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

20060142992 - Power window device: A power window device for lowering and raising window glasses. A window switch is operated to move a corresponding window glass. A motor drives the window glass when the window switch is operated. An ECU is provided for each window glass to control the motor in accordance with the operation...

20060142996 - Device and method for supporting error correction in an information processing system: In a device and method for supporting error correction in an information processing system, a data acquisition device acquires damage information pertaining to the information processing system. A data storage contains information about possible damage cases in the information processing system as well as possible countermeasures. A computer linked with...

20060142994 - Method and system for detecting user intentions in retrieval of hint sentences: A method of constructing a confusion set database for use in detecting user query intentions includes obtaining a bilingual database having aligned word pairs in first and second languages. Second language word pairs in the bilingual database are aligned with corresponding correct translation first language word pairs. First language human...

20060142993 - System and method for utilizing distance measures to perform text classification: A system and method for utilizing distance measures to perform text classification includes text classification categories that each have reference models of reference N-grams. Input text that includes input N-grams is accessed for performing the text classification. A text classifier calculates distance measures between the input N-grams and the reference...

20060142995 - Training for a text-to-text application which uses string to tree conversion for training and decoding: Training and translation using trees and/or subtrees as parts of the rules. A target language is word aligned with a source language, and at least one of the languages is parsed into trees. The trees are used for training, by aligning conversion steps, forming a manual set of information representing...

20060142997 - Predictive text entry and data compression method for a mobile communication terminal: The invention relates to mobile terminals. According to the invention, the communication terminal includes a predictive editor application for entering text. The editor is used for editing text for message handling, phonebook editing and searching, etc. The terminal further includes compression and/or decompression software. The invention further relates to a...

20060142998 - Automatic audio source detection for capture devices: A method for selecting an audio source when capturing audio data with at least one capture device includes connecting an audio source to an audio input port of the capture device, turning off the output of the audio source, calculating first signal strengths of the audio signals detected through the...

20060142999 - Band correcting apparatus: A voice band correcting apparatus in which the signal level of limit bands is amplified by a correction filter, the signal level of a correction signal supplied is compared by a level detector to a preset level, and the result of decision is sent as level information to a coefficient...

20060143001 - Method for the adaptation of comfort noise generation parameters: In order to adapt comfort noise generation (CNG) parameters CNP, which are provided for generating a background noise signal in a telecommunications system 1 consisting of a packet-oriented telecommunications network 4 and at least a first and second communications device 2,3 connected thereto, firstly the CNG parameters CNP are generated...

20060143000 - Voice analysis/synthesis apparatus and program: An FFT unit performs an FFT process on high-frequency-eliminated, pitch-shifted voice data for one frame. A time scaling unit calculates a frequency amplitude, a phase, a phase difference between the present and immediately preceding frames, and an unwrapped version of the phase difference for each channel from which the frequency...

20060143002 - Systems and methods for encoding an audio signal: Methods, computer code products, devices, modules, systems, and encoders are disclosed which are configured to use an adaptive lag search window for determining a lag estimate for a current frame of information in an audio encoding system. The system can determine if the lag estimate is reliable and if not...

20060143003 - Speech encoding device: The present invention is a synthetic speech encoding device that produces a synthetic speech signal which closely matches an actual speech signal. The actual speech signal is digitized, and excitation pulses are selected by minimizing the error between the actual and synthetic speech signals. The preferred pattern of excitation pulses...

20060143004 - Sound transmission system: The present invention relates to a sound transmission system using a human body as a propagation medium. The transmission system includes a first signal transmitter and a second signal transmitter respectively generating signals having frequencies corresponding to each other, the first and second signal transmitters being coupled to the human...

20060143005 - Method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal: A method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal independent of a pattern recognition ratio is provided. The method for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal includes extracting a time forward feature and a time reversed feature from an input...

20060143006 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method: The present invention relates to a speech recognition apparatus and a speech recognition method for speech recognition with improved accuracy. A distance calculator 47 determines the distance from a microphone 21 to a user uttering. Data indicating the determined distance is supplied to a speech recognition unit 41B. The speech...

20060143007 - User interaction with voice information services: An iterative process is provided for interacting with a voice information service. Such a service may permit, for example, a user to search one or more databases and may provide one or more search results to the user. Such a service may be suitable, for example, for searching for a...

