Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 05/06

20060111890 - Controlled manipulation of characters: A method and system for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen is provided wherein the method includes identifying a selected word, wherein the selected word includes at least one character to be modified. The method further includes correlating each of the at least one character with a unique numerical...

20060111891 - Order model for dependency structure: In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree...

20060111892 - Extracting treelet translation pairs: In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree...

20060111893 - Display of results of cross language search: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions displaying search results. A query is received in a first language. A snippet in the document containing the word is selected in response to identifying a document in a second language in which the document contains a word matching a query word in...

20060111894 - Method and system for communication prioritization: A computer system for managing workflow relating to a topic shared among a team of users includes a creation unit (109a, 109b, 109c). The creation unit (109a, 109b, 109c) facilitates creating topics (103) and assigning a priority to each of the topics. A topic assignment unit (111a, 111b, 111c) facilitates...

20060111895 - Method and apparatus for determining the meaning of natural language: A method for processing natural language includes receiving an information input string. Referent tridbits corresponding to stimuli in the information input string are generated. Assert tridbits defining relationships between the referent tridbits are generated. A language processing system including a rules database and a meaning engine. The rules database is...

20060111896 - Projecting dependencies to generate target language dependency structure: In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree...

20060111897 - Method of optimising the execution of a neural network in a speech recognition system through conditionally skipping a variable number of frames: A method of optimizing the execution of a neural network in a speech recognition system provides for conditionally skipping a variable number of frames, depending on a distance computed between output probabilities, or likelihoods, of a neural network. The distance is initially evaluated between two frames at times 1 and...

20060111898 - Formant tracking apparatus and formant tracking method: A formant tracking apparatus and a formant tracking method are provided. The formant tracking apparatus includes: a framing unit dividing an input voice signal into a plurality of frames; a linear prediction analyzing unit obtaining linear prediction coefficients for each frame; a segmentation unit segmenting each of the linear prediction...

20060111899 - System and method for error reconstruction of streaming audio information: A method includes receiving a sequence of frames containing audio information and determining that a frame is missing in the sequence of frames. The method also includes comparing the frame that precedes the missing frame to the received frames to identify a selected frame. The method further includes identifying a...

20060111900 - Speech distinction method: A speech distinction method, which includes dividing an input voice signal into a plurality of frames, obtaining parameters from the divided frames, modeling a probability density function of a feature vector in state j for each frame using the obtained parameters, and obtaining a probability P0 that a corresponding frame...

20060111901 - Method and apparatus for detecting speech segments in speech signal processing: A method and apparatus for detecting speech segments of a speech signal processing device is provided. A critical band is divided into a certain number of regions according to noise frequency characteristics, a signal threshold and a noise threshold are set for each of the regions, and it is determined...

20060111902 - System and method for assisting language learning: Speech data from the operation of a speech recognition application is recorded over the course of one or more language learning sessions. The operation of the speech recognition application during each language learning sessions corresponds to a user speaking, and the speech recognition application generating text data. The text data...

20060111903 - Apparatus for and program of processing audio signal: In an audio signal processing apparatus, a generation section generates an audio signal representing a voice. A distribution section distributes the audio signal generated by the generation section to a first channel and a second channel, respectively. A delay section delays the audio signal of the first channel relative to...

20060111904 - Method and apparatus for speaker spotting: A method and apparatus for spotting a target speaker within a call interaction by generating speaker models based on one or more speaker's speech; and by searching for speaker models associated with one or more target speaker speech files....

20060111905 - Method and apparatus for training a text independent speaker recognition system using speech data with text labels: There is provided an apparatus for providing a Text Independent (TI) speaker recognition mode in a Text Dependent (TD) Hidden Markov Model (HMM) speaker recognition system and/or a Text Constrained (TC) HMM speaker recognition system. The apparatus includes a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) generator and a Gaussian weight normalizer. The...

20060111906 - Enabling voice click in a multimodal page: A method, system and apparatus for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page. In accordance with the present invention, a method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page can include toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and,...

