Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 07/06

20060167675 - Translating method, translated sentence outputting method, recording medium, program, and computer device: A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source text to be translated are looked up in a dictionary (step S201) to determine whether the text includes an unregistered word (step S203)....

20060167676 - Method and apparatus for correction of spelling errors in text composition: Method and apparatus for correction of spelling errors in text composition is provided. Correctly spelled words may be determined for an incorrectly spelled word in accordance with a common error approach. Corrections to the incorrectly word are applied using common typographical and spelling errors. Resulting words which are correctly spelled...

20060167677 - Mobile communication terminal: The invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, advantageously a mobile phone. According to the invention, the communication terminal includes input means and output means for outputting information to a user at least partially in a natural language. The communication terminal further includes means for storing natural language data for...

20060167678 - Surface structure generation: A computer program product for controlling the computer's processor to perform responsive actions a natural language input has: (1) vocabulary, phrase and concept databases of words, phrase and concepts, respectively, that can be recognized in the inputted communication, wherein each of these database elements is representable by a designated semantic...

20060167679 - Vocabulary generating apparatus and method, speech recognition system using the same: A vocabulary generating method and apparatus and a speech recognition system using the same are disclosed. In the vocabulary generating method, a new system vocabulary can be generated to increase the flexibility of the speech recognition system, so a user, when unsure of a system command, can use a specially...

20060167680 - System and method for optimizing run-time memory usage for a lexicon: A system and method of extracting information from a lexicon and using the information with a computer software program. Lexicon data is arranged for a particular language using Unicode values or other uniquely defined code values for each character of word of the language. A location array is then created...

20060167681 - Diagnosis device and diagnosis method: The present invention provides a diagnostic device that presents, to a patient, a Noise-Vocoded Speech Sound signal that is obtained by dividing at least one portion of a sound signal into a single or a plurality of frequency band signals and subjecting the frequency band signals to noise, and analyzing...

20060167682 - Adaptive and progressive audio stream descrambling: A process for distributing digital audio sequences in streams including data sequences containing digital audio blocks including modifying at least a part of the data sequences in an original stream to produce a modified stream in a same nominal format as the original stream, transmitting the modified stream, and reconstructing...

20060167683 - Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal and apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal: When encoding an audio signal, the audio signal is first encoded with the first encoder to obtain a first encoder output signal. This first encoder output signal is written into a bit stream. It is further decoded by a decoder to provide a decoded audio signal. The decoded audio signal...

20060167684 - Speech recognition method and system: In the present invention, a speech recognition method is provided. The speech recognition method includes steps of (a) receiving a speech from a user and recognizing the speech for generating a plurality of recognition results, (b) displaying the recognition results for the user to lock correct values in the recognition...

20060167687 - Management and assistance system for the deaf: A computer-aided communication and assistance system that uses a signal processing and other algorithms in a processor in wireless communication with a microphone system to aid a deaf person. An instrumented communication module receives information from one or more microphones and provides textual and, optionally, stimulatory information to the deaf...

20060167685 - Method and device for the rapid, pattern-recognition-supported transcription of spoken and written utterances: The invention relates to a method and a device for the transcription of spoken and written utterances. To this end, the utterances undergo speech or text recognition, and the recognition result (ME) is combined with a manually created transcription (MT) of the utterances in order to obtain the transcription. The...

20060167686 - Method for form completion using speech recognition and text comparison: A system and method for creating a final text from an audio file. This has particular utility in completing forms with speech-to-text conversion. The system and method includes transcribing the audio file into a transcribed text file using a speech recognition program. They further include comparing the transcribed text file...

20060167688 - Generalized lempel-ziv compression for multimedia signals: The subject matter includes systems, engines, and methods for generalizing a class of Lempel-Ziv algorithms for lossy compression of multimedia. One implementation of the subject matter compresses audio signals. Because music, especially electronically generated music, has a substantial level of repetitiveness within a single audio clip, the basic Lempel-Ziv compression...

20060167689 - System and method for predictive analysis and predictive analysis markup language: A predictive architecture system and method that supports predicting likely future evolutions by aggregating and analyzing large amounts of data. The invented system includes a multi-level architecture, along with one or more feedback functions that drive search and discovery for information in support of a “hypothesis” or discovery of significant...

20060167690 - Speech signal compression device, speech signal compression method, and program: There is provided a speech signal noise elimination device and the like for eliminating noise mixed in speech with certainty. A pitch analysis section 2 determines the modified moving average of frequencies of pitch components of speech indicated by an original speech signal acquired by a speech input section 1....

