Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 04/06

20060089831 - Compressing messages on a per semantic component basis while maintaining a degree of human readability: A text message is first parsed into its constituent semantic components such as header fields and body components. Then, different compression methods may be performed on each semantic component depending on the importance of the semantic component, the context of the semantic component, the characteristics of the semantic component, and...

20060089832 - Method for improving the coding efficiency of an audio signal: Coding an audio signal includes selecting a reference sequence that has the smallest error relative to a sequence of the audio signal, calculating pitch predictor coefficients for the selected reference sequence using one of a set of pitch predictor orders, producing a predicted sequence from the selected reference sequence using...

20060089833 - Pitch determination based on weighting of pitch lag candidates: There is provided a method of selecting a pitch lag value from a plurality of pitch lag candidates for coding a speech signal. The method comprises identifying the plurality of pitch lag candidates from a frame of the speech signal using correlation; classifying the speech signal to obtain a voice...

20060089834 - Verb error recovery in speech recognition: A computer implemented method and system for speech recognition are provided. The method and system generally maintain a set of verbs for speech recognition commands. Upon recognizing utterance of a verb of the set in combination with an invalid object or objects for the verb, the method and system generate...

20060089835 - Automatic production of vocal recognition in interfaces for an applied field: The device for automatic production of voice recognition interfaces comprises means for graphical input of a conceptual model, derivation means, means of providing a generic model and means of executing the grammar specific to the field of application concerned....

20060089836 - System and method of signal pre-conditioning with adaptive spectral tilt compensation for audio equalization: Systems and methods for pre-conditioning a received audio signal prior to audio equalization of the audio signal are provided. The system (100) includes a spectral tilt estimator (110) for estimating a spectral tilt of the received audio signal, and a compensative filter synthesizer (115) for synthesizing a compensative filter based...

20060085180 - Scaleable machine translation: A method translates a textual input in a first language to a textual output in a second language. An input logical form is generated based on the textual input. When a plurality of transfer mappings in a transfer mapping database match the input logical form (or at least a portion...

20060085181 - Keyword extraction apparatus and keyword extraction program: An appropriate keyword to characterize a collection of pieces of access history information is extracted without depending on the contents of documents related to the collection. In a keyword extraction apparatus for performing processing of extracting a keyword that characterizes a collection of pieces of access history information with respect...

20060085182 - Method and system for augmenting an audio signal: A system and method is described in which a multimedia story is rendered to a consumer in dependence on features extracted from an audio signal representing for example a musical selection of the consumer. Features such as key changes and tempo of the music selection are related to dramatic parameters...

20060085183 - System and method for increasing recognition accuracy and modifying the behavior of a device in response to the detection of different levels of speech: The present invention discloses a system and method for controlling the response of a device after a whisper, shout, or conversational speech has been detected. In the preferred embodiment, the system of the present invention modifies its speech recognition module to detect a whisper, shout, or conversational speech (which have...

20060085184 - Random confirmation in speech based systems: Method and system are provided for performing random confirmation in a speech system. When a speech recognition result is received with an associated confidence score indicating a level of confidence with respect to the speech recognition result, a confirmation decision is made in terms of whether a confirmation is to...

20060085185 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising: an operating part which operates the image forming apparatus; an optional first speaker which outputs information guiding operation of the operating part; and a second speaker which outputs sound information that is different from operation guidance information; wherein when the...

20060085186 - Tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system: A tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system has a speech recognition dictionary (360) with at least one word (371). That word (371) has at least two transcriptions (373), each transcription (373) having a probability factor (375) and an indicator (377) of whether the transcription is active. When a speech utterance is...

20060085187 - Testing and tuning of automatic speech recognition systems using synthetic inputs generated from its acoustic models: A system and method of testing and tuning a speech recognition system by providing pronunciations to the speech recognizer. First a text document is provided to the system and converted into a sequence of phonemes representative of the words in the text. The phonemes are then converted to model units,...

20060085188 - Method for segmenting audio signals: An input signal is converted to a feature-space representation. The feature-space representation is projected onto a discriminant subspace using a linear discriminant analysis transform to enhance the separation of feature clusters. Dynamic programming is used to find global changes to derive optimal cluster boundaries. The cluster boundaries are used to...