20060111907 - Generic spelling mnemonics: A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model includes at least one character from the predefined large body of...

20060111908 - Data synthesis apparatus and program: A data synthesis apparatus detects the start of a period of voice waveform data, stores the voice waveform data in a first storage device, starting with its part indicative of the start of the detected period. The apparatus stores in a second storage device musical-sound waveform data including information on...

20060111910 - Personal computer and scanner for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection: A user conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual audible technology (e.g., telephones) over the existing telecommunications infrastructure. The...

20060111909 - System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services: A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources includes a network having a first and second network device,...

20060111911 - Method and apparatus to generate audio versions of web pages: Method and apparatus for generating audio files from web pages and for providing the audio files and/or the web pages at client terminals are disclosed. The audio files are generated by filtering a web page to remove characters that are non-audible. The audio files can be generated by a first...

20060111912 - Audio analysis of voice communications over data networks to prevent unauthorized usage: An audio data security method and apparatus of the present invention verifies a subject audio communication stream. Verification is by a valid audio encoding detection module, a human speech frequency detection module, a human speech pattern detection module, a music frequency detection module, a human speech prosody detection module, a...

20060111913 - Audio encoding/decoding apparatus having watermark insertion/abstraction function and method using the same: Disclosed herein are an audio encoding/decoding apparatus having a watermark insertion/abstraction function capable of inserting/abstracting watermark information into/from a bit stream in a digital audio and image encoding process, and a method using the same. The high sound-quality audio encoding apparatus includes: a bit allocation unit for allocating a bit...

20060111915 - Hypothesis generation: A hypothesis generation system includes a related concepts datastore recording relationships between core concepts in a field of study. A recognition module performs automatic recognition of a hypothesis recognition pattern respective of contents of the related concepts datastore. The recognition module records a hypothetical relationship between core concepts of the...

20060111914 - System and method for hierarchical voice actived dialling and service selection: The invention is related to an automatic speech recognition system, in particular for use within telecommunications switching systems, providing hierarchically structured set of servers each server being arranged to interpret part of a spoken user request...

20060111916 - Microphone feedback and control: A system and method for positioning a software User Interface (UI) window on a display screen is provided, wherein the method includes displaying the software UI window on the display screen and identifying at least one suitable location on the display screen responsive to an active target window area of...

20060111917 - Method and system for transcribing speech on demand using a trascription portlet: A method and system for transcribing speech on demand using a transcription portlet. The method can include the step of providing a transcription portlet including user data having personalized speech profiles for individual users. The transcription portlet can receive audio data. A user associated with the audio data can be...

20060111918 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for presenting commentary audio with recorded content: Apparatus, methods, and program products that present commentary audio in conjunction with an experiential data stream by detecting proximity of a playback position to an audio trigger position associated with a commentary audio clip and presenting the commentary audio clip accordingly....

20060111919 - Computer system and method of outputting beep sound of computer system: Embodiments of a computer system and method thereof that can generate a beep sound (e.g., buzzer speaker sound) using an external speaker or the like. The computer system can include a south bridge, a trap handler for trapping beep data when the writing operations of the beep data are performed...

20060106592 - Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/ translation alternations and selective application thereof: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for determining whether to apply a given paraphrase alternation pattern to an input string. The method includes generating a context model and applying the context model to determine whether the given paraphrase alternation pattern can be applied to the input string so as to preserve...

20060106593 - Pre-translation testing of bi-directional language display: A method for testing the display of bi-directional language script prior to translation in an application under test can include using unidirectional glyphs with shaping indicators to simulate right-to-left characters. The using step can include reversing an ordering of a first set of unidirectional text characters in an input string...

20060106596 - Ranking parser for a natural language processing system: A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function generates a statistical goodness measure (SGM) for each valid parse. The parse ranker orders the parses based upon their SGM values....

