Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 01/06

20060020444 - Ontology based medical system for data capture and knowledge representation: A healthcare related system is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block with reference to one or more healthcare lexicons, and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used by an ontology processing block to reference an ontology and generate a standardized output....

20060020445 - Differential dynamic delivery of content historically likely to be viewed: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a prerecorded presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified...

20060020446 - Implementation of concurrent programs in object-oriented languages: The present invention adds support for concurrency to a mainstream object-oriented language. Language extensions are provided that can enable programs to be developed that can either be run in one address space, distributed across several process on a single computer, or distributed across a local-area or wide-area network, without recoding...

20060020447 - Ontology based method for data capture and knowledge representation: A method is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used to reference an ontology in an ontology processing block to generate a standardized output....

20060020448 - Method and apparatus for capitalizing text using maximum entropy: A method and apparatus are provided for selecting a form of capitalization for a text by determining a probability of a capitalization form for a word using a weighted sum of features. The features are based on the capitalization form and a context for the word....

20060020449 - Method and system for generating colored comfort noise in the absence of silence insertion description packets: A method and system for utilizing information content in speech and a transition hangover between speech and noise to generate comfort noise on the decoder side. This adaptation to noise may be accomplished using various algorithms of estimating the spectrum of color noise. According to an embodiment of the present...

20060020450 - Method and apparatus for coding or decoding wideband speech: A wideband speech coding method comprising identifying whether an input speech signal is a narrowband signal or a wideband signal, and coding the input speech signal by controlling a predetermined parameter of a wideband speech coding process based on the identification result....

20060020451 - Method and apparatus for equalizing a speech signal generated within a pressurized air delivery system: A method for equalizing a speech signal generated within a pressurized air delivery system, the method including the steps of: generating an inhalation noise model (1152) based on inhalation noise; receiving an input signal (802) that includes a speech signal; and equalizing the speech signal (1156) based on the noise...

20060020452 - Noise generation apparatus: A noise generator includes a noise intensity storage means for storing a noise intensity threshold of a noise, a noise intensity setting means for setting an optimum noise intensity based on the noise intensity threshold, a noise generation means for generating the noise based on the optimum noise intensity, and...

20060020453 - Speech signal compression and/or decompression method, medium, and apparatus: A speech signal compression and/or decompression method, medium, and apparatus in which the speech signal is transformed into the frequency domain for quantizing and dequantizing information of frequency coefficients. The speech signal compression apparatus includes a transform unit to transform a speech signal into the frequency domain and obtain frequency...

20060020454 - Method and system for noise suppression in inductive receivers: A method for noise suppression in wireless receivers or hearing aid devices comprising a receiver coil, wherein audible information is transmitted from a transmitter coil or loop in a wireless manner to said receiver coil, is disclosed and claimed. The method includes that the signal received by said receiver coil...

20060020455 - Adaptive plug-in architecture for mix-mode personal communication: A method (100) and apparatus for providing an application over a peer-to-peer network (200). During a communication session in the peer-to-peer network, data having a first format (240) can be transferred from a first device (205) in the peer-to-peer network to at least a second device (210) in the peer-to-peer...

20060020456 - Object oriented acoustic modeling tools and methods: Techniques for creating an acoustic model from a finite element mode include strategically partitioning elements of the finite element model into sets, forming composite centroids from the partitioned elements and then calculating the spatial distances between the composite centroids so that an acoustic model can be created using a tiny...

20060020458 - Similar speaker recognition method and system using nonlinear analysis: Disclosed herein is a similar speaker recognition method and system using nonlinear analysis. The recognition method extracts a nonlinear feature of a sound signal through nonlinear analysis of the sound signal and combines the nonlinear feature with a linear feature such as spectrum. The method transforms sound data in a...

20060020459 - System and method for immigration tracking and intelligence: A client identity verification system and method which includes receiving a spoken voice sample from a client. Identifying the match of the client, verifying client information, changing parameters in a conditional database and communicating alerts based on the results. The method also includes matching the received spoken voice sample against...

20060020457 - Techniques for improving collaboration effectiveness: A computer-implemented method, in a given computer, of identifying at least one current speaker among at least three participants of a network-based collaborating system. The participants collaborate using a plurality of computers. The method includes receiving a first speech event signal at the given computer, the first speech event signal...