20060167691 - Barely audible whisper transforming and transmitting electronic device: The present inventions aims to transform, and later amplify, a barely audible whisper of a speaker's voice, received in a microphone within an electronic device capable of transforming and transmitting voice, in terms of its speech characteristics into a synthetic voice that closely mimics a non-whisper voice of the speaker....

20060167693 - Method and apparatus for performing packet loss or frame erasure concealment: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder that does not have a built-in or standard FEC process. A receiver with a decoder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. A lost frame detector...

20060167692 - Palette-based classifying and synthesizing of auditory information: The subject invention leverages spectral “palettes” or representations of an input sequence to provide recognition and/or synthesizing of a class of data. The class can include, but is not limited to, individual events, distributions of events, and/or environments relating to the input sequence. The representations are compressed versions of the...

20060167694 - Idea model device, spontaneous feeling model device, method thereof, and program: An inspiration model device according to the invention is provided with a spontaneous emotion unit, a knowledge database, and a conception unit. The spontaneous emotion unit prepares, as data, plural emotion states in advance, which are obtained by modeling human emotions, and causes state transitions to occur repeatedly between the...

20060167695 - Method for describing the composition of audio signals: Method for describing the composition of audio signals, which are encoded as separate audio objects. The arrangement and the processing of the audio objects in a sound scene is described by nodes arranged hierarchically in a scene description. A node specified only for spatialization on a 2D screen using a...

20060167696 - Systems and methods for predicting consequences of misinterpretation of user commands in automated systems: Systems and methods are provided for processing and executing commands in automated systems. For example, command processing systems and methods are provided which can automatically determine, evaluate or otherwise predict consequences of execution of misrecognized or misinterpreted user commands in automated systems and thus prevent undesirable or dangerous consequences that...

20060167697 - Methodology for voice enabling applications: Methodology for voice-enabling an application minimizes code add-ons or code insertions. As an example, in applications used by a plurality of remote devices, the method may include dividing a master wordlist associated with the application into a plurality of wordlists respectively associated with the plurality of remote devices, and then...

20060167698 - System and method for generating an identification signal for electronic devices: A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are analyzed to segment the...

20060161423 - Systems and methods for automatically categorizing unstructured text: Systems, methods and software products analyze messages of a message stream based upon human generated concept recognizers. A sample set of messages, representative of messages from the message stream, are analyzed to determine interesting or useful categories. Text categorization engines are then trained, using the sample set and text classifiers...

20060161424 - Digital multi-tone audio-sensing controller: A digital multi-tone audio-sensing controller includes an audio receiver, a signal processor, a driver and a load. The audio receiver receives and outputs an external analog signal and the external analog signal are subject to amplification, frequency-division and digitalization by the signal processor for generating an external digital signal. The...

20060161426 - Mobile terminal and text-to-speech method of same: A mobile terminal able to achieve smooth text-to-speech conversion, that is, a mobile terminal able to display on a display unit information acquired from a server connected to a network by a communication unit, comprising a storage unit; a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech; and a controller for...

20060161425 - System and method for providing electronic program guide: Disclosed is a system for providing an electronic program guide and a method of providing the same, the electronic program guide (EPG) being about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, including the steps of receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system, and extracting the...

20060161427 - Compensation of transient effects in transform coding: The present invention provides a method for compensating transient effects in transform coding and decoding of a combined speech and audio in electronic devices by using a transform based time-frequency domain codec. The method can combine, e.g., a CELP (code excited linear prediction) type speech codec and a transform type...

20060161428 - Narrowband detector: A narrowband signal detector has an adaptable filter and controller for controlling the centre frequency and the bandwidth of the filter, to track the narrowband signal. Better control of the filter can be achieved by basing the filter control on a comparison of output and input to the filter. The...

20060161429 - Systems and methods for managing multiple grammars in a speech recognition system: Systems and methods are described for a speech system that manages multiple grammars from one or more speech-enabled applications. The speech system includes a speech server that supports different grammars and different types of grammars by exposing several methods to the speech-enabled applications. The speech server supports static grammars that...

20060161430 - Voice activation: A circuit and a method are given, to realize a very flexible voice activation system using a modular building block approach, that is adaptively tailored to handle certain relevant and case specific operational characteristics describing most of the possible acoustical differing environmental cases to be found in the field of...

