Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 02/06

20060041421 - Method and system for processing grammar-based legality expressions: Legality expressions are systematically pre-processed, organized, and stored to achieve faster real-time response, improved predictability, and increased reliability for queries against a large volume of legality expressions. Exponential improvements in both the time to locate the set of legality expressions matching specified search criteria and the processing costs of evaluating...

20060041422 - Methods and systems for detecting the alphabetic order used by different languages: Embodiments of the present invention can gather data from native language sources to produce a valid collation sequence that is appropriate for a particular language and application. Sequences of characters in this data are tested to determine strength levels used by the given language. The data is also recursively probed...

20060041424 - Semantic processor for recognition of cause-effect relations in natural language documents: A Semantic Processor for the recognition of Cause-Effect relations in natural language documents which includes a Text Preformatter, a Linguistic Analyzer and a Cause-Effect Knowledge Base Generator. The Semantic Processor provides automatic recognition of cause-effect relation both inside single fact and between the facts in arbitrary text documents, where the...

20060041423 - Syntactic to semantic binding: In order to facilitate automated operations with software, semantic meaning of data values is bound to the syntactic type of the data values. In a described implementation, a piece of software accepts inputs and produces outputs. The inputs have a specified syntactic type (e.g., runtime type) and an expected semantic...

20060041425 - Providing personal skating music on demand at skating rinks: Skating music selections personal to individual skaters are made available for on-demand playback at skating rinks. The music selections are stored as digital files and are played back through a skating rink sound system in response to skater identification input such as a personal identification number keyboard entry or by...

20060041426 - Noise detection for audio encoding: The techniques described are utilized for detection of noise and noise-like segments in audio coding. The techniques can include performing a prediction gain calculation, an energy compaction calculation, and a mean and variation energy calculation. Signal adaptive noise decisions can be made both in time and frequency dimensions. The techniques...

20060041427 - Document transcription system training: A system is provided for training an acoustic model for use in speech recognition. In particular, such a system may be used to perform training based on a spoken audio stream and a non-literal transcript of the spoken audio stream. Such a system may identify text in the non-literal transcript...

20060041428 - Automated extraction of semantic content and generation of a structured document from speech: Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating structured documents based on speech, including identification of relevant concepts and their interpretation. In one embodiment, a structured document generator uses an integrated process to generate a structured textual document (such as a structured textual medical report) based on a spoken audio stream. The...

20060041430 - Text-to-speech and image generation of multimedia attachments to e-mail: A multi-mail system and method is disclosed in which a sender may convey and a recipient can realize emotional aspects associated with substantive content of a multi-mail message by receiving a message that is more than textual in nature. Voice recognition technology and programmatic relation of sound and graphics may...

20060041429 - Text-to-speech system and method: A system and method for generating synthetic speech, which operates in a computer implemented Text-To-Speech system. The system comprises at least a speaker database that has been previously created from user recordings, a Front-End system to receive an input text and a Text-To-Speech engine. The Front-End system generates multiple phonetic...

20060041431 - Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols: A system and method for implementing conversational protocols for distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over a computer network. The implementation of distributed conversational systems/applications according to the present invention is based, in part, on...

20060041432 - Method of improving physicians' productivity: A method of increasing physicians' productivity, securing the monetary payments for and due to physicians for the performed health-care services and reducing the economic loss and legal encumbrances being imposed on the physicians. The method comprises the processes wherein individual physicians, at anytime and anywhere, articulating data on performed treatments...

20060041433 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing voice-initiated computer functions: Exemplary embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for implementing voice-initiated computer functions. The method includes translating a voice command into a machine-readable format. The voice command requests implementation of a function. The method also includes executing the function requested in the voice command, and acknowledging whether the function...

20060041434 - Voice channel bussing in sound processors: The invention is a method and system for applying more effects to voices in an input sound than is capable of being supported by a sound processor. Aspects of the invention include identifying at least one of the voices of the input sound as a voice bus channel; and during...

20060036428 - Language model architecture: An architectural design is disclosed wherein a single reusable language model component is shared by multiple applications. The language model component is loaded once for a plurality of applications, thereby reducing the amount of memory consumed by the applications independently....

20060036429 - Left-corner chart parsing: Different embodiments of the present invention provide improvements to left-corner chart parsing. The improvements include a specific order of filtering checks, transforming the grammar using bottom-up prefix merging, indexing productions first based on input symbols, grammar flattening, and annotating chart edges for the extraction of parses....