20060020460 - Voice authentication system: A voice authentication system includes: a standard template storage part 17 in which a standard template that is generated from a registered voice of an authorized user and featured with a voice characteristic of the registered voice is stored preliminarily in a state of being associated with a personal ID...

20060020461 - Speech processing apparatus, speech processing method, program, and recording medium: An apparatus inputs an utterance and performs speech recognition on the input utterance. The speech processing apparatus determines whether the recognition result contains an unknown word. If it is determined that the recognition result contains an unknown word, it is then determined whether the recognition result is rejected or not....

20060020462 - System and method of speech recognition for non-native speakers of a language: An accent compensative speech recognition system and related methods for use with a signal processor generating one or more feature vectors based upon a voice-induced electrical signal are provided. The system includes a first-language acoustic module that determines a first-language phoneme sequence based upon one or more feature vectors, and...

20060020463 - Method and system for identifying and correcting accent-induced speech recognition difficulties: A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The speech recognition output module generates a first speech recognition output...

20060020466 - Ontology based medical patient evaluation method for data capture and knowledge representation: A patient evaluation method is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block with reference to a healthcare lexicon and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used to reference an ontology in an ontology processing block to generate a standardized output....

20060020465 - Ontology based system for data capture and knowledge representation: A system is disclosed in which non-standard input data is corrected in a syntax processing block and a resulting corrected data file is thereafter used by an ontology processing block, which references an ontology, to generate a standardized output....

20060020464 - Speech recognition application or server using iterative recognition constraints: A speech recognition application including a recognition module configured to receive input utterances and an application module configured to select a recognition from the speech recognition module using output from a first iteration to select a recognition result for a second iteration. In one embodiment, the application module eliminates a...

20060020467 - Acoustic signal transmission method and acoustic signal transmission apparatus: The acoustic signal transmission method is based on generating a synthesized sound electrical signal by electrically synthesizing an audible sound signal and another signal different than the audible sound signal at the sending side, and transmitting the synthesized sound electrical signal, and extracting the another signal different than the audible...

20060020469 - Apparatus and methods for static and semi-static displays: A display device for modulating light intensity in response to programmed data output. Tapered cells within a base material containing a fluid within which are contained electrostatically responsive particles. Electrodes couple data signals to opposing portions of the cells, whereupon the position of the particles is modulated in response to...

20060020468 - Telephone mapping and traveler information dissemination system: Methods and apparatus for a telephone based traveler information dissemination system that traffic and roadway condition information upon demand. A traveler communicates with a server over a telephone. The server receives a first and second geographic location and generates travel data, which is delivered to the traveler via facsimile or...

20060020470 - Interactive speech synthesizer for enabling people who cannot talk but who are familiar with use of picture exchange communication to autonomously communicate using verbal language: An interactive speech synthesizer for enabling people who cannot talk but who are familiar with use of picture exchange communication to autonomously communicate using verbal language. A microcontroller, at least one tag reader, and an audio output device are disposed at a housing, while at least one encoded tag is...

20060020471 - Method and apparatus for robustly locating user barge-ins in voice-activated command systems: A method of querying a user to select from a list in a voice-activated command system is provided. The method includes generating command prompt phrases during which the user can select items on the list. The command prompt phrases include an item on the list and an index for another...

20060020473 - Method, apparatus, and program for dialogue, and storage medium including a program stored therein: A dialgue apparatus for interacting by outputting a response sentence in response to an input sentence includes a formal response acquisition unit configured to acquire a formal response sentence in response to the input sentence, a practical response acquisition unit configured to acquire a practical response sentence in response to...

20060020472 - Voice guidance device and navigation device with the same: For a voice guidance phrase, multiple voice data items having individually different voice ranges or frequencies are previously stored in a memory. A voice mixing unit chooses to mix three voice data items among the stored voice data items and thereby produces a mixed voice data item. A voice outputting...

20060020475 - Compressed audio stream data decoder memory sharing techniques: A decoder (10) decodes compressed data. A memory (44) stores the compressed data and stores operating data and operating code for a plurality of decompression algorithms requiring different amounts of memory for the operating data and operating code and requiring different amounts of memory to store compressed data corresponding to...

