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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190431 | Method and system for providing speech recognition An approach for providing speech recognition is disclosed. A name is retrieved from a user based on data provided by the user. The user is prompted for a name of the user. A first audio input is received from the user in response to the prompt. Speech recognition is... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180639 | Method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175877 | Method and apparatus for predicting word accuracy in automatic speech recognition systems The invention comprises a method and apparatus for predicting word accuracy. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining an utterance in speech data where the utterance comprises an actual word string, processing the utterance for generating an interpretation of th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170874 | Apparatus and method for recognizing speech based on feature parameters of modified speech and playing back the modified speech A speech recognition apparatus which improves the sound quality of speech output as a speech recognition result is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a recognition unit, which recognizes speech based on a recognition dictionary, and a registration u... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165879 | Voice output device and voice output program A voice output device, includes: a compound word voice data storage unit that stores voice data in association with each of compound words which is formed of a plurality of words; a text display unit that displays text containing a plurality of words; a word designa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150692 | Method and apparatus for recognizing a user personality trait based on a number of compound words used by the user Techniques for recognizing a personality trait associated with a user. Input from the user is analyzed to determine a number of words, including a number of compound words. The personality trait associated with the user is determined based, at least in part, on the ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150691 | Arrangement and method for reproducing audio data as well as computer program product for this During the replaying of audio data stored in a, which audio data corresponds to text data from a text composed of words, the replaying of the audio data in forward and reverse modes is controlled. Starting from particular momentary replay position in the audio data,... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145487 | Voice recognition apparatus and navigation apparatus A voice recognition apparatus recognizes speaker's voice collected by a microphone, determines whether a telephone number is grouped into categories based on an inclusion of vocabulary in the telephone number that divides the telephone number into groups such as an ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140332 | Technique for searching out new words that should be registered in dictionary for speech processing To search out a new word that should be newly registered in a dictionary contained in a segmentation device for segmenting a text into words. This system inputs a training text into the segmentation device to cause the segmentation device to segment the training tex... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126712 | Information communication terminal, information communication system, information communication method, and storage medium for storing an information communication program thereof for recognizing speech information An information communication terminal (100) that includes: a speech recognition module (6) for recognizing speech information to identify a plurality of words in the recognized speech information; a storage medium (20) for storing keyword extrac... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108214 | System and method for recognizing proper names in dialog systems Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes contextual information to perform recognition of proper names are described. Unlike present name recognition methods on large name lists that generally focus strictly on the static aspect of the names, embodiments of the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103503 | Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a target sentence string Systems and methods for processing a user speech input to determine whether the user has correctly read a target sentence string are provided. One disclosed method may include receiving a sentence array including component words of the target sentence string and pro... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099279 | Interactive clustering method for identifying problems in speech applications A method of aiding a speech recognition program developer by grouping calls passing through an identified question-answer (QA) state or transition into clusters based on causes of problems associated with the calls is provided. The method includes determining a numb... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082151 | System and method of generating responses to text-based messages In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an automated method of and system for generating a response to a text-based natural language message is disclosed. The method includes identifying a sentence in the text-based natural language message. Also, id... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073692 | Enabling speech recognition grammars in web page frames Enabling grammars in web page frames, including receiving, in a multimodal application on a multimodal device, a frameset document, where the frameset document includes markup defining web page frames; obtaining by the multimodal application content documents for di... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8050923 | Automated utterance search A speech analyzer is integrated or otherwise coupled to an audio player. The speech analyzer is used to identify recorded communication sessions in accordance with a search criterion. A search criterion may be spoken or otherwise communicated to the speech analyzer.... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046222 | Segmenting words using scaled probabilities Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for segmenting words using scaled probabilities. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a probability of a n-gram identifying a word, determining a number of at... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8010359 | Speech recognition system, speech recognition method and storage medium Provided are a speech recognition system, a method and a storage medium capable of, even in a case where plural speakers input superimposed speeches, recognizing a speech of an individual each speaker and making a single application program sharable among the speake... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000964 | Method of constructing model of recognizing english pronunciation variation A method of constructing a model of recognizing English pronunciation variations is used to recognize English pronunciations with different intonations influenced by non-English native languages. The method includes collecting a plurality of sound information corres... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983911 | Method, module, device and server for voice recognition The invention relates to a speech recognition process implemented in at least one terminal (114), the speech recognition process using a language model (311), comprising the following steps: detection (502) of ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983913 | Understanding spoken location information based on intersections In one embodiment, the present system recognizes a user's speech input using an automatically generated probabilistic context free grammar for street names that maps all pronunciation variations of a street name to a single canonical representation during recognitio... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983912 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for correcting a misrecognized utterance using a whole or a partial re-utterance A speech recognition apparatus includes a generation unit generating a recognition candidate associated with a speech utterance and a likelihood; a storing unit storing the one recognition; a selecting unit selecting the recognition candidate as a recognition result... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979278 | Speech recognition system and speech file recording system A user term information extraction unit extracts term information of a user out of information that has been input by the user to an application for use other than speech recording beforehand, and a speech recognition dictionary management unit expands a vocabulary ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979279 | System and method for monitoring communications A system and method for providing enhanced security through the monitoring of communications. In one embodiment, the monitoring process is aided through an automatic speech recognition process that is focused on the recognition of words from a limited vocabulary. | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974842 | Algorithm for n-best ASR result processing to improve accuracy A method of improving speech recognition includes receiving a plurality of recognized sentences from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, each of the plurality of the recognized sentences including a plurality of information items. A confirmation is also re... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970612 | Method and apparatus for automatically completing text input using speech recognition Provided are a method and apparatus for automatically completing a text input using speech recognition. The method includes: receiving a first part of a text from a user through a text input device; recognizing a speech of the user, which corresponds to the text; an... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966182 | Voiced programming system and method Provided herein are systems and methods for using context-sensitive speech recognition logic in a computer to create a software program, including context-aware voice entry of instructions that make up a software program, automatic context-sensitive instruction form... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966183 | Multiplying confidence scores for utterance verification in a mobile telephone Automatic speech recognition verification using a combination of two or more confidence scores based on UV features which reuse computations of the original recognition. ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962337 | Method of operating a speech recognition system In methods of operating a speech recognition system, a speech signal from a user is analyzed for recognizing speech information contained in the speech signal. When situated in an active receive mode, an acknowledgement of receive activity is produced in response to... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962339 | Method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962338 | Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method and recording medium having speech recognition software program recorded thereon When the degree of similarity of the recognition candidates is greater than the second threshold value, the speech verification unit outputs the recognition candidates as a recognition result, and when the degree of similarity of the recognition candidates is smalle... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953599 | System, method and computer program product for adding voice activation and voice control to a media player A media player system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, an utterance is received. A command for a media player is then generated based on the utterance. Such command is utilized for providing wireless control of the media player. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945445 | Hybrid lexicon for speech recognition Methods and apparatus for speech recognition based on a hidden Markov model are disclosed. A disclosed method of speech recognition is based on a hidden Markov model in which words to be recognized are modeled as chains of states and trained using predefined speech ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7930180 | Speech recognition system, method and program that generates a recognition result in parallel with a distance value Speech recognition is performed at high speed by processing respective paths of multi-path speech recognition in parallel. A distance calculation unit receives temporal data sequence of acoustic features, calculates the distance values between all acoustic models an... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917365 | Synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler; i... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917363 | System for predicting speech recognition accuracy and development for a dialog system A system for developing dialog systems estimates the speech recognition accuracy achievable when using a dialog system, and the number of example input phrases required to achieve a desired speech recognition accuracy. The maximum achievable speech recognition accur... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917364 | System and method using multiple automated speech recognition engines A system comprises a computer system comprising a central processing unit coupled to a memory and resource management application. A plurality of different automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines is coupled to the computer system. The computer system is adapted t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912715 | Determining distortion measures in a pattern recognition process A method for determining a set of distortion measures in a pattern recognition process, where a sequence of feature vectors is formed from a digitized incoming signal to be recognized, said pattern recognition being based upon said set of distortion measures. The me... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895039 | Methods and systems for optimizing model adaptation for a speech recognition system A method for efficient use of resources of a speech recognition system includes determining a recognition rate, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or recognition of instances of various words among a set of words, and determining an accuracy ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890326 | Business listing search A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes selecting a subset of speech recognition language models from a larger set of speech recognition language models based on a type of business provided by a user, identifying weight values... | 02/15/2011 |
