Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 11/05

20050261889 - Method and apparatus for extracting information, and computer product: A generation-target selecting unit selects supervised data from a supervised-data storage unit. A supervised generation unit generates the supervised data to produce new supervised data. A validity determining unit makes a rule learning unit learn the generated data and the supervised data, and makes an extracting unit to extract information...

20050261890 - Method and apparatus for providing language translation: A method and apparatus for enabling communication between a first user and a second user speaking different natural languages, comprising the steps of: providing a first apparatus; initiating a conversation between a first user and a second user speaking different languages; capturing a first audio file from a first user...

20050261891 - System and method for text segmentation and display: The present invention provides a system and method for dividing patent claims into segments for display. A segmentation engine of a computer program searches for transitional phrases or other strings and divides the patent claims into a segment for each claim. The segmentation engine also searches for dependency references. A...

20050261892 - Audio encoding with different coding models: A method for supporting an encoding of an audio signal is shown, wherein at least a first and a second coder mode are available for encoding a section of the audio signal. The first coder mode enables a coding based on two different coding models. A selection of a coding...

20050261893 - Encoding method, encoding apparatus, decoding method, decoding apparatus and program: In a quantization step information encoding unit, an average value of the quantization step information is found in an approximate shape extraction unit (20), first of all, from one set of a given number of unitary quantization units to another. In an approximate shape encoding unit (21), the approximate shape...

20050261894 - Method and apparatus for noise filtering: Disclosed is an apparatus for and a method of filtering noise from a mixed sound signal to obtained a filtered target signal, comprising the steps of inputting (100) the mixed signal through a pair of microphones (10) into a first channel (15a) and a second channel (15b), separately Fourier transforming...

20050261895 - Methods and devices for correlating audio sample comparisons and network performance statistics: Methods and devices for evaluating audio quality in a network are described. First and second audio samples are compared. The first audio sample includes a reference signal that is transmitted through a path on the network. The second audio sample includes the reference signal after it has traveled the path...

20050261896 - Audio coding: According to a first aspect of the invention, at least part of an audio signal is coded in order to obtain an encoded signal, the coding comprising predictive coding the at least part of the audio signal in order to obtain prediction coefficients which represent temporal properties, such as a...

20050261898 - Method and adaptive filter for processing a sequence of input data: A method and adaptive filter for processing a sequence of input data for an audio system may have the input data provided to first and second predictive filters, and the data may be delayed in time before or after the second filter. One of the predictive filters may be backward-looking...

20050261897 - Method and device for robust predictive vector quantization of linear prediction parameters in variable bit rate speech coding: The present invention relates to a method and device for quantizing linear prediction parameters in variable bit-rate sound signal coding, in which an input linear prediction parameter vector is received, a sound signal frame corresponding to the input linear prediction parameter vector is classified, a prediction vector is computed, the...

20050261899 - Methods of improving capacity for voice users in a communication network: In a method for improving capacity for voice users in a communication network and/or a method of avoiding channelization code starvation in the downlink when establishing a voice call with one or more users in the wireless network, two sets of channelization codes may be defined, each adapted for use...

20050261900 - Supporting a switch between audio coder modes: The invention relates to a method for supporting an encoding of an audio signal, wherein a first coder mode and a second coder mode are available for encoding a respective section of an audio signal. The second coder mode enables a coding of a respective section based on a first...

20050261901 - Training speaker-dependent, phrase-based speech grammars using an unsupervised automated technique: The present invention can include a method for tuning grammar option weights of a phrase-based, automatic speech recognition (ASR) grammar, where the grammar option weights affect which entries within the grammar are matched to spoken utterances. The tuning can occur in an unsupervised fashion, meaning no special training session or...

20050261902 - Method for designing an automated speech recognition (asr) interface for a customer call center: A method of designing a customer interface for a service center, such as an automated speech recognition (ASR) self-service center. Customer activity to an existing service center is monitored, providing customer model, which includes a collection of customer tasks. These tasks are assigned to action-object pairs, which are further assigned...