20060143008 - Generation and deletion of pronunciation variations in order to reduce the word error rate in speech recognition: Disclosed is a speech recognition method which is based on a dynamic extension of the word models in combination with an evaluation of the pronunciation variations....

20060143009 - Lattice encoding: Initially an embedding module (22) determines an embedding of a lattice in a two-dimensional plane. The embedding module (22) then processes the initial embedding to generate a planar graph in which no links cross. The planar graph is then simplified by a link encoding module (24) and data representing the...

20060143010 - Method, medium, and apparatus recognizing speech: An apparatus, medium, and method recognizing speech. The method may include the calculating of scores indicating the degree of similarity between a characteristic of an input speech and characteristics of speech models based on the degree of similarity between the length of each phoneme included in an input speech and...

20060143011 - Information processing apparatus and information processing system: An information processing apparatus comprises a first timer that times a first time; a second timer that times a second time which is different from the first time; and a switching unit that switches, in accordance with a user, between a first power saving control mode in which shift is...

20060143012 - Voice synthesizing apparatus, voice synthesizing system, voice synthesizing method and storage medium: There are provided a voice outputting apparatus, a voice outputting system, a voice outputting method and a storage medium which, when the synthetic voices of a plurality of text data are to be uttered in overlapping relationship with each other, voice-synthesize the plurality of text data with different kinds of...

20060143013 - Method and system for playing audio at an accelerated rate using multiresolution analysis technique keeping pitch constant: A signal processing unit for playing back an audio signal at an accelerated rate keeping pitch constant. The audio signal is at least one of a speech signal, a pure music or an audio signal which comprises of both speech and music signal. The signal processing unit comprises a plurality...

20060143015 - System and method for facilitating call routing using speech recognition: A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to illicit a response from the user that indicates the purpose of the user's communication. The...

20060143014 - [adapter]: An adapter is disclosed to include a casing holding a webcam and a microphone for picking up images and voices from the display and speaker of a first electronic apparatus, and an A/V (audio/video) transmitting interface connected to the AV (audio/video) receiving interface of a second electronic apparatus and controlled...

20060143016 - Method to access and use an integrated web site in a mobile environment: A method to access and use an integrated web site from a mobile environment is disclosed. The method includes communicating voice activated commands, using voice recognition technology, to an integrated web site via a wireless communication network and a global informational network. The integrated web site comprises a network-based media...

20060143017 - Interactive robot, speech recognition method and computer program product: An interactive robot capable of speech recognition includes a sound-source-direction estimating unit that estimates a direction of a sound source for target voices which are required to undergo speech recognition; a moving unit that moves the interactive robot in the sound-source direction; a target-voice acquiring unit that acquires the target...

20060143019 - Digital audio device and audio data output method: A digital audio device for outputting information recorded on a recording medium such as a DVD as audio data in compliance with a predetermined standard, wherein the digital audio device produces such audio data that a device connected to the digital audio device can identify audio track boundaries. A digital...

20060143018 - Processing digital data: An original digital audio signal represents unimpaired audio information. The digital audio signal is compressed and encrypted without substantial impairment to produce a first audio signal. A second, unencrypted, audio signal is produced. The first and second audio signals are combined. Preferably the first audio signal is losslessy compressed. The...

20060136192 - Method and apparatus for enhanced translation in an application simulation development environment: Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for translating an application simulation into a plurality of languages. The method comprises the steps of creating a first simulation having a sequence of frames, in a first language; adding elements in said first language to said sequence of frames;...

20060136193 - Retrieval method for translation memories containing highly structured documents: In a translation apparatus, a translation memory (32) stores (i) source language target language translation unit pairs and (ii) structural information for at least some source language translation units indicating a structural position within a document from which the source language translation unit was derived. A comparator (30) compares a...

20060136194 - Data semanticizer: A computer-implemented method of defining a set of annotation elements to map a concept to electronic data as input data; generating a mapping rule, according to the set of annotation elements defined and a sample of the input data; mapping the concept to the input data by applying the mapping...

20060136195 - Text grouping for disambiguation in a speech application: A method, system and apparatus for text grouping in a disambiguation process. A text grouping method for use in a disambiguation process can include producing a phonetic representation for each entry in a text list, sorting the list according to the phonetic representation, grouping phonetically similar entries in the list,...

20060136196 - Bi-dimensional rewriting rules for natural language processing: A linguistic rewriting rule for use in linguistic processing of an ordered sequence of linguistic tokens includes a token pattern recognition rule that matches the ordered sequence of linguistic tokens with a syntactical pattern. The token pattern recognition rule incorporates a character pattern recognition rule to match characters contained in...

