, in which there is no explicit codebook and no search, i.e. the codebook memory and associated search computation are eliminated. Some memory and computation are still required,... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725317 | Interactive control system and method An interactive control system is disclosed with which the recognition rate and the responsiveness when operating a plurality of interactive services in parallel can be improved. A recognition lexicon and consolidated and reorganized information are generated for eac... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716047 | System and method for an automatic set-up of speech recognition engines A system and method for an automatic set-up of speech recognition engines may include a speech recognizer configured to perform speech recognition procedures to identify input speech data according to one or more operating parameters. A merit manager may be utilized... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707032 | Method and system for matching speech data A method and system used to determine the similarity between an input speech data and a sample speech data is provided. First, the input speech data is segmented into a plurality of input speech frames and the sample speech data is segmented into a plurality of samp... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7680659 | Discriminative training for language modeling A method of training language model parameters trains discriminative model parameters in the language model based on a performance measure having discrete values. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7630894 | Frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7574357 | Applications of sub-audible speech recognition based upon electromyographic signals Method and system for generating electromyographic or sub-audible signals (“SAWPs”) and for transmitting and recognizing the SAWPs that represent the original words and/or phrases. The SAWPs may be generated in an environment that interferes excessively with nor... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7562014 | Active learning process for spoken dialog systems A large amount of human labor is required to transcribe and annotate a training corpus that is needed to create and update models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language understanding (SLU). Active learning enables a reduction in the amount of tra... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7529665 | Two stage utterance verification device and method thereof in speech recognition system A two stage utterance verification device and a method thereof are provided. The two stage utterance verification method includes performing a first utterance verification function based on a SVM pattern classification method by using feature data inputted from a se... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7478045 | Method and device for characterizing a signal and method and device for producing an indexed signal In a method for characterizing a signal representing an audio content a measure is determined for a tonality of the signal, whereupon a statement is made about the audio content of the signal on the basis of the measure for the tonality of the signal. The measure fo... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7464031 | Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features In a speech recognition system, the combination of a log-linear model with a multitude of speech features is provided to recognize unknown speech utterances. The speech recognition system models the posterior probability of linguistic units relevant to speech recogn... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7418382 | Structure skeletons for efficient voice navigation through generic hierarchical objects A system and method for providing fast and efficient conversation navigation via a hierarchical structure (structure skeleton) which fully describes functions and services supported by a dialog (conversational) system. In one aspect, a conversational system and meth... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418383 | Noise robust speech recognition with a switching linear dynamic model A unified, nonlinear, non-stationary, stochastic model is disclosed for estimating and removing effects of background noise on speech cepstra. Generally stated, the model is a union of dynamic system equations for speech and noise, and a model describing how speech ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412383 | Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition model... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406415 | Phonetic searching An improved method and apparatus is disclosed which uses probabilistic techniques to map an input search string with a prestored audio file, and recognize certain portions of a search string phonetically. An improved interface is disclosed which permits users to inp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7392184 | Arrangement of speaker-independent speech recognition A method needed in speech recognition for forming a pronunciation model in a telecommunications system comprising at least one portable electronic device and server. The electronic device is arranged to compare the user's speech information with pronunciation models... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389228 | Speaker adaptation of vocabulary for speech recognition A phonetic vocabulary for a speech recognition system is adapted to a particular speaker's pronunciation. A speaker can be attributed specific pronunciation styles, which can be identified from specific pronunciation examples. Consequently, a phonetic vocabulary can... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379867 | Discriminative training of language models for text and speech classification Methods are disclosed for estimating language models such that the conditional likelihood of a class given a word string, which is very well correlated with classification accuracy, is maximized. The methods comprise tuning statistical language model parameters join... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376562 | Method and apparatus for nonlinear frequency analysis of structured signals The present invention relates to systems and methods for processing acoustic signals, such as music and speech. The method involves nonlinear frequency analysis of an incoming acoustic signal. In one aspect, a network of nonlinear oscillators, each with a distinct f... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376553 | Fractal harmonic overtone mapping of speech and musical sounds An apparatus for signal processing based on an algorithm for representing harmonics in a fractal lattice. The apparatus includes a plurality of tuned segments, each tuned segment including a transceiver having an intrinsic resonant frequency the amplitude of the res... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369991 | Speech recognition system, speech recognition method, speech synthesis system, speech synthesis method, and program product having increased accuracy The object of the present invention is to keep a high success rate in recognition with a low-volume of sound signal, without being affected by noise. The speech recognition system comprises a sound signal processor 10 configured to acquire a sound sign... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366668 | Voice interface for a search engine A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query us... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366666 | Relative delta computations for determining the meaning of language inputs A method for processing language input can include the step of determining at least two possible meanings for a language input. For each possible meaning, a probability that the possible meaning is a correct interpretation of the language input can be determined. At... | 04/29/2008 |