20050261903 - Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and computer product: When a voice of the user cannot be recognized, a voice recognition device automatically switches to a voice command registration mode. In the voice command registration mode, the user is caused to select a desired processing, the unrecognized voice is registered, and the desired processing is executed....

20050261905 - Method and apparatus for generating dialog prosody structure, and speech synthesis method and system employing the same: A dialog prosody structure generating method and apparatus, and a speech synthesis method and system employing the dialog prosody structure generation method and apparatus, are provided. The speech synthesis method using the dialog prosody structure generation method includes: determining a system speaking style based on a user utterance; if the...

20050261904 - System and method for voice recognition using user location information: An improved voice-recognition system and method that uses location data to build a library of location-specific terms. In one embodiment, the cell site of a caller's wireless telephone is used to determine the approximate geographic location of the user, and based on this location, a list of nearby landmarks is...

20050261906 - Methods and systems for enabling speech-based internet searches: Merged “grammars” derived from statistical indicators (e.g., N-grams and cohorts) are used to enable speech-based, Internet searches....

20050261907 - 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 enable development of a specific voice user interface that is designed...

20050261909 - Method and server for providing a multi-modal dialog: The invention concerns a method of providing a multi-modal dialog between a multi-modal application (5) and a user (6) communicating with the multi-modal application (5) via a client (4) suited to exchange and present documents (7) encoded in standard or extended hyper text mark-up language. The invention further concerns a...

20050261908 - Method, system, and apparatus for a voice markup language interpreter and voice browser: The present invention can include a method of allocating an interpreter module within an application program. The application program can create one or more interpreter module instances. The method also can include updating a property descriptor of the interpreter module instance and directing the interpreter module instance to allocate speech...

20050261910 - Method and apparatus for natural language translation in a finite domain: A method and apparatus are provided for performing natural language translation in a finite domain, e.g., where the finite domain describes a specific subject area or field of use. In one embodiment, a method for translating user input relating to a finite domain includes receiving user input in a source...

20050261911 - Apparatus for reducing stress: A method and apparatus for relaxing and reducing stress in an individual is disclosed. The method involves exposing the individual to combined music, preferably anxiolitic music, and randomly selected voiceover. The apparatus comprises a system, suitable for performing the method, that is capable of reproducing a wide variety of different...

20050256698 - Method and arrangement for translating data: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for classifying the data of an input data flow containing elements by using a knowledge base containing segments. The invention is particularly suited for translating languages. In the method, the processable part of the input data flow is read, divided into elements,...

20050256699 - Method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment: A method for specifying equivalence of language grammars and automatically translating sentences in one language to sentences in another language in a computer environment. The method uses a unified grammar specification of grammars of different languages in a single unified representation of all the individual grammars where equivalent production rules...

20050256700 - Natural language question answering system and method utilizing a logic prover: A natural language question answering system and method comprises receiving a question logic form, at least one answer logic form, and extended lexical information by a first module, outputting lexical chains to a second module, and utilizing axioms by the second module....

20050256702 - Algebraic codebook search implementation on processors with multiple data paths: A method for codebook search in an algebraic code-excited linear prediction (ACELP) encoder is implemented with a multiple data path processor. The invention is particularly applicable in speech coders based on the ITU standards G.729 and G.723.1, and as applied to GSM adaptive multi-rate WB. Processors with multiple data paths...

20050256704 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in...

20050256701 - Selection of coding models for encoding an audio signal: The invention relates to a method of selecting a respective coding model for encoding consecutive sections of an audio signal, wherein at least one coding model optimized for a first type of audio content and at least one coding model optimized for a second type of audio content are available...

20050256703 - System and method for analyzing a waveform to detect specified patterns: Disclosed are techniques for analyzing waveforms to determine the existence of certain patterns in those waveforms. The existence of certain patterns can be used by investors to make decisions regarding the purchase or sale of stocks. The processes include a determination of the formation of a base, whether the pattern...

20050256705 - Noise spectrum estimation method and apparatus: A method is provided for recurrently estimating a spectrum of noise at each signal observation interval from a sound signal which contains the noise and which is observed at each signal observation interval. In the method, there are acquired an envelope of a previous spectrum of the noise which has...