20060161431 - System and method for independently recognizing and selecting actions and objects in a speech recognition system: A method for processing a call is disclosed. The method receives a speech input via a call and transforms at the speech input into a textual format. The method also creates a list of salient terms of actions and objects from the text, adjusts the confidence level of objects on...

20060161432 - Hochwald construction of unitary matrix codebooks via eigen coordinate transformations: A method of deriving a codebook including deriving a first codeword P1 in Euclidean coordinates, transforming the first codeword into eigen-coordinates, applying a Hochwald construction to the first codeword in eigen-coordinates to derive a plurality of codewords in eigen-coordinates and transforming the plurality of codewords in eigen-coordinates into a plurality...

20060161433 - Codec-dependent unit selection for mobile devices: A method of extracting a subset of speech units from a larger set of speech units for use by a speech synthesizer in synthesizing speech, wherein the speech units are stored in a compressed encoded representation that was generated by a codec, the method comprising: selecting members of the subset...

20060161434 - Automatic improvement of spoken language: A method for improving spoken language includes accepting a speech input from by a speaker using a language, identifying the speaker with a predetermined speaker category and correcting an error in the speech input using an error model that is specific to the speaker category....

20060161435 - System and method for identity verification and management: A system for verifying the identity of a user includes an identification score assignment module configured to receive at least one source of identification of the user and to assign an identification score to each of the at least one source of identification. The system includes a total identification score...

20060161436 - Method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar: The invention relates to a method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar known as GT/PS grammar. According to the invention, a spoken phrase is analyzed for triphones contained therein, syntactically reconstructed from the recognized words using a grammar. The GT/PS grammar is a novel method...

20060161437 - Text-to-speech synthesis system: The present invention is intended to provide a text-to-speech synthesis apparatus, including a storage for storing phoneme data of a plurality of speakers; a selector for selecting one of the plurality of speakers in accordance with an operation performed by a user; a searcher for searching the storage for phoneme...

20060161438 - Hybrid-parameter mode speech synthesis system and method: A hybrid-parameter mode speech synthesis system includes a sample unit corpus storing multiple sample speech units, an indirect unit corpus storing indirect parameter sequences of partial synthesis speeches, a synthesis parameter database storing parameter sequences of various synthesis speeches, and a speech synthesizer. The speech synthesizer is used for retrieving...

20060161440 - Guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs: Guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs recognize an input voice with an input/output apparatus and determine, based on the input voice, a request. The request is determined by the input/output apparatus performing voice recognition. The guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs transmit data of a navigation command list...

20060161439 - Stored-value card with sound: A stored-value card includes an audio circuit, a speaker, a housing, decorative indicia, and a button. The audio circuit stores an audio file, and the speaker is coupled to the audio circuit. The housing generally encloses the audio circuit and the speaker and includes an account identifier signifying a financial...

20060155526 - Systems, devices, & methods for automating non-deterministic processes: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising: for a graphical representation of a process, the graphical representation comprising a network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by directional arcs: converting the graphical representation to a context-free grammar notation; for each of the directional arcs, defining at least one function from...

20060155527 - Mobile terminal and system providing multilingual support: A mobile terminal and system providing multilingual support, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the system includes a server configured to store fonts of different languages of countries, a mobile terminal configured to download a multilingual software module from the server through a wireless network, and/or to receive a multilingual...

20060155528 - Method and system for text retrieval for computer-assisted item creation: A tool, method, and system for use in the development of sentence-based test items are disclosed. The tool may include a user interface that may include a database selection field, a sentence pattern entry field, an option pane, and an output pane. The tool may search a database for one...

20060155529 - System and method for a context-independent framework for management and execution of xml processing tasks: A system for a context-independent framework for management and execution of XML processing tasks is provided. The XML processing tasks are executed by a module, herein referred to as the XSA Engine, according to a predefined set of instructions provided as electronic documents written in a special purpose, XML-based, programming...

20060155530 - Method and apparatus for generation of text documents: A method for the generation of large volumes of text documents comprises the steps of collecting a set of unstructured text documents as training documents and choosing a language model (21). New documents are generated by using the language model and its parameters and by using additional words beyond the...

20060155531 - Transform coding system and method: A transform coding system and method are disclosed which utilize a modified quantization technique which advantageously foregoes the need for inverse quantization at the decoder. New techniques for optimizing an entropy code for the modified quantizer and for constructing the entropy codes are also disclosed....

