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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112282 | Evaluating prompt alternatives for speech-enabled applications A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to elicit a response from... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112281 | Accelerometer-based control of wearable audio recorders Accelerometer-based orientation and/or movement detection for controlling wearable audio recorders, such as wrist-worn audio recorders, resulting in button-free operation of the audio recorders. Operating a button-free wearable audio recorder does not rely on conven... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112280 | Systems and methods of performing speech recognition with barge-in for use in a bluetooth system Embodiments of the present invention improve methods of performing speech recognition with barge-in. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a speech recognition method comprising starting a synthesis of recorded speech, receiving a user speech input signa... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103507 | Searchable multimedia stream The present invention provides a system and a method making an archived conference or presentation searchable after being stored in the archive server. According to the invention, one or more media streams coded according to H.323 or SIP are transmitted to a convers... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099282 | Voice conversion system A voice conversion training system, voice conversion system, voice conversion client-server system, and program that realize voice conversion to be performed with low load of training are provided. In a server 10, an intermediate conversion function ge... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099283 | Application server providing personalized voice enabled web application services using extensible markup language documents A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, configured for executing... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095366 | Fonts with feelings Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090583 | System and method of automatically generating building dialog services by exploiting the content and structure of websites A method and system are disclosed for providing a dialog interface for a website. The method comprises at each node in a website, computing a summary, a document description and an alias. A dialog manager within a spoken dialog service utilizes the summary, document... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086459 | System and method for configuring voice synthesis Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086458 | Audio signal de-identification Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identif... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082153 | Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine A method for conversational computing includes executing code embodying a conversational virtual machine, registering a plurality of input/output resources with a conversational kernel, providing an interface between a plurality of active applications and the conver... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078467 | Device and method for language model switching and adaptation This invention provides a device and method for language model switching and adaptation, wherein the device comprises a notification manager which notifies a language model switching section of the current status information or the request for the language model of ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078468 | Speech recognition for identifying advertisements and/or web pages A device may identify terms in a speech signal using speech recognition. The device may further retain one or more of the identified terms by comparing them to a set of words and send the retained terms and information associated with the retained terms to a remote ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073697 | Establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application that include selecting, by the multimodal application, matching vocal and visual demeanors and incorporating, by the multimodal app... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073698 | Enabling global grammars for a particular multimodal application Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for enabling global grammars for a particular multimodal application according to the present invention by loading a multimodal web page; determining whether the loaded multimodal web page is one of a p... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065153 | Audio reader device An audio reader device for reading printed infrared media includes a linear sensor device sensitive to infra-red. A processor is operatively connected to the sensor device and is configured to read and decode infra-red audio data on the media. A memory is operativel... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065152 | 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 so... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065151 | System and method of automatically building dialog services by exploiting the content and structure of websites A method and system are disclosed for providing a dialog interface for a website. The method comprises at each node in a website, computing a summary, a document description and an alias. A dialog manager within a spoken dialog service utilizes the summary, document... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055503 | Methods and apparatus for audio data analysis and data mining using speech recognition A system and method provide an audio analysis intelligence tool with ad-hoc search capabilities using spoken words as an organized data form. An SQL-like interface is used to process and search audio data and combine it with other traditional data forms to enhance s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055502 | Voice dialing using a rejection reference A voice dialing method includes the steps of receiving an utterance from a user, decoding the utterance to identify a recognition result for the utterance, and communicating to the user the recognition result. If an indication is received from the user that the comm... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055504 | Synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler; i... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050928 | Speech to DTMF generation A method of speech to DTMF generation involving ASR-enabled and DTMF-controlled communications systems. The ASR-enabled system is used to recognize speech received from the DTMF-controlled telecommunications system using sampling rate independent speech recognition.... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046226 | System and methods for reporting The present invention relates to a system and methods for preparing reports, such as medical reports. The system and methods advantageously can verbalize information, using speech synthesis (text-to-speech), to support a dialogue between a user and the reporting sys... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041574 | Dialog apparatus, dialog method, and computer program A dialog apparatus includes a dialog unit configured to perform a dialog with a user and to collect a plurality of items to be referred to in accordance with the dialog as the dialog continues, a dividing unit configured to divide the items into normal items related... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041573 | Integrating a voice browser into a Web 2.0 environment The present invention discloses a system and method for integrating a voice browser into a Web 2.0 environment. For example, a system is disclosed which includes at least a Web 2.0 server, a voice browser, and a server-side speech processing system. The Web 2.0 serv... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041571 | Application of speech and speaker recognition tools to fault detection in electrical circuits A method and apparatus detect and localize electric faults in electrical power grids and circuit. High impedance faults are detected by analyzing data from remote sensor units deployed over the network using the algorithms of speech and speaker analysis software. Th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041572 | Speech processing method based upon a representational state transfer (REST) architecture that uses web 2.0 concepts for speech resource interfaces The present invention discloses a method of performing speech processing operations based upon Web 2.0 type interfaces with speech engines. The method can include a step of interfacing with a Web 2.0 server from a standard browser. A speech-enabled application serve... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041570 | Dialogue management using scripts 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... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036896 | System, server and method for distributed literacy and language skill instruction A server for providing language and literacy tutoring information to a plurality of user devices connected to a communications network, comprising a network adapter for connection to the network; a content database for providing learning content to devices via the n... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036895 | Cooperative processing for portable reading machine A handheld device includes an image input device capable of acquiring images, circuitry to send a representation of the image to a remote computing system that performs at least one processing function related to processing the image and circuitry to receive from th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036897 | 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 e... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036900 | Device and a method of playing audio clips A device for playing audio clips, a method of playing audio clips and a data storage medium having stored thereon computer code means for instructing a computer system to execute a method of playing audio clips. The device comprising a processor scalable in voltage,... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036898 | Conversational speech analysis method, and conversational speech analyzer The invention provides a conversational speech analyzer which analyzes whether utterances in a meeting are of interest or concern. Frames are calculated using sound signals obtained from a microphone and a sensor, sensor signals are cut out for each frame, and by ca... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036899 | Speech affect editing systems This invention generally relates to system, methods and computer program code for editing or modifying speech affect. A speech affect processing system to enable a user to edit an affect content of a speech signal, the system comprising: input to receive speech anal... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027838 | Method and system for connecting characters, words and signs to a telecommunication number This invention relates to the field of wireless data and instant communication technologies and describes a method and a system for connecting words, phrases, or symbols of any languages or multimedia expressions, within the content of transmitted data, to telecommu... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024194 | Dynamic switching between local and remote speech rendering A multimodal browser for rendering a multimodal document on an end system defining a host can include a visual browser component for rendering visual content, if any, of the multimodal document, and a voice browser component for rendering voice-based content, if any... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015013 | Method and apparatus for accessing a digital file from a collection of digital files There is provided a method for accessing at least one digital file from a collection comprising more than one digital file in an electronic device, including: generating one index comprising of information entries obtained from each of the more than one digital file... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010363 | Commercial detection apparatus and video playback apparatus An aspect of the invention provides a commercial detection apparatus for detecting commercials that includes a silent detector configured to detect a silent segment based on the strength of the audio signal output in content, and a determination unit configured to d... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010364 | System and method for applying probability distribution models to dialog systems in the troubleshooting domain Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for troubleshooting based on a probability distribution model. The method for troubleshooting based on a probability distribution model includes establishing a speech-based channel of interaction, es... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000969 | Inferring switching conditions for switching between modalities in a speech application environment extended for interactive text exchanges The disclosed solution includes a method for dynamically switching modalities based upon inferred conditions in a dialogue session involving a speech application. The method establishes a dialogue session between a user and the speech application. During the dialogu... | 08/16/2011 |
