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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7225126 | System and method for processing speech files A system and method for speech file processing which provides users with differentially selectable speech file transcripts which can be sent to one or more other users. The speech files may be voicemail messages from which respective voicemail transcripts are create... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224851 | Method and apparatus for registering modification pattern of transmission image and method and apparatus for reproducing the same The registering method and apparatus read out contents associated with a modification pattern modifying a transmission image to be displayed on a second image display unit of a second communication device when a first communication device including a first image dis... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221742 | Voicemail box with caller-specific storage folders A method and system are provided for creating and utilizing caller-specific memory locations or folders within a single voicemail box of a telecommunications network-based voicemail system. A subscriber to voicemail services sets up a plurality of caller-specific me... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222301 | Method and apparatus enabling voice-based management of state and interaction of a remote knowledge worker in a contact center environment A network system for enabling voice interaction between communications-center applications and human agents remote from the center has a primary server connected to the network the server controlling at least one routing point used by the center, a secondary server ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219073 | Method for extracting information utilizing a user-context-based search engine A data extraction tool is provided for cataloging information in an information source for searching by a user. The tool mines information from the information source and organizes the information, or the locations of that information, within a database. A user may ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219123 | Portable browser device with adaptive personalization capability A mobile information network browser device with audio feedback and adaptive personalization capability that is capable of transmitting a request for information via a wireless communication interface from one or more servers in an information network. The browser d... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219305 | Mark-up language implementation of graphical or non-graphical user interfaces A user interface (132)—be it graphical (GUI) or telephony (TUI) to an application (120) is defined by stored interface and feature description documents (122,124) written in XML and JavaScript, so that the user interface and changes thereto ca... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219058 | System and method for processing speech recognition results An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a mobile device that is used in a communic... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7219060 | Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219064 | Legged robot, legged robot behavior control method, and storage medium To provide a robot which autonomously forms and performs an action plan in response to external factors without direct command input from an operator. When reading a story printed in a book or other print media or recorded in recording media or when reading a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219222 | Method and system to grant access to software options resident on a medical imaging device A system and method are provided that remotely grants limited access and permits use of resident software options in accordance with terms consistent with an access grant. The invention includes receiving an access request from a user to access a software option res... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216287 | Personal voice portal service A method of deriving audio content from visual content can include modifying a visual markup language document requested by a client computer system to specify a control for generating an audio markup language document version of the visual markup language document.... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216081 | Interactive process and system for screening cytological specimens Concentration by cytology personnel, i.e. users, is induced during scanning and marking of cytology slides, by electronic recognition of parsed voice inputs that are spoken by the users, electronic generation of selected voice output alerts that are heard by the use... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212968 | Pattern matching method and apparatus A dynamic programming technique is provided for matching two sequences of phonemes both of which may be generated from text or speech. The scoring of the dynamic programming matching technique uses phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme delet... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212971 | Control apparatus for enabling a user to communicate by speech with a processor-controlled apparatus A control apparatus controls the display of text data which includes a speech link that can be activated by spoken command. The shape of a pointing device cursor displayed on a display is then changed by the apparatus when the pointing device cursor is located over ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213079 | Supplemental request header for applications or devices using web browsers A method and system for generating and/or servicing requests for information requested across networks, such as the Internet, is disclosed. In some embodiments, supplemental request header information is included with HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests for ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213056 | Providing modular telephony service A method for providing telecommunication service to a terminal includes loading a text-based script. The text-based script includes a service definition identifying a user interface web service and an address for the user interface web service. The text-based script... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212965 | Robust parameters for noisy speech recognition A method of automatic processing of noise-affected speech captures and digitizes speech in the form of at least one digitised signal and extracts several time-based sequences or frames corresponding to the signal, by means of an extraction system. Each frame is deco... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209578 | Image based medical report system on a network A system to create and review reports enables interactive manipulation of the displaying of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images associated with image diagnosis reports, at user terminals connected to a medium- or low-speed network. High-speed image processi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209882 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209951 | Method and system for modifying the content of e-mail transmissions based on customization settings A method and system for modifying the content of e-mail transmissions based on customization settings determines when an e-mail user has customized an e-mail message and prompts the user to accept or reject automatic modification of the e-mail message text to indica... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209637 | Image reproducing apparatus having skip function An image reproducing apparatus reproducing image information, having a reproduction processor reproducing the image information stored in the recording medium, a key input section having a skip key, a first skip processor, when the skip key is pressed one time, skip... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204886 | Apparatus and method for hybrid chemical processing A method and apparatus for performing multiple deposition processes is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a chamber body and a gas distribution assembly disposed on the chamber body. In one embodiment, the method comprises positioning a substrate su... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206742 | Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206741 | Method of speech recognition using time-dependent interpolation and hidden dynamic value classes A speech signal is decoded by determining a production-related value for a current state based on an optimal production-related value at the end of a preceding state, the optimal production-related value being selected from a set of continuous values. The production... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7207004 | Correction of misspelled words A method includes identifying a document corpus, creating a dictionary based on words in the document corpus, identifying a potentially misspelled word in a document, and providing a word from the dictionary as likely to correspond to the potentially misspelled word... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203759 | System and method for receiving multi-media messages A system and method of delivering a multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains a talking entity for delivering a sender message. A determination is made as to whether the recipient device has renderin... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203648 | Method for sending multi-media messages with customized audio A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203647 | Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of inf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200565 | System and method for promoting the use of a selected software product having an adaptation module A method for promoting use of a product having an adaptation module is provided comprising the steps of: providing sample data of a person; accessing the sample data associated with the person; using the sample data to adapt the product to the person utilizing the a... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200813 | Performance information edit and playback apparatus The computer-implemented system stores user performance data representing multiple parts. The system also stores style data representing various different musical accompaniments that are displayed in a style data window. The user selectively copies constituent parts... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200556 | Methods and apparatus for accessing and processing multimedia messages stored in a unified multimedia mailbox The invention provides the user of a unified messaging mailbox with efficient, intelligent, media and device sensitive methods and apparatus to access and process (e.g., read, listen, forward, and search) messages. The invention introduces media conversion capabilit... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200557 | Method of reducing index sizes used to represent spectral content vectors A method identifies a codeword to represent a vector derived from an audio signal by applying the vector to first and second decision trees. The first decision tree is associated with a first type of audio sound and produces a first codeword. The second decision tre... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200560 | Portable reading device with display capability A hand held device that captures information with the capability to read only the captured information, display only the captured information, or simultaneously read and display the captured information. The device includes text-to-voice technology, a flat-panel dis... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200208 | Method and system for providing communication services for hearing-impaired parties A method for providing communication services for the hearing-impaired includes establishing a communication link between a hearing-impaired party and a communication assistant. The communication assistant may also establish a voice link with a hearing party. The he... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200558 | Prosody generating device, prosody generating method, and program A prosody generation apparatus capable of suppressing distortion that occurs when generating prosodic patterns and therefore generating a natural prosody is provided. A prosody changing point extraction unit in this apparatus extracts a prosody changing point locate... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197461 | System and method for voice-enabled input for use in the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic, and interactive voice services The delivery of voice serve messages communicating financial, personal or other news telecasts may be customized according to the identity of the recipient and controlled by voice commands. A voice service bureau may generate voice messages for individual subscriber... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197462 | System and method for information access To convert the structure of a Web page into contents that a user can easily listen to, and for permitting the user to access and obtain information without have to perform and navigation, in a manner similar to listening to the radio. A designated target page is obt... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197454 | Audio coding Coding of an audio signal is provided where the coded bitstream semantics and syntax are not related to a specific sampling frequency. Thus, all bitstream parameters required to regenerate the audio signal, including implicit parameters like frame length, are relate... | 03/27/2007 |