20060136197 - Method, system and message structure for electronically exchanging medical information: The present invention relates to a message structure for electronically exchanging medical information between applications utilising disparate medical coding systems and record architectures, the message structure comprising an optional storyline keyword that sets the context for one or more subsequent statements, each of which statements comprise a genre selected from...

20060136198 - Method and apparatus for low bit rate encoding and decoding: An apparatus and method of low bit rate encoding and reproducing. The method includes transforming input audio signals in a time domain into spectral signals in a frequency domain, extracting important-spectrum components from the spectral signals in the frequency domain, and quantizing the important-spectrum components, extracting residual-spectrum components other than...

20060136199 - Advanced periodic signal enhancement: An enhancement system improves the perceptual quality of a processed speech. The system includes a delay unit that delays a signal received through a discrete input. A spectral modifier linked to the delay unit is programmed to substantially flatten the spectral character of a background noise. An adaptive filter linked...

20060136200 - Intelligent active talker level control: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for adjusting the gain of conference users including a separate input gain for each user and an output gain for each user. The input gain may be determined in response to whether active audio is detected. Users may be classified as...

20060136201 - Hands-free push-to-talk radio: A hands-free digital push-to-talk device (102) includes a digital background noise suppressor (302), a digital voice activity detector (304), an audio buffer (306), as well as a decision handler (308), embedded inside the device's (102) digital signal processor (222). Audio is buffered until the decision handler (308) determines that speech...

20060136202 - Quantization of excitation vector: A method is disclosed for performing excitation quantization of an input signal using a vector quantization codebook having a plurality of code-vectors, the codebook being associated with a filter system. The method can include determining filter states for the filter system independent of the codebook to define a codebook independent...

20060136203 - Noise reduction device, program and method: A noise reduction device is configured by use of: means for calculating a predetermined constant, and a predetermined reference signal Rω(T) in the frequency domain, respectively by use of adaptive coefficients Wω(m), and for thereby obtaining estimated values Nω and Qω(T) respectively of stationary noise components, and non-stationary noise components...

20060136204 - Database construction apparatus and method: A database construction apparatus and method which construct a tree structure database are provided. First of all, consecutive node numbers are assigned to nodes for each layer, from an upper layer to a lower layer in a tree structure, in the order of the node numbers of parent nodes. Thereafter,...

20060136205 - Method of refining statistical pattern recognition models and statistical pattern recognizers: A device (800) performs statistical pattern recognition using model parameters that are refined by optimizing an objective function that includes a term for many items of training data for which recognition errors occur wherein each term depends on a relative magnitude of a first score for a recognition result for...

20060136206 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for speech recognition: A speech recognition apparatus includes a sound information acquiring unit that acquires sound information, a unit segment dividing unit that divides the sound information into plural unit segments, a segment information acquiring unit that acquires segment information that indicates a feature of each unit segment, a segment relation value calculating...

20060136207 - Two stage utterance verification device and method thereof in speech recognition system: A two stage utterance verification device and a method thereof are provided. The two stage utterance verification method includes performing a first utterance verification function based on a SVM pattern classification method by using feature data inputted from a search block of a speech recognizer and performing a second utterance...

20060136208 - Hybrid apparatus for recognizing answer type: An apparatus and a hybrid method for recognizing answer type are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a morpheme analyzer for analyzing morphemes of an input text; a syllabic answer type recognizer for extracting a predetermined size syllable from a morpheme list and recognizing an answer type based on the extracted syllable;...

20060136209 - Methodology for generating enhanced demiphone acoustic models for speech recognition: A system and method for effectively performing speech recognition procedures includes enhanced demiphone acoustic models that a speech recognition engine utilizes to perform the speech recognition procedures. The enhanced demiphone acoustic models each have three states that are collectively arranged to form a preceding demiphone and a succeeding demiphone. An...

20060136211 - Audio segmentation and classification using threshold values: A portion of an audio signal is separated into multiple frames from which one or more different features are extracted. These different features are used, in combination with a set of rules, to classify the portion of the audio signal into one of multiple different classifications (for example, speech, non-speech,...

