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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117033 | System and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing a message received from a user to determine whether an estimate of intelligibility is below an intelligibility threshold. The method includes recognizing a portion of a user's ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103502 | Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices Multimodal utterances contain a number of different modes. These modes can include speech, gestures, and pen, haptic, and gaze inputs, and the like. This invention use recognition results from one or more of these modes to provide compensation to the recognition pro... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8000963 | Sound reproducing apparatus The sound reproducing apparatus includes a replay section receiving unit that receives a request for reproducing a specific part of sound file from a user, a replay section determining unit that determines a replay section based on the request and conversation struc... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996221 | System and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing a message received from a user to determine whether an estimate of intelligibility is below an intelligibility threshold. The method includes recognizing a portion of a user's ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7818170 | Method and apparatus for distributed voice searching A method for distributed voice searching may include receiving a search query from a user of the mobile communication device, generating a lattice of coarse linguistic representations from speech parts in the search query, extracting query features from the generate... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7660716 | System and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically verifying that a message received from a user is intelligible. In an exemplary embodiment, a message is received from the user. A speech level of the user's message may be measured and compared t... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653540 | Speech signal compression device, speech signal compression method, and program The present invention provides a speech signal compression device which allows a storage capacity of data representing speech to be efficiently compressed. In the present invention, a computer C1 operates with respect to speech data to be compressed into spee... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7624012 | Method and apparatus for automatically generating a general extraction function calculable on an input signal, e.g. an audio signal to extract therefrom a predetermined global characteristic value of its contents, e.g. a descriptor The invention enables to generate a general function (4) which can operate on an input signal (Sx) to extract from the latter a value (DVex) of a global characteristic value expressing a feature (De) of the information conveyed by that signal. It opera... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7599836 | Voice recording system, recording device, voice analysis device, voice recording method and program To provide a method of specifying each of speakers of individual voices, based on recorded voices made by a plurality of speakers, with a simple system configuration, and to provide a system using the method. The system includes: microphones individually provided fo... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7529669 | Voice-based multimodal speaker authentication using adaptive training and applications thereof A voice based multimodal speaker authentication method and telecommunications application thereof employing a speaker adaptive method for training phenome specific Gaussian mixture models. Applied to telecommunications services, the method may advantageously be impl... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7496512 | Refining of segmental boundaries in speech waveforms using contextual-dependent models A method and apparatus are provided for refining segmental boundaries in speech waveforms. Contextual acoustic feature similarities are used as a basis for clustering adjacent phoneme speech units, where each adjacent pair phoneme speech units include a segmental bo... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7440897 | Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424427 | Systems and methods for classifying audio into broad phoneme classes An audio classification system classifies sounds in an audio stream as belonging to one of a relatively small number of classes. The audio classification system includes a signal analysis component [301] and a decoder [302]. The decoder [302] in... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418385 | Voice detection device This voice detection device is composed of a myoelectric signal acquisition part for acquiring, from a plurality of regions, myoelectric signals generated at the time of a vocalization operation, a parameter calculation part for calculating, as parameters, the fluct... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7392178 | Chaos theoretical diagnosis sensitizer The present invention is a preprocessing apparatus including a voice input apparatus for acquiring an uttered voice, an analog-digital conversion apparatus for converting the acquired uttered voice to digital voice data, and a comparator for selecting voice data, ha... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7376557 | Method and apparatus of overlapping and summing speech for an output that disrupts speech A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound based on a speaker's own voice into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to which of the sounds is the real source. This permits disruption of the ability to understand the source speech of the user by eliminating ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7345233 | Apparatus and method for grouping temporal segments of a piece of music For grouping temporal segments of an audio piece, which is structured into main parts repeatedly occurring in the audio piece, into various segment classes, at first a similarity representation for the segments is provided, wherein the similarity representation for ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324939 | 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... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324942 | System and method for interactive voice services using markup language with N-best filter element A voice-enabled markup language system an N-best filter element that generates unverified possible matches to the utterance for verification to the user during an interactive voice dialog. Such an element is used when a large number of possible utterances may be mad... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310600 | Language recognition using a similarity measure A dynamic programming technique is provided for matching two sequences of phonemes both of which may be generated from text or speech. The scoring of the dynamic programming matching technique uses phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme delet... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304231 | Apparatus and method for designating various segment classes For the segment class designation the temporal position of segments in two candidate segment classes is used for the stanza/refrain selection by means of a segment class designation means, wherein the highest-order segment class is designated as refrain segment clas... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302017 | System and method for adaptive matched filter signal parameter measurement A robust and flexible system for signal parameter measurements in the field of signal processing dynamically uses signal parameters from previous signal detections and parametric priorities to adaptively control and process the signal in an efficient and reliable ma... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292980 | Graphical user interface and method for modifying pronunciations in text-to-speech and speech recognition systems A method and user interface which allow users to make decisions about how to pronounce words and parts of words based on audio cues and common words with well known pronunciations. Users input or select words for which they want to set or modify pronunciations. To s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289957 | Verifying a speaker using random combinations of speaker's previously-supplied syllable units A method for verifying a speaker by a computer is specified in which the speaker utters at least one code word consisting of a random combination of syllable units previously supplied by the speaker. A comparison of this uttered code word with at least one pattern v... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280963 | Method for learning linguistically valid word pronunciations from acoustic data A computerized method is provided for generating pronunciations for words and storing the pronunciations in a pronunciation dictionary. The method includes graphing sets of initial pronunciations; thereafter in an ASR subsystem determining a highest-scoring set of i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280967 | Method for detecting misaligned phonetic units for a concatenative text-to-speech voice A method of filtering phonetic units to be used within a concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS) voice. Initially, a normality threshold can be established. At least one phonetic unit that has been automatically extracted from a speech corpus in order to construct the C... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269555 | Unsupervised incremental adaptation using maximum likelihood spectral transformation In a speech recognition system, a method of transforming speech feature vectors associated with speech data provided to the speech recognition system includes the steps of receiving likelihood of utterance information corresponding to a previous feature vector trans... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266495 | Method and system for learning linguistically valid word pronunciations from acoustic data A computerized pronunciation system is provided for generating pronunciations for words and storing the pronunciations in a pronunciation dictionary. The system includes a word list including at least one word; transcribed acoustic data including at least one wavefo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263484 | 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... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257533 | Database searching and retrieval using phoneme and word lattice A data structure is provided for annotating data files within a database. The annotation data comprises a phoneme and word lattice which allows the quick and efficient searching of data files within the database in response to a user's input query. The structure of ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254383 | Voice over IP based biometric authentication A system is provided for verifying an identity of a calling party. The system includes a storage that stores voice sample information in association with information that identifies an individual. The system also includes a receiver that receives, from a communicati... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246062 | Method and system for voice recognition menu navigation with error prevention and recovery A method and system for error prevention and recovery of voice activated navigation through a menu having plural nodes provides situation dependent utterance verification by relating confirmation to utterance determination confidence levels. In one embodiment, a hig... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246061 | Method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system A method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network is provided in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system. Utterances spoken by a caller from a group of callers limited to one te... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243067 | Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer In a method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer, the vehicle-internal communication system has acoustic output unit for the playback of a received message. In the... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240002 | Speech recognition apparatus The present invention provides a speech recognition apparatus having high speech recognition performance and capable of performing speech recognition in a highly efficient manner. A matching unit 14 calculates the scores of words selected by a preliminary wor... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7222072 | Bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification A speaker identity claim (SIC) utterance is received and recognized. The SIC utterance is compared with a voice profile registered under the SIC, and a first verification decision is based thereon. A first dynamic phrase (FDP) is generated, and a user is prompted to... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206742 | Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203652 | Method and system for improving robustness in a speech system The present invention introduces a system and method for improved robustness in a speech system. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving an utterance from an intended talker at a speech recognition system; computing a speaker verification score with a voice ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203642 | Robot control apparatus and method with echo back prosody The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphone 15 is subjected to speech recognition by a speech recognizer 50A. Based on the speech recognition resu... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200656 | Methods and systems for simultaneously detecting short and long term periodicity for traffic flow identification A method of processing a communication signal may include computing a number of periodograms from the signal. Each of the periodograms may be generated from a portion of the signal. The number of periodograms may be combined in time sequence to form a spectrogram [ | 04/03/2007 |