20060085189 - Method and apparatus for server centric speaker authentication: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates authenticating voices at an application server. The system operates by first receiving a voice input generated by a user at the application server. The application server then retrieves a voice print matrix associated with the user from a database....

20060085190 - Hidden conditional random field models for phonetic classification and speech recognition: A method and apparatus are provided for training and using a hidden conditional random field model for speech recognition and phonetic classification. The hidden conditional random field model uses features, at least one of which is based on a hidden state in a phonetic unit. Values for the features are...

20060085191 - Method of speech recognition using time-dependent interpolation and hidden dynamic value classes: A speech signal is decoded by determining a production-related value for a current state based on an optimal production-related value at the end of a preceding state, the optimal production-related value being selected from a set of continuous values. The production-related value is used to determine a likelihood of a...

20060085193 - Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system: The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the...

20060085192 - System and methods for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface: A system and methods are provided for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface. The system includes an auditory prompt module for generating a sequence of goal-directed auditory prompts based upon a pre-determined user-oriented task, and an error recovery module for responding to a communication error by initiating...

20060085194 - Speech synthesis apparatus and method, and storage medium: Input text data undergoes language analysis to generate prosody, and a speech database is searched for a synthesis unit on the basis of the prosody. A modification distortion of the found synthesis unit, and concatenation distortions upon connecting that synthesis unit to those in the preceding phoneme are computed, and...

20060085195 - Voice output device and voice output method: The voice output apparatus, which enhances a robustness of an interface between a user and the apparatus by transmitting, information to the user via text message and voice message, is comprised of: a display unit (107) for displaying a text message that is apparatus-transmitting information to be transmitted to the...

20060085196 - Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point...

20060085197 - Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point...

20060085198 - Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium: There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit constituting a lyric, to supply phonetic unit information, singing-starting time point...

20060085199 - System and method for controlling the behavior of a device capable of speech recognition: The present invention discloses a system and method for controlling the behavior of a device in response to voice commands or other system events. By utilizing the system of the present invention, a user may select the time period(s), or the system may automatically select the time period based on...

20060085200 - Diffuse sound shaping for bcc schemes and the like: An input audio signal having an input temporal envelope is converted into an output audio signal having an output temporal envelope. The input temporal envelope of the input audio signal is characterized. The input audio signal is processed to generate a processed audio signal, wherein the processing de-correlates the input...

20060080079 - Translation system, translation communication system, machine translation method, and medium embodying program: A translation means determination section of a translation system determines whether translation processing of language data input from an input section is to be performed in an internal translation section or on an external translation server connected by a communication line through a communication control section. In the latter case,...

20060080080 - Translation correlation device: A confirmation link edition unit receives a confirmation link specified by a user. A paragraph correlation unit respectively divides an English text and a Japanese text into a plurality of paragraphs according to the specified confirmation link. A segment correlation calculation unit correlates an English segment to a Japanese segment...

20060080081 - Rule-based text layout: The invention features systems, methods, and computer program products for typesetting a sequence of character glyphs. In on implementation, the invention provides a spacing classification file for a character set, the classification file being a text file, containing text form definitions of multiple character classes, each character class definition being...

20060080083 - Method and apparatus for integrated, user-directed web site text translation: The present invention provides an integrated method, implemented over a wide area network or wireless network, comprising a server side and a client side, for user-directed acquisition of reference information, such as dictionary definitions (“look-ups”) or language translation, relating to user-selected messages or user-selected text of World Wide Web (Web″)...

20060080082 - System and method for product migration in multiple languages: The system and method of the present invention provides for product migration in multiple languages without effecting any change to basic configuration of the source application system. The system comprises user interface, database member to store need-based application modules, migration enabling components, languages, address locations having character and/or character modifier...

20060080084 - Method and system for candidate matching: A method and system for candidate matching, such as used in match-making services, assesses narrative responses to measure candidate qualities. A candidate database includes self-assessment data and narrative data. Narrative data concerning a defined topic is analyzed to determine candidate qualities separate from topical information. Candidate qualities thus determined are...

20060080086 - Auxiliary channel masking in an audio signal: A method is provided for embedding data into an audio signal and determining data embedded into an audio signal. In the method for embedding data into an audio signal, the audio signal is based on a first set of data and includes a phase component. The method modifies at least...

