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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7895040 | Device and method of modeling acoustic characteristics with HMM and collating the same with a voice characteristic vector sequence According to an embodiment, voice recognition apparatus includes units of: acoustic processing, voice interval detecting, dictionary, collating, search target selecting, storing and determining, and voice recognition method includes processes of: selecting a search ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7437288 | Speech recognition apparatus A speech recognition apparatus using a probability model that employs a mixed distribution, the apparatus formed by a standard pattern storage means for storing a standard pattern; a recognition means for outputting recognition results corresponding to an input spee... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7398208 | Method for producing reference segments describing voice modules and method for modeling voice units of a spoken test model A method models voice units and produces reference segments for modeling voice units. The reference segments describe voice modules by characteristic vectors, the characteristic vectors being stored in the order in which they are found in a training voice signal. Al... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7324941 | Method and apparatus for discriminative estimation of parameters in maximum a posteriori (MAP) speaker adaptation condition and voice recognition method and apparatus including these A method and apparatus for discriminative estimation of parameters in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) speaker adaptation condition, and a voice recognition apparatus having the apparatus and a voice recognition method using the method are provided. The method for discr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319959 | Multi-source phoneme classification for noise-robust automatic speech recognition A system and method are disclosed for processing an audio signal including separating the audio signal into a plurality of streams which group sounds from a same source prior to classification and analyzing each separate stream to determine phoneme-level classificat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308030 | Object activity modeling method An object activity modeling method which can efficiently model complex objects such as a human body is provided. The object activity modeling method includes the steps of (a) obtaining an optical flow vector from a video sequence; (b) obtaining the probability distr... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7286984 | Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detec... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275034 | Word-specific acoustic models in a speech recognition system A speech recognizer has an acoustic model that includes word-specific models, that are specific to candidate words. The candidate words would otherwise be mapped to a series of general phones. A decoder transcribes input speech into words formed by shared phones, wo... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7266494 | Method and apparatus for identifying noise environments from noisy signals A method and apparatus are provided for identifying a noise environment for a frame of an input signal based on at least one feature for that frame. To identify the noise environment, a probability for a noise environment is determined by applying the noisy input fe... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260529 | Command insertion system and method for voice recognition applications A speech recognition system and method operates a speech recognition application on a computer in a continuous dictation mode. A separate key pad is coupled to the computer through the USB port, and includes a plurality of keys for providing command signals represen... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257532 | Apparatus and method for speech recognition Before executing a speech recognition, a composite acoustic model adapted to noise is generated by composition of a noise adaptive representative acoustic model generated by noise-adaptation of each representative acoustic model and difference models stored in advan... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254528 | Tool for defining verbs and adverbs in a fault injection test creation environment The present invention provides a method and apparatus for defining verbs and adverbs. The method includes creating at least one of a verb and adverb, wherein the at least one of a verb and adverb are adapted to form sequences and the sequences are adapted to create ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243063 | Classifier-based non-linear projection for continuous speech segmentation A method segments an audio signal including frames into non-speech and speech segments. First, high-dimensional spectral features are extracted from the audio signal. The high-dimensional features are then projected non-linearly to low-dimensional features that are ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228275 | Speech recognition system having multiple speech recognizers A speech recognition system recognizes an input speech signal by using a first speech recognizer and a second speech recognizer each coupled to a decision module. Each of the first and second speech recognizers outputs first and second recognized speech texts and fi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7184162 | Information processing methodology An information processing methodology gives rise to an application program interface which includes an automated digitizing unit, such as a scanner, which inputs information from a diversity of hard copy documents and stores information from the hard copy documents ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7143073 | Method of generating a test suite The invention relates to generating a test suite of instructions for testing the operation of a processor. A fuzzy finite state machine with a plurality of states 2 and transitions 4 determined by weights W1, W2 . . . W10 is used t... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133826 | Method and apparatus using spectral addition for speaker recognition A method and apparatus for speaker recognition is provided that matches the noise in training data to noise in testing data using spectral addition. Under spectral addition, the mean and variance for a plurality of frequency components are adjusted in the training d... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120580 | Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment An apparatus and a concomitant method for speech recognition. In one embodiment, the present method is referred to as a “Dynamic Noise Compensation” (DNC) method where the method estimates the models for noisy speech using models for clean speech and a noise mod... