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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6728673 | Method and apparatus for retrieving a video and audio scene using an index generated by speech recognition A video retrieval data generation apparatus includes an extractor that is configured to extract a characteristic pattern from a voice signal synchronous with a video signal. The video retrieval data generation apparatus also includes an index generator that is confi... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6725198 | Speech analysis system and method A system and method for analyzing a speech problem includes the steps of presenting a symbol representative of a word and prompting the user to pronounce the word represented by the symbol into an audio input device such as a microphone in signal communication with ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6725197 | Method of automatic recognition of a spelled speech utterance The invention relates to a method of automatic recognition of an at least partly spelled speech utterance, with a speech recognition unit (2) based on statistical models that include a linguistic speech model (6). To improve this method in such ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6714941 | Learning data prototypes for information extraction A method for determining statistically significant token sequences lends itself for use in the recognition of broken wrappers as well as the construction of new wrapper rules. When new wrapper rules are needed as the underlying wrapped data has changed, training exa... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711584 | Method terminal device, node, program module, and user interface for the determination of features required for a communication relation A method, a terminal device, a node, a program module, and a user interface for determining features required for a communication relation. An input device (IN) determines initial features as input values (INPUT) which are necessary for classification of the communi... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6711541 | Technique for developing discriminative sound units for speech recognition and allophone modeling A set of models is developed to represent sound units and these models are then used with the incorrect sound units to determine which generate high likelihood scores. The models generating high likelihood scores for the incorrect sound units represent those that ar... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6694295 | Method and a device for recognizing speech According to the invention, speech recognition can be limited to a smaller number making use of commands (16, 17) given by a user. By means of a method and device, according to the invention, it is also possible to activate a speech recognition device by ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6687673 | Speech recognition system A method of performing speech recognition to determine a particular alphabetic character can include receiving acoustic spoken input including a single alphabetic character and a word association with the single character such that the first character of ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6684185 | Small footprint language and vocabulary independent word recognizer using registration by word spelling A phoneticizer converts spelled words or names into one or an n-best number of phonetic transcriptions. The n-best transcriptions may be generated from a single transcription using a confusion matrix. These n-best transcriptions are then transformed into ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6643647 | Word string collating apparatus, word string collating method and address recognition apparatus In a word string collating method for collating an input word string and address data in an address dictionary when a word string using part of a plurality of words of a word string such as address information is extracted from the result of character rec... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6629069 | Speech recognizer using database linking A speech recogniser is provided for identifying entries in a database. Results from the recognition of a user's speech are combined with each other and optionally with reference to data in the database in order to maximise the accuracy of an identified en... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6629071 | Speech recognition system The invention relates to a large vocabulary speech recognition system with the ability to recognize alphanumeric sequences. The recognition system prompts the caller to spell out an alphanumeric sequence in the form "letter for word" (eg A for Apple) and ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6611803 | Method and apparatus for retrieving a video and audio scene using an index generated by speech recognition A video retrieval apparatus includes a retrieval data generator that is configured to extract a characteristic pattern from a voice signal synchronous with a video signal to generate an index for video retrieval. The video retrieval apparatus also include... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6609094 | Maximum entropy and maximum likelihood criteria for feature selection from multivariate data Improvements in speech recognition systems are achieved by considering projections of the high dimensional data on lower dimensional subspaces, subsequently by estimating the univariate probability densities via known univariate techniques, and then by re... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6599129 | Method for adaptive training of short term memory and auditory/visual discrimination within a computer game A method for training of auditory and graphical discrimination in humans, and a human's short term memory, is provided within an animated game environment. The method provides a number of stimulus sets, each stimulus set having similar sounding phonemes a... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6601028 | Selective merging of segments separated in response to a break in an utterance In some embodiments, the invention involves a method including segmenting an utterance into at least a first segment and a second segment, wherein a boundary between the first and second segments corresponds to a break in the utterance. The method further... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6598018 | Method for natural dialog interface to car devices A computer-implemented method and apparatus for processing a spoken request from a user to control an automobile device. A speech recognizer recognizes a user's speech input and a speech understanding module determines semantic components of the speech in... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6587830 | Medical record forming and storing apparatus and medical record and method related to same A medical record processor and method include a voice processor for receiving unprompted and unstructured free dictation, for processing the dictation, and for generating voice data comprising a plurality of terms therefrom. A key term comparator identifi... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6574596 | Voice recognition rejection scheme A voice recognition rejection scheme for capturing an utterance includes the steps accepting the utterance, applying an N-best algorithm to the utterance, or rejecting the utterance. The utterance is accepted if a first predefined relationship exists betw... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6539353 | Confidence measures using sub-word-dependent weighting of sub-word confidence scores for robust speech recognition A method and apparatus is provided for speech recognition. The method and apparatus convert an analog speech signal into a digital signal and extract at least one feature from the digital signal. A hypothesis word string that consists of sub-word units is... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535850 | Smart training and smart scoring in SD speech recognition system with user defined vocabulary In a speech training and recognition system, the current invention detects and warns the user about the similar sounding entries to vocabulary and permits entry of such confusingly similar terms which are marked along with the stored similar terms to iden... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6519562 | Dynamic semantic control of a speech recognition system A method and apparatus are provided for automatically recognizing words of spoken speech using a computer-based speech recognition system according to a dynamic semantic model. In an embodiment, the speech recognition system recognizes speech and generate... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6519565 | Method of comparing utterances for security control A security method compares a present verbal utterance with a previously recorded verbal utterance by comparing time-frequency domain representations of the utterances, with multiple repeat utterances forming a basis for determining a variation in repetiti... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6513005 | Method for correcting error characters in results of speech recognition and speech recognition system using the same The invention discloses a method for correcting one or more error characters in results of speech recognition, the method comprising the steps of: marking the one or more error characters in the speech recognition results; inputting one or more correct ch... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6513004 | Optimized local feature extraction for automatic speech recognition The acoustic speech signal is decomposed into wavelets arranged in an asymmetrical tree data structure from which individual nodes may be selected to best extract local features, as needed to model specific classes of sound units. The wavelet packet trans... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6510411 | Task oriented dialog model and manager A simplification of the process of developing call or dialog flows for use in an Interactive Voice Response system is provided. Three principal aspects of the invention include a task-oriented dialog model (or task model), development tool and a Dialog Ma... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6502072 | Two-tier noise rejection in speech recognition A method and apparatus is provided for two-tier noise rejection in speech recognition. The method and apparatus convert an analog speech signal into a digital signal and extract features from the digital signal. A hypothesis speech word and a hypothesis n... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6484141 | Continuous speech recognition apparatus and method A continuous speech recognition apparatus includes a hypothesis storage section for storing hypotheses, a hypothesis expansion discrimination section for determining whether or not a hypothesis may be expanded to a succeeding arc, a hypothesis expansion s... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6480827 | Method and apparatus for voice communication A telecommunication system and method having a transmitter and receiver for voice encoded signals. The receiver has a speech post-processor connected as an element before conversion of the speech from digital form and delivery of the speech to a listener.... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6466907 | Process for searching for a spoken question by matching phonetic transcription to vocal request A process provides for searching through a written text in response to a spoken question comprising a plurality of words. The first step in the process is to transcribe the written text into a first sequence of phonetic units. Then, a spoken question is s... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6456970 | Minimization of search network in speech recognition The search network in a speech recognition system is reduced by parsing the incoming speech expanding all active paths (101), comparing to speech models and scoring the paths and storing recognition level values at the slots (103) and accumulating the sco... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6453293 | Method and device for recognizing at least one keyword in spoken speech using a computer In order to recognize a keyword in spoken speech, the keyword is subdivided, just like a test pattern to be recognized, into segments. The individual segments of the keyword and of the test pattern are mapped onto one another and a comparison measurement ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6438520 | Apparatus, method and system for cross-speaker speech recognition for telecommunication applications The apparatus, method and system of the present invention provide for cross-speaker speech recognition, and are particularly suited for telecommunication applications such as automatic name (voice) dialing, message management, call return management, and ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6438521 | Speech recognition method and apparatus and computer-readable memory A central processing unit determines whether speech separately uttered as a single syllable is included in input speech. On the basis of the determination result, an output unit is used to notify the user of information prompting the user to input speech ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434521 | Automatically determining words for updating in a pronunciation dictionary in a speech recognition system An approach for automatically determining the accuracy of a pronunciation dictionary in a speech recognition system involves comparing an expected pronunciation representation for a particular word from a pronunciation dictionary to one or more actual pro... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6413093 | Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communica... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413098 | Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communica... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413097 | Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communica... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413096 | Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communica... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413095 | Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals A method and a system is disclosed that provide means to enable individuals with speech, language and reading based communication disabilities, due to a temporal processing problem, to improve their temporal processing abilities as well as their communica... | 07/02/2002 |
