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| 8190433 | Structure for grammar and dictionary representation in voice recognition and method for simplifying link and node-generated grammars A speech recognition engine is provided with an acoustic model and a layered grammar and dictionary library. The layered grammar and dictionary library includes a language and non-grammar layer that supplies types of rules a grammar definition layer can use and defi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185394 | Method for accessing data via voice A method for providing access to data via a voice interface. In one embodiment, the system includes a voice recognition unit and a speech processing server that work together to enable users to interact with the system using voice commands guided by navigation conte... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175878 | Representing n-gram language models for compact storage and fast retrieval Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for representing language models. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes generating a compact language model including receiving a c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160879 | System and method for enhancing speech recognition accuracy Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. The method includes dividing a system dialog turn into segments based on timing of probable user responses, generating a weighted grammar for each segment, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155961 | Adaptation of automatic speech recognition acoustic models A user terminal may determine a phoneme distribution of a text corpus, determine an acoustic model gain distribution of phonemes of an acoustic model before and after adaptation of the acoustic model, determine a desired phoneme distribution based on the phoneme dis... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155962 | Method and system for asynchronously processing natural language utterances The methods and systems described herein may asynchronously process natural language utterances to provide real-time response performance and natural interaction with users. In particular, the methods and systems described herein may use various natural language spe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150693 | Methods and apparatus for natural spoken language speech recognition A word prediction apparatus and 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... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150694 | System and method for providing an acoustic grammar to dynamically sharpen speech interpretation The system and method described herein may provide an acoustic grammar to dynamically sharpen speech interpretation. In particular, the acoustic grammar may be used to map one or more phonemes identified in a user verbalization to one or more syllables or words, whe... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145489 | System and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based input A system and method for selecting and presenting advertisements based on natural language processing of voice-based inputs is provided. A user utterance may be received at an input device, and a conversational, natural language processor may identify a request from ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140337 | Apparatus, method and program for text mining Disclosed is an apparatus includes a text input device that inputs text data provided with confidence measure, as subject for mining, a language processing unit that performs language analysis of the input text data provided with the confidence measures, a confidenc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140335 | System and method for providing a natural language voice user interface in an integrated voice navigation services environment A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140336 | Speech recognition system with huge vocabulary The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131548 | Dynamically adjusting speech grammar weights based on usage A speech processing method can automatically and dynamically adjust speech grammar weights at runtime based upon usage data. Each of the speech grammar weights can be associated with an available speech command contained within a speech grammar to which the speech g... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126715 | Facilitating multimodal interaction with grammar-based speech applications Multimodal interaction with grammar-based speech applications may be facilitated with a device by presenting permissible phrases that are in-grammar based on acceptable terms that are in-vocabulary and that have been recognized from a spoken utterance. In an example... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126714 | Voice search device A text data search using a voice is conventionally a full-text search using a word as an index word for a part recognized as a word in an input voice. Therefore, if any of the parts recognized as the words is falsely recognized, a search precision is lowered. In the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8095364 | Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8069046 | Dynamic speech sharpening An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065148 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for one-step correction of voice interaction A one-step correction mechanism for voice interaction is provided. Correction of a previous state is enabled simultaneously with recognition in a current or subsequent state. An application is decomposed into a set of tasks. Each task is associated with the collecti... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065147 | Gramma generation for password recognition A password grammar for speech recognition is described. A password is normalized into a list of strings of a plurality of character types such as letters and numerals. For each string of letters, one or more corresponding letter permutations are determined which rep... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060369 | System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website Disclosed is a system and method for training a spoken dialog service component from website data. Spoken dialog service components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language understanding module, a dialog management module, a language gene... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060368 | Speech recognition apparatus A voice recognition apparatus 10, which performs voice recognition of an input voice by referring to a voice recognition dictionary and outputs a voice recognition result, has an external information acquiring section 14 for acquiring from externally c... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041568 | Business listing search A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes prompting a user to provide a type of business and an identifier of a specific business, receiving from the user a speech input having information about the type of business and the iden... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036893 | Method and system for identifying and correcting accent-induced speech recognition difficulties A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The sp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8000965 | Information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech An information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech. The information-processing device and method includes analyzing speech-recognition-grammar data, generating data on a template used to input data by speec... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000966 | Methods and apparatus for natural spoken language speech recognition with word prediction A word prediction method and apparatus improves precision and accuracy. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial analysis tr... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983917 | Dynamic speech sharpening An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974844 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for recognizing speech A speech recognition apparatus includes a first-candidate selecting unit that selects a recognition result of a first speech from first recognition candidates based on likelihood of the first recognition candidates; a second-candidate selecting unit that extracts re... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970615 | Turn-taking confidence A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957970 | Method and system for predicting problematic situations in automated dialog The invention concerns a system and method of predicting problematic dialogs in an automated dialog system based on the user's input communications. The method may include determining whether a probability of conducting a successful dialog with the user exceeds a fi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957971 | System and method of spoken language understanding using word confusion networks Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949528 | System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method includes generating an unweighted grammar, selecting a database of words, generating a weighted grammar using the unweighted grammar and a statistical let... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7925506 | Speech recognition accuracy via concept to keyword mapping The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925507 | Method and apparatus for recognizing large list of proper names in spoken dialog systems Embodiments of a name recognition process for use in dialog systems are described. In one embodiment, the name recognition process assigns weighting values to names used in a dialog based on the usage of these names. This process takes advantage of the general tende... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904297 | Dialogue management using scripts and combined confidence scores Representation-neutral dialogue systems and methods (“RNDS”) are described that include multi-application, multi-device spoken-language dialogue systems based on the information-state update approach. The RNDS includes representation-neutral core components of a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890329 | Apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among dialogue turns Disclosed is directed an apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among multiple dialogue turns. The apparatus includes a rule set storage unit having a rule set containing one or more rules, an evolutionary rule generation module ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890328 | Enhanced accuracy for speech recognition grammars Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based o... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881936 | Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877258 | Representing n-gram language models for compact storage and fast retrieval Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for representing language models. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes generating a compact language model including receiving a c... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877257 | Method and system to parameterize dialog systems for the purpose of branding A method and system to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, includes providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value, integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system, and configuring the subcomponent t... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873519 | Natural language speech lattice containing semantic variants 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... | 01/18/2011 |