20060020474 - Universal container for audio data: Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio...

20060015317 - Morphological analyzer and analysis method: A morphological analyzer divides a received text into known words and unknown words, divides the unknown words into their constituent characters, analyzes known words on a word-by-word basis, and analyzes unknown words on a character-by-character basis to select a hypothesis as to the morphological structure of the received text. Although...

20060015318 - Method and apparatus for initializing iterative training of translation probabilities: A method of estimating translation probabilities includes converting a set of word alignment scores into translation probabilities and modifying the translation probabilities based on a bilingual corpus to produce modified translation probabilities. Under many embodiments, the translation probabilities are modified using an iterative training algorithm....

20060015319 - Method and system for estimating the significance of rare events: The present invention can be used to calculate expected precision for association values between types of items in one class with types of items in another class. The present invention accommodates rare events....

20060015320 - Selection and use of nonstatistical translation components in a statistical machine translation framework: A system with a nonstatistical translation component integrated with a statistical translation component engine. The same corpus may be used for training the statistical engine and also for determining when to use the statistical engine and when to use the translation component. This training may use probabilistic techniques. Both the...

20060015321 - Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models: A method and computer-readable medium determine word association scores for word pairs. Each word association score is converted into a translation probability using a normalization value that reserves probability mass for unseen data....

20060015322 - Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models using smoothing: A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing technique....

20060015324 - Method and apparatus for natural language generation: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for natural language generation enables a language generation system to generate a grammatically correct natural language sentence by retrieving and adapting one or more stored sentences having semantic features similar to semantic features of a system-generated semantic representation. The retrieval of stored...

20060015325 - Method and system for estimating the significance of rare events: The present invention can be used to calculate expected precision for association values between types of items in one class with types of items in another class. The present invention accommodates rare events....

20060015323 - Method, apparatus, and computer program for statistical translation decoding: Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for decoding source text in a first language to target text in a second language are disclosed. The source text is decoded into an intermediate text portion based on a fixed alignment between words in the source text and words in the intermediate text...

20060015326 - Word boundary probability estimating, probabilistic language model building, kana-kanji converting, and unknown word model building: Calculates a word n-gram probability with high accuracy in a situation where a first corpus), which is a relatively small corpus containing manually segmented word information, and a second corpus, which is a relatively large corpus, are given as a training corpus that is storage containing vast quantities of sample...

20060015327 - Music detection with low-complexity pitch correlation algorithm: A method is provided for detecting music in a speech signal having a plurality of frames. The method comprises obtaining one or more first pitch correlation candidates from a first frame of the plurality of frames; obtaining one or more second pitch correlation candidates from a second frame of the...

20060015329 - Apparatus and method for audio coding: A method and apparatus for coding information are described. In one embodiment, an encoder for encoding a first set of data samples comprises a waveform analyzer to determine a set of waveform parameters from a second set of data samples, a waveform synthesizer to generate a set of predicted samples...

20060015328 - Sinusoidal audio coding: Coding of an audio signal (x) represented by a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are used to determine sinusoidal components (CS) for each of the plurality of sequential segments. The sinusoidal components (CS) are subtracted...

20060015330 - Voice coding/decoding method and apparatus: The present invention provides a method of voice coding/decoding. Various parameters computed during voice coding are compressed for transmission. CELP coding of high compressibility and decoding corresponding to CELP coding is implemented without degradation of voice quality and transmission delay. An exemplary method of the present invention comprises performing voice...

20060015331 - Signal processing apparatus and method for reducing noise and interference in speech communication and speech recognition: The present invention uses a method of processing signals in which signals received from an array of sensors are subject to system having a first adaptive filter arranged to enhance a target signal and a second adaptive filter arranged to suppress unwanted signals. The output of the second filter is...

20060015332 - Audio coding device and method: A method and a device for audio coding are disclosed. An audio coding device includes an audio coder for receiving audio signals and generating base data and enhancement data; and a rearranging device coupled to the audio coder. The rearranging device rearranges the enhancement data according to sectional factors of...

20060015333 - Low-complexity music detection algorithm and system: A method for detecting music in a speech signal having a plurality of frames. The method comprises defining a music threshold value for a first parameter extracted from a frame of the speech signal, defining a background noise threshold value for the first parameter, and defining an unsure threshold value...