20050256706 - Removing noise from feature vectors: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for identifying clean signal feature vectors from noisy signal feature vectors. One aspect of the invention includes using an iterative approach to identify the clean signal feature vector. Another aspect of the invention includes using the variance of a set of noise feature...

20050256707 - Digitized audio data reproduction apparatus, and integrated circuit device to output audio signals: An audio data reproduction apparatus, integrated circuit device, and computer program product configured to implement a method for reproducing audio data that includes receiving an audio stream, decoding the audio stream, processing the audio stream or a signal produced by the decoding, selecting the signal produced by the decoding or...

20050256708 - Audio encoding method and apparatus for electronic shock protection function in audio player: An audio encoding method and apparatus for electronic shock protection (ESP) function in an audio player. A method of generating a frame structure for an electronic shock protection function of an audio player, includes: encoding original data of a frame and locating the encoded data in a first area that...

20050256709 - Band extending apparatus and method: A band extending apparatus includes a spectral parameter calculating circuit for calculating spectral parameters of a narrow-band input signal, a coefficient calculating circuit supplied with the spectral parameters to convert the spectral parameters into coefficients of a band extended signal, and a gain circuit supplied with a gain from a...

20050256710 - Text message generation: The invention relates to a method of generating text messages. In order to make the generation of text messages as convenient and efficient as possible for a user, the following steps are proposed: —processing of speech input containing message elements by means of grammar-based speech recognition procedures; —processing of speech...

20050256711 - Detection of end of utterance in speech recognition system: The present invention relates to speech recognition systems, especially to arranging detection of end-of utterance in such systems. A speech recognizer of the system is configured to determine whether recognition result determined from received speech data is stabilized. The speech recognizer is configured to process values of best state scores...

20050256712 - Speech recognition device and speech recognition method: The speech recognition apparatus (1) is equipped with the garbage acoustic model storage unit (110) storing the garbage acoustic model which learned the collection of the unnecessary words; the feature value calculation unit (101) which calculates the feature parameter necessary for recognition by acoustically analyzing the unidentified input speech including...

20050256713 - Asynchronous hidden markov model method and system: A system, method and program storage device implementing a method for modeling a data generating process, wherein the modeling comprises observing a data sequence comprising irregularly sampled data, obtaining an observation sequence based on the observed data sequence, assigning a time index sequence to the data sequence, obtaining a hidden...

20050256714 - Sequential variance adaptation for reducing signal mismatching: The mismatch between the distributions of acoustic models and features in speech recognition may cause performance degradation. A sequential variance adaptation (SVA) adapts the covariances dynamically based on a sequential EM algorithm. The original covariances in acoustic models are adjusted by scaling factors which are sequentially updated once new collection...

20050256715 - Language model generation and accumulation device, speech recognition device, language model creation method, and speech recognition method: A language model generation and accumulation apparatus (10) that generates and accumulates language models for speech recognition is comprised of: a higher-level N-gram generation and accumulation unit (11) that generates and accumulates a higher-level N-gram language model obtained by modeling each of a plurality of texts as a string of...

20050256716 - System and method for generating customized text-to-speech voices: A system and method are disclosed for generating customized text-to-speech voices for a particular application. The method comprises generating a custom text-to-speech voice by selecting a voice for generating a custom text-to-speech voice associated with a domain, collecting text data associated with the domain from a pre-existing text data source...

20050256717 - Dialog system, dialog system execution method, and computer memory product: The present invention provides a dialog system, a dialog execution method and a computer program which are capable of easily updating input information and output information of a dialog scenario and easily changing a plurality of modalities by using a general-purpose dialog scenario. In a dialog system that receives information...

20050256718 - Movable barrier control system component with audible speech output apparatus and method: An automated movable barrier control system component (11) as comprises a part of a movable barrier control system (10) has an audible speech output device (21) operably coupled thereto. These elements can share a common housing (22). The audible speech output device (21) can audiblize one or more items of...