20060136210 - System and method for tying variance vectors for speech recognition: A system and method for implementing a speech recognition engine includes acoustic models that the speech recognition engine utilizes to perform speech recognition procedures. An acoustic model optimizer performs a vector quantization procedure upon original variance vectors initially associated with the acoustic models. In certain embodiments, the vector quantization procedure...

20060136212 - Method and apparatus for improving text-to-speech performance: In a device (100), a method (200) is provided for improving text-to-speech performance. The method includes the steps of determining (202) if a text expression from an application operating in the device is in a vocabulary, selecting (204) a corresponding speech expression from the vocabulary if the text expression is...

20060136213 - Speech synthesis apparatus and speech synthesis method: A speech synthesis apparatus which can appropriately transform a voice characteristic of a speech is provided. The speech synthesis apparatus includes an element storing unit in which speech elements are stored, a function storing unit in which transformation functions are stored, an adaptability judging unit which derives a degree of...

20060136215 - Method of speaking rate conversion in text-to-speech system: A method of a speaking rate conversion in a text-to-speech system is provided. The method includes: a first step of extracting a vocal list from a synthesis DB (database), voicing the extracted vocal list in each speaking style constituted of fast speaking, normal speaking, and slow speaking, and building a...

20060136214 - Speech synthesis device, speech synthesis method, and program: A simply configured speech synthesis device and the like for producing a natural synthetic speech at high speed. When data representing a message template is supplied, a voice unit editor (5) searches a voice unit database (7) for voice unit data on a voice unit whose sound matches a voice...

20060136216 - Text-to-speech system and method thereof: The present invention is related to a text-to-speech system, including a text processor dividing a first text data and a second text data from a text string having at least a first language and a second language; a database including a plurality of acoustic units commonly used by the first...

20060136217 - Portable speech and language video monitor: There are many video monitors and products that promote speech and language development on the market today. However, what is new in the art to which my invention pertains, is the concept of a portable, adjustable computerized speech and language teacher housed inside a video monitor that actually attaches to...

20060136218 - Method for optimizing loads of speech/user recognition system: A method for optimizing a load of a speech/user recognition system is provided. The speech/user recognition system comprises a server end, a client end and a network, and the method is achieved by performing N stages of computations for speech features of a speech, where N is a positive integer,...

20060136219 - User authentication by combining speaker verification and reverse turing test: Methods and system for authenticating a user are disclosed. The present invention includes accessing a collection of personal information related to the user. The present invention also includes performing an authentication operation that is based on the collection of personal information. The authentication operation incorporates at least one dynamic component...

20060136221 - Controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands: One or more voice-enabled user interfaces include a user interface, and a voice extension module associated with the user interface. The voice extension module is configured to voice-enable the user interface and includes a speech recognition engine, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The preprocessor registers with the speech recognition...

20060136220 - Controlling user interfaces with voice commands from multiple languages: One or more internationalized voice user interfaces include a user interface and a voice extension module associated with the user interface. The voice extension module is configured to voice-enable the user interface and includes a speech recognition engine, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The preprocessor is configured to register...

20060136222 - Enabling voice selection of user preferences: A method, system and apparatus for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser. A method for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser can include matching voice input to a bound command in a speech grammar and invoking logic in the user...

20060136223 - Bilingual authoring assistant for the \"tip of the tongue\" problem: A bilingual authoring apparatus includes a user interface (20) for inputting partially translated text including a text portion in a source language and surrounding or adjacent text in a target language. A bilingual dictionary (34) associates words and phrases in the target language and words and phrases in a source...

20060136224 - Communications devices including positional circuits and methods of operating the same: Methods of processing signals received at wireless communications devices are provided. First and second audio signals are received from first and second sources, respectively, at the communications device. The first audio signal is assigned to a first speaker channel and the second audio signal is assigned to a different second...

20060136227 - Dialog supporting apparatus: To provide a dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of who the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance...

20060136225 - Pronunciation assessment method and system based on distinctive feature analysis: A method and system for pronunciation assessment based on distinctive feature analysis is provided. It evaluates a user's pronunciation by one or more distinctive feature (DF) assessor. It may further construct a phone assessor with DF assessors to evaluate a user's phone pronunciation, and even construct a continuous speech pronunciation...

20060136226 - System and method for creating artificial tv news programs: The present invention relates to interactive television, in particular to a method and system for creating artificial TV programs according to TV viewers' preferences and more particularly to a system and method for enabling a TV viewer to replace the newscaster of a TV news program by an artificial newscaster...

