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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7062440 | Monitoring text to speech output to effect control of barge-in A speech system has a speech input channel including a speech recognizer, and a speech output channel including a text-to-speech converter. Associated with the input channel is a barge-in control for setting barge-in behavior parameters determining how the apparatus... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058573 | Speech recognition system to selectively utilize different speech recognition techniques over multiple speech recognition passes Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054813 | Automatic generation of efficient grammar for heading selection A method of generating a grammar for recognizing headings in a speech recognition system can include identifying, within a data store, at least one heading selection associated with a content item. At least a first word from the identified heading selections can be ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054812 | Database annotation and retrieval A system is provided for determining a sequence of sub-word units representative of at least two words output by a word recognition unit in response to an input word to be recognized. In a preferred embodiment, the word alternatives output by the recognition unit ar... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050976 | Method and system for use of navigation history in a voice command platform A method and system for using navigation history in a voice command platform. The voice command platform maintains, for each user, a navigation history record indicating which voice command navigation points the user has accessed during one or more sessions with the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050192 | Network printer for printing edited contents on a network and method for printing contents on the network The invention makes use of that fact that the layout of a web page providing a variety of contents is rarely modified but only the contents in the layout is modified. A network printer stores in advance a network address (for example URL) where contents are retained... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050973 | Speaker recognition using dynamic time warp template spotting An improved template spotting technique may be implemented as part of text dependent speaker verification system to authenticate a user of a wireless communication device. This technique may be suitable for use in noisy environments and for wireless communication de... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050977 | Speech-enabled server for internet website and method An Internet-based server with speech support for enhanced interactivity is disclosed. This server hosts a server-side speech recognition engine and additional linguistic and database functions that cooperate to provide enhanced interactivity for clients so that thei... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047183 | Method and apparatus for using wildcards in semantic parsing A method and apparatus perform semantic parsing by designating one or more words in an input text stream as wildcards. Under some embodiments, partially constructed parses formed from other words in the text stream are used to control when a later word will be ident... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047196 | System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047197 | Changing characteristics of a voice user interface The invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, and system capable of changing a voice user interface possessing both operational characteristics and security characteristics based upon user-specific contextual information. The voice processing system consis... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047526 | Generic command interface for multiple executable routines A processor based system having a parser is configured for validating a generic command received from a user relative to a command parse tree. The command parse tree includes multiple elements, each specifying at least one corresponding generic command component and... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046772 | Method and system for call, facsimile and electronic message forwarding A method and system are provided for forwarding telephone calls, facsimile transmissions and electronic messages to a single forwarding telephone number. The telephone calls, fax transmissions and electronic messages are first forwarded to a central forwarding repos... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043429 | Speech recognition with plural confidence measures A speech recognition system is used to receive a speech signal and output an output language word with respect to the speech signal. The speech recognition system has preset quantities for a first threshold, a second threshold, and a third threshold. The speech reco... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043431 | Multilingual speech recognition system using text derived recognition models There is provided a novel approach for generating multilingual text-to-phoneme mappings for use in multilingual speech recognition systems. The multilingual mappings are based on the weighted output from a neural network text-to-phoneme model, trained on data mixed ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043535 | Systems and methods for combined browsing and searching in a document collection based on information scent Techniques are provided for combining searching and browsing into a single interface. The topology and content of a document collection or web site is determined and user information need keywords are determined. Relevant documents are identified using search techni... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043422 | Method and apparatus for distribution-based language model adaptation A method and apparatus are provided for adapting a language model to a task-specific domain. Under the method and apparatus, the relative frequency of n-grams in a small training set (i.e. task-specific training data set) and the relative frequency of n-grams in a l... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039636 | Document retrieval method and document retrieval system Word boundary identification operations such as morpheme analysis is performed on documents to be registered, and the top positions and the end positions of words are identified. Word boundary information is obtained based on these identification results. Search ind... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035788 | Language model sharing The sharing of language models is disclosed. In one embodiment, a language model service is provided that is shareable among handlers for input devices. The service includes a pre-processing mode of operation, and a correction mode of operation. In the former mode, ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035801 | Text language detection A method of determining the language of a text message received by a mobile telecommunications device indicates receiving an input text message at a mobile telecommunications device; analyzing the input text message using language information stored in the mobile te... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035775 | Similar time series detection method and apparatus, program and recording medium A method, an apparatus and a program for detecting similarity between two time-domain signals, at a high speed, and a recording medium on which is recorded such program. The process for detecting the similarity is split into a stage for calculating the similarity be... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031907 | Tool for constructing voice recognition grammars A voice recognition grammar (“VRG”) tool for facilitating the creation of speech grammars for speech recognition applications is described. The VRG tool 114 uses syntax diagrams to enable a developer to visually build vendor-independent speech recognition... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031908 | Creating a language model for a language processing system A method for creating a language model from a task-independent corpus is provided. In one embodiment, a task dependent unified language model is created. The unified language model includes a plurality of context-free grammars having non-terminals and a hybrid N-gra... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031918 | Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more supervised and/or unsupervised corpora Unsupervised speech data is provided to a speech recognizer that recognizes the speech data and outputs a recognition result along with a confidence measure for each recognized word. A task-related acoustic model is generated based on the recognition result, the spe... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031925 | Method and apparatus for creating customer specific dynamic grammars A method and apparatus create a dynamic grammar pertaining to a current user from a global database of data items. A user first identifies himself to the system using a predetermined input identifier, such as an account number, for example. On the basis of this inpu... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032167 | Method and apparatus for a document parser specification The present disclosure presents a system for parsing based upon content type, and provides a content-rich set of parsing rules that can be optimized for a wide variety of applications. The present system also recognizes different types of content in addition to text... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027991 | Voice-responsive command and control system and methodology for use in a signal measurement system A speech-responsive command and control system and methodology for use in a signal measurement system, enabling an operator to control certain features and functions of the oscilloscope without using manual or graphical controls. A speech-responsive command and cont... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027975 | Guided natural language interface system and method A method for a guided natural language interface includes inputting to a thin client a query, communicating to an interface intermediary, communicating to an interface descriptor data source, generating an interface descriptor, communicating the interface descriptor... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027977 | Indexing productions for use in a left-corner chart parser which parses input text containing input symbols Different embodiments of the present invention provide improvements to left-corner chart parsing. The improvements include a specific order of filtering checks, transforming the grammar using bottom-up prefix merging, indexing productions first based on input symbol... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027985 | Speech recognition method with a replace command A speech recognition method (4) with a text editing method of editing a text information part (TW) erroneously recognized in first text information (TI1) with a four-word spoken command (SB) recognized in second text information (TI2) is disclos... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027987 | Voice interface for a search engine A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query us... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027988 | System and method of ε removal of weighted automata and transducers An improved ε-removal method is disclosed that computes for any input weighted automaton A with ε-transitions an equivalent weighted automaton B with no ε-transitions. The method comprises two main steps. The first step comprises computing for each state “p” ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028306 | Systems and methods for implementing modular DOM (Document Object Model)-based multi-modal browsers Systems and methods for building multi-modal browsers applications and, in particular, to systems and methods for building modular multi-modal browsers using a DOM (Document Object Model) and MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that enables a user to interact in p... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024366 | Speech recognition with user specific adaptive voice feedback A multi-level speech recognition driven system provides user specific adaptive voice feedback based on a specific user's level of sophistication. If a voice input is detected, the system determines whether the voice input is associated with a specific user. When a u... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024363 | Methods and apparatus for contingent transfer and execution of spoken language interfaces A method for managing spoken language interface data structures and collections of user interface service engines in a spoken language dialog manager in a personal speech assistant. Interfaces, designed as part of applications, may by these methods be added to or re... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024350 | Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammer 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... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024348 | Dialogue flow interpreter development tool A computer software product is used to create applications for enabling a dialogue between a human and a computer. The software product provides a programming tool that insulates software developers from time-consuming, technically-challenging programming tasks by e... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024361 | Information processing apparatus and method, a computer readable medium storing a control program for making a computer implemented information process, and a control program for selecting a specific grammar corresponding to an active input field or for controlling selection of a grammar or comprising a code of a selection step of selecting a specific grammar An information processing apparatus inputs a document having a plurality of input fields, and displays it using a display control item. The apparatus then determines whether or not one of the plurality of input fields is designated by the user. Specific grammar corr... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024351 | Method and apparatus for robust efficient parsing The present invention provides a method for improving the efficiency of parsing text. Aspects of the invention include representing parse tokens as integers where a portion of the integer indicates the location in which a definition for the token can be found. In a ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024368 | Man-machine dialogue system, controls dialogue between system and user using dialogue specification employing augmented transition networks propagating tokens A man-machine dialogue system employing an interactive computer system comprising an input device for receiving input from the user. An output device generating output to the user. There is provided an object system which is an information source or store, or a comm... | 04/04/2006 |
