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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8078465 | System and method for detection and analysis of speech Certain aspects and embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for monitoring and analyzing the language environment and the development of a key child. A key child's language environment and language development can be monitored withou... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073693 | System and method for pronunciation modeling Systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for generating a pronunciation model. The method includes identifying a generic model of speech composed of phonemes, identifying a family of interchangeable phonemic alternatives for a phon... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069044 | Content matching using phoneme comparison and scoring Content matching using phoneme comparison and scoring is described, including extracting phonemes from a file, comparing the phonemes to other phonemes, associating a first score with the phonemes based on a probability of the other phonemes matching the phonemes, a... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050924 | System for generating and selecting names Methods and apparatus for implementing the generation of names. In one implementation, a system for generating a name includes: a user interface that receives user input including values for corresponding characteristics and name lengths; a rule dictionary that indi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046224 | Speaker adaptation of vocabulary for speech recognition A phonetic vocabulary for a speech recognition system is adapted to a particular speaker's pronunciation. A speaker can be attributed specific pronunciation styles, which can be identified from specific pronunciation examples. Consequently, a phonetic vocabulary can... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032374 | Method and apparatus for recognizing continuous speech using search space restriction based on phoneme recognition Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing continuous speech using search space restriction based on phoneme recognition. In the apparatus and method, a search space can be primarily reduced by restricting connection words to be shifted at a boundary betwe... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027834 | Technique for training a phonetic decision tree with limited phonetic exceptional terms The present invention discloses a method for training an exception-limited phonetic decision tree. An initial subset of data can be selected and used for creating an initial phonetic decision tree. Additional terms can then be incorporated into the subset. The enlar... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024191 | System and method of word lattice augmentation using a pre/post vocalic consonant distinction Systems and methods are provided for recognizing speech in a spoken dialogue system. The method includes receiving input speech having a pre-vocalic consonant or a post-vocalic consonant, generating at least one output lattice that calculates a first score by compar... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019604 | Method and apparatus for uniterm discovery and voice-to-voice search on mobile device A method, system and communication device for enabling uniterm discovery from audio content and voice-to-voice searching of audio content stored on a device using discovered uniterms. Received audio/voice input signal is sent to a uniterm discovery and search (UDS) ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015008 | System and method of using acoustic models for automatic speech recognition which distinguish pre- and post-vocalic consonants Disclosed are systems, methods and computer readable media for training acoustic models for an automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) system. The method includes receiving a speech signal, defining at least one syllable boundary position in the received speech s... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010361 | Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005676 | Speech analysis using statistical learning Included are embodiments for providing speech analysis. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving audio data associated with a communication and providing the at least one phoneme in a phonetic transcript, the phonetic transcript including at least one ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996224 | System and method of using meta-data in speech processing Systems and methods relate to generating a language model for use in, for example, a spoken dialog system or some other application. The method comprises building a class-based language model, generating at least one sequence network and replacing class labels in th... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991615 | Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion using acoustic data Described is the use of acoustic data to improve grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for speech recognition, such as to more accurately recognize spoken names in a voice-dialing system. A joint model of acoustics and graphonemes (acoustic data, phonemes sequences, graphe... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983914 | Method and system for improved speech recognition by degrading utterance pronunciations A speech recognition system or method can include a speech input device and a processor coupled to the speech input device. The processor can be programmed to identify a plurality of words that are members of confusable pairs of words where each pair includes a targ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983915 | Audio content search engine A method of generating an audio content index for use by a search engine includes determining a phoneme sequence based on recognized speech from an audio content time segment. The method also includes identifying k-phonemes which occur within the phoneme sequence. T... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974843 | Operating method for an automated language recognizer intended for the speaker-independent language recognition of words in different languages and automated language recognizer The invention relates to an operating method for an automated language recognizer intended for the speaker-independent language recognition of words from different languages, particularly for recognizing names from different languages. The method is based on a langu... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7957969 | Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-native words derived from non-native pronunciatons Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949527 | Multiresolution searching This invention relates to processing of audio files, and more specifically, to an improved technique of searching audio. More particularly, a method and system for processing audio using a multi-stage searching process is disclosed. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7921011 | Structure for grammar and dictionary representation in voice recognition and method for simplifying link and node-generated grammars Methods for optimizing grammar structure for a set of phrases to be used in speech recognition during a computing event are provided. One method includes receiving a set of phrases, the set of phrases being relevant for the computing event and the set of phrases hav... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912716 | Generating words and names using N-grams of phonemes Generating words and/or names, comprising: receiving at least one corpus based on a given language; generating a plurality of N-grams of phonemes and a plurality of frequencies of occurrence using the corpus, such that each frequency of occurrence corresponds to a r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904296 | Spoken word spotting queries An approach to wordspotting (180) using query data from one or more spoken instance of a query (140). The query data is processed to determining a representation of the query (160) that defines multiple sequences of subword (130) units ea... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7853450 | Digital voice enhancement A method of transmitting digital voice information comprises encoding raw speech into encoded digital speech data. The beginning and end of individual phonemes within the encoded digital speech data are marked. The encoded digital speech data is formed into packets.... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844459 | Method for creating a speech database for a target vocabulary in order to train a speech recognition system The words of the target vocabulary are composed of segments, which have one or more phonemes, whereby the segments are derived from a training text that is independent from the target vocabulary. The training text can be an arbitrary generic text. ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831911 | Spell checking system including a phonetic speller A spell checking system includes a letter spelling engine. The letter spelling engine is configured to select a plurality of candidate letter target strings that closely match a misspelled source string. The spell checking system includes a phoneme spelling engine. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7788096 | Method and apparatus for generating decision tree questions for speech processing The present invention automatically builds question sets for a decision tree. Under the invention, mutual information is used to cluster tokens, representing either phones or letters. Each cluster is formed so as to limit the loss in mutual information in a set of t... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788097 | Multiple sound fragments processing and load balancing A method, system and article of manufacture of recognizing a voice command. One embodiment of the invention comprises: receiving a voice input; using the number of sound fragments, determining a number of sound fragments to be processed in a first set of sound fragm... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783484 | Apparatus for reducing spurious insertions in speech recognition Techniques for improving an automatic baseform generation system. More particularly, the invention provides techniques for reducing insertion of spurious speech events in a word or phone sequence generated by an automatic baseform generation system. Such automatic b... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774203 | Audio signal segmentation algorithm The present invention discloses an audio signal segmentation algorithm comprising the following steps. First, an audio signal is provided. Then, an audio activity detection (AAD) step is applied to divide the audio signal into at least one noise segment and at least... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7729913 | Generation and selection of voice recognition grammars for conducting database searches Various processes are disclosed for conducting database searches by telephone. A user is initially prompted to utter N characters of a search query, and/or to enter these characters on a telephone keypad. Based on the user's entry, a speech recognition grammar is ei... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720683 | Method and apparatus of specifying and performing speech recognition operations A speech recognition technique is described that has the dual benefits of not requiring collection of recordings for training while using computational resources that are cost-compatible with consumer electronic products. Methods are described for improving the reco... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716050 | Multilingual speech recognition A method for speech recognition. The method uses a single pronunciation estimator to train acoustic phoneme models and recognize utterances from multiple languages. The method includes accepting text spellings of training words in a plurality of sets of training wor... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716051 | Distributed voice recognition system and method A distributed voice recognition system (500) and method employs principles of bottom-up (i.e., raw input) and top-down (i.e., prediction based on past experience) processing to perform client-side and server-side processing by (i) at the client-side, replacin... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7693715 | Generating large units of graphonemes with mutual information criterion for letter to sound conversion A method and apparatus are provided for segmenting words into component parts. Under the invention, mutual information scores for pairs of graphoneme units found in a set of words are determined. Each graphoneme unit includes at least one letter. The graphoneme unit... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684987 | Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a fi... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680662 | Systems and methods for implementing segmentation in speech recognition systems A speech recognition system (105) includes an acoustic front end (115) and a processing unit (125). The acoustic front end (115) receives frames of acoustic data and determines cepstral coefficients for each of the received frames. The pr... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7664642 | System and method for automatic speech recognition from phonetic features and acoustic landmarks A probabilistic framework for acoustic-phonetic automatic speech recognition organizes a set of phonetic features into a hierarchy consisting of a broad manner feature sub-hierarchy and a fine phonetic feature sub-hierarchy. Each phonetic feature of said hierarchy c... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7640159 | System and method of speech recognition for non-native speakers of a language An accent compensative speech recognition system and related methods for use with a signal processor generating one or more feature vectors based upon a voice-induced electrical signal are provided. The system includes a first-language acoustic module that determine... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7627474 | Large-vocabulary speech recognition method, apparatus, and medium based on multilayer central lexicons A speech recognition method including: layering a central lexicon in a tree structure with respect to recognition-subject vocabularies; performing multi-pass symbol matching between a recognized phoneme sequence and a phonetic sequence of the central lexicon layered... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7480616 | Information recognition device and information recognition method Information relating to an amount of muscle activity is extracted from a myo-electrical signal by activity amount information extraction means, and information recognition is performed by activity amount information recognition means using the information relating t... | 01/20/2009 |