20050256720 - Voice-activated audio/visual locator with voice recognition: A self-contained, battery-powered device produces a visible signal and/or an audible sound when activated. The device includes an electronic microphone, a voice recognition program and a controller circuit for activating the audio and/or visual signals in response to the appropriate voice signal of the user. The device is attached to...

20050256719 - Voice-activated remote control: A voice activated remote control for an appliance broadly includes a receiver for receiving audible commands of a user, a transmitter for transmitting signals to the appliance, and a central processing unit (CPU) in communication with the receiver and transmitter for interpreting the audible commands received by the receiver. The...

20050256721 - Interactive water effects using texture coordinate shifting: A system and process for adding a photorealistic rendering of a body of water to a virtual 3D scene or image and creating a video therefrom having interactive water effects. A region of water is added to an image by adding an area depicting the original scene as it would...

20050256723 - Efficient filter bank computation for audio coding: Low-complexity synthesis filter bank for MPEG audio decoding uses a factoring of the 64×32 matrixing for the inverse-quantized subband coefficients. Factoring into non-standard 4-point discrete cosine and sine transforms, point-wise multiplications and combinations, and non-standard 8-point discrete cosine and sine transforms limits memory requirements and computational complexity....

20050256722 - System and method for lossless audio encoding and decoding: Audio information is encoded, sample by sample, by creating a table of encoded audio sample values in which redundant ones of the encoded audio sample values share common table entries. The encoding method may include comparing a current audio data sample to be encoded to previously encoded audio data samples...

20050251381 - Tokenizer for a natural language processing system: The present invention is a segmenter used in a natural language processing system. The segmenter segments a textual input string into tokens for further natural language processing. In accordance with one feature of the invention, the segmenter includes a tokeinzer engine that proposes segmentations and submits them to a linguistic...

20050251382 - Linguistic object model: A linguistic object model is adapted to model semantic elements of a natural language. The linguistic object model includes a set of abstract representations of semantic elements of an utterance. Each abstract representation in the set corresponds to a natural language type that is independent of any particular language....

20050251383 - System and method of self-learning conceptual mapping to organize and interpret data: In a computer implemented method of researching textual data sources, textual data is reduced to a plurality of distinctive words based on frequency of usage within the textual data. The distinctive words are converted into first numeric representations of vectors containing random numbers. A first self-organizing map is formed from...

20050251385 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium: From a word set output section, a word is inputted to an optimum word train output section along with a concept notation function which is a function for representing a matter that the word indicates. The optimum word train output section calculates, on the basis of respective concept notation functions,...

20050251384 - Word extraction method and system for use in word-breaking: A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which collect new words for addition to a lexicon for an agglutinative language. Sentences in the agglutinative language are retrieved from documents, for example from web pages. New word candidate character strings are identified in the retrieved sentences. The identified new...

20050251386 - Method and apparatus for adaptive conversation detection employing minimal computation: A conversation detector and detection method is based on voice band energy detection. The detector is formed of a signal preconditioner, a comparator and an analysis unit. The comparator generates signal pulses reduced in resolution and sample rate (e.g., single bit data) and indicative of energy level and/or duration of...

20050251387 - Method and device for gain quantization in variable bit rate wideband speech coding: The present invention relates to a gain quantization method and device for implementation in a technique for coding a sampled sound signal processed, during coding, by successive frames of L samples, wherein each frame is divided into a number of subframes and each subframe comprises a number N of samples,...

20050251389 - Method and apparatus for noise reduction: An apparatus and method for noise reduction is described. The method and apparatus can be used in a hands-free communication system to provide a hands-free a communication system having improved intelligibility. The apparatus includes a first and a second processor, each separately dynamically adapted to changing signals and noise, to...

20050251388 - Spectrogram reconstruction by means of a codebook: A method for reconstructing a data spectrogram disturbed by noise and/or echo is described, wherein spectrogram data is subjected to an awarding of a reliability measure, and wherein the spectrogram data having a low reliability measure is replace by more reliable data. In particular the replacement is carried out by...

