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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860717 | System and method for customizing speech recognition input and output A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the site-specific customization of automated speech recognition systems by providing a customization client for site-specific individuals to update and modify language model input files and post processor input f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860718 | Apparatus and method for speech segment detection and system for speech recognition Provided are an apparatus and method for speech segment detection, and a system for speech recognition. The apparatus is equipped with a sound receiver and an image receiver and includes: a lip motion signal detector for detecting a motion region from image frames o... | 12/28/2010 |
| RE42000 | System for synchronization between moving picture and a text-to-speech converter A method of formatting and normalizing continuous lip motions to events in a moving picture besides text in a Text-To-Speech converter is provided. A synthesized speech is synchronized with a moving picture by using the method wherein the real speech data and the sh... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7788104 | Information processing terminal for notification of emotion The present invention is to provide an information processing terminal which can use another expression means to indicate undesirable emotions directly transmitted to a party by a method of directly expressing talking person's emotions in real time, so that the whol... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7729921 | Apparatus, method, and program for supporting speech interface design For design of a speech interface accepting speech control options, speech samples are stored on a computer-readable medium. A similarity calculating unit calculates a certain indication of similarity of first and second sets of ones of the speech samples, the first ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7676373 | Displaying text of speech in synchronization with the speech Displays a character string representing content of speech in synchronization with reproduction of the speech. An apparatus includes: a unit for obtaining scenario data representing the speech; a unit for dividing textual data resulting from recognition of the speec... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643999 | Microphone feedback and control A system and method for positioning a software User Interface (UI) window on a display screen is provided, wherein the method includes displaying the software UI window on the display screen and identifying at least one suitable location on the display screen respon... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7567908 | Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon simultaneous speech Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7505911 | Combined speech recognition and sound recording A handheld device with both large-vocabulary speech recognition and audio recoding allows users to switch between at least two of the following three modes: (1) recording audio without corresponding speech recognition; (2) recording with speech recognition; and (3) ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7457756 | Method of generating time-frequency signal representation preserving phase information A method of generating a time-frequency representation of a signal that preserves phase information by receiving the signal, calculating a joint time-frequency domain of the signal, estimating instantaneous frequencies of the joint time-frequency domain, modifying e... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7406409 | System and method for recording and reproducing multimedia based on an audio signal A system and method summarizes multimedia stored in a compressed multimedia file partitioned into a sequence of segments, where the content of the multimedia is, for example, video signals, audio signals, text, and binary data. An associated metadata file includes i... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7386437 | System for providing translated information to a driver of a vehicle A vehicle mounted translation system for providing language translation to a driver of a vehicle. The translation system may be associated with a vehicle navigation system. The translation system includes a translation device and a storage unit for storing language ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370086 | Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that req... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365260 | Apparatus and method for reproducing voice in synchronism with music piece Music piece sequence data are composed of a plurality of event data which include performance event data and user event data designed for linking a voice to progression of a music piece. A plurality of voice data files are stored in a memory separately from the musi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366766 | Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that req... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366670 | Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis Facial animation in MPEG-4 can be driven by a text stream and a Facial Animation Parameters (FAP) stream. Text input is sent to a TTS converter that drives the mouth shapes of the face. FAPs are sent from an encoder to the face over the communication channel. Disclo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366671 | Speech displaying system and method A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech file is loaded via a loading module, a sentence unit determining mod... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356470 | Text-to-speech and image generation of multimedia attachments to e-mail A multi-mail system and method is disclosed in which a sender may convey and a recipient can realize emotional aspects associated with substantive content of a multi-mail message by receiving a message that is more than textual in nature. Voice recognition technolog... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353177 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and contro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349851 | Speech recognition user interface A speech recognition system having a user interface that provides both visual and auditory feedback to a user is described. In one aspect, a response time in which to receive an audible utterance is initiated. A graphic representing the response time is displayed. A... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349852 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and contro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343289 | System and method for audio/video speaker detection A system and method for detecting speech utilizing audio and video inputs. In one aspect, the invention collects audio data generated from a microphone device. In another aspect, the invention collects video data and processes the data to determine a mouth location ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340397 | Speech recognition optimization tool A method of optimizing audio input for speech recognition applications can include identifying a source waveform and at least one optimization parameter, wherein the optimization parameter is configured to adjust audio input to a speech recognition application. The ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334183 | Domain-specific concatenative audio One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating speech output from a text string. During operation, the system first receives the text string and then examines the text string to locate one or more substrings within the text string that are ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333865 | Aligning data streams The invention aligns two wide-bandwidth, high resolution data streams, in a manner that retains the full bandwidth of the data streams, by using magnitude-only spectrograms as inputs into the cross-correlation and sampling the cross-correlation at a coarse sampling ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324927 | Fast feature selection method and system for maximum entropy modeling A method to select features for maximum entropy modeling in which the gains for all candidate features are determined during an initialization stage and gains for only top-ranked features are determined during each feature selection stage. The candidate features are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324947 | 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... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321853 | Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method The present invention relates to a speech recognition apparatus and a speech recognition method for speech recognition with improved accuracy. A distance calculator 47 determines the distance from a microphone 21 to a user uttering. Data indicating the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321854 | Prosody based audio/visual co-analysis for co-verbal gesture recognition The present method incorporates audio and visual cues from human gesticulation for automatic recognition. The methodology articulates a framework for co-analyzing gestures and prosodic elements of a person's speech. The methodology can be applied to a wide range of ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315820 | Text-derived speech animation tool A text-derived speech animation tool for producing simple, effective animations of digital media content that educate, entertain, and inform viewers by the presentation of speaking digital characters. The invention makes the creation of digital talking characters bo... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310602 | Navigation apparatus In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these words are displayed as keywords of a POI search. When a correction of... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302280 | Mobile phone operation based upon context sensing A mobile device is provided that includes at least one sensor that provides contextual information to the device. When the mobile device receives an incoming message, or notification, the device responds thereto based at least in part upon the contextual information... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299188 | Method and apparatus for providing an interactive language tutor A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an articulation-scoring engine, a duration scoring engine and an intona... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292986 | Method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition progress A graphical user interface provides a graphical volume meter indicating the volume of the user's speech and a speech recognition meter showing the progress of a speech recognizer. The graphical volume meter and recognition meter are both located near each other on t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289102 | Method and apparatus using multiple sensors in a device with a display In a device having a display, at least one sensor signal is generated from a sensor in the device. One or more context values are then generated from the sensor signal. The context values indicate how the device is situated relative to one or more objects. At least ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286991 | Computer, display control device, pointer position control method, and program To provide a pointer position control method and the like for manipulating a pointer more easily. The user moves the pointer P two-dimensionally and perform click and other operations by using only “voice”—by varying the volume and pitch of produced voice with... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284232 | Automated generation of aliases based on embedded alias information An apparatus, program product and method incorporate embedded alias information into a document for use in automatically generating aliases (e.g., bookmarks, favorites, shortcuts, etc.) in a computer environment. The embedded alias information may incorporate both a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283964 | Method and apparatus for voice controlled devices with improved phrase storage, use, conversion, transfer, and recognition The embodiments of the invention provide for the storage of speech phrases. Speech phrases are processed by a speaker-independent speech recognition engine of a voice controlled device. This engine returns a speaker-independent representation of the phrase. The spea... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280963 | Method for learning linguistically valid word pronunciations from acoustic data A computerized method is provided for generating pronunciations for words and storing the pronunciations in a pronunciation dictionary. The method includes graphing sets of initial pronunciations; thereafter in an ASR subsystem determining a highest-scoring set of i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275032 | Telephone call handling center where operators utilize synthesized voices generated or modified to exhibit or omit prescribed speech characteristics A human operator's voice is artificially varied prior to transmission to a remote caller. In one example, the operator indicates target speech content (e.g., actual speech, pre-prepared text, manually entered text) to a speech processing facility, which enunciates t... | 09/25/2007 |
