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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069045 | Hierarchical approach for the statistical vowelization of Arabic text The present invention relates to the field of computer-aided text and speech processing, and in particular to a method and respective system for converting an input text given in an incomplete language, for example a language, in which unvowelized text is used, into... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7991770 | Detecting repeating content in broadcast media Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for detecting repeating content in broadcast media. In some implementations, a method includes: generating a database of audio statistics from content; generating a ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970613 | Method and system for Gaussian probability data bit reduction and computation Use of runtime memory may be reduced in a data processing algorithm that uses one or more probability distribution functions. Each probability distribution function may be characterized by one or more uncompressed mean values and one or more variance values. The unc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7937270 | System and method for recognizing speech securely using a secure multi-party computation protocol A system and method recognizes speech securely using a secure multi-party computation protocol. The system includes a client and a server. The client is configured to provide securely speech in a form of an observation sequence of symbols, and the server is configur... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7912717 | Method for uncovering hidden Markov models The invention uses the ModelGrower program to generate possible candidates from an original or aggregated model. An isomorphic reduction program operates on the candidates to identify and exclude isomorphic models. A Markov model evaluation and optimization program ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890327 | Framework for extracting multiple-resolution semantics in composite media content analysis Disclosed is a general framework for extracting semantics from composite media content at various resolutions. Specifically, given a media stream, which may consist of various types of media modalities including audio, visual, text and graphics information, the disc... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877256 | Time synchronous decoding for long-span hidden trajectory model A time-synchronous lattice-constrained search algorithm is developed and used to process a linguistic model of speech that has a long-contextual-span capability. In the algorithm, hypotheses are represented as traces that include an indication of a current frame, pr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7856356 | Speech recognition system for mobile terminal A speech recognition system for a mobile terminal includes an acoustic variation channel unit and a pronunciation channel unit. The acoustic variation channel unit transforms a speech signal into feature parameters and Viterbi-decodes the speech signal to produce a ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7739294 | Method for creating a topical reading list A method for creating an ordered reading list of predetermined length of relevant topics from a hyperlinked database source of information website for a user. The method includes determining at least one topic of interest based on a plurality of methods and choosing... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7702507 | Voice activated rapid deployment for mobile computers Systems and methods that automatically register a mobile computing unit on a wireless network area, via employing a voice recognition system associated with the mobile computing unit. A handshake can occur between a mobile computing unit and a server of the network ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7664643 | System and method for speech separation and multi-talker speech recognition A method, and a system to execute this method is being presented for the identification and separation of sources of an acoustic signal, which signal contains a mixture of multiple simultaneous component signals. The method represents the signal with multiple discre... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7617103 | Incrementally regulated discriminative margins in MCE training for speech recognition A method and apparatus for training an acoustic model are disclosed. A training corpus is accessed and converted into an initial acoustic model. Scores are calculated for a correct class and competitive classes, respectively, for each token given the acoustic model.... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7587320 | Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis Systems and methods for automatically segmenting speech inventories. A set of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are initialized using bootstrap data. The HMMs are next re-estimated and aligned to produce phone labels. The phone boundaries of the phone labels are then corr... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584102 | Language model for use in speech recognition Building a language model for use in speech recognition includes identifying without user interaction a source of text related to a user. Text is retrieved from the identified source of text and a language model related to the user is built from the retrieved text. | 09/01/2009 |
| 7539617 | Method and system for analysis of vocal signals for a compressed representation of speakers using a probability density representing resemblances between a vocal representation of the speaker in a predetermined model and a predetermined set of vocal representations reference speakers For analyzing vocal signals of a speaker, a probability density representing resemblances between a vocal representation of the speaker in a predetermined model and a predetermined set of vocal representations of a number E of reference speakers in said predetermine... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7529671 | Block synchronous decoding A pattern recognition system and method are provided. Aspects of the invention are particularly useful in combination with multi-state Hidden Markov Models. Pattern recognition is effected by processing Hidden Markov Model Blocks. This block-processing allows the pr... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7509258 | Phonetic, syntactic and conceptual analysis driven speech recognition system and method A new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech, which shifts the balance of power in speech recognition from straight sound recognition and statistical models to a more powerful and complete approach determining and addressing c... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7480617 | Method for likelihood computation in multi-stream HMM based speech recognition A method for speech recognition includes determining active Gaussians related to a first feature stream and a second feature stream by labeling at least one of the first and second streams, and determining active Gaussians co-occurring in the first stream and the se... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7454341 | Method, apparatus, and system for building a compact model for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which a mean vector set and a variance vector set of a set of N Gaussians are divided into multiple mean sub-vector sets and variance sub-vector sets, respectively. Each mean sub-vector set contains a... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454342 | Coupled hidden Markov model (CHMM) for continuous audiovisual speech recognition Method and apparatus for an audiovisual continuous speech recognition (AVCSR) system using a coupled hidden Markov model (CHMM) are described herein. In one aspect, an exemplary process includes receiving an audio data stream and a video data stream, and performing ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454343 | Speech synthesizer, speech synthesizing method, and program A speech synthesizer that provides high-quality sound along with stable sound quality, including: a target parameter generation unit; a speech element DB; an element selection unit; a mixed parameter judgment unit which determines an optimum parameter combination of... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7437288 | Speech recognition apparatus A speech recognition apparatus using a probability model that employs a mixed distribution, the apparatus formed by a standard pattern storage means for storing a standard pattern; a recognition means for outputting recognition results corresponding to an input spee... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433490 | System and method for real time lip synchronization A novel method for synchronizing the lips of a sketched face to an input voice. The lip synchronization system and method approach is to use training video as much as possible when the input voice is similar to the training voice sequences. Initially, face sequences... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415412 | Information system An information system includes an output section to read a character string in received contents aloud, and a memory section to store a rule set to convert input contents to modified contents adapted to text reading. An optimizing section is arranged to covert the i... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403941 | System, method and technique for searching structured databases Searching a database involves creating an access structure including a first tree data structure having a root node and at least one child node. Each child node is associated with match data corresponding to a data value of a field of a database record. Leaf child n... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392332 | Bit rate adaptation in a data processing flow A dedicated processing module includes an input for data to be processed and an output for processed data. A block input and a block output are also included. A processing component for the module performs a digital processing operation on the data present at the da... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389228 | 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... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7366295 | Telephone signal generator and methods and devices using the same A method or device includes a telephone with an audio or video effects generator to produce audio or video effects that are transmitted as part of a signal from the telephone. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366669 | Acoustic model creation method as well as acoustic model creation apparatus and speech recognition apparatus To provide an acoustic model which can absorb the fluctuation of a phonemic environment in an interval longer than a syllable, with the number of parameters of the acoustic model suppressed to be small, a phoneme-connected syllable HMM/syllable-connected HMM set is ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366667 | Method and device for pause limit values in speech recognition Method and device for the recognition of words and pauses in a voice signal. The words (Wi) spoken in a row and pauses (Ti) are thereby combined as to be appertaining to a word group as soon as one of the pauses (Ti) exceeds a limit ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366705 | Clustering based text classification Systems and methods for clustering-based text classification are described. In one aspect text is clustered as a function of labeled data to generate cluster(s). The text includes the labeled data and unlabeled data. Expanded labeled data is then generated as a func... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356466 | Method and apparatus for performing observation probability calculations A method and apparatus for calculating an observation probability includes a first operation unit that subtracts a mean of a first plurality of parameters of an input voice signal from a second parameter of an input voice signal, and multiplies the subtraction resul... | 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 |
| 7353173 | System and method for Mandarin Chinese speech recognition using an optimized phone set The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemen... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7346510 | Method of speech recognition using variables representing dynamic aspects of speech A method and computer-readable medium are provided that determine predicted acoustic values for a sequence of hypothesized speech units using modeled articulatory or VTR dynamics values and using the modeled relationship between the articulatory (or VTR) and acousti... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343023 | Hearing prosthesis with automatic classification of the listening environment A hearing prosthesis that automatically adjusts itself to a surrounding listening environment is provided. In one aspect, the automatic adjustment is achieved by controlling one or several algorithm parameters of a predetermined signal processing algorithm. In anoth... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340390 | Mobile communication terminal and method therefore A method for organizing data records in a memory in a mobile telecommunication terminal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of digits, which identify a subscriber terminal in a telecommunication network, in a control unit in the mobile, telecomm... | 03/04/2008 |