20050251390 - Speech recognition circuit using parallel processors: A speech recognition circuit comprises an input buffer for receiving processed speech parameters. A lexical memory contains lexical data for word recognition. The lexical data comprises a plurality of lexical tree data structures. Each lexical tree data structure comprises a model of words having common prefix components. An initial component...

20050251391 - Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar: A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition entry is contiguous with the first transition entry in the data structure and includes a...

20050251392 - Speech synthesizing method and apparatus: An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are determined based upon a target phoneme average power (p0) of synthesized speech and power (p) of a selected phoneme unit....

20050251393 - Arrangement and a method relating to access to internet content: The present invention relates to an arrangement (and a method) allowing multi-modal access of content over a global data communications network, e.g. Internet, comprising a mobile station (1), with a user agent, a proxy server (2), and a telephony platform (3). The mobile station (1) is a dual mode station...

20050251394 - System and method for enhancing live speech with information accessed from the world wide web: The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for enabling an auditor of a live speech to access immediately after or at a later time, complementary information related with terms pronounced during this speech. The system associates hyperlinks (i.e., URLs) with selected terms or words likely...

20050251395 - Device for projecting an object in a space inside a vehicle: A device for projecting an object in a space of a vehicle is described. This object is preferably projected holographically, and a voice input and output system is assigned to this object. An artificial passenger is thus created for a driver....

20050246156 - Communication processing system: A method and apparatus are described for automatic processing of electronic communications in a networked computer environment. The invention facilitates the appropriate form of translation of the communication to suit the circumstance. The communication is identified as a foreign language communication, a quotation program is optionally applied to calculate the...

20050246157 - Generating programmatic interfaces from natural language expressions of authorizations for provision of information: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for translating a business rule. An operation for a rule to authorize a provision of information is created. A current container is established. A propositional expression in the rule describing the provision of the information is processed. If the current container...

20050246158 - Method and apparatus for improved grammar checking using a stochastic parser: A method and grammar checking system are provided that generate a stochastic score, or a statistical goodness measure, for each of an input string of text and one or more alternative strings of text. An alternative generator generates the alternative strings of text, and a ranking parser produces parse trees...

20050246159 - System and method for document and data validation: An embodiment of the invention generally relates to a method of processing data. The method includes receiving a multi-language document and determining a profile associated with the multi-language document. The method also includes determining associated schemas and rule files with the profile and applying said associated schemas and rule files...

20050246160 - Information generation system for product formation: A system for the generation and storage of data, each of which represent a component of a technical product or a step in a formation process for the product. The system can generate types of relationships between several data object types and allocate data object types as well as automatically...

20050246161 - Time series data analysis apparatus and method: A text data storage unit stores a plurality of text data having attribute data and time data. A dictionary storage unit stores a plurality of events each associated with text data. An analysis condition indication unit indicates an analysis target as attribute data and an analysis condition as an event...

20050246162 - Digital vocal device for multiple purposes: A digital vocal device for multiple purposes comprises a triggering unit and a vocal unit for vocalizing according to the triggering unit, and the feature is: comprising an interface unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit electrically connects with an external digital device via the interface...

20050246163 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing method is disclosed for use with an information processing apparatus for acquiring data and executing signal processing on the data. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information necessary for executing the signal processing on the data; determining whether a certain parameter included in the information acquired...

20050246164 - Coding of audio signals: An encoder comprises an input for inputting frames of an audio signal in a frequency band, an analysis filter dividing the frequency band into lower and higher frequency bands, a first encoding block for encoding the audio signals of the lower frequency band, a second encoding block for encoding the...

20050246165 - System and method for analyzing and improving a discourse engaged in by a number of interacting agents: A computerized method of analyzing a discourse engaged in by a plurality of interacting agents includes measuring a first set of prosodic features associated with the discourse and, at least partially based on the first set of measured prosodic features, determining a target set of prosodic features that are likelier...

20050246166 - Componentized voice server with selectable internal and external speech detectors: A method for detecting speech utterances within a telephone call can include the steps of initializing a componentized voice server having at least one software-based speech detection routine. At least one previously established parameter can be used to discern a speech detection methodology for handling an incoming call. The software-based...