20060155532 - Apparatus and method for managing quality of a label switched path in a convergence network: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing quality of a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) label switched path (LSP), which has been previously established in a convergence network. The apparatus for managing quality of a LSP includes: LSP provisioning/releasing means for provisioning and releasing the LSP in a convergence...

20060155533 - Codebook generation system and associated methods: A codebook generation system and associated methods are generally described herein....

20060155534 - Codebook generation system and associated methods: A codebook generation system and associated methods are generally described herein....

20060155535 - System and method for generating an identification signal for electronic devices: A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are analyzed to segment the...

20060155536 - Method and device for displaying a telephone number: Devices and methods of displaying a telephone number are disclosed. The telephone number may be displayed in a manner that is likely to be helpful to the user of an appliance, such as a cell phone or personal digital assistant....

20060155537 - Method and apparatus for discriminating between voice and non-voice using sound model: A method and an apparatus are provided for discriminating between a voice region and a non-voice region in an environment in which diverse types of noises and voices exist. The voice discrimination apparatus includes a domain transform unit for transforming an input sound signal frame into a frame in the...

20060155538 - Method and system for assessing pronunciation difficulties of non-native speakers: The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based...

20060155539 - System for compiling word usage frequencies: A system for assisting a user who is learning a language to prioritize words to be learned in order of usage frequency is disclosed. A frequency determination program running on a computer determines the frequency of usage of each word at a list of locations provided by the user. Different...

20060155540 - Method for data training: In a method for data training, training is performed using multiple entries of data in a database of web pages, libraries, patent documents, etc., in combination with data selected or labeled by a user. The data training utilizes a scheme based principally on a machine learning algorithm but providing more...

20060155541 - Method of modeling vehicle parameter cycles: A method of modeling a cycle of a vehicle parameter includes generating a plurality of training sets and partially classifying elements of each training set based on a present value of the vehicle parameter and a subsequent change in the vehicle parameter. The method further includes reducing the plurality of...

20060155542 - Show & tell tech: A system and method for delivering instructions in an easy-to-understand format designated as “Show and Tell”—Tech (ST-Tech) Format. For people who cannot read and understand medications or health instructions, ST-Tech offers useful, effective and safety features based on color code, pictures, voice and icons to help ensure accuracy in the...

20060155543 - Dynamic voice allocation in a vector processor based audio processor: A method dynamically allocating voices to processor resources in a music synthesizer or other audio processor includes utilizing processor resources to execute vector-based voice generation algorithm for sounding voices, such as executed using SIMD architecture processors or other vector processor architectures. The dynamic voice allocation process identifies a new voice...

20060155544 - Defining atom units between phone and syllable for tts systems: A method for identifying common multiphone units to add to a unit inventory for a text-to-speech generator is disclosed. The common multiphone units are units that are larger than a phone, but smaller than a syllable. The method slices each syllable into a plurality of slices. These slices are then...

20060155545 - Multi-source powered audio playback system: The present invention is a multi-source powered audio playback system which integrates multiple energy charging sources that charge an internal battery, with a digital audio player and an analog audio amplifier and multiple audio outputs. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a mechanical power generating means, rectifier, solar power...

20060155549 - Imaging device and image output device: The device of the present invention synthesizes voices or the like with the image data when an image is taken, and can thereby obtain impressive images or prints with high added values. Furthermore, the present invention can also extract a voice of a specific speaker through a voice print decision...

20060155548 - In-vehicle chat system: An in-vehicle chat system realizes chatting between passengers of more than three vehicles through a center facility having a speech recognition device. The center facility selects only one of a plurality of speech signals competing with each other in accordance with a predetermined selection criterion based on results of speech...

20060155546 - Method and system for controlling input modalities in a multimodal dialog system: A method and a system for controlling a set of input modalities in a multimodal dialog system are provided. The method includes selecting (302) a sub-set of input modalities that a user can use to provide user inputs during a user turn. The method further includes dynamically activating (304) the...

20060155547 - Voice activated lighting of control interfaces: A voice activated control interface system for selectively lighting and/or highlighting a control interface for a function generally includes a microphone for receiving a voice command; at least one control interface in operative communication with a function; and a controller in operative communication with the at least one microphone and...

20060149528 - System and method of automatic japanese kanji labeling: A system of automatically labeling kanji and the method thereof are disclosed. The disclosed system includes a look-up table storing kanji and the corresponding kana, a word extraction module to extract the kanji on the current web page, a conversion module to convert the kanji into the corresponding kana, and...