20060136228 - Method and system for prefetching sound data in a sound processing system: A method and system for prefetching sound data in a sound processor system. The method includes integrating a prefetching function into at least one voice engine by, providing a setup phase, a data processing phase, and a cleanup phase, and prefetching sound data from a memory during the cleanup phase....

20060136229 - Advanced methods for interpolation and parameter signalling: A parameter calculator calculates lower resolution parametric information and interpolation information. On a decoder-side, an upmixer is used for generating the output channels. The upmixer uses high resolution parametric information generated by a parameter interpolator using the low resolution parametric information and decoder-side derived interpolation information or encoder-generated interpolation information...

20060129376 - Identifying a document's meaning by using how words influence and are influenced by one another: This invention uses natural language to determine whether words in a document are Objects or Actions. The invention will determine by analyzing both forwards and backwards through a sentence how each Object and each Action in the sentence effects the one another. A energy value is then calculate for each...

20060129377 - Tread or track with mirror image word pattern and method of printing on surface: A tire tread or track tread that is constructed in tessellating patterns of mirror images of words, phrases, or sentences suitable for communicating a person's identity or for advertising purposes. The treads imprint the earth or paint the road with the desired words, phrases, or sentences, adding an additional function...

20060129378 - Display device and sample analysis device equipped with the display device: A display device including an operator information storer for relating operator information and information concerning the type of language which the operator uses. The display device include a two or more character storers, including at least a first display character storer in which characters are described in a first language,...

20060129382 - Adaptive intrusion detection for autonomic systems: A system, method, and computer program product for adaptively identifying unauthorized intrusions in a networked data processing system. In accordance with the method of the present invention, an intrusion detection module receives system event data that may be utilized for intrusion detection. The received system event data is processed utilizing...

20060129381 - Language transference rule producing apparatus, language transferring apparatus method, and program recording medium: When a portion of an input speech sentence contains an untrained portion or when speech recognition is partly erroneously performed, transference to the target language is disabled. Moreover, a phrase dictionary and interphrase rules which are necessary for transference must be manually produced. Therefore, development is low in efficiency and...

20060129379 - Semantic canvas: A system for synchronizing a natural language input element and a graphical user interface has a synchronization engine. The synchronization engine is adapted to monitor user interactions with the natural language input element and the graphical user interface and to synchronize the natural language input element and the graphical user...

20060129380 - System and method for disambiguating non diacritized arabic words in a text: The present invention proposes a solution to the problem of word lexical disambiguation in Arabic texts. This solution is based on text domain-specific knowledge, which facilitates the automatic vowel restoration of modern standard Arabic scripts. Texts similar in their contents, restricted to a specific field or sharing a common knowledge...

20060129384 - Document based character ambiguity resolution: Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then searches the document for words that do contain ambiguous characters. For each ambiguous word, a set of candidate solutions is created...

20060129383 - Text processing method and system: A method of processing text is provided, in which each word or sequence of words is checked against a lexicon of words and sequences of words each having, associated therewith a score on at least one personality scale, which can be a multi-dimensional scale for representing various personality traits. These...

20060129385 - Cholinergic therapy for individuals with learning disabilities: Cholinergic agents are used to improve specific learning deficits and language function in individuals of normal intelligence. Psychosocial deficits including a pragmatics impairment, reading deficits, a problem solving impairment, an information processing impairment, an adaptive function impairment, social skills impairment, attention impairment, a mood impairment and employment skills impairment, can...

20060129386 - Method and apparatus for speech control: A method and apparatus for speech control is provided. The apparatus includes a speech receiver, a speech recognition engine, and an automatic regulation device. In the method, first, a speech is received. Then the speech is identified to obtain an operating order which is to adjust the quantification set with...

20060129387 - Method and apparatus for processing the output of a speech recognition engine: data processing apparatus is disclosed for receiving recognition data from a speech recognition engine and its corresponding dictated audio data where the recognition data includes recognized words or characters. A display displays the recognized words or characters and the recognized words or characters restored as a file together with the...

20060129388 - Apparatus and method for reproducing midi file: Apparatus and method for reproducing a MIDI-based music file are provided. According to the apparatus and method, a plurality of notes and note reproduction times are extracted from the MIDI file, a section where envelope values of sound source samples exponentially reduce is changed into a linear section, and the...