20050246167 - Sound source search system: It is possible to simultaneously identify the sound coming direction from a sound source in all directions and estimate the sound intensity of the sound source. A plurality of microphones (11) are arranged on the surface of a baffle (10) of a shape such as a sphere and polyhedron so...

20050246168 - Syllabic kernel extraction apparatus and program product thereof: An apparatus enabling automatic determination of a portion that reliably represents a feature of a speech waveform includes: an acoustic/prosodic analysis unit (92) calculating, from data, distribution of an energy of a prescribed frequency range of the speech waveform on a time axis, and for extracting, among various syllables of...

20050246169 - Detection of the audio activity: The invention relates to a method for detecting audio activity. In the method samples of audio signal are formed or received. A feature vector is formed from the samples of the audio signal and the feature vector is projected by a discriminant vector to form a projection value for the...

20050246170 - Audio signal processing apparatus and method: An audio signal processing apparatus (1) comprises an audio input (3) for an entered audio signal, an audio output (5) for outputting an outgoing audio signal, and a processor (9) for performing a transformation (2) to improve the intelligibility of speech present in the entered audio signal. The transformation (2)...

20050246171 - Model adaptation apparatus, model adaptation method, storage medium, and pattern recognition apparatus: To achieve an improvement in recognition performance, a non-speech acoustic model correction unit adapts a non-speech acoustic model representing a non-speech state using input data observed during an interval immediately before a speech recognition interval during which speech recognition is performed, by means of one of the most likelihood method,...

20050246172 - Acoustic model training method and system: An acoustic model training method includes: (a) constructing a root speech data set, the root speech data set having a plurality of root speech data, each having a root phone; (b) constructing a Hidden Markov Model for the root speech data set; (c)constructing a sub-speech data set dependent on the...

20050246173 - Barge-in capabilities of a voice browser: A method for barging-in a call can include the step of establishing a component as a communication intermediary between at least one speech engine and a telephone gateway. The component can include at least one input media port and at least one output media port, where the input media port...

20050246174 - Method and system for presenting dynamic commercial content to clients interacting with a voice extensible markup language system: A system for selecting a voice dialog, which may be an advertisement or information message, from a pool of voice dialogs and for causing the selected voice dialog to be utilized by a voice application for presentation to a caller during an automated voice interactive session includes a voice-enabled interaction...

20050246175 - Establishing call-based audio sockets within a componentized voice server: A method of interfacing a telephone application server and a speech engine can include the step of establishing one or more audio sockets in a media converting component of the telephone application server. The audio socket can remain available for approximately a duration of a call. A work unit that...

20050246176 - Voice browser implemented as a distributable component: A system for implementing voice services can include at least one virtual machine, such as a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) virtual machine. The virtual machine can include a bean container for handling software beans, such as Enterprise Java Beans. The bean container can include a voice browser bean. The...

20050246177 - System, method and software for enabling task utterance recognition in speech enabled systems: A system, method and software for collecting, processing and analyzing user task utterances in speech-enabled systems are provided. In one embodiment, a number of task utterances are captured over a period of time. A text-based version of the utterances is created from the captured utterances. The captured task utterances, the...

20050246180 - Audio signal process circuit: An audio signal process circuit to convert a selected input audio signal into a digital audio signal, and to apply an MPEG encode/decode process to the converted digital audio signal upon recording/playing, includes an audio selecting unit to select one input terminal out of one or more external audio input...

20050246178 - Scalable lossless audio codec and authoring tool: An audio codec losslessly encodes audio data into a sequence of analysis windows in a scalable bitstream. This is suitably done by separating the audio data into MSB and LSB portions and encoding each with a different lossless algorithm. An authoring tool compares the buffered payload to an allowed payload...

20050246179 - Systems and methods of remotely enabling sound enhancement techniques: A system and method of remotely enabling sound enhancement techniques is disclosed. In an embodiment, a watermark is embedded in an encoded multi-channel audio stream to remotely enable an enhancement decoder portion of a multi-channel audio decoder....