20060080085 - System and method for making information queries and for sending and mediating information: A method and system for making location-based information queries, including a mobile phone, mobile phone masts, an information centre, comprised of a server and data base, companies offering mobile communications services, short message centres, information lines and catalogues and information contained in data bases, software controlling the information net and...

20060080088 - Method and apparatus for estimating pitch of signal: A pitch estimating method and apparatus in which mixture Gaussian distributions based on candidate pitches having high period estimating values are generated, a mixture Gaussian distribution having a high likelihood is selected and dynamic programming is executed so that the pitch of the speech signal can be accurately estimated. The...

20060080087 - Pitch perception in an auditory prosthesis: A sound processing process, device and software are disclosed which seek to improve pitch perception, with particular application to auditory prostheses. After input sound signals are processed into channels, an algorithm is applied to selectively increase the modulation depth of the envelope signals. In certain embodiments, the channelized signals are...

20060080089 - Circuit arrangement and method for audio signals containing speech: An audio processing system includes a speech detector that receives and processes an audio input signal to determine if the input signal includes components indicative of speech, and provides a control signal indicative of whether or not the audio input signal includes speech. A speech processing device receives the audio...

20060080090 - Reusing codebooks in parameter quantization: The present invention provides a new methodology for reusing codebooks for a multistage vector quantization of parameter quantizers of signals. Prior art multistage vector quantization is done in such a way that each stage has different optimized codebooks. The prior art codebooks, thus, use quite a lot of a memory...

20060080091 - Speech coder and speech decoder: A code excited linear prediction speech decoder is provided. An adaptive codebook generates an adaptive code vector. A random codebook generates a random code vector. A synthesis filter receives a signal based on the adaptive code vector and the random code vector, and performs linear prediction coefficient synthesis on the...

20060080092 - Telecommunication device and method: A method is disclosed to assist users of telecommunication equipment to improve the likelihood that the party receives and comprehends their speech. The method involves quantifying the quality of speech at both the point of reception and transmission, and then communicating this information to the transmitter who is speaking. To...

20060080093 - Decoder: An encoded signal is input to an input section. A signal information analyzing section analyzes the signal information of the signal input to the input section and compares the analyzed signal information with EX-encoded signal information stored in a signal information database. Based on the comparison result, an operation mode...

20060080094 - Reproduction device and reproduction method: Noise is prevented when decoding an audio stream not containing syncwords or CRC bits in the elementary stream. When decoding a current frame, the private header of the next frame is analyzed and the current frame is muted if the private header of the next frame is not valid. When...

20060080095 - Apparatus and method for designating various segment classes: For the segment class designation the temporal position of segments in two candidate segment classes is used for the stanza/refrain selection by means of a segment class designation means, wherein the highest-order segment class is designated as refrain segment class only when it has a segment following temporally later in...

20060080096 - Signal end-pointing method and system: A method of improving pattern recognition accuracy is provided that uses a mechanism for locating a pattern within an input signal, such as provided by a telephone network. This operation is hard because of the variability of the signal that is likely to be received by the pattern recogniser. It...

20060080097 - Voice acknowledgement independent of a speaker while dialling by name: An initial voice input is associated with a recognition input in the framework of voice recognition and the recording of the voice input is stored in a memory in association with the recognition input in such a way that the voice input is emitted in the form of an audio...

20060080098 - Apparatus and method for speech processing using paralinguistic information in vector form: A speech processing apparatus includes a statistics collecting module operable to collect, for each of a prescribed utterance units of a speech in a training speech corpus, a prescribed type of acoustic feature and statistic information on a plurality of paralinguistic information labels being selected by a plurality of listeners...

20060080099 - Signal end-pointing method and system: A method of improving pattern recognition accuracy is provided that uses a mechanism for locating a pattern within an input signal, such as provided by a telephone network. This operation is hard because of the variability of the signal that is likely to be received by the pattern recogniser. It...

20060080100 - Apparatus and method for grouping temporal segments of a piece of music: For grouping temporal segments of an audio piece, which is structured into main parts repeatedly occurring in the audio piece, into various segment classes, at first a similarity representation for the segments is provided, wherein the similarity representation for each segment comprises an associated plurality of similarity values, wherein the...