20060149529 - Method for encoding messages between two devices for transmission over standard online payment networks: A method of using a dictionary of message codes related to health care information is provided. The message codes in the dictionary have corresponding message values. The method includes receiving at least one message value at a first device. The first device then generates at least one message code related...

20060149530 - Circuit arrangement and signal processing device: A circuit arrangement and signal processing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit arrangement includes a resonator circuit for generating an output signal from an input signal with a capacitance and with an inductance, with an input at which the input signal can be provided, and with an output...

20060149531 - Random access audio decoder: Random access decoding start points (audio frame headers) for AMR-type files are found by sequential elimination of types of file points from consideration for a block of file points following a random access selected point. Chaining of file points according to frame header format interpretation gives paths of points through...

20060149532 - Method and apparatus for enhancing loudness of a speech signal: A speech filter (108) enhances the loudness of a speech signal by expanding the formant regions of the speech signal beyond a natural bandwidth of the formant regions. The energy level of the speech signal is maintained so that the filtered speech signal contains the same energy as the pre-filtered...

20060149533 - Methods and apparatus for identifying media objects: A method, apparatus and computer memory are provided for generating an audio fingerprint of an audio recording. A memory stores stable frequency family data corresponding to a plurality of stable frequency families. A processor curve fits audio recording data to at least one of the stable frequency families, extracts at...

20060149535 - Method for controlling speed of audio signals: A method for controlling the speed of audio signals is provided. The method is based on a TSM that uses an optimized AMDF and an OLA. According to the method, the number of frame sets is differently set depending a TSM speed rate to set the interval of a speed...

20060149534 - Speech coding apparatus and method therefor: A speech coding apparatus including a perceptual linear prediction (pip) analysis buffer configured to output a pitch period with respect to an original input speech signal and to analyze the input speech signal using a pip process to output a pip coefficient, an excitation signal generator configured to generate and...

20060149536 - Sid frame update using sid prediction error: In a packet-based multimedia communication system, such as ITU G.711, using linear prediction parameters to derive the linear prediction error of the codec. The linear prediction error is then used as a feature of the Silence Insertion Descriptor (SID) algorithm. Generating a SID frame by comparing linear prediction errors between...

20060149537 - Code conversion method and device for code conversion: A method of converting code, which converts first codes based on a first system to second codes based on a second system, is characterized in that, when the first codes are unavailable, the second codes are obtained by directly using speech parameters which are ever decoded in accordance with the...

20060149538 - High-band speech coding apparatus and high-band speech decoding apparatus in wide-band speech coding/decoding system and high-band speech coding and decoding method performed by the apparatuses: A high-band speech encoding apparatus and a high-band speech decoding apparatus that can reproduce high quality sound even at a low bitrate when wideband speech encoding and decoding using a bandwidth extension function, and a high-band speech encoding and decoding method performed by the apparatuses. The high-band speech encoding apparatus...

20060149539 - Method for separating a sound frame into sinusoidal components and residual noise: This invention relates to a method of determining (10) a second sound frame (20) representing sinusoidal components and an optionally third sound frame (30) representing a residual from a provided first sound frame, the method includes the steps of: determining a sinusoidal component in the first sound frame among non...

20060149540 - System and method for supporting multiple speech codecs: A method for performing a search of a codebook is provided. The codebook includes a plurality of tracks each having a plurality of even pulse positions. The method includes partitioning a codevector having a plurality of pulses into a first subset of pulses and a second subset of pulses. Each...

20060149541 - System and method for implementing real-time adaptive threshold triggering in acoustic detection systems: A system and method to generate a trigger signal based on a real-time adaptive threshold. The system may include a microphone to receive an audio signal, a device to generate a trigger signal based on a real-time adaptive threshold coupled to the microphone to form an adaptive threshold and generate...

20060149542 - Methods and apparatus for echo cancellation using an adaptive lattice based non-linear processor: A non-linear processor for managing a speech signal is disclosed. The non-linear processor includes an adaptive lattice filter that generates a prediction error from a residual echo of the speech signal, a signum non-linearity unit that generates an excitation component from the prediction error, an excitation signal mixer that generates...

20060149543 - Construction of an automaton compiling grapheme/phoneme transcription rules for a phoneticizer: A system checks the accuracy of a required graphic chain, e.g. usage errors. Modules constructs a phoneticizer by construction of an automaton compiling transcription rules and by determining probabilities of transitions between grapheme/phoneme correspondences. A dictionary of phonetic signatures is constructed by transcribing graphic chains from a graphic chains dictionary...

