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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180641 | Sequential speech recognition with two unequal ASR systems Sequential speech recognition using two unequal automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems may be provided. The system may provide two sets of vocabulary data. A determination may be made as to whether entries in one set of vocabulary data are likely to be confused ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8135590 | Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identification A representation of a speech signal is received and is decoded to identify a sequence of position-dependent phonetic tokens wherein each token comprises a phone and a position indicator that indicates the position of the phone within a syllable. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8099280 | Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus A speech recognition method in which, upon speech recognition with use of a model composed of subwords such as triphones depending on a plurality of context, inhibiting hypotheses from extending according to the plurality of contexts so that a processing rate of the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8032375 | Using generic predictive models for slot values in language modeling A generic predictive argument model that can be applied to a set of shot values to predict a target slot value is provided. The generic predictive argument model can predict whether or not a particular value or item is the intended target of the user command given v... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7983916 | Sampling rate independent speech recognition A sampling-rate-independent method of automated speech recognition (ASR). Speech energies of a plurality of codebooks generated from training data created at an ASR sampling rate are compared to speech energies in a current frame of acoustic data generated from rece... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7921012 | Apparatus and method for speech recognition using probability and mixed distributions A speech recognition apparatus includes a first storing unit configured to store a first acoustic model invariable regardless of speaker and environment, a second storing unit configured to store a classification model that has shared parameters and non-shared param... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7873517 | Motor vehicle with a speech interface A motor vehicle has a speech interface for an acoustic input of commands for operating the motor vehicle or a module of the motor vehicle. The speech interface includes a speech recognition database in which a substantial portion of commands or command components, w... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7848927 | Speech recognition device and method of recognizing speech using a language model A speech recognition device is provided which includes: a language model storage unit which stores a language model indicating appearance probabilities of words or word sequences; an acoustic feature amount extracting unit and a checking unit which extract a feature... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7831427 | Concept monitoring in spoken-word audio Monitoring a spoken-word audio stream for a relevant concept is disclosed. A speech recognition engine may recognize a plurality of words from the audio stream. Function words that do not indicate content may be removed from the plurality of words. A concept may be ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827033 | Enabling 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... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809566 | One-step repair of misrecognized recognition strings A method for use in automatic speech recognition corrects erroneous recognition elements within a recognition hypothesis. A user input is recognized as a correction hypothesis which contains various recognition elements. A non-deterministic alignment is performed to... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7783485 | Systems and methods for determining the determinizability of finite-state automata and transducers Finite-state transducers and weighted finite-state automata may not be determinizable. The twins property can be used to characterize the determinizability of such devices. For a weighted finite-state automaton or transducer, that weighted finite-state automaton or ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756710 | Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech includes receiving a first utterance from the user, receiving a subsequent utterance f... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752048 | Method and apparatus for providing speech recognition resolution on a database A method of providing speech recognition resolution in a database includes receiving an utterance from an end-user or application, and dispatching it to the database which is coupled to or has access to a speech recognition technology. The method further includes co... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7725320 | Internet based speech recognition system with dynamic grammars A speech-enabled WWW based computing system allows a user to interact with content associated with a web page and select items of interest using speech as a mode of input. Dynamic grammars can assist in the recognition operations to improve speed and comprehension. | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711560 | Speech recognition device and speech recognition method A speech recognition apparatus equipped with the garbage acoustic model storage unit storing the garbage acoustic model which learned the collection of unnecessary words. A feature value calculation unit calculates the feature parameter necessary for recognition by ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7698137 | Speech recognition device using statistical language model Embodiments of the present invention include a specific sentence generator for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in a grammar storing unit and correction information stored in a correction information storing unit a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7680663 | Using a discretized, higher order representation of hidden dynamic variables for speech recognition A hidden dynamics value in speech is represented by a higher order, discretized dynamic model, which predicts the discretized dynamic variable that changes over time. Parameters are trained for the model. A decoder algorithm is developed for estimating the underlyin... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7657434 | Frame goals for dialog system A frame definition for use by dialog system during an interaction with a user, the frame definition includes at least one data field and at least one goal comprising a Boolean function of one or more filled predicates, each of which takes a reference to a field of t... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7571096 | Speech recognition using a state-and-transition based binary speech grammar with a last transition value A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition ent... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7555431 | Method for processing speech using dynamic grammars Speech data is processed with one or more dynamic grammars, to reduce latency and improve accuracy. Different speech grammars are used by a speech recognition process depending on a context experienced by a speaker, and sentence grammars are similarly varied during ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7552051 | Method and apparatus for mapping multiword expressions to identifiers using finite-state networks Multiword expressions are mapped to identifiers using finite-state networks. Each of a plurality of multiword expressions is encoded into a regular expression. Each regular expression encodes a base form common to a plurality of derivative forms defined by ones of t... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7519534 | Speech controlled access to content on a presentation medium One embodiment of the invention provides television viewers with an intuitive and easy-to-use way to find the programs they want and to control their television viewing experience. In a further embodiment, a speech control interface, in combination with a variety of... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7499858 | Methods of information retrieval A method of information retrieval using a hybrid interface is provided. The method includes providing a graphical user interface having a plurality of views with a list of potential targets within each of the views, determining a selected view from a user selection ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499857 | Adaptation of compressed acoustic models The present invention is used to adapt acoustic models, quantized in subspaces, using adaptation training data (such as speaker-dependent training data). The acoustic model is compressed into multi-dimensional subspaces. A codebook is generated for each subspace. An... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7487091 | Speech recognition device for recognizing a word sequence using a switching speech model network A speech recognition device which can preferably be used for reducing the memory capacity required for speaker-independent speech recognition is provided. A matching unit loads speech models belonging to a first speech model network and a garbage model in a RAM, and... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7467086 | Methodology for generating enhanced demiphone acoustic models for speech recognition A system and method for effectively performing speech recognition procedures includes enhanced demiphone acoustic models that a speech recognition engine utilizes to perform the speech recognition procedures. The enhanced demiphone acoustic models each have three st... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7437290 | Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible. The aut... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430509 | Lattice encoding Initially an embedding module (22) determines an embedding of a lattice in a two-dimensional plane. The embedding module (22) then processes the initial embedding to generate a planar graph in which no links cross. The planar graph is then simplified b... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424429 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium The correspondence between input fields and grammars is obtained (S102), and a speech utterance example is displayed using a grammar corresponding to a portion (field) designated by an input instruction (S106). Also, a speech recognition process is exe... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418387 | Generic spelling mnemonics A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model in... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415409 | Method to train the language model of a speech recognition system to convert and index voicemails on a search engine A method and a related system to index voicemail documents by training a language model for a speaker or group of speakers by using existing emails and contact information on available repositories. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406416 | Representation of a deleted interpolation N-gram language model in ARPA standard format A method and apparatus are provided for storing parameters of a deleted interpolation language model as parameters of a backoff language model. In particular, the parameters of the deleted interpolation language model are stored in the standard ARPA format. Under on... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403896 | Speech recognition system and program thereof Speech recognition is performed by matching between a characteristic quantity of an inputted speech and a composite HMM obtained by synthesizing a speech HMM (hidden Markov model) and a noise HMM for each speech frame of the inputted speech by use of the composite H... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401019 | Phonetic fragment search in speech data A method of searching audio data is provided including receiving a query defining multiple phonetic possibilities. The method also includes comparing the query with a lattice of phonetic hypotheses associated with the audio data to identify if at least one of the mu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398210 | System and method for performing analysis on word variants A computer-readable medium stores a first lexicon data structure for lexicon words. The first data structure includes a host form variant field containing a host form variant such as a clitic host form variant, a host form field containing the host form of the host ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398209 | Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance 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... | 07/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7392185 | Speech based learning/training system using semantic decoding An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identif... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389230 | System and method for classification of voice signals A system and method for classifying a voice signal to one of a set of predefined categories, based upon a statistical analysis of features extracted from the voice signal. The system includes an acoustic processor and a classifier. The acoustic processor extracts fe... | 06/17/2008 |
