Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170875 | Speech end-pointer A rule-based end-pointer isolates spoken utterances contained within an audio stream from background noise and non-speech transients. The rule-based end-pointer includes a plurality of rules to determine the beginning and/or end of a spoken utterance based on variou... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165880 | Speech end-pointer An end-pointer determines a beginning and an end of a speech segment. The end-pointer includes a voice triggering module that identifies a portion of an audio stream that has an audio speech segment. A rule module communicates with the voice triggering module. The r... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8108215 | Speech recognition apparatus and method An apparatus and method for recognizing paraphrases of uttered phrases, such as place names. At least one keyword contained in a speech utterance is recognized. Then, the keyword(s) contained in the speech utterance are re-recognized using a phrase including the key... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090582 | Voice recognition apparatus A voice recognition apparatus 10 includes a voice recognition means 12 for performing voice recognition, and a control means for controlling receipt of a voice input to the voice recognition means, and for performing recognition according to a result o... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8046223 | Apparatus and method of voice recognition system for AV system To improve the accuracy of the voice recognition system for an AV system, the present invention includes a reflected sound remover having a plurality of filters, the reflected sound remover being configured to receive an input sound signal including a reflected AV s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7962340 | Methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system Techniques are disclosed for overcoming errors in speech recognition systems. For example, a technique for processing acoustic data in accordance with a speech recognition system comprises the following steps/operations. Acoustic data is obtained in association with... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7756709 | Detection of voice inactivity within a sound stream A method for identifying end of voiced speech within an audio stream of a noisy environment employs a speech discriminator. The discriminator analyzes each window of the audio stream, producing an output corresponding to the window. The output is used to classify th... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7725319 | Phoneme lattice construction and its application to speech recognition and keyword spotting An arrangement is provided for using a phoneme lattice for speech recognition and/or keyword spotting. The phoneme lattice may be constructed for an input speech signal and searched to produce a textual representation for the input speech signal and/or to determine ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7529670 | Automatic speech recognition system for people with speech-affecting disabilities A speech recognition system is provided that, in one embodiment, includes an input 104 operable to receive voice utterances from a user, a speaker monitoring agent 132 operable to determine a pulmonary state of the user as a function of time, and a fra... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7478046 | Server-client type speech recognition apparatus and method To provide a speech recognition apparatus which enables the reduction of transmission time and of costs. A terminal-side apparatus (100) includes a speech detection portion (101) for detecting a speech interval of inputted data, a waveform compression ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7433819 | Assessing fluency based on elapsed time A computer based method and related system, computer program product and device includes receiving audio input associated with a user reading a sequence of words and determining an approximate amount of time corresponding to an absence of input associated with an as... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7366667 | Method and device for pause limit values in speech recognition Method and device for the recognition of words and pauses in a voice signal. The words (Wi) spoken in a row and pauses (Ti) are thereby combined as to be appertaining to a word group as soon as one of the pauses (Ti) exceeds a limit ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359852 | Systems and methods for natural spoken language word prediction and speech recognition A word prediction method that improves the precision accuracy, and a speech recognition method and an apparatus therefor are provided. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353174 | System and method for effectively implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognition dictionary The present invention comprises a system and method for effectively implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognition dictionary, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353172 | System and method for cantonese speech recognition using an optimized phone set The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Cantonese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented acc... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353173 | System and method for Mandarin Chinese speech recognition using an optimized phone set The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemen... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337115 | Systems and methods for providing acoustic classification A speech recognition system receives an audio signal and detects various features of the audio signal. For example, the system classifies the audio signal into speech and non-speech portions, genders of speakers corresponding to the speech portions, and channel band... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319960 | Speech recognition method and system A speech recognition system uses a phoneme counter to determine the length of a word to be recognized. The result is used to split a lexicon into one or more sub-lexicons containing only words which have the same or similar length to that of the word to be recognize... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319956 | Method and apparatus to perform speech reference enrollment based on input speech characteristics A speech reference enrollment method involves requesting a user speak a word; detecting a first utterance; requesting the user speak the word; detecting a second utterance; determining a first similarity between the first utterance and the second utterance; when the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319703 | Method and apparatus for reducing synchronization delay in packet-based voice terminals by resynchronizing during talk spurts Circuitry, embodied in a media subsystem (10A), reproduces a speech or other type of audio signal, and is operable when playing back audio data for reducing synchronization delay. A method operates by, when a frame containing audio data is sent to a decoder (... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313526 | Speech recognition using selectable recognition modes The present invention relates to speech recognition using selectable recognition modes. This includes innovations such as: large vocabulary speech recognition programming that supplies recognized words to external program as they are recognized, and allows a user to... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295752 | Video cataloger system with audio track extraction One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289961 | Data hiding via phase manipulation of audio signals Data are embedded in an audio signal for watermarking, steganography, or other purposes. The audio signal is divided into time frames. In each time frame, the relative phases of one or more frequency bands are shifted to represent the data to be embedded. In one emb... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277853 | System and method for a endpoint detection of speech for improved speech recognition in noisy environments According to a disclosed embodiment, an endpointer determines the background energy of a first portion of a speech signal, and a cepstral computing module extracts one or more features of the first portion. The endpointer calculates an average distance of the first ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269151 | System and method for spectrum management of a shared frequency band A system and method for managing the spectrum utilization of a frequency band that is shared, both in frequency and time, by multiple devices. At one or more devices operating in the frequency band, pulses associated with signals occurring in the frequency band are ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266497 | Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis Systems and methods for automatically segmenting speech inventories. A set of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are initialized using bootstrap data. The HMMs are next re-estimated and aligned to produce phone labels. The phone boundaries of the phone labels are then corr... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248937 | Demand breakout for a supply chain A system (100) for demand breakout for a supply chain includes a memory (112) operable to store a plurality of orders (118) for at least one product. Each product may be produced using at least one precursor. The memory (112) is also oper... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243068 | Microphone setup and testing in voice recognition software Systems, devices, and methods for performing a microphone test routine are disclosed during an initial setup of a speech recognition program and at a predetermined time intervals during use of the speech recognition program to detect recognition errors associated wi... | 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 |
| 7233900 | Word sequence output device The present invention relates to a word sequence output device in which emotional synthetic speech can be output. The device outputs emotional synthetic speech. A text generating unit 31 generates spoken text for synthetic speech by using text as a word seque... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231346 | Speech section detection apparatus A speech section detection apparatus capable of reliably detecting a speech section even for a word containing a glottal stop sound or for a word containing a succession of “s” column sounds or “h” column sounds (sounds in the third column or the sixth colum... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225130 | Methods, systems, and programming for performing speech recognition The present invention relates to: speech recognition using selectable recognition modes; using choice lists in large-vocabulary speech recognition; enabling users to select word transformations; speech recognition that automatically turns recognition off in one or m... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219051 | Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models A method and computer-readable medium determine word association scores for word pairs. Each word association score is converted into a translation probability using a normalization value that reserves probability mass for unseen data. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219059 | Automatic pronunciation scoring for language learning A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an articulation-scoring engine, a duration scoring engine and an intona... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219062 | Speech activity detection using acoustic and facial characteristics in an automatic speech recognition system An automatic speech recognizer only responsive to acoustic speech utterances is activated only in response to acoustic energy having a spectrum associated with the speech utterances and at least one facial characteristic associated with the speech utterances. In one... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216073 | Dynamic natural language understanding Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216075 | Speech recognition method and apparatus with noise adaptive standard pattern In a speech recognition method, at least two standard feature vector series having different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) are prepared in advance for each category. Then, an SNR is calculated from an input speech signal, and a noise adaptive standard feature vector... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206736 | Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models using smoothing A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing tec... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203651 | Voice control system with multiple voice recognition engines Described is a control unit including a recognition result receiver able to receive a recognition result, a recognition result association unit having associations of results with recognition engines, and a recognition engine activator able to activate the recogniti... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203640 | System and method for determining an intended signal section candidate and a type of noise section candidate An input signal is input via an input part. A plurality of signal section candidate detecting parts having different detection algorithms detect an intended signal section candidate and a noise signal section candidate from the input signal. A signal section classif... | 04/10/2007 |
