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Examiner: Lerner, Martin


Primary examiner statistics: 642 patents; average approval time: 642 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 660 patents; average approval time: 661 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8117036 Non-disruptive side conversation information retrieval
8117027 Method and apparatus for introducing information into a data stre...
8112275 System and method for user-specific speech recognition
8112282 Evaluating prompt alternatives for speech-enabled applications
8103501 System and method for generation and authentication of a signed d...
8103511 Multiple audio file processing method and system
8103503 Speech recognition for determining if a user has correctly read a...
8095363 Method and system for predicting understanding errors in a task c...
8090574 Entropy encoding and decoding using direct level and run-length/l...
8086456 Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a la...
8086458 Audio signal de-identification
8082153 Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine
8078469 Distributed voice user interface
8073692 Enabling speech recognition grammars in web page frames
8069041 Display of channel candidates from voice recognition results for ...
RE42949 Stereophonic audio signal decompression switching to monaural aud...
8060366 System, method, and computer-readable medium for verbal control o...
8046215 Method and apparatus to detect voice activity by adding a random ...
8036889 Systems and methods for filtering dictated and non-dictated secti...
8024182 Rate/diversity adaptation sending speech in first and second pack...
8015006 Systems and methods for processing natural language speech uttera...
8010348 Adaptive encoding and decoding with forward linear prediction
8010347 Signal decomposition, analysis and reconstruction apparatus and m...
8005674 Data modeling of class independent recognition models
8005669 Method and system for reducing a voice signal noise
RE42627 Encoding and decoding of information in audio signals
7996214 System and method of exploiting prosodic features for dialog act ...
7991613 Analyzing audio components and generating text with integrated ad...
7991617 Optimum design management apparatus from response surface calcula...
7983916 Sampling rate independent speech recognition
7983910 Communicating across voice and text channels with emotion preserv...
7983907 Headset for separation of speech signals in a noisy environment
7970604 System and method for switching between a first filter and a seco...
7957977 Media program identification method and apparatus based on audio ...
7953599 System, method and computer program product for adding voice acti...
7949519 Information communication apparatus, transmission apparatus and r...
7949517 Dialogue system with logical evaluation for language identificati...
7949524 Speech recognition correction with standby-word dictionary
7933773 Natural language understanding monitoring system for identifying ...
7930184 Multi-channel audio coding/decoding of random access points and t...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7013275 Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic speech-driven contro...
7003459 Method and system for predicting understanding errors in automate...
6993484 Speech synthesizing method and apparatus
6947890 Acoustic speech recognition method and system using stereo vision...
6917917 Apparatus and method for voice recognition and displaying of char...
6910010 Feature extraction apparatus and method and pattern recognition a...
6882970 Language recognition using sequence frequency
6879956 Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing...
6879953 Speech recognition with request level determination
6876966 Pattern recognition training method and apparatus using inserted ...
6871180 Decoding of information in audio signals
6868377 Multiband phase-vocoder for the modification of audio or speech s...
6865536 Method and system for network-based speech recognition
6862569 Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to spe...
6862566 Method and apparatus for converting an expression using key words
6829577 Generating non-stationary additive noise for addition to synthesi...
6826530 Speech synthesis for tasks with word and prosody dictionaries
RE38649 Method and apparatus for word counting in continuous speech recog...
6810380 Personal safety enhancement for communication devices
6807528 Adding data to a compressed data frame
6804644 Text processing system including a speech recognition device and ...
6804640 Signal noise reduction using magnitude-domain spectral subtractio...
6789059 Reducing memory requirements of a codebook vector search
6785652 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes
6778962 Speech synthesis with prosodic model data and accent type
6778951 Information retrieval method with natural language interface
6778955 System and method for processing low signal-to-noise ratio signal...
6778965 Data compression and expansion of an audio signal
6778958 Symbol insertion apparatus and method
6778957 Method and apparatus for handset detection
6775650 Method for conditioning a digital speech signal
6772109 Message handling method, message handling apparatus, and memory m...
6768980 METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-BANDWIDTH STEGANOGRAPHIC EMBEDDI...
6768978 Speech coding/decoding method and apparatus
6766289 Fast code-vector searching
6766291 Method and apparatus for controlling the transition of an audio s...
6766290 Voice responsive audio system
6766292 Relative noise ratio weighting techniques for adaptive noise canc...
6760699 Soft feature decoding in a distributed automatic speech recogniti...
6760703 Speech synthesis method
 
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