20060080101 - Apparatus and method for spoken language understanding by using semantic role labeling: An apparatus and a method are provided for using semantic role labeling for spoken language understanding. A received utterance semantically parsed by semantic role labeling. A predicate or at least one argument is extracted from the semantically parsed utterance. An intent is estimated based on the predicate or the at...

20060080102 - Method and system for improving the fidelity of a dialog system: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for improving the fidelity of a dialog system. In one embodiment, a first input generated by a user of a first system operating in a first modality is accessed. In embodiments of the present invention, the first system also generates...

20060080103 - Method and system for network downloading of music files: The invention presents a method for network downloading of music files by obtaining at least one music preference and accessing at least one network based music file, the music file including at least one music attribute. The music attribute is compared to the music preference, and the music file is...

20060080104 - Method for testing an audio device associated to a computer: The present invention provides a method for testing play functions of an audio device (12) associated to a computer (10). The method includes the steps of: preparing an original audio file; connecting an input port (13) with an output port (14) of the audio device; playing the original audio file...

20060080105 - Multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method: A multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method, the apparatus includes a client checking whether the client recognizes the speech using a characteristic of speech to be recognized and recognizing the speech or transmitting the characteristic of the speech according to a checked result; and first through N-th servers, wherein the...

20060080106 - System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery: A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed....

20060080107 - Management of conversations: In one aspect, an arbitrary natural language communication is received from a user. A concept recognition process is applied to automatically derive a representation of concepts embodied in the communication. The concept representation is used to provide to a human agent information useful in responding to the natural language communication....

20060080109 - Audio decoding apparatus: The present invention provides an audio decoding apparatus which can decode and reproduce a plurality of compressed audio streams simultaneously without sound interruption, even when the number of samples per frame is different. The audio decoding apparatus includes: a first and second audio decoder which decode two inputted compressed audio...

20060080108 - Sound effect processing circuit: The invention provides a sound effect processing circuit, in which a multiplexer is utilized to receive and switch the sound effect source, i.e. output digital signal of an IC chip, to a slot with a replaceable D/A decoder and a communication and networking riser. The D/A decoder in the slot...

20060080110 - Transport demultiplexor with bit maskable filter: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an improved transport demultiplexor that can receive and filter different data types before sending the data to system memory. The preferred embodiment provides a string comparator to facilitate real time filtering of continuous incoming data before loading the data into system memory....

20060074623 - Automated real-time transcription of phone conversations: An enhanced softphone utilizes a simulated device driver as an interface with a speech recognition application, providing automatically generated transcripts of voice conversations carried over a communications network. The simulated device driver controls transmission of digitized audio from an audio control library to the speech recognition application. Digitized audio originating...

20060074626 - Connecting verilog-ams and vhdl-ams components in a mixed-language mixed-signal design: A method for connecting Verilog-AMS and VHDL-AMS components in a mixed-language mixed-signal design includes receiving a mixed-language mixed-signal design, where the mixed-language mixed-signal design comprises one or more VHDL-AMS and Verilog-AMS components, including a first VHDL-AMS component and a first Verilog-AMS component. The method further includes receiving a predetermined set...

20060074627 - Method and computer-readable medium for consistent configuration of language support across operating system and application programs: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for consistent configuration of language support between an operating system and application programs. According to the method, an integrated process is provided for receiving and implementing one or more language settings for an operating system and one or more language settings for application...

20060074628 - Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation: Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first candidate language and a second candidate language associated with a string of characters are identified, at least a first segmented result associated with the first candidate language and a second segmented...

20060074625 - Program development suport device, program execution device, compile method and debug method: On a program development apparatus (workstation, for example), a description of a specific language source program (ATL, for example) is embedded into a preprocessor description of a general-purpose language source program (C language, for example) to create a mixed language source program. The general-purpose language source program description and the...

20060074624 - Sign language video presentation device , sign language video i/o device , and sign language interpretation system: A sign language interpretation assistance device includes a display device for displaying a sign language video, a fixing device for fixing the display device in front of the eyes of the deaf-mute person, and a videophone connection device for supplying the display device with a sign language video being received...

20060074629 - User-interface language setting method and system: A user-interface language setting method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with an information platform for providing a user-interface language setting function for the user to set a preferred language for the user interface on the information platform, so as to allow the user to...