20060106594 - Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for applying a given paraphrase alternation pattern to an input string. The method includes generating a language model and applying the language model to determine how to apply the given paraphrase alternation pattern to the input string....

20060106595 - Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof: A system is disclosed for selectively applying a paraphrase alternation pattern to a textual input. The system includes a pattern identification component for processing a collection of data and identifying a plurality of potentially applicable paraphrase alternation patterns. A context model provides an objective frame of reference in which to...

20060106597 - System and method for low bit-rate compression of combined speech and music: A system and method of compressing audio signals (110, 116, 130, 136, 140, 146) which simultaneously contain speech (110, 116), music (130, 136, 140, 146) and possibly other audio in such fashion as to reduce the required bandwidth or storage capacity. Audio (110, 116, 130, 136, 140, 146) is transmitted...

20060106598 - Transmit/receive data paths for voice-over-internet (voip) communication systems: The present invention is a method and apparatus in a data processing system that includes a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication system for improving transmit and receive data paths. The communication system includes a digital signal processing unit. The digital signal processing unit includes a mandatory coder/decoder (codec) that...

20060106599 - Precomputation and transmission of time-dependent information for varying or uncertain receipt times: A system that facilitates analyzing time-related data comprises an interface component that receives a packet of information that includes a plurality of predictions and timing information associated therewith. A time-analysis component communicatively coupled to the interface component compares the timing information associated with the plurality of predictions with a current...

20060106600 - Method and device for low bit rate speech coding: A method for coding speech or other generic signals includes dividing a speech signal into a plurality of frames, and dividing at least one of the plurality of frames into at least two subframe units. A search for a fixed codebook contribution and an adaptive codebook contribution for subframe units...

20060106601 - Noise elimination method, apparatus and medium thereof: A noise elimination method and apparatus. The method eliminates noise from an input signal containing a voice signal mixed with a noise signal. The method includes detecting a noise section, in which the noise signal is present, from the input signal; obtaining a weight to be used for the input...

20060106602 - Method and device for providing speech-to-text encoding and telephony service: A machine-readable medium and a subscriber terminal are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in...

20060106603 - Method and apparatus to improve speaker intelligibility in competitive talking conditions: A system, wireless device (102) and method improve speaker intelligibility in a multi-party call by receiving a plurality of individual voice signals, determining a pitch contour for each individual voice signal, determining that the pitch contours for at least two of the individual voice signals are within a predetermined range...

20060106604 - Speech recognition dictionary creation device and speech recognition device: A speech recognition dictionary creation device (10) that efficiently creates a speech recognition dictionary that enables even an abbreviated paraphrase of a word to be recognized with high recognition rate, the device including: a word division unit (2) that divides a recognition object made up of one or more words...

20060106605 - Biometric record management: A method of enrolling voice information of an individual in a repository is disclosed. The individual may be associated with a contributing entity and the repository may be used by multiple entities within a consortium for creating, accessing or enhancing one or more forms of utterances associated with an individual....

20060106606 - Method and apparatus for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device: Methods for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device by a service provider, wherein the portable device may be in communication with the service provider over a voice line such as a telephone line or the like, and the portable device does not require a personal computer....

20060106607 - System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space: A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting them into n-dimensional space, where n is a...

20060106608 - Method and system for efficient voice-based programming: Provided is a system and method for creating program code via voice input. The method includes providing a client application configured to compare a voice input to a grammar specified in a document; mapping a plurality of commands specified in the grammar to programming language commands; and enhancing the mapped...

20060106609 - Speech synthesis system: To provide a speech synthesis apparatus which can prevent confusing its users and deteriorating the quality of synthesized speech resulting from incompleteness of the sentences to be read out, and thus can read out speech which is easily understandable to the user. The speech synthesis apparatus includes: an incomplete part-of-sentence...

20060106611 - Devices and methods providing automated assistance for verbal communication: Devices and methods are provided for automatically analyzing a user's conversation or verbal presentation and providing feedback to the user, in real-time and/or off-line, to make the user aware of improper speech habits and thus enable the user to acquire better language habits while speaking. For example, a device for...

