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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095364 | Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8069046 | Dynamic speech sharpening An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065148 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for one-step correction of voice interaction A one-step correction mechanism for voice interaction is provided. Correction of a previous state is enabled simultaneously with recognition in a current or subsequent state. An application is decomposed into a set of tasks. Each task is associated with the collecti... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065147 | Gramma generation for password recognition A password grammar for speech recognition is described. A password is normalized into a list of strings of a plurality of character types such as letters and numerals. For each string of letters, one or more corresponding letter permutations are determined which rep... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060368 | Speech recognition apparatus A voice recognition apparatus 10, which performs voice recognition of an input voice by referring to a voice recognition dictionary and outputs a voice recognition result, has an external information acquiring section 14 for acquiring from externally c... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060369 | System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website Disclosed is a system and method for training a spoken dialog service component from website data. Spoken dialog service components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language understanding module, a dialog management module, a language gene... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041568 | Business listing search A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes prompting a user to provide a type of business and an identifier of a specific business, receiving from the user a speech input having information about the type of business and the iden... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036893 | Method and system for identifying and correcting accent-induced speech recognition difficulties A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The sp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8000965 | Information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech An information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech. The information-processing device and method includes analyzing speech-recognition-grammar data, generating data on a template used to input data by speec... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000966 | Methods and apparatus for natural spoken language speech recognition with word prediction A word prediction method and apparatus improves precision and accuracy. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial analysis tr... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983917 | Dynamic speech sharpening An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974844 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for recognizing speech A speech recognition apparatus includes a first-candidate selecting unit that selects a recognition result of a first speech from first recognition candidates based on likelihood of the first recognition candidates; a second-candidate selecting unit that extracts re... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970615 | Turn-taking confidence A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957971 | System and method of spoken language understanding using word confusion networks Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957970 | Method and system for predicting problematic situations in automated dialog The invention concerns a system and method of predicting problematic dialogs in an automated dialog system based on the user's input communications. The method may include determining whether a probability of conducting a successful dialog with the user exceeds a fi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949528 | System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method includes generating an unweighted grammar, selecting a database of words, generating a weighted grammar using the unweighted grammar and a statistical let... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7925506 | Speech recognition accuracy via concept to keyword mapping The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925507 | Method and apparatus for recognizing large list of proper names in spoken dialog systems Embodiments of a name recognition process for use in dialog systems are described. In one embodiment, the name recognition process assigns weighting values to names used in a dialog based on the usage of these names. This process takes advantage of the general tende... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904297 | Dialogue management using scripts and combined confidence scores Representation-neutral dialogue systems and methods (“RNDS”) are described that include multi-application, multi-device spoken-language dialogue systems based on the information-state update approach. The RNDS includes representation-neutral core components of a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890328 | Enhanced accuracy for speech recognition grammars Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based o... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890329 | Apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among dialogue turns Disclosed is directed an apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among multiple dialogue turns. The apparatus includes a rule set storage unit having a rule set containing one or more rules, an evolutionary rule generation module ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881936 | Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877258 | Representing n-gram language models for compact storage and fast retrieval Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for representing language models. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes generating a compact language model including receiving a c... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877257 | Method and system to parameterize dialog systems for the purpose of branding A method and system to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, includes providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value, integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system, and configuring the subcomponent t... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873519 | Natural language speech lattice containing semantic variants An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identif... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865364 | Avoiding repeated misunderstandings in spoken dialog system A method for improving speech recognition accuracy includes utilizing skiplists or lists of values that cannot occur because of improbability or impossibility. A table or list is stored in a dialog manager module. The table includes a plurality of information items ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853451 | System and method of exploiting human-human data for spoken language understanding systems A method is disclosed for generating labeled utterances from human-human utterances for use in training a semantic classification model for a spoken dialog system. The method comprises augmenting received human-human utterances with data that relates to call-type ga... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849089 | Method and system for adapting search results to personal information needs A method and system for adapting search results of a query to the information needs of the user submitting the query is provided. A search system analyzes click-through triplets indicating that a user submitted a query and that the user selected a document from the ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844460 | Automatic creation of an interactive log based on real-time content A system [100] includes an audio reception device [105] to receive audio from a person speaking and convert the audio to a text format. An intelligent agent [110] receives the text format and detects at least one key term in the text format base... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840407 | Business listing search A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes receiving category-business pairs, each category-business pair including a business category and a specific business, and establishing a data structure having nodes based on the category... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835911 | Method and system for automatically building natural language understanding models The invention disclosed herein concerns a system (100) and method (600) for building a language model representation of an NLU application. The method 500 can include categorizing an NLU application domain (602), classifying a corpus in v... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818174 | Speech-recognition grammar analysis An apparatus for determining at least one recognition parameter, associated with a grammar, for use in attempting to recognize utterances using the grammar includes an input configured to receive indicia of the grammar, an output configured to provide the at least o... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818173 | Information retrieval system, method, and program An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogativ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813929 | Automatic editing using probabilistic word substitution models An input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is transformed into output structured document text. A probabilistic word substitution model is provided which establishes association probabilities indicative of target structured document text correlating w... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809567 | Speech recognition application or server using iterative recognition constraints A speech recognition application including a recognition module configured to receive input utterances and an application module configured to select a recognition from the speech recognition module using output from a first iteration to select a recognition result ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809570 | Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based i... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809569 | Turn-taking confidence A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809568 | Indexing and searching speech with text meta-data An index for searching spoken documents having speech data and text meta-data is created by obtaining probabilities of occurrence of words and positional information of the words of the speech data and combining it with at least positional information of the words i... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805302 | Applying a structured language model to information extraction One feature of the present invention uses the parsing capabilities of a structured language model in the information extraction process. During training, the structured language model is first initialized with syntactically annotated training data. The model is then... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805303 | Question answering system, data search method, and computer program A question answering system includes a question input unit, a search unit, an answer candidate extraction unit, an answer candidate inspection unit and an answer output unit. The search unit executes search processing based on an input question. The answer candidate... | 09/28/2010 |