20060074630 - Conditional maximum likelihood estimation of naive bayes probability models: A statistical classifier is constructed by estimating Naïve Bayes classifiers such that the conditional likelihood of class given word sequence is maximized. The classifier is constructed using a rational function growth transform implemented for Naïve Bayes classifiers. The estimation method tunes the model parameters jointly for all classes such that...

20060074631 - Configurable parameters for grammar authoring for speech recognition and natural language understanding: A method for authoring a grammar for use in a language processing application is provided. The method includes receiving at least one grammar configuration parameter relating to how to configure a grammar and creating the grammar based on the at least one grammar configuration parameter....

20060074634 - Method and apparatus for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation: A method, apparatus and computer instructions is provided for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation. Given a limited annotated corpus, the present invention assigns a tag and a label to each word of the next limited annotated corpus using a parser engine, a similarity engine, and a SVM engine. A rover then...

20060074632 - Ontology-based term disambiguation: A given ontology is used to disambiguate one or more terms in a given document. The document is first scanned and the frequency of occurrence of the terms of the ontologies that occur in the document is computed. A unique path is selected to the ambiguous term in the ontology...

20060074633 - System and method for rules-based context management in a medical environment: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved diagnostic reading and workflow in a healthcare environment using rules-based context management. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of information sources, wherein each of the plurality of information sources includes information. The system also includes...

20060074635 - Systems and methods for handling multiple static query modules for distinct environments: Systems and methods to indicate whether to store a database query language module in a local directory or a global directory are disclosed. An application program can be created once, tested once, and deployed in separate environments. The database query language modules can be shared among a group of application...

20060074636 - Language learning system and method: A language-learning system and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a memory unit for storing learning data comprising a first databank for storing exercise data and a second database for storing lookup data, an operating interface for users to input commands, a functional module for performing processes according...

20060074637 - Low latency real-time audio streaming: Systems and methods for audio streaming in a computing device are described. In one aspect an interface to an adapter driver is provided. The adapter driver is associated with an audio device. The adapter driver and a wave real-time (WaveRT) port driver associated with the computing device use the interface...

20060074638 - Speech file generating system and method: A speech file generating system and a speech file generating method are applicable to a data processing device. A resource access module is connected via a preset resource path to a speech resource supply device to access speech resources according to access conditions. Then, a format of the accessed speech...

20060074639 - Methods, devices and systems for improved pitch enhancement and autocorrelation in voice codecs: An electronic circuit (1020) includes a storage circuit (Flash) and a microprocessor (1110) operable together with the storage circuit as a speech coder. The speech coder has a backward pitch enhancement (FIG. 6) in frames or subframes having a length and at least one main pulse and at least one...

20060074640 - Method of enhancing quality of speech and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to enhancing a quality of speech wherein speech quality degradation is reduced by removing noise from an unvoiced speech. The present invention comprises dividing an input speech into a voiced speech and an unvoiced speech, performing adaptive filtering on the voiced speech to remove a noise...

20060074641 - Methods, devices and systems for improved codebook search for voice codecs: An electronic circuit (1100) including a processor circuit (1110) and a storage circuit establishing a speech coder (1170) for execution by said processor (1110), the speech coder (1170) for approximating speech by pulses having pulse positions selectable from a codebook (550), the speech coder (1170) operable to obtain (1310) a...

20060074643 - Apparatus and method of encoding/decoding voice for selecting quantization/dequantization using characteristics of synthesized voice: A voice encoding/decoding method and apparatus. A voice encoder includes: a quantization selection unit generating a quantization selection signal; and a quantization unit extracting a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient from an input signal, converting the extracted LPC coefficient into a line spectral frequency (LSF), quantizing the LSF with a...

20060074642 - Apparatus and methods for multichannel digital audio coding: A low bit rate digital audio coding system includes an encoder which assigns codebooks to groups of quantization indexes based on their local properties resulting in codebook application ranges that are independent of block quantization boundaries. The invention also incorporates a resolution filter bank, or a tri-mode resolution filter bank,...

20060074644 - Voice code conversion apparatus: Disclosed is a voice code conversation apparatus to which voice code obtained by a first voice encoding method is input for converting this voice code to voice code of a second voice encoding method. The apparatus includes a code separating unit for separating, from the voice code based upon the...