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7076422 | Modelling and processing filled pauses and noises in speech recognition A speech recognition system recognizes filled pause utterances made by a speaker. In one embodiment, an ergodic model is used to acoustically model filled pauses that provides flexibility allowing varying utterances of the filled pauses to be made. The ergodic HMM m... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065488 | Speech recognition system with an adaptive acoustic model At the time of the speaker adaptation, first feature vector generation sections (7, 8, 9) generate a feature vector series [Ci, M] from which the additive noise and multiplicative noise are removed. A second feature vector generation section (12... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065524 | Identification and correction of confounders in a statistical analysis Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying and/or compensating for relationships between influencers and outcomes. First, a metadata model of information that characterizes relationships between influencers and outcomes is built. A query is accepted from a us... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062436 | Word-specific acoustic models in a speech recognition system An acoustic model includes word-specific models, that are specific to candidate words. The candidate words would otherwise be mapped to a series of general phones. A sub-series of the general phones representing the candidate word is modeled by a new phone and the n... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054814 | Method and apparatus of selecting segments for speech synthesis by way of speech segment recognition A speech segment search unit searches a speech database for speech segments that satisfy a phonetic environment, and a HMM learning unit computes the HMMs of phonemes on the basis of the search result. A segment recognition unit performs segment recognition of speec... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7035807 | Sound on sound-annotations A Sound on Sound-Annotations (SOS-A) system facilitates the collection, categorization, and retrieval of streams of sound. A stream of sound is captured and annotations of sound concerning the stream of sound are generated for positions of interest or relevancy. The... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024360 | System for reconstruction of symbols in a sequence A method of reconstructing a damaged sequence of symbols where some symbols are missing is provided in which statistical parameters of the sequence are used with confidence windowing techniques to quickly and efficiently reconstruct the damaged sequence to its origi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016837 | Voice recognition system An initial combination HMM 16 is generated from a voice HMM 10 having multiplicative distortions and an initial noise HMM of additive noise, and at the same time, a Jacobian matrix J is calculated by a Jacobian matrix calculating section 19. Noi... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010483 | Speech processing system A speech processing system is provided which is operable to receive sets of signal values representative of a speech signal generated by a speech source. The system is operable to determine a measure of the quality of the speech signal by performing a statistical an... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6629073 | Speech recognition method and apparatus utilizing multi-unit models A speech recognition method and system utilize an acoustic model that is capable of providing probabilities for both a large acoustic unit and an acoustic sub-unit. Each of these probabilities describes the likelihood of a set of feature vectors from a se... | 09/30/2003 |
| 5515475 | Speech recognition method using a two-pass search A method of recognizing speech comprises searching a vocabulary of words for a match to an unknown utterance. Words in the vocabulary are represented by concatenated allophone models and the vocabulary is represented as a network. On a first pass of the s... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5276766 | Fast algorithm for deriving acoustic prototypes for automatic speech recognition An apparatus for generating a set of acoustic prototype signals for encoding speech includes a memory for storing a training script model comprising a series of word-segment models. Each word-segment model comprises a series of elementary models. An acous... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5072452 | Automatic determination of labels and Markov word models in a speech recognition system In a Markov model speech recognition system, an acoustic processor generates one label after another selected from an alphabet of labels. Each vocabulary word is represented as a baseform constructed of a sequence of Markov models. Each Markov model is st... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5050215 | Speech recognition method For circumstance adaption, for example, speaker adaption, confusion coefficients between the labels of the label alphabet for initial training and those for adaption are determined by alignment of adaption speech with the corresponding initially trained M... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5046099 | Adaptation of acoustic prototype vectors in a speech recognition system In a speech recognition system, the prior parameters of acoustic prototype vectors are adapted to a new speaker to obtain posterior parameters by having the speaker utter a set of adaptation words. The prior parameters of an acoustic prototype vector are ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4852180 | Speech recognition by acoustic/phonetic system and technique A speech recognition system and technique of the acoustic/phonetic type is made speaker-independent and capable of continuous speech recognition during fluent discourse by a combination of techniques which include, inter alia, using a so-called continuous... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4827521 | Training of markov models used in a speech recognition system In a word, or speech, recognition system for decoding a vocabulary word from outputs selected from an alphabet of outputs in response to a communicated word input wherein each word in the vocabulary is represented by a baseform of at least one probabilist... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4348553 | Parallel pattern verifier with dynamic time warping A speech recognition system is disclosed which employs a network of elementary local decision modules for matching an observed time-varying speech pattern against all possible time warpings of the stored prototype patterns. For each elementary speech segm... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4326101 | System for recognizing a word sequence by dynamic programming and by the use of a state transition diagram Operation of a continuous speech recognition system operable according to the dynamic programming technique, is controlled by a state transition diagram in compliance with which word sequences to be recognized by the system with reference to a predetermin... | 04/20/1982 |