20060106613 - Method and system for evaluating automatic speech recognition telephone services: A method and system for evaluating telephone services provided by speech recognition interfaces an evaluation engine with a voice recognition service over a telephone system to submit speech utterance samples to the voice recognition service, receive the response of the voice recognition service to the sample utterances, and determine error...

20060106610 - Method of improving recognition accuracy in form-based data entry systems: The invention provides a method of interpreting data input to a form-based data entry system, including decoding data entered into a particular form field such that its information content can be determined, said information content being in a consistent machine-readable format, wherein said decoding of data includes determining one or...

20060106612 - Voice user interface with personality: The present invention provides a voice user interface with personality. In one embodiment, a method includes executing a voice user interface, and controlling the voice user interface to provide the voice user interface with a personality. The method includes selecting a prompt based on various context situations, such as a...

20060106614 - Centralized method and system for clarifying voice commands: A method and system for facilitating centralized interaction with a user includes providing a recognized voice command to a plurality of application modules. A plurality of interpretations of the voice command are generated by at least one of the plurality of application modules. A centralized interface module visually renders the...

20060106616 - Nc device: An NC device includes an accumulation portion for accumulating a report-item corresponding to a report-requiring situation that occurs in a machine. A voice generator control section of the device operates a voice generator to generate a voice for announcing a report-item accumulated by an accumulation portion if a determination portion...

20060106617 - Speech controls for use with a speech system: Systems and methods are described for a speech system that includes one or more speech controls incorporated into one or more speech-enabled applications that run on the speech system. The controls allow applications to be developed with minimal programming effort to incorporate common speech-enabled application functions. A question control provides...

20060106615 - Speech interaction apparatus and speech interaction method: A speech interaction apparatus starts pushing information to a user and executes a speech interaction about the information in a case where (i) an interaction starting condition for starting pushing the information is set and (ii) the interaction starting condition is satisfied. The speech interaction apparatus includes an interaction policy...

20060106618 - System and method for converting text to speech: Text is converted to speech based at least in part on the context of the text. A body of text may be parsed before being converted to speech. Each portion may be analyzed to determine whether it has one or more particular attributes, which may be indicative of context. The...

20060106620 - Audio spatial environment down-mixer: An audio spatial environment engine is provided for converting from an N channel audio system to an M channel audio system, such as in a dynamic down-mixer where N and M are integers and N is greater than M. The dynamic down-mix methodology consists of a static down-mix system utilizing...

20060106619 - Bandwidth extension of bandlimited audio signals: A system extends a bandwidth of bandlimited audio signals by analyzing bandlimited audio signals at a transmission cycle rate. The analyzer may obtain a bandlimited parameter at a transmission cycle rate. A mapping device or logic in the system obtains a wideband parameter based on the bandlimited parameter. An audio...

20060100847 - System and method for generating a target language markup language text template: A system and method of generating a target language markup language (ML) text template comprise translating one or more words in a source language ML text template to one or more words in the target language so as to generate a target language ML text template, and defining a target...

20060100848 - System and method for generating language specific diacritics for different languages using a single keyboard layout: A diacritic chording system uses a single standard keyboard layout to generate diacritical characters used, for example, by Latin-based languages or languages based on a Roman character set, providing a universal keyboard The key combination required to select a diacritic is consistent, independent of the language the user is typing....

20060100850 - Methods and systems for conveying instructions for medications: An instruction generation system and related methods to allow a user using inputs to prompts in a first language to generate written and audio instructions in a second language to an instruction recipient. An instruction generation system can be used by a health care provider to provide instructions related to...

20060100849 - Pointer initiated instant bilingual annotation on textual information in an electronic document: This invention provides a system and method for providing a user an artificial intelligence based bilingual annotation, displayed in a callout associated with the user's mouse pointer, on a piece of textual information contained in a segment of text adjacent to, or overlaid by, the user's mouse pointer while the...