20060074647 - Device for recording air-conditioning variables: A device for recording air-conditioning variables in a room (R) of a building comprises a basic device (1) and an auxiliary device (2), arranged at a distance (L) from said basic device. Sound waves (A1) emitted by the basic device are detected by the auxiliary device (2). The point in...

20060074648 - Method for the compression of recordings of ambient noise, method for the detection of program elements therein, and device therefor: The amount of data produced in the process of recording even short hearing samples by means of a monitor (1) may be considerably reduced by effecting a normalization to a range of values D and a subsequent nonlinear mapping to a second, preferably smaller range of values W. The result...

20060074646 - Method of cascading noise reduction algorithms to avoid speech distortion: A method of reducing noise by cascading a plurality of noise reduction algorithms is provided. A sequence of noise reduction algorithms are applied to the noisy signal. The noise reduction algorithms are cascaded together, with the final noise reduction algorithm in the sequence providing the system output signal. The sequence...

20060074645 - System and methods for vehicle sound font creation, playback, and networking: Systems and methods provide for the creation of vehicle sound fonts, for utilizing the vehicle sound fonts to augment the engine sounds of a vehicle, and for establishing a network for sharing and controlling the playback of vehicle sound fonts and other media. The systems install in automobiles and play...

20060074649 - Mapped meta-data sound-playback device and audio-sampling/sample-processing system usable therewith: Audio samples corresponding to audio extracts or whole audio titles are automatically mapped to triggers 12 in a playable sound-producing device 1, the mapping being dependent on the meta-data associated with the audio samples. Thus, a user can play the sound-producing device and generate sounds derived from his favourite audio...

20060074650 - Speech identification system and method thereof: A speech identification system and method thereof applicable to a data processing device is proposed. An original audio frequency and a recorded audio frequency are stored via a storage unit, and set with sample frequency values using the sample frequency setting mechanism according to the preset value. Then, the original...

20060074651 - Adaptive confidence thresholds in telematics system speech recognition: A method of configuring a speech recognition unit in a vehicle. The method includes receiving a noise error from the speech recognition unit responsive to a user voice command and reducing a confidence threshold for an appropriate grammar set responsive to the received noise error....

20060074652 - Method and system for voice-enabled autofill: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for filling a graphic-based form field in response to a speech utterance. The computer-implemented method includes generating a grammar corresponding to the form field, the grammar being based on a user profile and comprising a semantic interpretation string. The method further includes creating...

20060074653 - Pattern identification method, apparatus, and program: Pattern recognition capable of robust identification for the variance of an input pattern is performed with a low processing cost while the possibility of identification errors is decreased. In a pattern recognition apparatus which identifies the pattern of input data from a data input unit (11) by using a hierarchical...

20060074654 - System and method for likelihood computation in multi-stream hmm based speech recognition: A system and method for speech recognition includes determining active Gaussians related to a first feature stream and a second feature stream by labeling at least one of the first and second streams, and determining active Gaussians co-occurring in the first stream and the second stream based upon joint probability....

20060074656 - Discriminative training of document transcription system: 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...

20060074655 - Method and system for the automatic generation of speech features for scoring high entropy speech: A method and system for automatically generating a scoring model for scoring a speech sample are disclosed. One or more training speech samples are received in response to a prompt. One or more speech features are determined for each of the training speech samples. A scoring model is then generated...

20060074658 - Systems and methods for hands-free voice-activated devices: In some embodiments, systems and methods for hands-free voice-activated devices include devices that are capable of recognizing voice commands from specific users. According to some embodiments, hands-free voice-activated devices may also or alternatively be responsive to an activation identifier....

20060074657 - Transformation and combination of hidden markov models for speaker selection training: The present invention is directed to a 3-stage adaptation framework based on speaker selection training. First a subset of cohort speakers is selected for a test speaker. Then cohort models are transformed to be closer to the test speaker. Finally the adapted model for the test speaker is obtained by...

20060074659 - Assessing fluency based on elapsed time: A computer based method and related system, computer program product and device includes receiving audio input associated with a user reading a sequence of words and determining an approximate amount of time corresponding to an absence of input associated with an assessed word, after receiving audio input associated with a...