20060036430 - System and method for domain-based natural language consultation: A technique for domain-based natural language dialogue includes a program that combines a broad-coverage parser with a general-purpose interpreter and a knowledge base to handle unrestricted sentences in a domain, such as the medical self-help domain. The broad-coverage parser may have more than 40,000 words in its dictionary. The general-purpose...

20060036432 - Apparatus and method applying adaptive spectral whitening in a high-frequency reconstruction coding system: The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises adaptive filtering to reduce artifacts due to different tonal characteristics in different frequency ranges of an audio signal upon which HFR is performed. The present...

20060036431 - Audio coding: Coding of an audio signal represented by a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are analysed (40) to determine one or more sinusoidal components for each of the plurality of sequential segments. The sinusoidal components are...

20060036433 - Method and system of dynamically changing a sentence structure of a message: A method (50) of dynamically changing a sentence structure of a message can include the step of receiving (51) a user request for information, retrieving (52) data based on the information requested, and altering (53) among an intonation and/or the language conveying the information based on the context of the...

20060036435 - Method for encoding and decoding audio at a variable rate: A maximum of Nmax bits for encoding is defined for a set of parameters which may be calculated from a signal frame. The parameters for a first sub-set are calculated and encoded with N0 bits, where N0<Nmax. The allocation of Nmax−N0 encoding bits for the parameters of a second sub-set...

20060036434 - Resource reservation in transmission networks: The present invention provides for a reliable communication over radio networks co-existing in the same frequency band. According to the present invention, a transceiver operating according to another transmission scheme may transmit a frame in the IEEE 802.11 format. This frame may comprise an error. Upon receipt of this frame...

20060036436 - Method for dynamic selection of optimized codec for streaming audio content: Several encoders at a broadcast system encode the same audio content. Packets from the resulting streams are immediately decoded and compared against the packets of the original audio stream. The broadcast system dynamically selects the codec that performs the best for the audio in any given packet. The packet produced...

20060036437 - System and method for targeted tuning module of a speech recognition system: A system and method are disclosed for targeted tuning of a speech recognition system. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include deploying a speech recognition module to apply an appropriate interpretation to a plurality of utterance types. The method may also include accessing information representing a collection...

20060036438 - Efficient multimodal method to provide input to a computing device: A method and system for providing input into a computer includes receiving input speech from a user and providing data corresponding to the input speech. The data is used to search a collection of phrases and identify one or more phrases from the collection having a relation to the data....

20060036439 - Speech enhancement for electronic voiced messages: The present invention provides for processing voice data. The vocalic of at least one word associated with the electronic voice signal is elongated. The magnitude of at least one consonant spike of the at least one word associated with the electronic voice signal is increased. Through the emphasis of the...

20060036440 - Biowaves technology: A system for analyzing a voice for a physical condition or deficiency comprising a system for inputting a voice into a system and transmitting it to a server; means for generating a graph of the voice; software means for determining an anomaly points in the graph; and means for characterizing...

20060036441 - Data-managing apparatus and method: A data-managing method for managing image data is provided. The method includes receiving the data and corresponding linked voice data, recognizing the voice data with voice-recognition processings to obtain voice recognition results, and then storing the data and the voice-recognition results in a linked manner....

20060036442 - Centralized biometric authentication: A centralized biometric system is provided for verifying an individual's identity over a communications network. The system includes a storage that stores biometric information in association with information that identifies an individual. The system also includes a receiver that receives, from one of a communications device and a network communications...

20060036443 - Policy analysis framework for conversational biometrics: The present invention describes a framework for the analytical and visual analysis and tuning of complex speaker verification systems guided by a policy finite state machine. The Receiver Operating Curve associated with the acoustic speaker recognition task is transformed into a multi-dimensional Receiver Operating Map (ROM), which results from a...

20060036445 - Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognition system for use in handsfree conversational dialogue: Conversational dialog with a computer or other processor-based device without requiring push-to-talk functionality. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines that a user desires to engage in a dialog. Based thereon the method turns on a speech recognition functionality for a period of time referred to as a listening...

20060036444 - Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more different corpora: The present invention generates a task-dependent acoustic model from a supervised task-independent corpus and further adapted it with an unsupervised task dependent corpus. The task-independent corpus includes task-independent training data which has an acoustic representation of words and a sequence of transcribed words corresponding to the acoustic representation. A relevance...

20060036446 - Integrated playback apparatus and internal operating method thereof: The present invention provides a system-on-chip for an optical disc playback apparatus and operating method thereof. The system-on-chip includes a processing unit for issuing providing a request data command and a requested data transmission data command, a servo module, and a MPEG module. The servo module receives the request data...