20060129389 - Spectrum modeling: Modeling a target spectrum (S) is provided by determining (21) filter parameters (pi,qi) of a filter which has a frequency response approximating the target spectrum (S), wherein the target spectrum is split in at least a first part and a second part, a first modeling operation is used on the...

20060129390 - Apparatus and method for remotely diagnosing laryngeal disorder/laryngeal state using speech codec: Provided is an apparatus and method for remotely diagnosing laryngeal disorder/laryngeal state by using the speech codec. The apparatus provides a remote larynx diagnosing apparatus and method deciding laryngeal disorder/laryngeal state by using parameters, such as a Linear Prediction Coefficient (LPC) and a pitch, which are transmitted from a system...

20060129391 - Channel normalization apparatus and method for robust speech recognition: A channel normalization apparatus includes: a characteristic extraction unit extracting MFCC characteristics and outputting rows of frames according to time; a characteristic parameter average calculation unit calculating an average value of the rows of the outputted MFCC characteristics; a channel variation estimation unit configuring a codebook based on a database...

20060129392 - Method for extracting feature vectors for speech recognition: Disclosed is a method for speech recognition which achieves a high recognition rate. The method includes extracting a parameter from an input signal that represents a characterization of the input signal as a voiced or unvoiced sound, extracting at least one feature vector corresponding to an overall spectrum shape of...

20060129393 - System and method for synthesizing dialog-style speech using speech-act information: A system and a method for synthesizing a dialog-style speech using speech-act information are provided. According to the system and the method, tagging for discriminating an intonation is performed for expressions whose intonations need to be differently realized depending on a dialog context in a dialog text using speech-act information...

20060129394 - Method for communicating using synthesized speech: The present invention is a method for communicating using synthesized speech including the steps of: capturing subvocal speech signals from a first party; applying subvocal speech recognition to the signals to generate speech text; and, transmitting the generated speech text to a second party....

20060129395 - Gradient learning for probabilistic arma time-series models: The subject invention leverages the conditional Gaussian (CG) nature of a continuous variable stochastic ARMAxp time series model to efficiently determine its parametric gradients. The determined gradients permit an easy means to construct a parametric structure for the time series model. This provides a gradient-based alternative to the expectation maximization...

20060129396 - Method and apparatus for automatic grammar generation from data entries: A method of generating an optimized grammar, for use in speech recognition, from a data set or big list of items, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining a tree representing items in the data set, and generating the grammar using the tree. The tree or tree data...

20060129397 - System and method for identifying semantic intent from acoustic information: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, unanticipated semantic intents are discovered in audio data in an unsupervised manner. For instance, the audio acoustics are clustered based on semantic intent and representative acoustics are chosen for each cluster. The human then need only listen to a small number...

20060129398 - Method and system for obtaining personal aliases through voice recognition: Methods and systems for recognizing a spoken alias are disclosed. The present invention includes generating a plurality of alias variations based on a discoverable name and creating a phonetic representation for each of the alias variations. The present invention also includes capturing a phonetic pronunciation of the spoken alias. At...

20060129399 - Speech conversion system and method: The conversion of speech can be used to transform an utterance by a source speaker to match the speech characteristic of a target speaker. During a training phase, utterances corresponding to the same sentences by both the target speaker can source speaker can be force aligned according to the phonemes...

20060129403 - Method and device for speech synthesizing and dialogue system thereof: A method and a device for speech synthesizing are provided. The method is used for generating a speech answer in a speech dialogue system, in which the speech dialogue system includes a speech recognizing process for recognizing a speech input inputted from a user to generate a textual answer. The...

20060129400 - Method and system for converting text to lip-synchronized speech in real time: A method and system for presenting lip-synchronized speech corresponding to the text received in real time is provided. A lip synchronization system provides an image of a character that is to be portrayed as speaking text received in real time. The lip synchronization system receives a sequence of text corresponding...

20060129402 - Method for reading input character data to output a voice sound in real time in a portable terminal: A method for reading input character data to output a voice sound in real time in a portable terminal. A character input is monitored, and a voice sound corresponding to input character data is output whenever the character input is performed in a preset minimum reading unit. A user can...

20060129401 - Speech segment clustering and ranking: A system, method, and apparatus for identifying problematic speech segments is provided. The system includes a clustering module for generating a first cluster of one or more consecutive speech segments if the consecutive speech segments satisfy a predetermined filtering test, and for generating a second cluster comprising at least one...