20060074660 - Method and apparatus for enhancing speech recognition accuracy by using geographic data to filter a set of words: Enhanced speech recognition accuracy is provided by using geographic data, illustratively related to the geographic location of a mobile device, to automatically select a subset of words for use with a speech recognition procedure. The subset of words is selected from an element database including words that describe elements at...

20060074661 - Navigation apparatus: In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these words are displayed as keywords of a POI search. When a correction of a keyword is required by the...

20060074663 - Speech waveform processing system and method: A speech waveform processing system and method which is able to perform a segmentation process for a continuous speech waveform according to predetermined speech parameters is proposed. First of all, an inputted continuous speech signal is read and subsequently preprocessed by the system. Meanwhile, the waveform of the speech signal...

20060074662 - Three-stage word recognition: In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its...

20060074664 - System and method for utterance verification of chinese long and short keywords: An utterance verification system and method includes: a new formulation of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) that discriminates between true and mis-recognition scores; a new dynamic threshold setting that permits each keyword to have its own individual threshold; and/or use of higher resolution subword units for HMM based (Hidden Markov Model-based) utterance...

20060074665 - Method of speaker adaptation for a hidden markov model based voice recognition system: Commercially available voice recognition systems are generally speaker-dependent, with the voice recognition system first being trained to the voice of the speaker before it can be used. A disadvantage with this method is that modified reference data has to be buffered and permanently saved in several steps when the speaker...

20060074670 - Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users: A system and method to interactively converse with a cognitively overloaded user of a device, includes maintaining a knowledge base of information regarding the device and a domain, organizing the information in at least one of a relational manner and an ontological manner, receiving speech from the user, converting the...

20060074666 - Method of adaptive learning through pattern matching: A method of operating a plurality of electrical and/or electronic devices connected with a data processing apparatus is disclosed as including the steps of (a) detecting occurrence of events of the devices (b) recording data relating to some of said detected events in a database; (c) ordering the recorded events...

20060074668 - Method to assign word class information: An assignment device (1) assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with...

20060074669 - Speech grammars having priority levels: In a speech recognition environment where time constraint limits the use of stored grammars in matching with a speech, the phonemes converted words are built into a number of trees of different priority levels so that the number of the trees combined into a concatenated tree for speech recognition is...

20060074667 - Speech recognition device and method: In a speech recognition device (1) for recognizing text information (TI) corresponding to speech information (SI), wherein speech information (SI) can be characterized in respect of language properties, there are firstly provided at least two language-property recognition means (20, 21, 22, 23), each of the language-property recognition means (20, 21,...

20060074671 - System and methods for improving accuracy of speech recognition: The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken language, with an appropriate response. Grammar rules...

20060074672 - Speech synthesis apparatus with personalized speech segments: The present invention relates to a speech synthesis apparatus comprising:—means (102, 104) for inputting of natural speech,—means (106, 108, 110, 112, 113) for processing the natural speech to provide personalized speech segments (114),—means (118) for synthesizing of speech based on the personalized speech segments....

20060074674 - Method and system for statistic-based distance definition in text-to-speech conversion: A method for distance definition in a text-to-speech conversion system by applying Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to a distance definition. According to an embodiment, the text that is to be subjected to text-to-speech conversion is analyzed to obtain a text with descriptive prosody annotation; clustering is performed for samples in...

20060074673 - Pronunciation synthesis system and method of the same: A pronunciation synthesis system and method. The pronunciation synthesis system may pre-analyze a word to decompose the word into word root(s) and/or affix(es). The pronunciation synthesis system may include at least an analyzing module, a searching module, a pronunciation module, and a synthesizing module. The pronunciation synthesis system may be...

20060074677 - Method and apparatus for preventing speech comprehension by interactive voice response systems: A method and apparatus utilizing prosody modification of a speech signal output by a text-to-speech (TTS) system to substantially prevent an interactive voice response (IVR) system from understanding the speech signal without significantly degrading the speech signal with respect to human understanding. The present invention involves modifying the prosody of...

20060074675 - Method of synthesizing creaky voice: The invention relates to a method of synthesizing a signal comprising the steps of: a) providing of a first signal having first periods of a first type and second periods of a second type in an alternating sequence, b) selecting of one of the pitch bells for a first one...