20060015337 - 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 the remote computing system data based on processing...

20060015335 - Framework to enable multimodal access to applications: A technique to link an audio enabled device with a speech driven application without specifying the specific ones of the audio enabled device-independent, speech driven application-independent, and speech application platform independent parameters. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by using voice framework that receives and transmits digitized speech audio...

20060015334 - Method to process two audio input signals: In order to provide a method and a device for the processing of at least two input signals (Si) which contain audio (Ai) and possibly also video information (Vi) which enable the reproduction of the text information (T2) of at least one further input signal (S2) in addition to the...

20060015336 - System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input: A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method comprises performing spelling recognition via automatic speech recognition (ASR) on received speech from a user, the ASR being performed using a statistical letter model trained on domain data and producing a letter lattice...

20060015339 - Database annotation and retrieval: A data structure is provided for annotating data files within a database. The annotation data comprises a phoneme and word lattice which allows the quick and efficient searching of data files within the database in response to a user's input query. The structure of the annotation data is such that...

20060015338 - Voice recognition method with automatic correction: The present invention relates to a method of voice recognition with automatic correction in voice recognition systems with constrained syntax. It comprises in particular a step of processing said speech signal delivering a signal in a compressed form, a step of recognizing patterns so as to search, on the basis...

20060015340 - Operating system and method: An operating system and method applicable to a computer environment are provided for a user to input a speech message via a user-friendly operating interface that transforms the speech message into an input signal and transmits the input signal to a speech recognition module of an operating system. The speech...

20060015341 - Distributed pattern recognition training method and system: A distributed pattern recognition training method includes providing data communication between at least one central pattern analysis node and a plurality of peripheral data analysis sites. The method also includes communicating from the at least one central pattern analysis node to the plurality of peripheral data analysis a plurality of...

20060015342 - Document mode processing for portable reading machine enabling document navigation: Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text...

20060015343 - Identifying phonetically irregular words: A technique is described that identifies at least one phonetically irregular word in a text passage and displays the identified at least one phonetically irregular word in a readable format different from other portions of the text passage. Related apparatuses, techniques, systems, computer program products are also described....

20060015344 - Voice synthesis apparatus and method: A plurality of voice segments, each including one or more phonemes are acquired in a time-serial manner, in correspondence with desired singing or speaking words. As necessary, a boundary is designated between start and end points of a vowel phoneme included in any one of the acquired voice segments. Voice...

20060015345 - Coordinated signal generation apparatus: A portable signal generating device that, when activated, emits a visual or audible signal in coordination with other compatible devices in the vicinity that it can detect, and with which it can synchronize to create a coordinated signal effect....

20060015347 - Chime mp3 display: A MP3 chime player and display device having a MP3 microcontroller unit being integrated with an in-store display. The in-store display of the present invention has MP3 play selection buttons and associated selection insignia. The microcontroller is in electronic communication with a reprogrammable digital storage device, an electronic port, speakers,...

20060015346 - Method for transmitting audio signals according to the prioritizing pixel transmission method: A method for the transmission of audio signals between a transmitter and at least one receiver operates according to the prioritizing pixel transmission method. The audio signal is first broken down into a number a spectral fractions. The broken-down audio signal is stored in a two-dimension array with a plurality...

20060015348 - Television program transmission, storage and recovery with audio and video synchronization: An apparatus and methods are described for receiving, storing, and recovering from storage one or more television program while maintaining proper audio to video synchronization or lip sync when the program is displayed. Preferably the audio and video portions are in digital form and may be compressed or uncompressed. The...

20060009962 - Code conversion using parse trees: A parse tree code converter converts code using mark-up language representation of parse tress. Code from a source file that is written using, for example, a legacy language is converted into a parse tree. The parse tree can be written into a mark-up language (such as XML). The mark-up language...

20060009961 - Method of decomposing prose elements in document processing: The present invention discloses a technology for decomposing prose elements in document processing. Grammar analysis of complex sentences can identify main clause, embedded clauses, phrases and cohesive ties that link the embedded clauses to the main clause. Cohesive ties are stripped down and a weighted punctuation for segmentation is applied...

