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| 20120041758 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF AN INPUT TEXT OF A SPEECH WITH A RECORDING OF THE SPEECH A method and system for synchronizing words in an input text of a speech with a continuous recording of the speech. A received input text includes previously recorded content of the speech to be reproduced. A synthetic speech corresponding to the received input text is ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035907 | TRANSLATING LANGUAGES A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035926 | Platform for Enabling Voice Commands to Resolve Phoneme Based Domain Name Registrations A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing machine representations of phonemes to generate and manage domain names, and/or messaging addresses. A user of a computing device may provide an audio input signal such as obtained from human language sounds... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035923 | IN-VEHICLE TEXT MESSAGING EXPERIENCE ENGINE The disclosed invention provides a system and apparatus for providing a telematics system user with an improved texting experience. A messaging experience engine database enables voice avatar/personality selection, acronym conversion, shorthand conversion, and custom au... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE VOICEMAIL TRANSCRIPTION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for selectively transcribing messages. Five general approaches are disclosed herein. The first approach is directed to checking for a transcription capable client, which transcribe... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035924 | DISAMBIGUATING INPUT BASED ON CONTEXT In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, ambiguous user input that indicates more than one of a plurality of commands; and determining a current context associated with the mobile computing device that indica... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035925 | Population of Lists and Tasks from Captured Voice and Audio Content Automatic capture and population of task and list items in an electronic task or list surface via voice or audio input through an audio recording-capable mobile computing device is provided. A voice or audio task or list item may be captured for entry into a task applic... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030712 | NETWORK-INTEGRATED REMOTE CONTROL WITH VOICE ACTIVATION A method and system for network-integrated remote control includes voice activation of a user interface context on a remote control device. A user may utter a voice command, which the remote control device may use to obtain a user interface context from a network server... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING, SEARCHING, AND SHARING SPOKEN CONTENT IN MEDIA FILES Systems for recording, searching for, and sharing media files among a plurality of users are disclosed. The systems include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources,... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029917 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server including a controller to receive audio signals and content identification information from a media processor, generate text representing a voice message based on the audio... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022865 | System and Method for Efficiently Reducing Transcription Error Using Hybrid Voice Transcription A system and method for efficiently reducing transcription error using hybrid voice transcription is provided. A voice stream is parsed from a call into utterances. An initial transcribed value and corresponding recognition score are assigned to each utterance. A transc... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022853 | Multi-Modal Input on an Electronic Device A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-ind... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022868 | Word-Level Correction of Speech Input The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022866 | Language Model Selection for Speech-to-Text Conversion Methods, computer program products and systems are described for converting speech to text. Sound information is received at a computer server system from an electronic device, where the sound information is from a user of the electronic device. A context identifier ind... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022867 | Speech to Text Conversion Methods, computer program products and systems are described for speech-to-text conversion. A voice input is received from a user of an electronic device and contextual metadata is received that describes a context of the electronic device at a time when the voice input... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016671 | Tool and method for enhanced human machine collaboration for rapid and accurate transcriptions A system and methods for transcribing text from audio and video files including a set of transcription hosts and an automatic speech recognition system. ASR word-lattices are dynamically selected from either a text box or word-lattice graph wherein the most probable tex... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010883 | TRANSCRIPTION DATA EXTRACTION A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation bei... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010876 | VOICE INTEGRATION PLATFORM A voice integration platform and method provide for integration of a voice interface with a data system that includes stored data. The voice integration platform comprises one or more generic software components, the generic software components being configured to enabl... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004910 | System and method for speech processing and speech to text Systems and method for processing speech from a user is disclosed. In the system of the present invention, the user's speech is received as input audio stream. The input audio stream is converted text that corresponds to the input audio stream. The converted text is con... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004911 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying Video Program Material or Content via Nonlinear Transformations A system for identification of video content in a video signal is provided via a sound track audio signal. The audio signal is processed with filtering and non linear transformations to extract voice signals from the sound track channel. The extracted voice signals are ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005701 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying Video Program Material or Content via Frequency Translation or Modulation Schemes A system for identification of video content in a video signal is provided via a sound track audio signal. The audio signal is processed with filtering, frequency translation, and or non linear transformations to extract voice signals from the sound track channel. The e... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320198 | INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PERFORMING ARTS SCRIPTS One or more embodiments present a script to a user in an interactive script environment. A digital representation of a manuscript is analyzed. This digital representation includes a set of roles and a set of information associated with each role in the set of roles. An ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320199 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING VOICED PHONEME UNITS IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH According to one embodiment, an apparatus for fusing voiced phoneme units in Text-To-Speech, includes a reference unit selection module configured to select a reference unit from the plurality of units based on pitch cycle information of the each unit and the number of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321008 | MULTI-MODAL CONVERSION TOOL FOR FORM-TYPE APPLICATIONS GUI form code comprising a set of GUI elements can be imported. A user interface description can be generated from the GUI form code that has an element corresponding to each GUI element. For each user interface element converted from a corresponding to one of the GUI e... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320197 | METHOD FOR INDEXING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and language models adapted for the ASR process at least before the latter processes the multi... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313764 | System and Method for Latency Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Partial Multi-Pass Results A system and method is provided for reducing latency for automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, intermediate results produced by multiple search passes are used to update a display of transcribed text.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305326 | ENHANCEMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-USER REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM This invention involves additional details and uses for the invention described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 Simultaneous Multi-User Real-Time Speech Recognition System file by Poirier. The patent granted to Poirier teaches a platform based on audio events on which... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307254 | SPEECH RECOGNITION INVOLVING A MOBILE DEVICE A system and method of speech recognition involving a mobile device. Speech input is received (202) on a mobile device (102) and converted (204) to a set of phonetic symbols. Data relating to the phonetic symbols is transferred (206) from the... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307255 | System and Method for Conversion of Speech to Displayed Media Data A method for instantaneous and real-time conversion of sound into media data and with the ability to project, print, copy, or manipulate such media data. The invention relates to a method for converting speech to a text string, recognizing the text string, and then disp... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301951 | ELECTRONIC QUESTIONNAIRE A questionnaire is presented to a user in a more efficient manner in which the user is more likely to participate. The questionnaire is sent electronically to the user's vehicle and presented audibly to the user. The user responds audibly to the questions in the questio... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301937 | ELECTRONIC READING DEVICE The present invention provides an electronic reading device. At the device, a voice is captured by a capturing unit, and then the reference information stored in a storing unit is received by a processing unit for converting the voice to a visual image signal based on t... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300833 | INTELLIGENT TEXT MESSAGE-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL VOICE MAIL A visual voicemail system can convert visual voicemail message content to an alternate format based on the location of the recipient device, whether and how the recipient device is in motion, a priority of the message content, user preferences, or other criteria. Altern... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301952 | SPEECH RECOGNITION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROCESSING METHOD The present invention provides a speech recognition processing system in which speech recognition processing is executed parallelly by plural speech recognizing units. Before text data as the speech recognition result is output from each of the speech recognizing units,... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295458 | Systems and Methods for Selectively Disabling One or More Features of a Mobile Access Device and/or a Vehicle Associated with the Mobile Access Device An exemplary method includes a vehicle operation safety system detecting an operating parameter of a vehicle, detecting that a mobile access device is located within a predefined vicinity of the vehicle, and disabling one or more features of the mobile access device in ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKERS COMPENSATION DATA PROCESSING AND TRACKING The present invention relates to a workers compensation related insurance complaint management, processing and reporting system. According to some embodiments, an insurance complaint is received at a conversion system for processing. The received information may be conv... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288863 | VOICE STREAM AUGMENTED NOTE TAKING Voice stream augmented note taking may be provided. An audio stream associated with at least one speaker may be recorded and converted into text chunks. A text entry may be received from a user, such as in an electronic document. The text entry may be compared to the te... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288862 | Methods and Systems for Performing Synchronization of Audio with Corresponding Textual Transcriptions and Determining Confidence Values of the Synchronization Methods and systems for performing audio synchronization with corresponding textual transcription and determining confidence values of the timing-synchronization are provided. Audio and a corresponding text (e.g., transcript) may be synchronized in a forward and reverse... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288861 | Audio Synchronization For Document Narration with User-Selected Playback Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text. In some aspects, the techniques and systems described herein include generating a timing file that includes elapsed time information for expected portions of text that provides an elapsed time period... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282687 | Clinical Data Reconciliation as Part of a Report Generation Solution An automated system updates electronic medical records (EMRs) based on dictated reports, without requiring manual data entry into on-screen forms. A dictated report is transcribed by an automatic speech recognizer, and facts are extracted from the report and stored in e... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282664 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING INPUT OF TEXT INFORMATION FROM VOICE DATA Methods and systems for providing services and/or computing resources are provided. A method may include converting voice data into text data and tagging at least one portion of the text data in the text conversion file with at least one tag, the at least one tag indica... | 11/17/2011 |