20060074676 - Quantitative model for formant dynamics and contextually assimilated reduction in fluent speech: A method of identifying a sequence of formant trajectory values is provided in which a sequence of target values are identified for a formant as step functions. The target values and the duration for each segment target for the formant are applied to a finite impulse response filter to form...

20060074678 - Prosody generation for text-to-speech synthesis based on micro-prosodic data: A prosody modification system for use in text-to-speech includes an input receiving a sequence of prosodic data vectors Pn, measured at time Tn, which samples a sound waveform. A prosody data warping module directly derives new prosodic data vectors Qn from the original data vectors Pn using a function, which...

20060074681 - Method and apparatus for enhancing voice intelligibility in voice-over-ip network applications with late arriving packets: A method and apparatus for enhancing voice intelligibility for network communications of speech such as, for example, VoIP (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol), in the presence of packets which arrive too late for normal playout. When a late speech packet is received by a speech decoder, that packet and, if necessary, one or more...

20060074682 - Method for evaluating signal transmission quality: A method to assess signal transmission quality and the adjust method thereof are proposed. First, different time points of a control signal at a receiving end are acquired and the number of signal transition in a predetermined time interval is counted. Next, the number of signal transition is recorded and...

20060074679 - System and method of delivering live performance recordings: The invention relates to a system and method for purchasing a live performance recording. A live performance is recorded and edited. The live performance recording is compressed and tagged at a production means, and transferred to a kiosk soon after the performance ends. Consumers purchase a media storage device, the...

20060074680 - Systems and methods for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field: A system (20) for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field includes a graphical input device (22) for inputting the graphical data into the graphical input field, and a processor-executable voice-form module (28) responsive to an initial presentation of graphical data to the graphical input device. The voice-form module...

20060074683 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested text data is retrieved from a source, such as a database, and converted into a sound file. The retrieved...

20060074684 - On-vehicle acoustic control system and method: An on-vehicle acoustic control system determines which one of sounds of an audio device and a navigation device should be generated with priority, when both devices are requested to generate respective sounds. The control system further detects a user's physical condition based on an interaction with the user, a picture...

20060074685 - Destination device initiated caller identification: A method, system, and program for origin device initiated caller identification are provided. In response to detecting a call extended to a destination device, extending a request from said destination device to an origin device requesting a voice utterance of the caller at said origin device. A caller identity associated...

20060074686 - Controlling an apparatus based on speech: The speech control unit (100) comprises: a microphone array, comprising multiple microphones (102, 104, 106, 108 and 110) for receiving respective audio signals (103, 105, 107, 109 and 111); abeam forming module (116) for extracting a clean, i.e. speech, signal (117) of a user (U1), from the audio signals; a...

20060074687 - Numbering scheme for selection by voice: A numbering scheme is disclosed for implementation in the context of an application display. A user is able to select an item on the display by speaking a number corresponding to a desired control item. In some cases, the screen can include so many numbers that the user loses context...

20060074688 - System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads: A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according...

20060074689 - System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads: A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according...

20060074690 - Speech displaying system and method: A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech file is loaded via a loading module, a sentence unit determining module partitions content of the speech file into...

20060074691 - Voice channel chaining in sound processors: An improved method and apparatus for controlling the voice channels in sound processors includes: programming a first voice channel to instruct a second voice channel to execute an event when a trigger condition occurs; determining by the first voice channel that the trigger condition has occurred; and instructing the second...

20060074693 - Audio coding device with fast algorithm for determining quantization step sizes based on psycho-acoustic model: An efficient audio coding device that quantizes and encodes digital audio signals with a reduced amount of computation. A spatial transform unit subjects samples of a given audio signal to a spatial transform, thus obtaining transform coefficients of the signal. With a representative value selected out of the transform coefficients...

20060074692 - Moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, moving picture coding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture coding program, and moving picture decoding program: A moving picture coding apparatus according to an embodiment is arranged to define a plurality of images in a moving picture two by two as targets to be coded. The images to be coded are decomposed into subbands, a high-subband signal and a low-subband signal, by a subband decomposing process....

20060074694 - Method for extracting periodic signal components, and apparatus for this purpose: m