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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7765103 | Rule based speech synthesis method and apparatus A rule based speech synthesis apparatus by which concatenation distortion may be less than a preset value without dependency on utterance, wherein a parameter correction unit reads out a target parameter for a vowel from a target parameter storage, responsive to the... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7444282 | Method of setting optimum-partitioned classified neural network and method and apparatus for automatic labeling using optimum-partitioned classified neural network A method of automatic labeling using an optimum-partitioned classified neural network includes searching for neural networks having minimum errors with respect to a number of L phoneme combinations from a number of K neural network combinations generated at an initi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7409340 | Method and device for determining prosodic markers by neural autoassociators A neural network is used to obtain more robust performance in determining prosodic markers on the basis of linguistic categories. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7343289 | System and method for audio/video speaker detection A system and method for detecting speech utilizing audio and video inputs. In one aspect, the invention collects audio data generated from a microphone device. In another aspect, the invention collects video data and processes the data to determine a mouth location ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333932 | Method for speech synthesis A method, an arrangement and a computer program synthesize speech by grapheme/phoneme conversion. In this case, a search is made for subwords of a given word in a database which contains phonetic transcriptions of words. If at least one subword of the given word is ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328157 | Domain adaptation for TTS systems Embodiments of the present invention pertain to adaptation of a corpus-driven general-purpose TTS system to at least one specific domain. The domain adaptation is realized by adding a limited amount of domain-specific speech that provides a maximum impact on improve... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305341 | Method of reflecting time/language distortion in objective speech quality assessment Disclosed is an objective speech quality assessment technique that reflects the impact of distortions which can dominate overall speech quality assessment by modeling the impact of such distortions on subjective speech quality assessment, thereby, accounting for lan... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293019 | Principles and methods for personalizing newsfeeds via an analysis of information novelty and dynamics A system and methodology is provided for filtering temporal streams of information such as news stories by statistical measures of information novelty. Various techniques can be applied to custom tailor news feeds or other types of information based on information t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7249021 | Simultaneous plural-voice text-to-speech synthesizer A multiple-voice instructing unit (17) instructs pitch deforming ratio and mixing ratio to a multiple-voice synthesis unit (16). The multiple voice synthesis unit (16) generates a standard voice signal by means of waveform superimposition based ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240005 | Method of controlling high-speed reading in a text-to-speech conversion system A method of high-speed reading in a text-to-speech conversion system including a text analysis module (101) for generating a phoneme and prosody character string from an input text; a prosody generation module (102) for generating a synthesis parameter... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7219061 | Method for detecting the time sequences of a fundamental frequency of an audio response unit to be synthesized Predetermined macrosegments of the fundamental frequency are determined by a neural network, and these predefined macrosegments are reproduced by fundamental-frequency sequences stored in a database. The fundamental frequency is generated on the basis of a relativel... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7191132 | Speech synthesis apparatus and method A speech synthesiser is provided with a dialog-style selection arrangement responsive to a factor affecting intelligibility of speech output by the apparatus to select a dialog style intended to provide at least a minimum level of intelligibility of speech output by... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7136811 | Low bandwidth speech communication using default and personal phoneme tables A voice coding and decoding system 300 and method uses a personal phoneme table (320, 344) associated with a voice signature identifier (348) to permit encoding of true sounding voice by personalizing the phoneme table used for encoding and deco... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135636 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain) data that is read from an articulation template database and is outp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7107215 | Determining a compact model to transcribe the arabic language acoustically in a well defined basic phonetic study In the development of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, an extensive study of the basic phonetic alphabet is performed to collect information regarding phonology and phonetics of the language or dialect in question (modern standard Arabic or MSA in this ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107216 | Grapheme-phoneme conversion of a word which is not contained as a whole in a pronunciation lexicon In a method for grapheme-phoneme conversion of a word which is not contained as a whole in a pronunciation lexicon, the word is firstly decomposed into subwords. The subwords are transcribed and chained. As a result, interfaces are formed between the transcriptions ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089184 | Speech recognition for recognizing speaker-independent, continuous speech A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided for converting a voice stream into a digital voice stream representation. A method for performing speech recognition on a voice stream according to a first method embodiment includes the steps of determining one... | 08/08/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6961695 | Generating homophonic neologisms A homophonic neologisms generator can include a dictionary table (10) having one or more entries including an orthography and an associated pronunciation including one or more phonemes; and a weightings table (14) having one or more entries specifying ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6928404 | System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies Systems and methods are provided for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech recognition system having a language vocabulary V of a plurality of word forms. One method for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech recognition syst... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6748387 | Flexible keyword searching A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no results, is a keyword search based on phonetic representations of a se... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6509850 | Method and system for sampling rate conversion in digital audio applications A method for upsampling a digital audio signal is described. The method includes receiving a first digital audio signal including samples and having a first sampling rate. The method also includes outputting at least one sample from the first digital audi... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6396421 | Method and system for sampling rate conversion in digital audio applications A method for upsampling a digital audio signal is described. The method includes receiving a first digital audio signal including samples and having a first sampling rate. The method also includes outputting at least one sample from the first digital audi... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6321226 | Flexible keyboard searching A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no results, is a keyword search based on phonetic representati... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6304845 | Method of transmitting voice data In a transmission of voice data, the stream of voice data is first decomposed into phonemes. For each phoneme a code symbol which is assigned to that specific phoneme in a selectable voice-specific and/or speaker-specific phoneme catalog is transmitted to... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6304865 | Audio diagnostic system and method using frequency spectrum and neural network A method for testing an audio device with a trained neural network includes a loopback connector connecting the output port of the audio device to the input port of the audio device. A test signal is transmitted through the audio port and received at the ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6236966 | System and method for production of audio control parameters using a learning machine A method and device for producing audio control parameters from symbolic representations of desired sounds includes presenting symbols to multiple input windows of a learning machine, where the multiple input windows comprise a lowest window, a higher win... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6226408 | Unsupervised identification of nonlinear data cluster in multidimensional data A system, method, and software product provide for unsupervised identification of complex, nonlinear subspaces in high dimensional data. The system includes a vector quantization module, a weighted topology representing graph module, and an encoding modul... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6178402 | Method, apparatus and system for generating acoustic parameters in a text-to-speech system using a neural network The present invention provides a method, device and system to generate acoustic parameters in a text-to-speech system utilizing a neural network to generate a representation of a trajectory in an acoustic parameter space across a phonetic segment.... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6175818 | Signal verification using signal processing arrangement for time varying band limited input signal A signal processing arrangement for a band-limited input signal, comprising a plurality N of signal comparators. Each signal comparator is adapted to compare the input signal with a plurality of different exemplar signals and to generate an output indicat... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6134528 | Method device and article of manufacture for neural-network based generation of postlexical pronunciations from lexical pronunciations A method (2000), device (2200) and article of manufacture (2300) provide, in response to lexical pronunciation information, efficient generation of postlexical pronunciation information. A method is presented for providing, in response to a lexical pronun... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6128596 | Method, device and system for generalized bidirectional island-driven chart parsing A method (700), device (1101), and system (1100) provide generalized bidirectional island-driven chart parsing based on congruency checking to prevent edge overgeneration for robust and efficient parsing of a word graph. The method prevents edge overgener... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6088671 | Continuous speech recognition of text and commands In a method for use in recognizing continuous speech, signals are accepted corresponding to interspersed speech elements including text elements corresponding to text to be recognized and command elements corresponding to commands to be executed. The elem... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6078884 | Pattern recognition Pattern recognition apparatus uses a recognition processor for processing an input signal to indicate its similarity to allowed sequences of reference patterns to be recognised. A speech recognition processor includes a classification arrangement to ident... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6029132 | Method for letter-to-sound in text-to-speech synthesis A two-stage pronunciation generator utilizes mixed decision trees that includes a network of yes-no questions about letter, syntax, context, and dialect in a spelled word sequence. A second stage utilizes decision trees that includes a network of yes-no q... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6021387 | Speech recognition apparatus for consumer electronic applications A spoken word or phrase recognition device. The device does not require a digital signal processor, large RAM, or extensive analog circuitry. The input audio signal is digitized and passed recursively through a digital difference filter to produce a multi... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5960391 | Signal extraction system, system and method for speech restoration, learning method for neural network model, constructing method of neural network model, and signal processing system A signal extraction system for extracting one or more signal components from an input signal including a plurality of signal components. This system is equipped with a neural network arithmetic section designed to process information through the use of a ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5950162 | Method, device and system for generating segment durations in a text-to-speech system The present invention teaches a method (400), device and system (300) utilizing at least one of: mapping a sequence of phones to a sequence of articulatory features and utilizing prominence and boundary information, in addition to a predetermined set of r... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5930754 | Method, device and article of manufacture for neural-network based orthography-phonetics transformation A method (2000), device (2200) and article of manufacture (2300) provide, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of a phonetic representation. The method provides for, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5913194 | Method, device and system for using statistical information to reduce computation and memory requirements of a neural network based speech synthesis system A method (400), device and system (300) provide, in response to linguistic information, efficient generation of a parametric representation of speech using a neural network. The method provides, in response to linguistic information efficient generation o... | 06/15/1999 |
