Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 09/06

20060212286 - Message data management: A workflow manager application transfers message data received from an originating device via a communication network to a target application for processing. A graphical user interface displays the received message data and allows the user to view and designate one or more target applications for processing the message data. The...

20060212287 - Method for data processing with a view to extracting the main attributes of a product: A method is provided for data processing with a view to determining the main attributes of a product defined by a description including a plurality of words in which, for each word, one determines whether it belongs to one or more predetermined sets or glossaries. Then, for each word that...

20060212288 - Topic specific language models built from large numbers of documents: Forming and/or improving a language model based on data from a large collection of documents, such as web data. The collection of documents is queried using queries that are formed from the language model. The language model is subsequently improved using the information thus obtained. The improvement is used to...

20060212289 - Apparatus and method for converting voice packet rate: Provided is a voice packet rate converting method and apparatus. The rate of at least one first element of an input voice packet compressed at a first rate is converted to a second rate at a PCM level, and the rate of a second element of the input voice packet...

20060212290 - Audio coding apparatus and audio decoding apparatus: An audio coding apparatus comprises a frequency converting unit which performs a frequency transformation, a band dividing unit which divides a frequency band of frequency transformation factors into sub bands, a band width of the sub bands being narrower for a lower frequency sub band and wider for a higher...

20060212291 - Speech recognition system, speech recognition method and storage medium: Provided are a speech recognition system, a method and a storage medium capable of, even in a case where plural speakers input superimposed speeches, recognizing a speech of an individual each speaker and making a single application program sharable among the speakers in execution. In a speech recognition system receiving...

20060212292 - Transcription rule base enrichment: In a transcriber terminal, a module transcribes a trace stored in a trace database, another module validates the transcription of the transcribed trace by applying transcription rules and, if the transcribed trace is invalidated, a central unit transmits a control message including an identifier of the transcribed trace to an...

20060212293 - Apparatus and method for model adaptation for spoken language understanding: An apparatus and a method are provided for building a spoken language understanding model. Labeled data may be obtained for a target application. A new classification model may be formed for use with the target application by using the labeled data for adaptation of an existing classification model. In some...

20060212294 - Apparatus and method for analysis of language model changes: An apparatus, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided for characterizing differences between two language models. A group of utterances from each of a group of time domains are examined. One of a significant word change or a significant word class change within the plurality of utterances is determined....

20060212295 - Apparatus and method for audio analysis: An apparatus and method for an improved audio analysis process is disclosed. The improvement concerns the accuracy level of the results and the rate of false alarms produced by the audio analysis process. The proposed apparatus and method provides a three-stage audio analysis route. The three-stage analysis process includes a...

20060212296 - System and method for automatic speech recognition from phonetic features and acoustic landmarks: A probabilistic framework for acoustic-phonetic automatic speech recognition organizes a set of phonetic features into a hierarchy consisting of a broad manner feature sub-hierarchy and a fine phonetic feature sub-hierarchy. Each phonetic feature of said hierarchy corresponds to a set of acoustic correlates and each broad manner feature of said...

20060212298 - Sound processing apparatus and method, and program therefor: Spectrum envelope of an input sound is detected. In the meantime, a converting spectrum is acquired which is a frequency spectrum of a converting sound comprising a plurality of sounds, such as unison sounds. Output spectrum is generated by imparting the detected spectrum envelope of the input sound to the...

20060212297 - System and method using blind change detection for audio segmentation: A system, method and computer program product for performing blind change detection audio segmentation that combines hypothesized boundaries from several segmentation algorithms to achieve the final segmentation of the audio stream. Automatic segmentation of the audio streams according to the system and method of the invention may be used for...

20060206301 - Determining the reading of a kanji word: A method of automatically determining a reading of a Japanese word includes for each character determining whether the character is a kanji, hiragana 520, or katakana 530 character. For a hiragana or katakana character the only one reading associated with the character is chosen in step 525, 535. For a...

20060206302 - Physicians' way of information productions: The method of efficient dictations to facilitating individuals' productions and transcriptions of speeches comprising medical information comprises repertories of words, sequences, synopses and categories words which are used by individuals for dictations to repetitively produce the desired and predictable outcomes....

20060206304 - Multilingual translation memory, translation method, and translation program: A translation memory adapted to sentence-based translation includes a first retrieval dictionary of a first language having a first dictionary TRIE structure and a first index TRIE structure, and a second retrieval dictionary of a second language having a second dictionary TRIE structure and a second index TRIE structure. The...

