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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190439 | Method for preparing information for a speech dialogue system In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185401 | Automated sentence planning in a task classification system The invention relates to a system that interacts with a user in an automated dialog system (100). The system may include a communicative goal generator (210) that generates communicative goals based on a first communication received from the user. The ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185400 | System and method for isolating and processing common dialog cues A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided. Speech input is received at a speech recognition component and recognized output is produced. A common dialog cue from the received speech input or input from a second source is recognized. An action is perf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185402 | Robust voice browser system and voice activated device controller The present invention relates to a system for acquiring information from sources on a network, such as the Internet. A voice browsing system maintains a database containing a list of information sources, such as web sites, connected to a network. Each of the informa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185399 | System and method of providing an automated data-collection in spoken dialog systems The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180647 | Automated sentence planning in a task classification system The invention relates to a task classification system (900) that interacts with a user. The task classification system (900) may include a recognizer (920) that may recognize symbols in the user's input communication, and a natural language unde... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175887 | System and method for improving recognition accuracy in speech recognition applications A speech recognition system and method are provided to correctly distinguish among multiple interpretations of an utterance. This system is particularly useful when the set of possible interpretations is large, changes dynamically, and/or contains items that are not... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165887 | Data-driven voice user interface A method for developing a voice user interface for a statistical semantic system is described. A set of semantic meanings is defined that reflect semantic classification of a user input dialog. Then, a set of speech dialog prompts is automatically developed from an ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165886 | Speech interface system and method for control and interaction with applications on a computing system A speech processing system which exploits statistical modeling and formal logic to receive and process speech input, which may represent data to be received, such as dictation, or commands to be processed by an operating system, application or process. A command dic... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160885 | Voice signal encoding/decoding method The present invention is disclosed a voice signal encoding/decoding methods. It is judged whether the time-point at which the voices signal is about to be encoded is one of the synchronous time parameters in the steps of voice signal encoding. If yes, output an outp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160886 | Open architecture for a voice user interface A system and method for processing voice requests from a user for accessing information on a computerized network and delivering information from a script server and an audio server in the network in audio format. A voice user interface subsystem includes: a dialog ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150700 | Mobile terminal and menu control method thereof A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an input to activate a voice recognition function on the mobile terminal, a memory configured to store information related to operations performed on the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150699 | Systems and methods of a structured grammar for a speech recognition command system In embodiments of the present invention, a system and method for enabling a user to interact with a computer platform using a voice command may comprise the steps of defining a structured grammar for handling a global voice command, defining a global voice command o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150698 | Invoking tapered prompts in a multimodal application Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for invoking tapered prompts in a multimodal application implemented with a multimodal browser and a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150697 | Autonomous systems and network management using speech A method of managing systems in a managed network can include storing configuration information corresponding to at least one managed system and automatically generating a grammar and a speech dialog for each managed system using the configuration information. User ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145495 | Integrated voice navigation system and method An integrated voice navigation system 40 is disclosed. The voice navigation system (40) includes a voice messaging system (44), a speech recognition system (46), a voice channel (50) and a control link (52). A caller is conn... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145494 | Voice response system A voice response system attempts to respond to spoken user input and to provide computer-generated responses. If the system decides it cannot provide valid responses, the current state of user session is determined and forwarded to a human operator for further actio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8126720 | Image capturing apparatus and information processing method An image capturing apparatus of this invention includes an audio acquisition unit which acquires audio data, an speech processing unit which analyzes the acquired audio data and detects predetermined audio data, an image capturing unit which captures image data by a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121846 | User speech interfaces for interactive media guidance applications A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117036 | Non-disruptive side conversation information retrieval Information is exchanged between a user of a communications device and an application during an ongoing conversation between the user using the communications device and a party, without disrupting the conversation. An application associated with the communications ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117037 | Adaptive information presentation apparatus and methods An adaptive advertising apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g., display) adv... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108218 | Methods and apparatus for voice recognition for call treatment modification on messaging Methods and systems for analyzing voice information to determine if specific words or phrases are used or if the voice information exhibits a particular pattern of speech. Depending on which words or phrases are determined to have been used, a specific action or act... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103510 | Device control device, speech recognition device, agent device, on-vehicle device control device, navigation device, audio device, device control method, speech recognition method, agent processing method, on-vehicle device control method, navigation method, and audio device control method, and program A speech recognition unit (2) performs speech recognition on a speech of an utterer input by a speech input unit (1), specifies possible words which are represented by the speech, and the scores thereof, and a natural language analyzer (3) speci... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099288 | Text-dependent speaker verification A text-dependent speaker verification technique that uses a generic speaker-independent speech recognizer for robust speaker verification, and uses the acoustical model of a speaker-independent speech recognizer as a background model. Instead of using a likelihood r... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099289 | Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluetooth headsets and remote systems Systems and methods for improving the interaction between a user and a small electronic device such as a Bluetooth headset are described. The use of a voice user interface in electronic devices may be used. In one embodiment, recognition processing limitations of so... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099287 | Automatically providing a user with substitutes for potentially ambiguous user-defined speech commands A method for alleviating ambiguity issues of new user defined speech commands. An original command for a user-defined speech command can be received. It can then be determined if the original command is likely to be confused with a set of existing speech commands. W... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095372 | Digital process and arrangement for authenticating a user of a database Digital process for authentication of a user of a database for access to protected data or a service reserved for a defined circle of users or for the use of data currently entered by the user, wherein a voice sample currently enunciated during an access attempt by ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095373 | Robot apparatus with vocal interactive function and method therefor The present invention provides a robot apparatus with a vocal interactive function. The robot apparatus receives a vocal input, and recognizes the vocal input. The robot apparatus stores a plurality of output data, a last output time of each of the output data, and ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095371 | Computer-implemented voice response method using a dialog state diagram to facilitate operator intervention A voice response system attempts to respond to spoken user input and to provide computer-generated responses. If the system decides it cannot provide valid responses, the current state of user session is determined and forwarded to a human operator for further actio... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095370 | Dual compression voice recordation non-repudiation system A dual compression voice recordation non-repudiation system provides a voice recognition system that compresses voice samples for two purposes: voice recognition and human communication. The user navigates through menus displayed to a user through a television set u... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090584 | Modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu in dependence upon speech command frequency Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu that include monitoring a user invoking a speech command in a first tier grammar, and adding the speech command to a second tier grammar in depende... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086462 | Automatic detection, summarization and reporting of business intelligence highlights from automated dialog systems A method and system for reporting data from a spoken dialog service is disclosed. The method comprises extracting data regarding user dialogs using a dialog logging module in the spoken dialog service, analyzing the data to identify trends and reporting the trends. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086463 | Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application that include detecting a help-triggering event for an input element of a VoiceXML dialog, where the detecting is implemented with a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device support... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086464 | System for low-latency animation of talking heads Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078472 | Voice-activated remote control service A method of remotely controlling operation of a controlled device involves receiving a telephone call from an owner via a telephone network; authenticating the telephone call to establish that the owner is authorized to control the controlled device; interpreting a ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078473 | Adaptive advertising apparatus and methods An adaptive advertising apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g., display) adv... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078471 | Apparatus for the processing of sales and for outputting information based on detected keywords An apparatus for processing sales of articles, such as a store scale, has a microphone which listens to a conversation between a customer and a salesperson and converts words into an electrical speech signal, which signal is converted to a speech recognition result ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065156 | Adaptive information presentation apparatus and methods An adaptive information presentation apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g.,... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065155 | Adaptive advertising apparatus and methods An adaptive advertising apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g., display) adv... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060373 | System and method of identifying contact information A system and method for identifying contact information is provided. A system to identify contact information may include an input to receive a data stream. The data stream may include audio content, video content or both. The system may also include an analysis mod... | 11/15/2011 |