20060009963 - Method and apparatus for identifying bilingual lexicons in comparable corpora: Various methods formulated using a geometric interpretation for identifying bilingual pairs in comparable corpora using a bilingual dictionary are disclosed. The methods may be used separately or in combination to compute the similarity between bilingual pairs....

20060009964 - Text messaging device: A hand-held wireless communication device for creating and sending text messages including ideograms, said communication device including: an input interface for a user to make a phonetic input; and a processor for controlling a display device so as to display thereon one or more ideogrammatic representations of said phonetic input...

20060009965 - Method and apparatus for distribution-based language model adaptation: A method and apparatus are provided for adapting a language model to a task-specific domain. Under the method and apparatus, the relative frequency of n-grams in a small training set (i.e. task-specific training data set) and the relative frequency of n-grams in a large training set (i.e. out-of-domain training data...

20060009966 - Method and system for extracting information from unstructured text using symbolic machine learning: A method (and structure) of extracting information from text, includes parsing an input sample of text to form a parse tree and using user inputs to define a machine-labeled learning pattern from the parse tree....

20060009967 - Sinusoidal audio coding with phase updates: Coding of an audio signal (x) represented by a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are analyzed (130) to generate one or more sinusoidal components (fk,fk-1) for each of the plurality of sequential segments. Sinusoidal codes...

20060009968 - Unified treatment of resolved and unresolved harmonics: One embodiment of the present invention provides a post-processing method of a modulation envelope resulting from an interference of two harmonics in a filter band. According to one embodiment, the method comprising filtering the modulation envelope with a band-pass filter bank, wherein a combination of demodulation and application of the...

20060009969 - Auto-adjusting sound masking system and method: A system and method for generating a masking noise level and spectrum automatically adjusted to obtain a target masking noise spectrum in a room. The system comprises a white noise generator and a mask filter automatically determined according to a correction of an acoustical response of the room and to...

20060009971 - Method and apparatus for characterizing inhalation noise and calculating parameters based on the characterization: A method for characterizing inhalation noise within a pressurized air delivery system, the method including the steps of: generating an inhalation noise model (912, 1012) based on inhalation noise; receiving an input signal (802) that includes inhalation noise comprising at least one inhalation noise burst; comparing (810) the input signal...

20060009970 - Method for detecting and attenuating inhalation noise in a communication system: A method for detecting and attenuating inhalation noise in a communication system coupled to a pressurized air delivery system, the method including the steps of: generating an inhalation noise model (912, 1012) based on inhalation noise; receiving an input signal (802) that includes inhalation noise; comparing (810) the input signal...

20060009972 - Unsupervised incremental adaptation using maximum likelihood spectral transformation: In a speech recognition system, a method of transforming speech feature vectors associated with speech data provided to the speech recognition system includes the steps of receiving likelihood of utterance information corresponding to a previous feature vector transformation, estimating one or more transformation parameters based, at least in part, on...

20060009974 - Hands-free voice dialing for portable and remote devices: Dynamically constructed grammar-constraints and frequency or statistics-based constraints are used to constrain the speech recognizer and to optionally rescore the output to improve recognition accuracy. The recognition system is well adapted for hands-free operation of portable devices, such as for voice dialing operations....

20060009973 - Multi-slot dialog systems and methods: Systems and methods for constructing a series of interactions with a user to collect multiple pieces of related information for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal or topic (a multi-slot dialog) using a component-based approach are disclosed. The method generally includes outputting a primary header prompt to elicit values...

20060009975 - System and method for text-to-speech processing in a portable device: A system and method for providing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) output in a low-complexity device is disclosed. TTS output is generated by a TTS system that resides on a high-complexity device. The TTS output is transmitted from the high-complexity device to the low-complexity device for subsequent retrieval and playback....

20060009976 - Method for transforming image imto music: The invention is a method for transforming image into music, more particularly, is a method for transforming image into sound at first and then editing the sound into music. In the method, the dynamic image or static image is captured by using the image capture apparatus. An image datum is...

20060009977 - Speech synthesis apparatus: A speech synthesis apparatus, which can embed unchangeable additional information into synthesized speech without causing a deterioration of speech quality and restriction by bands, includes a language processing unit which generates synthesized speech generation information necessary for generating synthesized speech in accordance with a language string, a prosody generating unit...

