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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190436 | System and method of spoken language understanding in human computer dialogs A system and method are disclosed that improve automatic speech recognition in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises partitioning speech recognizer output into self-contained clauses, identifying a dialog act in each of the self-contained clauses, qualifying ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175886 | Determination of signal-processing approach based on signal destination characteristics A comprehensive system and method for telematics including the following features individually or in sub-combinations: vehicle user interfaces, telecommunications, speech recognition, digital commerce and vehicle parking, digital signal processing, wireless transmis... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175885 | Controlling a set-top box via remote speech recognition A device may receive over a network a digitized speech signal from a remote control that accepts speech. In addition, the device may convert the digitized speech signal into text, use the text to obtain command information applicable to a set-top box, and send the c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170881 | Distributed voice browser The present invention can include a method of call processing using a distributed voice browser including allocating a plurality of service processors configured to interpret parsed voice markup language data and allocating a plurality of voice markup language parse... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165885 | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested text data is retrieved from a source, such as a database, and converted... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160884 | Methods and apparatus for automatically extending the voice vocabulary of mobile communications devices The invention is a method of improving the performance of a speech recognizer. The method generally involves: providing a lexicon for the speech recognizer; monitoring a user's interaction with a network; accessing a plurality of words associated with the monitored ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160883 | Focus tracking in dialogs Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer, confirmation, command or statement. A module forms a dialog by making use... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150696 | Method of providing dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity A device for providing dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity with a network server includes a connection determiner that determines the level of network connectivity of the client device and the network server; and a simplified spee... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131557 | Speech recognition and transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a system transaction manager that receives a speech information request ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131555 | System and method for funneling user responses in an internet voice portal system to determine a desired item or service A method of funneling user responses in a voice portal system to determine a desired item or service includes (a) establishing an attribute value associated with a particular attribute of a desired item or service and (b) determining if the attribute value satisfies... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131556 | Communications using different modalities Communications between users of different modalities are enabled by a single integrated platform that allows both the input of voice (from a telephone, for example) to be realized as text (such as an interactive text message) and allows the input of text (from the i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126719 | Interactive voice recognition and response over the internet Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the Internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start until they receive responsive feedback. A user uses a client to access the Internet and ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121843 | Fingerprint methods and systems for media signals The present invention relates generally to fingerprinting, e.g., a reduced-bit representation or other identifier of a media signal (e.g., audio, video or still images). One method recites: receiving a partial fingerprint of a media signal, wherein the partial finge... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121844 | Dimension measurement system A dimension measurement system is provided. The dimension measurement system includes a speech I/O device fit in an ear canal of a worker, generating a voice signal from vibration in the air emitted from an eardrum of the worker and propagated inside the ear canal, ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117035 | Method and device for verifying the identity of a user of several telecommunication services using biometric characteristics A method and device for verification of an identity of a subscriber of a communication service on a telecommunications network is provided. The communication service requires authentication of the subscriber. The verification includes comparing a reference biometric... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112283 | In-vehicle audio apparatus An audio apparatus has a function of correcting an audio signal in response to a noise level. The audio apparatus includes a correction unit that corrects an input audio signal on the basis of a weighting factor, an output unit that produces a played-back audio soun... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103509 | Wireless server based text to speech email An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media player, thus eliminating the need for a unified messaging system. Emai... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103508 | Voice activated language translation A voice activated language translation system that is accessed by telephones where voice messages of a caller are translated into a selected language and returned to the caller or optionally sent to another caller. A voice recognition system converts the voice messa... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099284 | System and method for speech recognition system A digital speech enabled middleware module is disclosed that facilitates interaction between a large number of client devices and network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) resources. The module buffers feature vectors associated with speech received from the ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086460 | Speech-enabled application that uses web 2.0 concepts to interface with speech engines The present invention discloses a speech-enabled application that includes two or more linked markup documents that together form a speech-enabled application served by a Web 2.0 server. The linked markup documents can conform to an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) ba... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078469 | Distributed voice user interface A distributed voice user interface system includes a local device which receives speech input issued from a user. Such speech input may specify a command or a request by the user. The local device performs preliminary processing of the speech input and determines wh... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073699 | Numeric weighting of error recovery prompts for transfer to a human agent from an automated speech response system A method for a speech response system to automatically transfer users to human agents. The method can establish an interactive dialog session between a user and an automated speech response system. An error score can be established when the interactive dialog sessio... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073700 | Retrieval and presentation of network service results for mobile device using a multimodal browser A method of obtaining information using a mobile device can include receiving a request including speech data from the mobile device, and querying a network service using query information extracted from the speech data, whereby search results are received from the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069047 | Dynamically defining a VoiceXML grammar in an X+V page of a multimodal application Dynamically defining a VoiceXML grammar of a multimodal application, implemented with the multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal applicat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060371 | System and method for voice interaction with non-voice enabled web pages Systems and methods for voice interaction with non-voice enabled web pages and browsers are provided. A communication unit that does not provide for voice enabled web browsing can be provided with a hardware and/or software plug-in. The plug-in can receive non-voice... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050929 | Method and system of optimal selection strategy for statistical classifications in dialog systems An optimal selection or decision strategy is described through an example that includes use in dialog systems. The selection strategy or method includes receiving multiple predictions and multiple probabilities. The received predictions predict the content of a rece... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046229 | Method and apparatus for website navigation by the visually impaired The present invention is a server-side method and apparatus that enables visually-impaired users to navigate websites and hear high-quality streaming audio of narration and descriptions of each website. The system involves creating an audible website corresponding t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046227 | Development system for a dialog system A development system, including a scenario generator for generating a plurality of sample interactions representative of interactions between a dialog system and a user of the dialog system on the basis of definition data for the dialog system. The definition data i... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046228 | Voice activated hypermedia systems using grammatical metadata This is a voice activated Hypermedia system using grammatical metadata, the system comprising: a speech user agent; a browsing module; and an information resource. The system may include: embedded intelligence in hypermedia source; a means for processing the actions... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041575 | System and method for enabling voice driven interactions among multiple IVR's, constituting a voice workflow A method for enabling voice driven interactions among multiple interactive voice response (IVR) systems begins by receiving a telephone call from a user of a first IVR system to begin a transaction; and, automatically contacting, by the first IVR system, at least on... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036901 | Systems and methods of performing speech recognition using sensory inputs of human position Embodiments of the present invention improve methods of performing speech recognition using sensory inputs of human position. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a speech recognition method comprising sensing a change in position of at least one part o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032379 | Creating and editing web 2.0 entries including voice enabled ones using a voice only interface The present invention discloses a method for creating Web 2.0 entries, such as WIKI entries. In the method, a voice communication channel can be established between a user and an automated response system. User speech input can be received over the voice communicati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027839 | Using an automated speech application environment to automatically provide text exchange services The present solution includes an automated response method. The method can receive user interactions entered through a real-time text exchange interface. These user interactions with the speech application can be dynamically and automatically converted as necessary ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027840 | Enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019608 | Distributed speech recognition using one way communication A speech recognition client sends a speech stream and control stream in parallel to a server-side speech recognizer over a network. The network may be an unreliable, low-latency network. The server-side speech recognizer recognizes the speech stream continuously. Th... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019607 | Establishing call-based audio sockets within a componentized voice server A method of interfacing a telephone application server and a speech engine can include the step of establishing one or more audio sockets in a media converting component of the telephone application server. The audio socket can remain available for approximately a d... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019606 | Identification and selection of a software application via speech An audible indication of a user's position within a given speech grammar framework is provided for a speech-enabled software application, and recognition of speech grammars are limited to use only when a software application that has requested a given set of speech ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010365 | Method and system for integrating an interactive voice response system into a host application system The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for integrating an interactive voice response (IVR) environment into an existing host processing system to provide automated telephone responses to callers to the host system. The integrated IVR envir... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005679 | Global speech user interface A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the progress of his spoken requests, a set of visual cues on the television sc... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000970 | Distributed voice browser The present invention can include a method of call processing using a distributed voice browser including allocating a plurality of service processors configured to interpret parsed voice markup language data and allocating a plurality of voice markup language parse... | 08/16/2011 |
