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Examiner: Armstrong, Angela


Primary examiner statistics: 99 patents; average approval time: 2107 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 52 patents; average approval time: 1382 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7460993 Adaptive window-size selection in transform coding
7440891 Speech processing method and apparatus for improving speech quali...
7412381 Method and apparatus for diversity control in multiple descriptio...
7412378 Method and system of dynamically adjusting a speech output rate t...
7406417 Method for conditioning a database for automatic speech processin...
7398206 Speech coding apparatus and speech decoding apparatus
7386453 Dynamically changing the levels of reading assistance and instruc...
7373295 Speech coder and speech decoder
7363229 Systems and methods for managing multiple grammars in a speech re...
7349851 Speech recognition user interface
7346499 Wideband extension of telephone speech for higher perceptual qual...
7321851 Method and arrangement in a communication system
7315815 LPC-harmonic vocoder with superframe structure
7310597 System and method for enhancing bit error tolerance over a bandwi...
7305343 Method and system for embedding voice notes
7302396 System and method for cross-fading between audio streams
7299189 Additional information embedding method and it's device, and addi...
7299184 Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works
7299185 Systems and methods for managing interactions from multiple speec...
7292986 Method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition progress
7292983 Voice synthesis apparatus
7292975 Systems and methods for evaluating speaker suitability for automa...
7292974 Method for recognizing speech with noise-dependent variance norma...
7286982 LPC-harmonic vocoder with superframe structure
7283953 Process for identifying excess noise in a computer system
7277855 Personalized text-to-speech services
7266498 Method and apparatus for reducing conflicts between speech-enable...
7260529 Command insertion system and method for voice recognition applica...
7260521 Method and device for adaptive bandwidth pitch search in coding w...
7260533 Text-to-speech conversion system
7254538 Nonlinear mapping for feature extraction in automatic speech reco...
7254545 Speech controls for use with a speech system
7251603 Audio-only backoff in audio-visual speech recognition system
7246063 Adapting a user interface for voice control
7240001 Quality improvement techniques in an audio encoder
7233902 Browser-based arrangement for developing voice enabled web applic...
7231347 Acoustic signal enhancement system
7222070 Hybrid speech coding and system
7216079 Method and apparatus for discriminative training of acoustic mode...
7212970 Method and system of configuring a speech recognition system

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7062435 Apparatus, method and computer readable memory medium for speech ...
7031919 Speech synthesizing apparatus and method, and storage medium ther...
6934676 Method and system for inter-channel signal redundancy removal in ...
6910011 Noisy acoustic signal enhancement
6904405 Message recognition using shared language model
6901366 System and method for assessing TV-related information over the i...
6832193 Sound special reproducing method and information reproducing appa...
6801888 Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works
6766293 Method for signalling a noise substitution during audio signal co...
6766288 Fast find fundamental method
6760696 Fast start voice recording and playback on a digital device
6757652 Multiple stage speech recognizer
6735566 Generating realistic facial animation from speech
6687669 Method of reducing voice signal interference
6684185 Small footprint language and vocabulary independent word recogniz...
6678660 Receiving buffer controlling method and voice packet decoder
6675145 Method and system for integrated audiovisual speech coding at low...
6671666 Recognition system
6643617 Method to generate telephone comfort noise during silence in a pa...
6643622 Data retrieval assistance system and method utilizing a speech re...
6622120 Fast search method for LSP quantization
6609095 Electronic financial accounting system
6584205 Modulator processing for a parametric speaker system
6516299 Method, system and product for modifying the dynamic range of enc...
6487527 Enhanced quantization method for spectral frequency coding
6456965 Multi-stage pitch and mixed voicing estimation for harmonic speec...
6453292 Command boundary identifier for conversational natural language
6438517 Multi-stage pitch and mixed voicing estimation for harmonic speec...
6438522 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS WHEREBY WAVEFORM SEGMEN...
6427133 Process and device for evaluating the quality of a transmitted vo...
6418412 Quantization using frequency and mean compensated frequency input...
6411717 Switched capacitor filter with a neutral bypass setting
6374225 Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works
6347297 Matrix quantization with vector quantization error compensation a...
6327565 Speaker and environment adaptation based on eigenvoices
6311160 Code image recording apparatus having a microphone, a loudspeaker...
6298324 Speech recognition system with changing grammars and grammar help...
6298323 Computer voice recognition method verifying speaker identity usin...
6292778 Task-independent utterance verification with subword-based minimu...
6275797 Method and apparatus for measuring voice path quality by means of...
 
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