20060206303 - Resource authoring incorporating ontology: The present invention provides a system for processing data....

20060206305 - Translation system, translation method, and program: A translation system comprises an image reading unit that optically reads an image of a manuscript and generates image data; an inputting unit that inputs a translation target language; a character recognizing unit that generates an original text by performing a character recognition process on the image data generated by...

20060206307 - Language processing device, language processing method and language processing program: According to an aspect of the present invention, a language processing device has a text input section and an anaphora analysis section. The text input section acquires text data. The anaphora analysis section analyzes whether a correct anaphora relation is included in the text data acquired by the text input...

20060206306 - Text mining apparatus and associated methods: A method for extracting key terms and associated key terms for use in text mining is provided. The method includes receiving unstructured text documents, such as emails over a customer service system. Term candidates are extracted based on identifying consecutive word strings satisfying a context independency threshold. Term candidates are...

20060206308 - Method and apparatus for improving statistical word alignment models using smoothing: A method of iteratively re-estimating translation probabilities using smoothing. In the method, initial values for the translation probabilities are determined. The values of the translation probabilities are then iteratively re-estimated while using a smoothing technique....

20060206309 - Interactive conversational speech communicator method and system: The invention relates to a compact and portable interactive system for allowing person-to-person communication in a typed language format between individuals experiencing language barriers such as the hearing impaired and language impaired. According to the present invention, the sComm system includes a custom laptop configuration having a display screen and...

20060206310 - System and method for natural language processing in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for natural language processing of communications between two endpoints in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network....

20060206313 - Dictionary learning method and device using the same, input method and user terminal device using the same: This invention provides a dictionary learning method, said method comprising the steps of: learning a lexicon and a Statistical Language Model from an untagged corpus; integrating the lexicon, the Statistical Language Mode and subsidiary word encoding information into a small size dictionary. And this invention also provides an input method...

20060206311 - System and method of multilingual rights data dictionary: System and method of a multilingual rights data dictionary is provided. The system and method provides a multilingual RDD registry to local system for translating rights terms. The system includes the RDD registry and processor for translating the rights term by referring to the registry....

20060206312 - Systems and methods for retrieving data: Systems, methods, and storage mediums for retrieving data are provided. A syntax analysis is performed of a retrieval request according to data definition information in a data dictionary so as to convert the retrieval request into a query statement executable by a database. The database comprises an unnormalized data structure...

20060206314 - Adaptive variable bit rate audio compression encoding: An adaptive variable bit rate audio encoder and method that examines audio level information and detects various information in the audio data in a psychoacoustic model to create a quantization value and assign a mode tag to a single frame of audio. A bit rate is assigned according to one...

20060206315 - Apparatus and method for separating audio signals: The present invention provides an apparatus for separating audio signals that can dissolve the problem of permutation when separating the plurality of mixed signals by independent component analysis. There is provided an audio signal separation apparatus for separating observation signals in a time domain of a mixture of a plurality...

20060206316 - Audio coding and decoding apparatuses and methods, and recording mediums storing the methods: Audio coding and decoding apparatuses and methods that can optimize the quality of an audio signal including harmonics, and recording mediums storing the methods. An audio coding apparatus includes: a first harmonic coding module performing first harmonic coding on an input audio signal using a pitch lag of the input...

20060206317 - Speech coding apparatus and speech decoding apparatus: First codebook and second codebook respectively have two subcodebooks, and in respective codebooks, addition sections obtain respective excitation vectors by adding sub-excitation vectors fetched from respective two subcodebooks. Addition section obtains an excitation sample by adding those excitation vectors. According to the aforementioned constitution, it is possible to store sub-excitation...

20060206318 - Method and apparatus for phase matching frames in vocoders: In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a vocoder having at least one input and at least one output, an encoder comprising a filter having at least one input operably connected to the input of the vocoder and at least one output, a decoder comprising a synthesizer having at least...

20060206319 - Low-complexity code excited linear prediction encoding: Information about excitation signals of a first signal encoded by CELP is used to derive a limited set of candidate excitation signals for a second correlated second signal. Preferably, pulse locations of the excitation signals of the first encoded signal are used for determining the set of candidate excitation signals....

20060206320 - Apparatus and method for noise reduction and speech enhancement with microphones and loudspeakers: The present invention helps to reduce the noise level and to enhance the quality of speech signals, in communications, computers, entertainment and other applications, where microphones and loudspeakers are involved. Additionally, the invention includes a new noise reduction and speech enhancement algorithm which is created based on the principles of...

