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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7668719 | Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus In an interactive process using speech recognition together with a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of settable graphical user interface items, the recognition rate is improved by reducing recognition target vocabulary. A settable graphical user inter... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7653543 | Automatic signal adjustment based on intelligibility The present invention is directed toward a method, device, and system for providing a high quality communication session. The system provides a way of determining speech characteristics of participants in the communication session and adjusting, if necessary, signal... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640162 | Semantic canvas A system for synchronizing a natural language input element and a graphical user interface has a synchronization engine. The synchronization engine is adapted to monitor user interactions with the natural language input element and the graphical user interface and t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634411 | Synchronized externally generated sound effects for model trains A system for generating realistic train sounds which are synchronized with the motion of a model train. A sensor is placed aboard the model train to sense the position of desired components, such as the driving pistons of a model steam engine. Preferably, sound data... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634410 | Method of audio-intonation calibration An audio-intonation calibration method in which an audio signal emitted by a subject is reproduced to the auditory organs of the subject after real time processing, which comprises the following steps: acquisition of a model audio ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627475 | Detecting emotions using voice signal analysis A system and method are provided for detecting emotional states using statistics. First, a speech signal is received. At least one acoustic parameter is extracted from the speech signal. Then statistics or features from samples of the voice are calculated from extra... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624016 | Method and apparatus for robustly locating user barge-ins in voice-activated command systems A method of querying a user to select from a list in a voice-activated command system is provided. The method includes generating command prompt phrases during which the user can select items on the list. The command prompt phrases include an item on the list and an... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624017 | System and method for configuring voice synthesis Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620551 | Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the internet The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content o... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617107 | Information processing device and information processing program An information processing device is provided for processing audio data linked with predetermined image data in each of positions on a display screen which correspond to a plurality of playback times for the audio data. The device includes a function of displaying a ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617106 | Error detection for speech to text transcription systems A method, a system and a computer program product detects errors within text generated by a speech to text transcription system. The transcribed text is re-transformed into an artificial speech signal by a text to speech transcription system. The original, natural s... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596498 | Monitoring, mining, and classifying electronically recordable conversations Conversations that take place over an electronically recordable channel are analyzed by constructing a set of features from the speech of two participants in the conversation. The set of features is applied to a model or a plurality of models to determine the likeli... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7590541 | HMI presentation layer configuration system A human-machine interface generation system comprises a voice recognition component that receives voice commands relating to generation of a human-machine interface within an industrial automation environment. The voice recognition component further translates the v... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7567906 | Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide. Speech data is organized and presented to a user. After the user selects some of the utterances in the speech data, the selected utterances are included in a class and/or call type. Additional utterances that b... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567904 | Mobile listing system A method for use on a hand-held mobile self-powered wireless device including a listing program is provided. The listing programs extracts commands from a user's voice streams and initiates subroutines in response to those commands. For example, the method of the pr... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567905 | Method for identifying and verifying an element using a voice system An identification and verification method for identifying and verifying an element. The method uses a voice system. The method includes the steps of associating at least one of an at least 4 unit area character matrix with an element. The at least 4 unit area charac... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565294 | Methods and systems employing digital content A portable device for use with audio or visual content (e.g., an MP3 player-like device, or a camera-enabled device) is equipped with one or more features/capabilities, including: a user interface through which a consumer can instruct that content be delivered to a ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562019 | Automated testing of voice recognition software A method and a system for testing a voice enabled application on a target device, the method including conducting one or more interactions with the target device, at least some of the interactions including presenting an acoustic utterance in an acoustic environment... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558734 | Using web FAQ data for creating self-service speech applications In one example, this invention presents a method of providing the same self-service content that is available on the web interface to users contacting by telephone, knowing that the web and telephone are fundamentally different user interfaces. In one embodiment, th... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552054 | Providing menu and other services for an information processing system using a telephone or other audio interface A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548860 | Method and apparatus for inputting Chinese characters An electronic apparatus, to which Chinese characters can be input by using a phonetic input method. The electric apparatus comprises a plurality of input keys and a switch circuit. The plurality of input keys are divided into three groups: initial consonant keys, co... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548861 | Speech recognition system An audio operating unit of an audio apparatus is used for speech recognition. Specifically, when it is determined that a speech recognition start switch has been pressed, a speech recognition apparatus outputs a signal indicating volume down to a mute level to an au... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548859 | Method and system for assisting users in interacting with multi-modal dialog systems A method and system for assisting a user in interacting with a multi-modal dialog system (104) is provided. The method includes interpreting a “What Can I Do? (WCID)” question from a user in a turn of the dialog. A multi-modal grammar (212) is gene... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546242 | Method for reproducing audio documents with the aid of an interface comprising document groups and associated reproducing device A method of reproduction by a reproduction apparatus for reproducing audio documents forming part of a set of documents. The method includes a prior step of partitioning of the documents of the set into groups of documents whose audio parameters exhibit a similitude... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542906 | Off-site detention monitoring system The present invention provides an Internet based system and method for monitoring the location of a subject at any time via telephone voice verification. The system and method enables an agency officer to enroll a subject's profile into a computerized system. The su... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533022 | Printed media with machine readable markings A printed media, such as a card bears a visible light image, such as a picture or photograph, for viewing by a human. A machine readable array of infra-red dots is located over the visible light image. In a preferred embodiment the infra-red dots encode sound record... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529674 | Speech animation Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation engine and a client application in communication with the speech animation engine. The client application sends a request for speech animation to t... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526431 | Speech recognition using ambiguous or phone key spelling and/or filtering Alphabetic filtering of the speech recognition of words uses a key press to indicate a desired character in an alphabetic filter string, where each key press represents two or more letters. The key presses can be disambiguated by recognizing a key-disambiguation utt... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7516074 | Extraction and matching of characteristic fingerprints from audio signals An audio fingerprint is extracted from an audio sample, where the fingerprint contains information that is characteristic of the content in the sample. The fingerprint may be generated by computing an energy spectrum for the audio sample, resampling the energy spect... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516072 | System and method for selecting a user speech profile for a device in a vehicle A system for selecting a user speech profile for a device in a vehicle includes a control module having a speech recognition system and a memory. The speech recognition system is configured to process audio signals and includes a speaker enrollment function configur... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516073 | Electronic-book read-aloud device and electronic-book read-aloud method A control unit of an electronic-book read-aloud device reads book data and electronic-book data from an electronic bookmark and stores the read data in a storage unit. Further, the control unit sets a read-aloud-start position based on the electronic-bookmark data, ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7502741 | Audio signal de-identification Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identif... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499859 | Video device with voice-assisted system A video device with a voice-assisted system is provided by using a voice command to adjust the images. The voice-assisted system includes a voice recognition engine and a control unit. The voice recognition engine receives a voice command and outputting a voice sign... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496514 | Method and Apparatus for managing dialog management in a computer conversation A dialog management system functions to manage the dialog between a user of a computer system and one or more speech enabled software applications. The user provides spoken input to a microphone connected to the computer system, and hears responses from one or more ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493260 | Method and system for building/updating grammars in voice access systems A method and system for building/updating grammars in voice access systems is disclosed. The method includes receiving a grammar update request from a voice access system, retrieving data, filtering the data and providing the filtered data to the voice access system... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490042 | Methods and apparatus for adapting output speech in accordance with context of communication A technique for producing speech output in an automatic dialog system in accordance with a detected context is provided. Communication is received from a user at the automatic dialog system. A context of the communication from the user is detected in a context detec... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490041 | System to allow the selection of alternative letters in handwriting recognition systems A system and/or method that provides a virtual alpha-numeric keyboard based at least in part upon a user real-time input entry within a portable computing device. An input component receives an input providing a recognition component to determine and/or infer possib... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487094 | System and method of call classification with context modeling based on composite words A system and method of automatically classifying a communication involving at least one human, e.g., a human-to-human telephone conversation, into predefined categories of interest, e.g., “angry customer, etc. The system automatically, or semi-automatically with u... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483833 | Intelligent speech recognition with user interfaces The invention relates to a method, an apparatus, a Graphical User Interface and a computer program product for transforming speech to text. In a speech recognition step (100) a text is provided to which an automatic text modification based on text modificatio... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480618 | Eliminating interference of noisy modality in a multimodal application Aspects of the present invention provide for ranking various input modalities relative to each other and processing recognition results received through these input modalities based in part on the ranking. ... | 01/20/2009 |