20060031061 - Performing machine translation using a unified language model and translation model: The present invention is a method and apparatus for processing a phrase in a first language for translation to a second language. A plurality of possible linguistic patterns are identified in the second language, that correspond to the phrase in the first language. For each of the patterns identified, a...

20060031062 - On demand tts vocabulary for a telematics system: A driving directions system loads into memory a limited subset of prerecorded, spoken utterances of geographic names from a mass media storage. The subset of spoken utterances may be limited, for example, to the geographic names within a predetermined radius (e.g., a few miles) of the driver's present location. The...

20060031063 - Automatic performance apparatus for reproducing music piece: A CPU 21 sequentially changes over plural music pieces and reproduces the same by a program processing. Upon the changeover of the music piece, the volume of the tone signal that is being generated at each tone generating channel in a tone generating circuit 14 is gradually decreased, whereby the...

20060031064 - Efficient spectral envelope coding using variable time/frequency resolution and time/frequency switching: The present invention provides a new method and an apparatus for spectral envelope encoding. The invention teaches how to perform and signal compactly a time/frequency mapping of the envelope representation, and further, encode the spectral envelope data efficiently using adaptive time/frequency directional coding. The method is applicable to both natural...

20060031065 - Efficient spectral envelope coding using variable time/frequency resolution and time/frequency switching: The present invention provides a new method and an apparatus for spectral envelope encoding. The invention teaches how to perform and signal compactly a time/frequency mapping of the envelope representation, and further, encode the spectral envelope data efficiently using adaptive time/frequency directional coding. The method is applicable to both natural...

20060031066 - Isolating speech signals utilizing neural networks: A speech signal isolation system configured to isolate and reconstruct a speech signal transmitted in an environment in which frequency components of the speech signal are masked by background noise. The speech signal isolation system obtains a noisy speech signal from an audio source. The noisy speech signal may then...

20060031067 - Sound input device: A sound input device has: a start-of-a-learning-operation determining unit configured to determine a time when a filter is started to be learned, the filter being for removing noise from sound signals detected in a car compartment while leaving object signals; and a frequency band determining unit configured to determine a...

20060031068 - Analysis method: An analysis method is disclosed. At least one layer is disposed on a substrate, covering a pre-analysis pattern and a reference pattern. A portion of the layer is removed to expose the reference pattern, and locate the unexposed pre-analysis pattern, using the reference pattern as a reference. Thus, the pre-analysis...

20060031070 - System and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition: A system and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition includes a database analyzer that initially identifies first vocabulary words that are present in a training database and second vocabulary words that are not present in the training database. A relevance module then performs refinement procedures upon the...

20060031069 - System and method for performing a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: A system and method for performing a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion procedure includes a graphone model generator that performs a graphone model training procedure to produce an N-gram graphone model based upon dictionary entries in a training dictionary. A grapheme-to-phoneme decoder then references the N-gram graphone model to perform grapheme-to-phoneme decoding procedures...

20060031071 - System and method for automatically implementing a finite state automaton for speech recognition: A system and method for automatically implementing a finite state automaton for speech recognition includes a finite state automaton generator that analyzes one or more input text sequences and automatically creates a node table and a link table to define the finite state automaton. The node table includes N-tuples from...

20060031072 - Electronic dictionary apparatus and its control method: An electronic dictionary apparatus and its control method are provided. A database contains entry words and advanced phonetic information corresponding to each entry word. A dictionary search section searches the database using an entry word specified by a user as a search key and acquires the advanced phonetic information corresponding...

20060031073 - Personalized voice playback for screen reader: A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for customizing a synthesized voice based upon audible input voice data. The input voice data is typically in the form of one or more predetermined paragraphs being read into a voice recorder. The input voice data is then analyzed for adjustable...

20060031074 - Coordinated signal generation apparatus: A portable signal generating apparatus that, when activated, emits a visual or audible signal in coordination with other compatible apparatus in the vicinity that it can detect, and with which it can synchronize to create a coordinated signal effect....

20060031075 - Method and apparatus to recover a high frequency component of audio data: A method and an apparatus to recover a high frequency component of an MP3 encoded audio signal in an audio decoder. The method includes: generating a filter bank value of a low frequency band from a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) coefficient, which is extracted from an input bitstream according...

20060025987 - Generating software components from business rules expressed in a natural language: An embodiment of the present invention is a method for generating software components from one or more business rule statements expressed in a language. Symbols of a vocabulary of a language and business rule statements expressed using the symbols of the vocabulary of the language are received as input. The...