20060009978 - Methods and systems for synthesis of accurate visible speech via transformation of motion capture data: The disclosure describes methods for synthesis of accurate visible speech using transformations of motion-capture data. Methods are provided for synthesis of visible speech in a three-dimensional face. A sequence of visemes, each associated with one or more phonemes, are mapped onto a three-dimensional target face, and concatentated. The sequence may...

20060009980 - Allocation of speech recognition tasks and combination of results thereof: A system, method, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented system for optimizing allocation of speech recognition tasks among multiple speech recognizers and combining recognizer results is described. An allocation determination is performed to allocate speech recognition among multiple speech recognizers using at least one of an accuracy-based allocation mechanism, a complexity-based allocation...

20060009981 - Resource saving preemption: A method and apparatus for allowing a user device to avoid undesired state transitions when the user is present but not performing activities is provided. The method provides for detection of activity in the proximity of the user device by monitoring for sounds via an audio input device connected to...

20060009979 - Vocal training system and method with flexible performance evaluation criteria: A music video game includes a vocal training system and method with flexible performance evaluation criteria. The player is presented with an in-game interface including one or more feedback mechanisms configured to provide feedback to a player relating to the player's performance of the music video game. A compare module...

20060009982 - Method and apparatus for censoring a word: A hand-held electronic device for censoring, validating, or invalidating comments made by oneself or others, usually to comic effect, for various benefits, including, but not limited to, self-amusement, relieving tension or boredom, discouraging verbal bullying or verbal abuse, or gaining social status. The user of the device can activate various...

20060009984 - Computer apparatus and control method thereof: A computer apparatus and a control method thereof. The computer apparatus includes: a computer main body including a main output device outputting an audio signal, a controller, and a connecting part; a first auxiliary output device to output an audio signal; and a second auxiliary output device to output the...

20060009983 - Method and system for adjusting digital audio playback sampling rate: In a packet communication network, to compensate for rate mismatches between transmitting and receiving devices, an apparatus and method provides for adjusting the playback sampling rate and for monitoring the buffer. The receiving device will monitor its buffer; relevant buffer data can comprise whether the buffer is approaching capacity or...

20060009985 - Multi-channel audio system: A multi-channel audio system using a wireless transmission network used in a home theater includes: a master decoding an input multi-channel audio stream, outputting the decoded multi-channel audio stream, extracting a predetermined audio stream supported by a slave from the input multi-channel audio stream, and transmitting the extracted audio stream...

20060009986 - Signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus includes an input attribute determination section for determining an input attribute representing at least one of a type of an audio codec, a sampling frequency and a number of channels of an input signal; and an input signal processing section for processing the input signal. The...

20060004560 - Method and apparatus for translation based on a repository of existing translations: A method is disclosed of translating an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language using a store comprising a plurality of example sentences in the source language each paired with its translation in the target language. A base example sentence is chosen from...

20060004561 - Method and system for clustering using generalized sentence patterns: A method and system for clustering documents based on generalized sentence patterns of the topics of the documents is provided. A generalized sentence patterns (“GSP”) system identifies a “sentence” that describes the topic of a document. To cluster documents, the GSP system generates a “generalized sentence” form of the sentence...

20060004563 - Module for creating a language neutral syntax representation using a language particular syntax tree: A method or module for creating an Language Neutral Syntax (LNS) representation of a sentence from a language particular syntax representation such as found in the Penn Treebank for use by different applications. The method or module includes a node generator configured to create hierarchical and dependent nodes using phrasal...

20060004562 - Relieving data marshalling overhead: Data may be marshalled from a managed runtime environment to an unmanaged environment by using a compiler to calculate argument offsets and generate marshalling language code....

20060004564 - Apparatus and methods for pronunciation lexicon compression: A compressed pronunciation lexicon file is generated from a source pronunciation lexicon using a pronunciation prediction algorithm in a multi-output mode. The pronunciation prediction algorithm may generate a deterministic ordered list of phoneme strings from the textual representation of a particular word. The compressed pronunciation lexicon file may include a...