20060100854 - Computer generation of concept sequence correction rules: A system generates rules for the correction of a concept sequence, a concept sequence coming from a text statement. A module determines from first text statements, a set of first concept sequences liable to be corrected and from second text statements, a set of second concept sequences deemed to be...

20060100855 - Disambiguation method for complex sentences: A method allows the better disambiguation and understanding of complex sentences by the mapping of syntactic elements to their thematic roles. The words and phrases form canonical sound patterns for comprehension which improves on basic reading strategies which rely on simple heuristics and pattern matches. The method can be taught...

20060100856 - Method and apparatus for updating dictionary: A method and apparatus for updating a dictionary, by which documents of interest of a user are extracted through a network and a dictionary is updated with individual names and coined words extracted from the web documents, are provided. The dictionary updating method includes: extracting a document of interest of...

20060100853 - System and method for generating grammatically correct text strings: A system and method for generating grammatically correct text in a target language based on one or more text templates and corresponding context in a source language comprises a software module configured to select one or more source language text templates and corresponding context in the source language. The system...

20060100852 - Technique for document editorial quality assessment: A computer-implemented system and method for assessing the editorial quality of a textual unit (document, paragraph or sentence) is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of training-time feature vectors by automatically extracting features from first and last versions of training documents. The method also includes training a machine-learned classifier...

20060100851 - Voice processing system, method for allocating acoustic and/or written character strings to words or lexical entries: The present invention relates to a language-processing system, which includes at least one extractor as a device for the lexical assignment of the speech being processed and at least one connector as a device for linking the lexically assigned speech to form a statement. Language-recognizing systems are known, by way...

20060100857 - Custom collation tool: A user interface is provided to facilitate a collation creation process that automatically establishes collation support for sorted linguistic data. Through this user interface, the provider of the sorted linguistic data may participate in the collation creation process by answering queries concerning the sorted linguistic data. The provider's input is...

20060100858 - System and method for generating markup language text templates: A method of generating a markup language text template comprises identifying a variable text element in a source language text string and assigning a first predefined symbol to the variable text element, identifying a grammatical rule for the variable text element and assigning a second predefined symbol to the variable...

20060100860 - Method and apparatus for transmission of signals: In a method and apparatus for transmission of signals, an input signal is supplied to at least one dynamic compressor and the dynamics of the signal is compressed by the dynamic compressor with a degree of compression. The compressed signal is subsequently adapted, in particular limited, in terms of its...

20060100859 - Method and device for efficient in-band dim-and-burst signaling and half-rate max operation in variable bit-rate wideband speech coding for cdma wireless systems: In the method and device for interoperating a first station using a first communication scheme and comprising a first coder and a first decoder with a second station using a second communication scheme and comprising a second coder and a second decoder, communication between the first and second stations is...

20060100861 - Signal filtering: A method of filtering an information signal (x(t)), the method comprising modifying frequency domain components (X(k,n)) of the information signal according to a desired filter response (F(k,n)); wherein the step of modifying frequency domain components further comprises modifying (105) frequency domain components of a first frame of said information signal...

20060100862 - Acoustic models with structured hidden dynamics with integration over many possible hidden trajectories: A method of producing at least one possible sequence of vocal tract resonance (VTR) for a fixed sequence of phonetic units, and producing the acoustic observation probability by integrating over such distributions is provided. The method includes identifying a sequence of target distributions for a VTR sequence corresponding to a...

20060100863 - Process and computer program for management of voice production activity of a person-machine interaction system: The invention especially concerns a management process of voice production activity of a person-machine interaction system with voice component, this process comprising operations consisting of exercising the voice production activity of the system, capturing external acoustic activity originating from an agent external to the system, and analyzing the semantic contents...

20060100864 - Process and computer program for managing voice production activity of a person-machine interaction system: The invention concerns a management process of voice production activity of a person-machine interaction system with voice component, consisting especially of detecting and capturing external acoustic activity originating from an agent external to the system, and analyzing the semantic contents of any statement optionally included in the external acoustic activity....

