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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE39336 | Formant-based speech synthesizer employing demi-syllable concatenation with independent cross fade in the filter parameter and source domains The concatenative speech synthesizer employs demi-syllable subword units to generate speech. The synthesizer is based on a source-filter model that uses source signals that correspond closely to the human glottal source and that uses filter parameters that correspon... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6895380 | Voice actuation with contextual learning for intelligent machine control An interactive voice actuated control system for a testing machine such as a tensile testing machine is described. Voice commands are passed through a user-command predictor and integrated with a graphical user interface control panel to allow hands-free operation. ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6882974 | Voice-control for a user interface Method and systems to voice-enable a user interface using a voice extension module are provided. A voice extension module includes a preprocessor, a speech recognition engine, and an input handler. The voice extension module receives user interface information, such... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879955 | Signal modification based on continuous time warping for low bit rate CELP coding A signal modification technique facilitates compact voice coding by employing a continuous, rather than piece-wise continuous, time warp contour to modify an original residual signal to match an idealized contour, avoiding edge effects caused by prior art techniques... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6868382 | Speech recognizer The generic word label series used for recognition of words uttered by unspecified speakers are stored in the vocabulary label network accumulation processing. The speech of a particular speaker is entered. Based on the input speech, the registered word label series... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862567 | Noise suppression in the frequency domain by adjusting gain according to voicing parameters An input signal enters a noise suppression system in a time domain and is converted to a frequency domain. The noise suppression system then estimates a signal to noise ratio of the frequency domain signal. Next, a signal gain is calculated based on the estimated si... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6853971 | Two-way speech recognition and dialect system A speech-to-text conversion system. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system comprises a computer system, an attached microphone assembly, and speech-to-text conversion software. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system includes a database of diale... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845358 | Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems A prosody matching template in the form of a tree structure stores indices which point to lookup table and template information prescribing pitch and duration values that are used to add inflection to the output of a text-to-speech synthesizer. The lookup module emp... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6832196 | Speech driven data selection in a voice-enabled program A method of dynamically formatting a speech menu construct can include a series of steps. A markup language document containing a reference to a server-side program can be provided. The server-side program can be programmed to dynamically format data using a voice-e... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826527 | Concealment of frame erasures and method A decoder for code excited LP encoded frames with both adaptive and fixed codebooks; erased frame concealment uses muted repetitive excitation, threshold-adapted bandwidth expanded repetitive synthesis filter, and jittered repetitive pitch lag. ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826525 | Method and device for detecting a transient in a discrete-time audio signal A method for detecting a transient in a discrete-time audio signal is performed completely in the time domain and includes the step of segmenting the discrete-time audio signal so as to generate consecutive segments of the same length with unfiltered discrete-time a... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823308 | Speech recognition accuracy in a multimodal input system A speech recognition method for use in a multimodal input system comprises receiving a multimodal input comprising digitized speech as a first modality input and data in at least one further modality input. Features in the speech and in the data in at least one furt... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820052 | Low bit-rate coding of unvoiced segments of speech A low-bit-rate coding technique for unvoiced segments of speech includes the steps of extracting high-time-resolution energy coefficients from a frame of speech, quantizing the energy coefficients, generating a high-time-resolution energy envelope from the quantized... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6810379 | Client/server architecture for text-to-speech synthesis A client/server text-to-speech synthesis system and method divides the method optimally between client and server. The server stores large databases for pronunciation analysis, prosody generation, and acoustic unit selection corresponding to a normalized text, while... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6804646 | Method and apparatus for processing a sound signal A method and an apparatus for processing a sound signal in which a useful signal and an interference signal are specified, the sound signal being transformed into the frequency domain and a change in the profile of the frequency being represented by an envelope for ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6804649 | Expressivity of voice synthesis by emphasizing source signal features Voice synthesis with improved expressivity is obtained in a voice synthesiser of source-filter type by making use of a library of source sound categories in the source module. Each source sound category corresponds to a particular morphological category and is deriv... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801894 | Speech synthesizer that interrupts audio output to provide pause/silence between words A speech synthesizer includes a data memory having a plurality of address areas, which stores a plurality of phases in the address areas and an address designating circuit designating one of the address areas based on the phase signal. Further, a speech synthesizer ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6799161 | Variable bit rate speech encoding after gain suppression A speech coding apparatus having a speech input unit for receiving input speech, a speech coding rate selector for selecting an appropriate speech coding rate according to the power of the input speech, a speech analyzer for processing the input speech to estimate a... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795807 | Method and means for creating prosody in speech regeneration for laryngectomees A device and a method to be used by laryngeally impaired people to improve the naturalness of their speech. An artificial sound creating mechanism which forms a simulated glottal pulse in the vocal tract is utilized. An artificial glottal pulse is compared with the ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789060 | Network based speech transcription that maintains dynamic templates The systems and methods described herein allow dictation and associated routing and formatting information to be forwarded to a transcription system. The transcription system converts the information into a document. The additional information associated with the di... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785644 | Alternate window compression/decompression method, apparatus, and system With respect to data having periodicity to be compressed, windows of the same size are set for every two sections according to an interval of peaks appearing substantially periodically and processing for sorting sample data alternately among the set windows of the s... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6775649 | Concealment of frame erasures for speech transmission and storage system and method A decoder for packetized speech with differential quantization of line spectral frequencies and fixed-codebook gain conceals erased frames with interpolation of future and past frames by reconstruct future frame predicted parameters from presumed interpolations of e... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6775654 | Digital audio reproducing apparatus A digital audio reproducing apparatus including a receiver receiving modulated data, a demodulator demodulating the modulated data received by the receiver, an audio decoder decoding, in a unit of a frame, digital audio information contained in the modulated data de... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6766298 | Application server configured for dynamically generating web pages for voice enabled web applications 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 web browser receives an HTML page from the a... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6757653 | Reassembling speech sentence fragments using associated phonetic property A method of composing messages for speech output and the improvement of the quality of reproduction of speech outputs. A series of original sentences for messages is segmented and stored as audio files with search criteria. The length, position, and transition value... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757657 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program storage medium An information processing apparatus including an image-sensing controller controlling image-sensing so as to take a picture upon detection of execution of a first operation, a word generator recognizing speech upon detection of execution of a second operation and ge... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757656 | System and method for concurrent presentation of multiple audio information sources A method for concurrent presentation of multiple audio information sources. In the method, audio information from at least two audio information sources is concurrently presented, and a user speech selection of one of the audio information sources is accepted. At le... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6757649 | Codebook tables for multi-rate encoding and decoding with pre-gain and delayed-gain quantization tables A speech compression system capable of encoding a speech signal into a bitstream for subsequent decoding to generate synthesized speech is disclosed. The speech compression system optimizes the bandwidth consumed by the bitstream by balancing the desired average bit... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754626 | Creating a hierarchical tree of language models for a dialog system based on prompt and dialog context The invention disclosed herein concerns a method of converting speech to text using a hierarchy of contextual models. The hierarchy of contextual models can be statistically smoothed into a language model. The method can include processing text with a plurality of c... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754627 | Detecting speech recognition errors in an embedded speech recognition system A method for processing a misrecognition error in an embedded speech recognition system during a speech recognition session can include the step of speech-to-text converting audio input in the embedded speech recognition system based on an active language model. The... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754624 | Codebook re-ordering to reduce undesired packet generation A method and apparatus for enhancing coding efficiency by reducing illegal or other undesirable packet generation while encoding a signal. The probability of generating illegal or other undesirable packets while encoding a signal is reduced by first analyzing a hist... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754630 | Synthesis of speech from pitch prototype waveforms by time-synchronous waveform interpolation In a method of synthesizing voiced speech from pitch prototype waveforms by time-synchronous waveform interpolation (TSWI), one or more pitch prototypes is extracted from a speech signal or a residue signal. The extraction process is performed in such a way that the... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751589 | Voice-actuated generation of documents containing photographic identification A preferred method for generating a document includes the steps of: providing an applicant with a visual representation, via a visual display device, of at least a portion of a document; prompting an applicant to provide first information corresponding to a first po... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6741964 | Data transfer system and data transfer method When recording digital data corresponding to a voice signal, a voice data recording and reproducing apparatus generates an error correction code and records this code together with the digital data in semiconductor memory. When transferring the digital data to the P... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6741961 | Low power audio processor that multiplexes component distribution signals A low power audio processor is disclosed which includes: a bit stream processing unit for performing bit processing for an applied audio stream and for decoding the bit processed audio stream to have a format conducive to digital signal processing; a digital signal ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738739 | Voiced speech preprocessing employing waveform interpolation or a harmonic model Voiced speech preprocessing employs waveform interpolation or a harmonic model circuit to smooth a transition region and simplify speech coding. At low bit rates, the speech is coded by a system that maintains a high perceptual quality in the transition region from ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6735567 | Encoding and decoding speech signals variably based on signal classification A speech compression system capable of encoding a speech signal into a bitstream for subsequent decoding to generate synthesized speech is disclosed. The speech compression system optimizes the bandwidth consumed by the bitstream by balancing the desired average bit... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6735564 | Portrayal of talk group at a location in virtual audio space for identification in telecommunication system management A method and arrangement for managing talk groups of a telecommunication system at a dispatcher station of the telecommunications system having one or more talk groups which may consist of one or more users and which are controlled by the dispatcher at the dispatche... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728681 | Interactive multimedia book An interactive multimedia book provides hands-on multimedia instruction to the user in response to voiced commands. The book is implemented on a computer system and includes both text and audio/video clips. The interactive multimedia book is accessed by voiced comma... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6714907 | Codebook structure and search for speech coding A speech compression system with a special fixed codebook structure and a new search routine is proposed for speech coding. The system is capable of encoding a speech signal into a bitstream for subsequent decoding to generate synthesized speech. The codebook struct... | 03/30/2004 |