20060004565 - Audio signal encoding device and storage medium for storing encoding program: An encoding device which encodes audio signals comprises a spectrum power calculation unit for calculating the power of each spectrum obtained by analyzing the frequency of an input audio signal, a tonality parameter calculation unit for calculating a tonality parameter indicating the pure tone level of the input audio signal...

20060004566 - Low-bitrate encoding/decoding method and system: A low-bitrate encoding system includes: a time-frequency transform unit transforming an input time-domain audio signal into a frequency-domain audio signal; a frequency component processor unit decimating frequency components in the frequency-domain audio signal; a psychoacoustic model unit modeling the received time-domain audio signal on the basis of human auditory characteristics,...

20060004567 - Method, system and software for teaching pronunciation: The present invention relates to a method for teaching pronunciation. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method for teaching pronunciation using formant trajectories and for teaching pronunciation by splitting speech into phonemes. (A) A speech signal is received from a user; (B) word(s) is/are detected...

20060004568 - Sound signal processing apparatus and degree of speech computation method: Speech likeliness or a degree of speech is determined with a simple configuration or with a small amount of processing, and speech parts are separated from an input sound signal. The input sound signal is subjected to a waveform slicing process in frame units. The increase and decrease rate of...

20060004569 - Voice processing apparatus and program: Envelope identification section generates input envelope data (DEVin) indicative of a spectral envelope (EVin) of an input voice. Template acquisition section reads out, from a storage section, converting spectrum data (DSPt) indicative of a frequency spectrum (SPt) of a converting voice. On the basis of the input envelope data (DEVin)...

20060004571 - Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for creating a grammar to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms and identifying a set of terms that are pronounced the same but spelled differently....

20060004572 - Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems: A method is disclosed from constructing a grammar. The grammar is configured to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms. From the plurality of terms, first and second terms are identified....

20060004570 - Transcribing speech data with dialog context and/or recognition alternative information: A framework for easy and accurate transcription of speech data is provided. Utterances related to a single task are grouped together and processed using combinations of associated sets of recognition results and/or context information in a manner that allows the same transcription for a selected recognition result to be assigned...

20060004573 - Microphone initialization enhancement for speech recognition: A method and arrangement for improved speech recognition in a telephonically challenging speakerphone in-car environment. The method includes receiving a signal from a microphone representative of speech to be recognised, performing detection of a transition in the signal indicative of switch on of the microphone, and, in response to the...

20060004575 - Method and apparatus for creation and user-customization of speech-enabled services: Embodiments of the invention relate to a system and method for providing speech-enabled application programs. The speech-enabled programs automatically execute requests input by users. One or more natural language variants may be mapped with at least one natural language exemplar. The natural language exemplar may correspond to a typical way...

20060004574 - Semantic based validation information in a language model to detect recognition errors and improve dialog performance: A validation routine is integrated into or otherwise closely associated with a language model such as a context-free grammar. The validation routine receives recognition results from a speech recognizer that has used the corresponding grammar to form the recognized results. The validation routine operates upon the recognized results to ascertain...

20060004576 - Server device: When a third database element for acquiring a second content of a second server connected to a channel is registered in a first database, a registration and deletion unit refers to a device description to determine whether the second server requires a transfer-preparation request before the content is transferred. If...

20060004577 - Distributed speech synthesis system, terminal device, and computer program thereof: In the text-to-speech synthesis technique for synthesizing speech from text, this invention enables a terminal device with relatively small computing power to perform speech synthesis based on optimal unit selection. The text-to-speech synthesis procedure of the present invention involves content generation and output; that is, a secondary content including the...

20060004578 - Method for controlling duration in speech synthesis: The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing of a speech signal, comprising: -assigning of a first identifier to a first class of intervals of an original speech signal and assigning of a second identifier to a second class of intervals of the original speech signal, -windowing the original...

20060004579 - Flexible video surveillance: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is...

20060004580 - Archiving of surveillance data: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is...

20060004581 - Efficient monitoring system and method: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is...

20060004582 - Video surveillance: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is...

20060004583 - Multi-channel synthesizer and method for generating a multi-channel output signal: A multi-channel synthesizer includes a post processor for determining post processed reconstruction parameters or quantities derived from the reconstruction parameter for an actual time portion of the input signal so that the post processed reconstruction parameter or the post processed quantity is different from the corresponding quantized and inversely quantized...