20060100865 - Methods and apparatus for efficient vocoder implementations: Techniques for implementing vocoders in parallel digital signal processors are described. A preferred approach is implemented in conjunction with the BOPS® Manifold Array (ManArray™) processing architecture so that in an array of N parallel processing elements, N channels of voice communication are processed in parallel. Techniques for forcing vocoder processing...

20060100866 - Influencing automatic speech recognition signal-to-noise levels: A system for influencing a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) associated with a signal input to an automatic speech recognition device is provided. The system includes a normalized energy module that determines a normalized energy measurement based upon a spectrum of frequency-domain complex coefficients, the coefficients generated by the automatic speech recognition...

20060100867 - Method and apparatus to eliminate noise from multi-channel audio signals: A method and apparatus to eliminate noise from a plurality of channel audio signals in which surrounding noise is mixed. The method includes detecting an existence of noise in frame units by averaging a plurality of channel input signals and estimating a noise signal of a noise-detected frame, and subtracting...

20060100868 - Minimization of transient noises in a voice signal: A voice enhancement system is provided for improving the perceptual quality of a processed voice signal. The system improves the perceptual quality of a received voice signal by removing unwanted noise from a voice signal recorded by a microphone or from some other source. Specifically, the system removes sounds that...

20060100869 - Pattern recognition accuracy with distortions: A pattern recogniser is arranged to receive an input signal and to generate a matching output pattern comprises a pattern matcher, a signal modification module and an output pattern combiner. The pattern matcher includes a signal processor and a pattern matching module. The signal modification module modifies the input signal...

20060100870 - Speech recognition apparatus and vehicle incorporating speech recognition apparatus: When a voice input is detected as being applied to a directional microphone, sounds output from selected loudspeakers from among a plurality of loudspeakers, which otherwise would obstruct the speech recognition process, are attenuated, and sound signals supplied to the selected loudspeakers are combined with sound signals supplied to the...

20060100871 - Speech recognition method, apparatus and navigation system: A speech recognition method and apparatus and a navigation system having the speech recognition apparatus are provided. The speech recognition method includes capturing speech as speech signal and extracting features from the speech signal, selecting candidates of a subword among subwords of the word based on the extracted features and...

20060100872 - Pattern recognition apparatus and pattern recognition method: A feature amount extracting unit extracts feature amount vectors of an inputted image. A probability distribution calculator calculates a probability distribution of feature amount vectors in a calculation space range which is set by a calculation space range setting unit. A probability distribution storage stores the probability distribution in association...

20060100873 - Circuit statistical modeling for partially correlated model parameters: A method, system and program product are disclosed for statistical modeling an integrated circuit that provides information about partial correlations between model parameters. The invention determines a variance-covariance matrix for data to be modeled; conducts principal component analysis on the variance-covariance matrix; and creates a statistical model with an independent...

20060100874 - Method for inducing a hidden markov model with a similarity metric: A method for inducing a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is provided. The method using a plurality of training observations and a distance function includes assigning at least one representative observation to each of a plurality of hidden states of the HMM; computing a distance between said at least one assigned...

20060100875 - Method and system to parameterize dialog systems for the purpose of branding: A method and system to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, includes providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value, integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system, and configuring the subcomponent to access the at least one parameter value and...

20060100876 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method: To provide a speech recognition apparatus which appropriately performs speech recognition by generating, in real time, language models adapted to a new topic even in the case where topics are changed. The speech recognition apparatus includes: a word specification unit for obtaining and specifying a word; a language model information...

20060100877 - Generating and relating text to audio segments: A method, apparatus and system for generating speech minutes. The method comprises the steps of displaying status indicators of respective audio (speech) stream chunks received and text information thereof on a GUI display and establishing the tagging between each audio stream chunk and the corresponding text information by dragging and...