20060025988 - Fast text character set recognition: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying a language corresponding to a string of data include receiving a data string and dividing the data string into coded character sequences for each of a plurality of languages. A length of one or more coded character sequences varies among different...

20060025989 - Discrimination of components of audio signals based on multiscale spectro-temporal modulations: An audio signal (172) representative of an acoustic signal is provided to an auditory model (105). The auditory model (105) produces a high-dimensional feature set based on physiological responses, as simulated by the auditory model (105), to the acoustic signal. A multidimensional analyzer (106) orthogonalizes and truncates the feature set...

20060025990 - Method and system for improving voice quality of a vocoder: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (100) for improving voice quality of a vocoder (138, 158). The method includes the steps of monitoring (312) a pitch of a voice signal (400) at a transmitting unit (110); when the pitch of the voice signal reaches a predetermined threshold (840),...

20060025991 - Voice coding apparatus and method using plp in mobile communications terminal: A voice coding apparatus and method of a mobile communications terminal can embody higher compressibility and ensure high sound quality, compared with the case of using a Linear Prediction (LP) coefficient, by performing a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) using a Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP) coefficient....

20060025992 - Apparatus and method of eliminating noise from a recording device: A noise elimination apparatus and method of eliminating noise content from a signal including the noise content and audio content input to a recording device, such as a camcorder. The method includes determining whether a noise frame exists by variably setting one or more thresholds independently in zones in which...

20060025993 - Audio processing: An audio system comprises a post-processor (12) arranged to alter successive fragments of a decoded audio signal (14) to provide successive fragments of post-processed audio signal (16). A masking threshold generator (20) provides an estimate of a masking threshold ( ) for successive fragments of post-processed audio signal (16). A...

20060025994 - Audio enhancement system and method: A system and method for enhancing the sound signal produced by an audio system in a listening environment by compensating for ambient sound in the listening environment, comprises producing an audio sound in the time domain from an electrical sound signal in the time domain. The electrical sound signal in...

20060025995 - Method and apparatus for natural language call routing using confidence scores: Methods and apparatus are provided for classifying a spoken utterance into at least one of a plurality of categories. A spoken utterance is translated into text and a confidence score is provided for one or more terms in the translation. The spoken utterance is classified into at least one category,...

20060025996 - Method and apparatus to improve name confirmation in voice-dialing systems: A method of providing voice dialing assistance includes providing a first input to a speech recognition engine, with the first input corresponding to a speech sample provided by a caller attempting to reach an intended call recipient. A speech recognition output is generated in response to the first input. A...

20060025997 - System and process for developing a voice application: A system for use in developing a voice application, including a dialog element selector for defining execution paths of the application by selecting dialog elements and adding the dialog elements to a tree structure, each path through the tree structure representing one of the execution paths, a dialog element generator...

20060025998 - Information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods, recording mediums, and programs: The present invention provides an information-processing apparatus for communicating with an other information-processing apparatus, which is connected to the information-processing apparatus through a network. The apparatus includes reproduction means for synchronously reproducing content data common to the other apparatus, user-information receiver means for receiving a voice and image of an...

20060025999 - Predicting tone pattern information for textual information used in telecommunication systems: The techniques described include generating tonal information from a textual entry and, further, applying this tonal information to PINYIN sequences using decision trees. For example, a method of predicting tone pattern information for textual information used in telecommunication systems includes parsing a textual entry into segments and identifying tonal information...

20060026000 - Delivering dynamic media content for collaborators to purposeful devices: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content including a grammar and a structured document; generating a dynamic client context for a client; detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context; identifying one or...

20060026001 - Enhanced communications services for the deaf and hard of hearing cross-reference to related applications: A system and method for a deaf party to communicate in a sign language by way of a video computing device to relay center having a sign language interpreter. A relay system receives a sign language input from the deaf party. Then, a spoken message is relayed to the hearing...

20060026002 - Method and system for handling audio signals of conference: A new system and method particularly useful in handling the audio of a “large” conference is disclosed. The system and method initially defines certain conferees as panel members, which can provide audio to and receive audio from the conference, and audience members, which only passively receive audio from the conference....

20060026003 - System and method for report level confidence: A system and method is disclosed for Report Confidence Modeling (RCM) including automatic adaptive classification of ASR output documents to determine the most efficient document edit workflow to convert dictation into finished output. The RCM according to the present invention may include a mechanism to predict recognition accuracy of a...