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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8065154 | Augmentative communications device for the speech impaired using commercial-grade technology The present invention broadly comprises a computer-based method for aiding aphasics having gross and fine motor impairments in efficiently communicating, comprising the steps of storing alphanumeric characters in a database, calculating statistics of the alphanumeri... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8010366 | Personal hearing suite A hearing application suite includes enhancement and training for listening and hearing of prerecorded speech, extemporaneous voice communication, and non-speech sound. Enhancement includes modification of audio according to audiometric data representing subjective ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974845 | Stuttering treatment methods and apparatus Stuttering treatment methods and apparatus which utilize removable oral-based appliances having actuators which are attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a dental or oral appliance are described. Such oral appliances may receive the user's voice and ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7925511 | System and method for secure voice identification in a medical device There is provided a system and method for secure voice identification in a medical device. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving an audio signal, identifying one or more frequency components of the received audio signa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7881939 | Monitoring system with speech recognition A system for monitoring conditions associated with an individual in a region includes at least one speech input transducer and speech processing software coupled thereto. Results of the speech processing can initiate communications with a displaced communications de... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7809576 | Customized audio playback storybook with light activation A unit for providing an interactive, light-activated, voice recorder unit for a book wherein said interactive voice recorder unit automatically initiates a playback mode when the front cover of a book is opened and light enters the unit. ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7792676 | System, method, and apparatus for providing interpretive communication on a network Embodiments of the present invention comprises a system, method, and apparatus that provides for the utilization of a relatively real-time or near real-time interpretation or translation that may be utilized preferably for a relatively short duration of time on a ne... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7676372 | Prosthetic hearing device that transforms a detected speech into a speech of a speech form assistive in understanding the semantic meaning in the detected speech A speech transformation apparatus comprises a microphone 21 for detecting speech and generating a speech signal; a signal processor 22 for performing a speech recognition process using the speech signal; a speech information generator for transforming ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643997 | Handheld analysis instrument having acoustic output of measurement results The present invention relates to a handheld analysis instrument for assaying a medically significant sample. The instrument comprises a measuring device for measuring the concentration of an analyte in the sample, an output device for outputting measurement results.... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636663 | On-vehicle acoustic control system and method An on-vehicle acoustic control system determines which one of sounds of an audio device and a navigation device should be generated with priority, when both devices are requested to generate respective sounds. The control system further detects a user's physical con... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7565295 | Method and apparatus for translating hand gestures A sign language recognition apparatus and method is provided for translating hand gestures into speech or written text. The apparatus includes a number of sensors on the hand, arm and shoulder to measure dynamic and static gestures. The sensors are connected to a mi... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7433818 | Subscriber terminal for providing speech-text encoding and telephony service A subscriber terminal is provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421392 | Diagnosis device and diagnosis method The present invention provides a diagnostic device that presents, to a patient, a Noise-Vocoded Speech Sound signal that is obtained by dividing at least one portion of a sound signal into a single or a plurality of frequency band signals and subjecting the frequenc... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418385 | Voice detection device This voice detection device is composed of a myoelectric signal acquisition part for acquiring, from a plurality of regions, myoelectric signals generated at the time of a vocalization operation, a parameter calculation part for calculating, as parameters, the fluct... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7403897 | Voice output device, information input device, file selection device, telephone set, and program and recording medium of the same A device, computer program and method for outputting linguistic information. The voice output device, for example, includes an output information acquisition unit acquiring linguistic information and attribute information. Attribute information includes an attribute... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403895 | Control system outputting received speech with display of a predetermined effect or image corresponding to its ambient noise power spectrum A control system receiving an input signal, comprising speech with ambient noise, determines the ambient noise power spectrum, retrieves control information corresponding to the closest-matching ambient noise power spectrum, and outputs the input signal along with d... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400748 | Method for assisting visually impaired users of a scanning device A method for assisting a visually impaired person with a document job. The method includes scanning a document that includes at least one sheet, detecting at least one characteristic of the scanned document, and providing a signal identifying the at least one charac... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398213 | Method and system for diagnosing pathological phenomenon using a voice signal The present invention relates to a method and system for diagnosing pathological phenomenon using a voice signal. In one embodiment, the existence of at least one pathological phenomena is determined based at least in part upon a calculated average intensity functio... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7376563 | System for rehabilitation of a hearing disorder A system for rehabilitation of a hearing disorder which comprises at least one acoustic sensor for picking up an acoustic signal and converting it into an electrical audio signal, an electronic signal processing unit for audio signal processing and amplification, an... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373294 | Intonation transformation for speech therapy and the like The intonation of speech is modified by an appropriate combination of resampling and time-domain harmonic scaling. Resampling increases (upsampling) or decreases (downsampling) the number of data points in a signal. Harmonic scaling adds or removes pitch cycles to o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373280 | Method and system for detecting measurement error A method of and system for detecting a measurement error. The method includes: receiving measurement data from a measurement unit and user expression data from a user; corresponding each of the received measurement data and expression data to any one section of a pl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367807 | Method for improving word processing skills using visual flash stimuli A computer system provides a series of visual flash stimuli to a user and then requires that the user process the visual stimuli to produce a verbalization that corresponds to the visual stimuli and/or a fine motor activity that corresponds to the visual stimuli. Th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363398 | Intelligent total access system A system for interfacing a user with an electronic device. An accessor device provides a user interface matched to the needs, abilities and intentions of the user and translates the user input commands and data into commands for the electronic device. An intelligent... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362738 | Method and system for delivering information to a user A system and method for delivering information to a user (e.g., a worker) comprises equipping a user with a data processing device associated with a portable display. A particular location or context of the user is determined. A display automatically displays inform... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356473 | Management and assistance system for the deaf A computer-aided communication and assistance system that uses a signal processing and other algorithms in a processor in wireless communication with a microphone system to aid a deaf person. An instrumented communication module receives information from one or more... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336944 | Method and apparatus for legal intercept monitoring of a cellular telephone modem (CTM) device A method and apparatus for legal intercept monitoring of a cellular telephone modem (CTM) device. More particularly, a system incorporating a CTM-to-TTY/TDD converter and a Call Content Delivery Unit (CCDU) to facilitate the monitoring of calls made to or from a CTM... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324944 | Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in speech Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in an individual's speech in order to selectively categorize the speech fluency of the individual and/or to selectively provide speech training based on the results of the dynamic analysis. Temporal variables... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321781 | Cellular telephone design for the elderly A cellular telephone designed specifically to be visually appealing and practical for the elderly and those with reduced dexterity. Although the keypad buttons on the cellular telephone are approximately 260 square millimeters and have large spaces between adjacent ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318031 | Apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover An apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover are provided. With the apparatus, system and method, spoken utterances of the call taker, not the caller, are captured using speech recognition technology and transcribed. The c... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313523 | Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or previous information in speech synthesis A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech. A method for generating speech that sounds more natural may comprise... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308405 | BIOS which translates pre-boot display information into serial data for providing synthesized speech output by detected speech synthesizer A system that includes a speech synthesizer and a computer system that includes a basic input output system (BIOS). The BIOS is configured to cause the computer system to translate pre-boot display information, in response to detecting the speech synthesizer, so as ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305340 | System and method for configuring voice synthesis Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that may take into account the environment where the speech is presented. In certain cases, the manner in which speech is presented can take into consideration ambient noise and/or can seek to optimize... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302389 | Automatic assessment of phonological processes A computer-based system generates alternative phonetic transcriptions for a target word or phrase corresponding to specific phonological processes that replace individual phonemes or clusters of two or more phonemes with replacement phonemes. The system compares a u... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295181 | Data input device The method is for entering data into a computer device and comprises providing a wearable device (10) that is attached to a hand. The device (10) has sensors (49, 51, 53, 55, 57) that analyze the movements of the segments (48, 50, 52, 54, 56 | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292985 | Device and method for reducing stuttering The present invention is directed to a wearable stutter reducing device incorporating novel methods that make extensive use of digital signal processing (DSP) technology. The wearable stutter reducing device of the present invention has an audio signal receiver for ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290017 | System and method for management of data replication This invention is a system and method for managing replication of data in a data storage environment by grouping logical devices. The system is enabled for configuring, monitoring, and controlling replication processes in accordance with a replication policy that is... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283958 | Systems and method for resolving ambiguity Techniques are provided for resolving ambiguity in natural language speech. Speech is recognized using automatic speech recognition. A theory of discourse analysis is determined and at least one set of candidate discourse functions is determined based on the theory ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277858 | Client/server rendering of network transcoded sign language content A method and system is provided for communicating a interpreted sign-language communication in a communication system having a plurality of nodes including at least a source node, a destination node, and a network node. To facilitate communicating the interpreted si... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275035 | System and method for speech generation from brain activity In a method of assisting a subject to generate speech, at least one first neural impulse is sensed from a first preselected location in the subject's brain. A first preselected sound is associated with the first neural impulse. The first preselected sound is generat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272562 | System and method for utilizing speech recognition to efficiently perform data indexing procedures A system and method for utilizing speech recognition to efficiently perform data indexing procedures includes an authoring module that coordinates an authoring procedure for creating an index file that has pattern word sets corresponding to data objects stored in a ... | 09/18/2007 |