20060129404 - Speech synthesis apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable memory: The distance between the first two pitch marks of a voiced portion of speech data to be processed is calculated. The difference between the adjacent inter-pitch-mark distances is calculated. The respective calculation results are stored and managed in a file....

20060129405 - Method and device for determining a personal happiness index and improving it: A method and apparatus allowing the user to characterize a system for minoring his personal variables affecting his emotional state, and identifying his personal happiness index for himself. Relating to and updating the variables and receiving feedback on them relative to himself and between himself and others. The apparatus is...

20060129406 - Method and system for sharing speech processing resources over a communication network: A method and system (40) for sharing speech processing resources (54) over a (communication network (21) for handling multiple client types (100, 101, etc.) and multiple media protocol types. The system can include a router (400) coupled to the communication network, a speech response system (500) coupled to the router,...

20060129408 - A remote control device and method with speech control: A remote control device and method with speech control for controlling an electric appliance which stores up an identifiable speech vocabulary data. The remote control device includes a sensor and a speech identification module. The sensor receives speech to produce a speech sense signal. The speech identification module establishes contact...

20060129409 - Dialog supporting apparatus: To provide a dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 and an utterance receiving unit 103 which respectively receive the utterances of...

20060129407 - Voice recognition doorlock apparatus: A voice recognition doorlock apparatus includes a control unit for controlling the lock state of a doorlock to be unlocked by a doorlock driving unit only when a currently inputted digital voice signal matches a specific voice signal stored in first storing unit and matches input key signals stored in...

20060129410 - Frequency estimation: A method for estimating the frequency of a single frequency complex exponential tone in additive Gaussian noise, comprising the steps of: performing the fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the tone; estimating the frequency as the frequency corresponding to the largest FFT output coefficient magnitude; computing a discriminant which is proportional...

20060116862 - System and method for tokenization of text: The present invention pertains to a system and method for the tokenization of text. The featurizer may be configured to receive input text and convert the input text into tokens. According to one aspect of the invention, the tokens may include only one type of character, the characters selected from...

20060116860 - Systems and methods for user-interest sensitive condensation: Techniques are presented to determine user-interest sensitive condensations of a passage. One or more passages are selected and user interest information, condensation transformations and optional meaning distortion constraints are identified. The foci of user interest within the selected passages are determined based the similarity of the elements in the selected...

20060116861 - Systems and methods for user-interest sensitive note-taking: Techniques are presented to determine user-interest sensitive notes. User selected passages, user interest information, condensation transformations and optional meaning distortion constraints are identified. User foci expressed by the selected passages are determined based on the similarity of the elements in the selected passages to elements in the user interest information....

20060116863 - User interface design apparatus and method: A user interface design apparatus which reduces the load associated with input operation by an author is provided. When a speech recognition grammar including a semantic structure generating rule is acquired, at least one semantic structure is extracted from the semantic structure generating rule included in the grammar. This semantic...

20060116865 - E-services translation utilizing machine translation and translation memory: A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence...

20060116867 - Learning translation relationships among words: A parallel bilingual training corpus is parsed into its content words. Word association scores for each pair of content words consisting of a word of language L1 that occurs in a sentence aligned in the bilingual corpus to a sentence of language L2 in which the other word occurs. A...

20060116866 - Machine translation system, method and program: Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element representing second expression of second language, first expression being to be translated into second expression, first expression...

20060116864 - Safe, secure resource editing for application localization with automatic adjustment of application user interface for translated resources: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and computer-readable media for external localization of a software product. This external localization involves loading a base product having one or more calls to an operating system (or an API) to load language specific data. The calls are intercepted after the...

20060116868 - Method and apparatus for robust efficient parsing: The present invention provides a method for improving the efficiency of parsing text. Aspects of the invention include representing parse tokens as integers where a portion of the integer indicates the location in which a definition for the token can be found. In a further aspect, an integer representing a...

20060116869 - Automatic keyword extraction apparatus, method, recording medium and program: An automatic keyword extraction apparatus includes a first extraction unit operable to extract a first keyword from title character string information of contents using a first keyword dictionary in which a character string designating a sub-genre is registered; and a second extraction unit operable to extract a second keyword from...

20060116870 - Method for audio and image data compression: The present invention provides method of image and audio data compression. Filtering and down sampling means are firstly applied to reduce data of samples. The selected data samples are firstly compressed by means of ADPCM. The error between the original and the ADPCM coded data stream are calculated and compared...