20060100878 - Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech: A system and computer-readable medium are disclosed that synthesize speech from text using a triphone unit selection database. The instructions on the computer-readable medium control a computing device to perform the steps: receiving input text, selecting a plurality of N phoneme units from the triphone unit selection database as candidate...

20060100883 - Computer system, method and program for generating caption based computer data: A computer system, method and program is generated for editing text data, which have been created on a basis of a voice or a video image. In one embodiment, a first computer for outputting voice or video image(s), and for identifying a part of text data, which needs to be...

20060100880 - Interactive device: An interactive apparatus 1 which is able to decide on an action pattern in accordance with health conditions of a user without a necessity of putting a biometric sensor on a human body is provided. The interactive apparatus 1 comprises: detection means 50b for detecting a health condition of a...

20060100879 - Method and communication device for handling data records by speech recognition: The present invention relates to a mobile communication device having a speech recognition for selecting and activating device function by acoustic input. Particularly, the present invention relates to a backup method to be used in case of failure of the speech recognition offering an advantageous method for selecting and activating...

20060100882 - Method and system to mark an audio signal with metadata: A method of processing an audio signal comprises receiving an audio signal, extracting features from the audio signal, and translating the extracted features into metadata. The metadata comprises an instruction set of a markup language. A system for processing the audio signal is also disclosed, which comprises an input device...

20060100881 - Multi-modal web interaction over wireless network: A system, apparatus, and method is disclosed for receiving user input at a client device, interpreting the user input to identify a selection of at least one of a plurality of web interaction modes, producing a corresponding client request based in part on the user input and the web interaction...

20060100884 - Intelligent peripheral for speech recognition in networks: A telecommunication network with an intelligent peripheral that is provided with a processor and a memory, as well as speech recognition funtionality. The memory stores a list of VPN-addresses of at least one of a set of persons, personal functions, specific terminals and services. The telecommunication network also has a...

20060100885 - Method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio signal: An audio encoding/decoding method and apparatus to reproduce a high quality audio signal without losing a high frequency band using time-scale compression/expansion. The method includes encoding an input audio signal into audio data by determining a similarity between frames of the input audio signal, compressing the input audio signal with...

20060095248 - Machine translation system incorporating syntactic dependency treelets into a statistical framework: In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree...

20060095249 - Multi-language communication method and system: The invention provides a multi-language communication method, comprising: providing to each of the persons access to a plurality of language options; receiving from each of one or more of the persons an indication of a respective choice of language chosen by the respective person from the language options; storing the...

20060095250 - Parser for natural language processing: A computer-implemented method for developing a parser is provided. The method includes accessing a corpus of sentences and parsing the sentences to generate a structural description of each sentence. The parser is trained based on the structural description of each sentence....

20060095251 - System and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warning of dangerous behavior: The present invention is a system and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warnings of dangerous behavior. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications in accordance with the invention, includes collecting at least one computer generated communication produced by or received by...

20060095252 - Content creation, graphical user interface system and display: A content creation system 20 of the present invention is used for creating a content which may be viewed through the synthetic voice, the system including: a database 22 for storing a structured document; and an information process section 24 for creating a speech node series 18 from the structured...

20060095253 - Device and method for embedding binary payload in a carrier signal: For embedding binary payload in a carrier signal, which, for example, is an audio signal, a sequence of time-discrete values of the carrier signal is converted to the frequency domain by means of an integer transform algorithm to obtain binary spectral representation values. Bits of the binary spectral representation values...

20060095256 - Adaptive filter pitch extraction: An enhancement system extracts pitch from a processed speech signal. The system estimates the pitch of voiced speech by deriving filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and using the obtained filter coefficients to derive pitch. The pitch estimation may be enhanced by using various techniques to condition the input speech...

20060095254 - Methods, systems and computer program products for detecting musical notes in an audio signal: Methods, system and/or computer program products for detection of a note include receiving an audio signal and generating a plurality of frequency domain representations of the audio signal over time. A time domain representation is generated from the plurality of frequency domain representations. A plurality of edges are detected in...