20060149544 - Error prediction in spoken dialog systems: A spoken dialog system configured to use a combined confidence score. A first confidence score, indicating a confidence level in a speech recognition result of recognizing an utterance, is provided. A second confidence level, indicating a confidence level of mapping the speech recognition result to an intent, is provided. The...

20060149545 - Method and apparatus of speech template selection for speech recognition: A speech input apparatus having a speech input from a user and the method therefor are provided. The speech input apparatus includes a speech template unit providing a plurality of speech templates, an I/O interface outputting and switching the plurality of speech templates to the user to be selected in...

20060149546 - Communication system, communication emitter, and appliance for detecting erroneous text messages: A device for detecting erroneous text messages that are produced from a vocal utterance includes a text producing device, a text conversion device associated with the text producing device, and a comparison device. The text producing device produces a text message from an original vocal utterance. The text conversion device...

20060149547 - Recording apparatus and voice recorder program: The present invention provides a recording apparatus and voice recorder program that can selectively record the voice of a specific speaker and can also convert voice into text for each speaker and record the resulting text. The recording apparatus comprises: a voice input device for inputting a voice of a...

20060149548 - Speech input method and system for portable device: In the present invention, a speech input method for the portable device is provided. The speech input method includes steps of (a) selecting a language mode and determining an acoustic unit, (b) inputting a speech by a user and comparing the speech with the acoustic unit to generate a plurality...

20060149549 - Natural language recognition using distributed processing: A method and system for computer-based recognition of natural language data. The method is implemented on a distributed computer network and includes obtaining natural language data, such as digital ink handwriting, using an input device (415), receiving the natural language data on a server via a network, processing the natural...

20060149551 - Mobile dictation correction user interface: A method of speech recognition is described for use with mobile user devices. A speech signal representative of input speech is forwarded from a mobile user device to a remote server. At the mobile user device, a speech recognition result representative of the speech signal is received from the remote...

20060149550 - Multimodal interaction: In order to enable an application to be provided with multimodal inputs, a multimodal application interface (API), which contains at least one rule for providing multimodal interaction is provided....

20060149552 - Methods and apparatus for audio recognition: A method, apparatus and computer memory are provided for recognizing an audio fingerprint of an unknown audio recording. A database stores a plurality of audio recording identifiers corresponding to a plurality of known audio recordings, where the audio recording identifiers are organized by variation information about the audio recordings. A...

20060149554 - Library of existing spoken dialog data for use in generating new natural language spoken dialog systems: A machine-readable medium may include a group of reusable components for building a spoken dialog system. The reusable components may include a group of previously collected audible utterances. A machine-implemented method to build a library of reusable components for use in building a natural language spoken dialog system may include...

20060149553 - System and method for using a library to interactively design natural language spoken dialog systems: Aspects of the invention pertain to a system for using a library to interactively design natural language spoken dialog systems. The system may include a processing device and an extractor. The processing device may be configured to receive user input selections indicating ones of a group of spoken dialog data...

20060149555 - System and method of providing an automated data-collection in spoken dialog systems: The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog...

20060149557 - Sentence displaying method, information processing system, and program product: A method of displaying a sentence described in a first language using an information processor includes the steps of input-reception for receiving an input of the sentence described in the first language; separation of separating the input sentence into each constituent word; a determination of determining whether the constituent word...

20060149556 - Sequential-data correlation at real-time on multiple media and multiple data types: A method and device for synchronizing data between analog and digital mediums recorded either simultaneously from a single source or recorded from different sources, which requires synchronization. User-Data recorded in analog medium is referenced with out-of-band unique digital reference-data that is generated by the interface device to mark the position...

20060149558 - Synchronized pattern recognition source data processed by manual or automatic means for creation of shared speaker-dependent speech user profile: An apparatus for collecting data from a plurality of diverse data sources, the diverse data sources generating input data selected from the group including text, audio, and graphics, the diverse data sources selected from the group including real-time and recorded, human and mechanically-generated audio, single-speaker and multispeaker, the apparatus comprising:...

20060149559 - Voice signal processor: A voice processor performing logarithm compression and decompression enabling various signal processing functions to be efficiently added. When there is a μ Law compression input, an approximate logarithm conversion process is performed. The processor performs bit inversion on the μ Law compression value and sets MSB to “0” to obtain...