20060116871 - Apparatus, method, and medium for processing audio signal using correlation between bands: Apparatus, method, and medium for processing an audio signal using a correlation between bands are provided. The apparatus includes an encoding unit encoding an input audio signal and a decoding unit decoding the encoded input audio signal. The encoding unit includes a correlation analyzer searching a most subband having a...

20060116872 - Method for flexible bit rate code vector generation and wideband vocoder employing the same: Provided are a flexible bit rate code vector generation method and a wideband vocoder employing the same. This invention implements a flexible bit rate by getting three code vectors which are composed of 24, 16, and 8 pulses, at a time in a search process, through improvement of an algebraic...

20060116873 - Repetitive transient noise removal: A system improves the perceptual quality of a speech signal by dampening undesired repetitive transient noises. The system includes a repetitive transient noise detector adapted to detect repetitive transient noise in a received signal. The received signal may include a harmonic and a noise spectrum. The system further includes a...

20060116874 - Noise-dependent postfiltering: A method of filtering a speech signal is presented. The method involves providing a filter (404) suited for reduction of distortion caused by speech coding, estimating acoustic noise in the speech signal, adapting the filter in response to the estimated acoustic noise to obtain an adapted filter, and applying the...

20060116875 - Speech signal decoding method and apparatus using decoded information smoothed to produce reconstructed speech signal of enhanced quality: In a speech signal decoding method, information containing at least a sound source signal, gain, and filter coefficients is decoded from a received bit stream. Voiced speech and unvoiced speech of a speech signal are identified using the decoded information. Smoothing processing based on the decoded information is performed for...

20060116877 - Methods, apparatus and computer programs for automatic speech recognition: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system includes a speech-responsive application and a recognition engine. The ASR system generates user prompts to elicit certain spoken inputs, and the speech-responsive application performs operations when the spoken inputs are recognised. The recognition engine compares sounds within an input audio signal with phones within...

20060116876 - 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...

20060116878 - Asthma diagnostic apparatus, asthma diagnostic method, and storage medium storing asthma diagnostic program: An asthma diagnostic apparatus includes: a reference laughter storage unit storing the laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data; an input unit inputting the laughter of a person to be diagnosed; a similarity determination unit determining the similarity between the laughter as reference data and the input laughter; and...

20060116879 - Context enhancement for text readers: A method, system and apparatus for enhancing the audible presentation of addressing information disposed in content processed in a text reader. In an aspect of the present invention, a method for enhancing the audible presentation of addressing information disposed in content processed in a text reader can include translating the...

20060116881 - Portable-type communication terminal device, contents output method, distribution server and method thereof, and contents supply system and supply method thereof: Portable-type communication terminal device easy to use by a user is provided. Determination unit determines, based on whether electronic mail received by a communication unit contains contents identification information, whether the electronic mail is contents electronic mail. When determining that the electronic mail is contents electronic mail, the determination unit...

20060116880 - Voice-driven user interface: A system for a user to give vocal commands and input and receive aural or visual feedback through a headset or other means that telecommunicates with an interface program module installed on or connected to a computer or similar device. The vocal input is converted into digital signals compatible with...

20060116882 - User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method: An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a displayed page associated with a first data file. The audio version includes information from the first data file...

20060116883 - Voice guidance system and voice guidance method therefor: A voice guidance system for providing operational guidance using voice in information processing devices that perform desired processing through execution of jobs, comprises a job execution status information acquisition section that acquires job execution status information, and a voice guidance section that performs voice guidance of job status on the...

20060116884 - Voice guidance system and voice guidance method using the same: A voice guidance system for providing a guidance by voice concerning operations of an information processing apparatus, comprises a detector that detects that a predetermined function of the information processing apparatus is disabled, and a voice guidance unit that outputs a voice message reporting a reason why the predetermined function...

20060116885 - System and method for improving recognition accuracy in speech recognition applications: A speech recognition system and method are provided to correctly distinguish among multiple interpretations of an utterance. This system is particularly useful when the set of possible interpretations is large, changes dynamically, and/or contains items that are not phonetically distinctive. The speech recognition system extends the capabilities of mobile wireless...

20060116886 - Apparatus and method for processing multi-channel audio signal using space information: An apparatus for and a method of processing a multi-channel audio signal using space information. The apparatus includes: a main coding unit down mixing a multi-channel audio signal by applying space information to surround components included in the multi-channel audio signal, generating side information using the multi-channel audio signal or...