20060095255 - Pitch conversion method for reducing complexity of transcoder: The present invention provides a pitch conversion method for reducing complexity of a transcoder for optimizing a speech quality and a complexity using characteristics of encoder in a transmitter and decoder in a receiver. The pitch conversion method for reducing complexity of the transcoder includes: classifying plural frames transmitted from...

20060095257 - Method of generating program parameters according to decibel levels of voice signals: The method of generating program parameters based on decibel levels of voice signals. The method first creates a database including a table has degrees, decibel ranges and program parameters. Each decibel range is corresponding to a specific program parameter. When a voice signal is received, the method will determine the...

20060095258 - Apparatus for separating blind source signals having systolic array structure: Disclosed is a hardware architecture receiving multi-input blind source signals and obtaining multi-output. An apparatus for separating blind source signals includes: a forward process unit receiving a plurality of blind source signal vectors and outputting a plurality of output signal vectors by using a predetermined blind source separation algorithm; an...

20060095259 - Method and system of enabling intelligent and lightweight speech to text transcription through distributed environment: A system includes at least one wireless client device, a service manager, and a plurality of voice transcription servers. The service manager includes a resource management service and a profile management service. The client device communicates the presence of a voice transcription task to the resource management service. The resource...

20060095260 - Method and apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition: Provided is a method and an apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition. A signal processing unit receives and digitalizes a vocal cord signal, and a noise removing unit which channel noise included in the vocal cord signal. A feature extracting unit extracts a feature vector from the vocal cord signal, which...

20060095261 - Voice packet identification based on celp compression parameters: Mechanisms, and associated methods, for conducting voice analysis (e.g., speaker ID verification) directly from a compressed domain of a voice signal. Preferably, the feature vector is directly segmented, based on its corresponding physical meaning, from the compressed bit stream....

20060095262 - Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast: An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible. The automatic censoring filter employs a lattice comprising either...

20060095263 - Character string input apparatus and method of controlling same: A character string input apparatus having specifying means for specifying a category of a character, and speech receiving means for receiving speech, wherein a character string is input based upon a specifying input from the specifying means and speech that has been received by the speech receiving means, is provided....

20060095264 - Unit selection module and method for chinese text-to-speech synthesis: This invention relates to a unit selection module for Chinese Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis, mainly comprising a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG) parser, a latent semantic indexing (LSI) module, and a modified variable-length unit selection scheme; any Chinese sentence is firstly input and then parsed into a context-free grammar (CFG) by...

20060095265 - Providing personalized voice front for text-to-speech applications: A method for synthesizing speech from text includes receiving one or more waveforms characteristic of a voice of a person selected by a user, generating a personalized voice font based on the one or more waveforms, and delivering the personalized voice font to the user's computer, whereby speech can be...

20060095266 - Roaming user profiles for speech recognition: The invention relates to use of speech recognition on a computer network where users roam from one network location to another. A local workstation on the network includes a speech recognition application having a local user profile associated with an application user. The local user profile includes at least one...

20060095267 - Dialogue system, dialogue method, and recording medium: A dialogue system, a dialogue method, and a recording medium storing a computer program are provided for allowing a third party to assist effectively a plurality of dialogues, without causing a sense of discomfort to the users. In a dialogue system for performing automatic answering to a voice, a dialogue...

20060095268 - Dialogue system, dialogue method, and recording medium: A dialogue system, a dialogue method, and a recording medium storing a computer program are provided for allowing a third party to assist effectively a plurality of dialogues, without causing a sense of discomfort to the users. In a dialogue system for performing automatic answering to a voice, a dialogue...

20060095269 - Method of decoding two-channel matrix encoded audio to reconstruct multichannel audio: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for decoding two-channel matrix encoded audio (32) to reconstruct multichannel audio (34) that more closely approximates a discrete surround-sound presentation. This is accomplished by subband filtering (54) the two-channel matrix encoded audio, mapping (70) each of the subband signals into an expanded...