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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5680511 | Systems and methods for word recognition In one aspect, the invention provides word recognition systems that operate to recognize an unrecognized or ambiguous word that occurs within a passage of words. The system can offer several words as choice words for inserting into the passage to replace ... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5677992 | Method and arrangement in automatic extraction of prosodic information The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for determining stresses in a spoken sequence. From a sequence recognized in the spoken speech, a model of the speech is created. By comparing the spoken sequence with the modelled speech, a differ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5677993 | Information processing apparatus using pointing input and speech input Each character string information obtained based on each information inputted by the CRT touch input device and the speech input device respectively is integrated by the input control unit and the memory. The input information analyzing unit analyses the ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5675705 | Spectrogram-feature-based speech syllable and word recognition using syllabic language dictionary A speech recognizing device performing speech syllable recognition and language word identification. The speech syllable recognition is performed on an ensemble composed of nearly one thousand syllables formed by the human vocal system, which allows for v... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5675707 | Automated call router system and method An automated call routing system and method which operates on a call-routing objective of a calling party expressed in natural speech of the calling party. The system incorporates a speech recognition function, as to which a calling party's natural-speech... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5668928 | Speech recognition system and method with automatic syntax generation A syntax rule authoring system automatically generates syntax rules for an application program's predefined inputs, thereby enabling the application program to be used with a syntax based speech recognition system. The syntax rule authoring system include... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5651095 | Speech synthesis using word parser with knowledge base having dictionary of morphemes with binding properties and combining rules to identify input word class A speech synthesis system includes a phonological converter, a word parser, a syllable parser, temporal and parametric interpreters, a file and a synthesizer. The word parser and syllable parser receive an input text which includes words in a defined word... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5634086 | Method and apparatus for voice-interactive language instruction Spoken-language instruction method and apparatus employ context-based speech recognition for instruction and evaluation, particularly language instruction and language fluency evaluation. A system can administer a lesson, and particularly a language lesso... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5621859 | Single tree method for grammar directed, very large vocabulary speech recognizer The invention provides a method of large vocabulary speech recognition that employs a single tree-structured phonetic hidden Markov model (HMM) at each frame of a time-synchronous process. A grammar probability is utilized upon recognition of each phoneme... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5510981 | Language translation apparatus and method using context-based translation models An apparatus for translating a series of source words in a first language to a series of target words in a second language. For an input series of source words, at least two target hypotheses, each including a series of target words, are generated. Each t... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5509104 | Speech recognition employing key word modeling and non-key word modeling Speaker independent recognition of small vocabularies, spoken over the long distance telephone network, is achieved using two types of models, one type for defined vocabulary words (e.g., collect, calling-card, person, third-number and operator), and one ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5425128 | Automatic management system for speech recognition processes In a computer system including an input-output terminal and an application program having a vocabulary file of acceptable input words and keystroke characters associated with the input words, the vocabulary file and corresponding keystroke characters are ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5384701 | Language translation system A language translation system for translating phrases from a first language into a second language comprises a store holding a collection of phrases in the second language. Phrases input in the first language are each characterized on the basis of one or ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5293584 | Speech recognition system for natural language translation A speech recognition system displays a source text of one or more words in a source language. The system has an acoustic processor for generating a sequence of coded representations of an utterance to be recognized. The utterance comprises a series of one... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5281143 | Learning doll A doll, apparently capable of learning through a combination of human speech and touch interaction, includes a speech generator for generating upon actuation the currently indexed sound in a predetermined sequence of sounds. The sequence of sounds evidenc... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5058167 | Speech recognition device A speech recognition device for recognizing a speech by analyzing an input speech characteristic portion extracted from the input speech and comparing the extracted characteristic portion with speech dictionary templates, the device including a speech hol... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4947438 | Process for the recognition of a continuous flow of spoken words Continuous speech recognition assigns predetermined words to syntactic categories and defines the syntactic categories which can follow and precede each predetermined word. The recognition process is achieved by comparing the input sequence of speech sign... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4896358 | Method and apparatus of rejecting false hypotheses in automatic speech recognizer systems An automatic speech recognition system employs parallel syntaxes with a first syntax operative to compare keyword templates with incoming speech over a given time interval and with a second syntax in parallel with the first and operative to compare filler... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4624008 | Apparatus for automatic speech recognition An apparatus and method for recognition of sentences comprised of utterances separated by short pauses, the utterances representative of both isolated words and connected words. Speech to be recognized is converted into frames of digital signals. Selected... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4555796 | DP Matching system for recognizing a string of words connected according to a regular grammar A connected word recognition system operable according to a DP algorithm and in compliance with a regular grammar, is put into operation in synchronism with successive specification of feature vectors of an input pattern. In an m-th period in which an m-t... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4489435 | Method and apparatus for continuous word string recognition A speech recognition method and apparatus for recognizing word strings in a continuous audio signal are disclosed. The word strings are made up of a plurality of elements, and each element, generally a word, is represented by an element template defined b... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4481593 | Continuous speech recognition An improved speech recognition method and apparatus for recognizing keywords in a continuous audio signal are disclosed. The keywords, generally either a word or a string of words, are each represented by an element template defined by a plurality of targ... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4277644 | Syntactic continuous speech recognizer The accuracy of segmenting an utterance into words is improved by the use of sequence-defining signals. An utterance is recognized as one of a plurality of reference word sequences in an arrangement wherein a set of signals is generated to define the synt... | 07/07/1981 |