20060206322 - Method of noise reduction based on dynamic aspects of speech: A system and method are provided that reduce noise in pattern recognition signals. To do this, embodiments of the present invention utilize a prior model of dynamic aspects of clean speech together with one or both of a prior model of static aspects of clean speech, and an acoustic model...

20060206321 - Noise reduction using correction vectors based on dynamic aspects of speech and noise normalization: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing noise in a signal. Under one aspect of the invention, a correction vector is selected based on a noisy feature vector that represents a noisy signal. The selected correction vector incorporates dynamic aspects of pattern signals. The selected correction vector is then...

20060206323 - Audio coding: A method of encoding a multi-channel audio signal including at least a first signal component (LF), a second signal component (LR) and a third signal component (RF). The method comprises the steps of encoding the first and second signal components by a first parametric encoder (202) resulting in a first...

20060206324 - Methods and apparatus relating to searching of spoken audio data: Methods for processing audio data containing speech to produce a searchable index file and for subsequently searching such an index file are provided. The processing method uses a phonetic approach and models each frame of the audio data with a set of reference phones. A score for each of the...

20060206325 - Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty: A method and apparatus are provided for using the uncertainty of a noise-removal process during pattern recognition. In particular, noise is removed from a representation of a portion of a noisy signal to produce a representation of a cleaned signal. In the meantime, an uncertainty associated with the noise removal...

20060206326 - Speech recognition method: A speech recognition method comprises importation of speech made by a user. This importation is started in accordance with the user's operation or movement. It is then determined whether beginning of the imported speech is present or missing. Pronunciation information of a target word to be recognized is set based...

20060206327 - Voice-controlled data system: A voice-controlled data system is providing that has a storage medium for storing media files, the media files having associated file identification data for allowing the identification of the media files, the file identification data including phonetic data having phonetic information corresponding to the file identification data. The phonetic data...

20060206330 - Mode confidence: A method for managing an interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, a confidence value is determined in response to an input provided by the user or an environment of the user. The confidence value can be utilized to determine the mode and the...

20060206329 - Turn-taking confidence: A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed by determining at least one likelihood value which is dependent upon a possible speech onset of the user. In another embodiment, the likelihood...

20060206328 - Voice-controlled audio and video devices: Text information regarding audio and/or video data is assigned to phonemes by grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and used as the vocabulary of a speech recognition device....

20060206331 - Multilingual speech recognition: A speech recognition system is provided for selecting, via a speech input, an item from a list of items, includes at least using at least two different languages for recognizing at least two strings of subword units for the speech input. The speech recognition system including a subword comparing module...

20060206332 - Easy generation and automatic training of spoken dialog systems using text-to-speech: A dialog system training environment and method using text-to-speech (TTS) are provided. The only knowledge a designer requires is a simple specification of when the dialog system has failed or succeeded, and for any state of the dialog, a list of the possible actions the system can take. The training...

20060206333 - Speaker-dependent dialog adaptation: A simulation environment for adapting a speech model (e.g., baseline model) to a user is provided. The user can interact with a base parametric speech model (e.g., statistical model with learnable parameters such as a Bayesian network) and give positive and/or negative feedback when the dialog system has performed what...

20060206334 - Time warping frames inside the vocoder by modifying the residual: In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a vocoder having at least one input and at least one output, an encoder comprising a filter having at least one input operably connected to the input of the vocoder and at least one output, a decoder comprising a synthesizer having at least...

20060206338 - Device and method for providing contents: There is provided a content providing device which enables easy and quick review of relevant information of contents. The content providing device 100 includes a control unit 10 which carries out a provisional process of presenting a content, a speech recognizing engine 16 which recognizes a speech pattern collected by...

20060206335 - Method for remote control of an audio device: A method for remote control of an audio device (1) is described, which receives an audio data stream (A) from a transmission system. A control command in the form of an audio data sample (AM) within the audio data stream (A) is sent to the audio device (1). The received...

20060206337 - Online learning for dialog systems: An online dialog system and method are provided. The dialog system receives speech input and outputs an action according to its models. After executing the action, the system receives feedback from the environment or user. The system immediately utilizes the feedback to update its models in an online fashion....

20060206336 - Xml based architecture for controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands: A voice-enabled user interface includes a first user interface. A voice extension module is associated with the first user interface and is configured to voice-enable the first user interface. The voice extension module includes a speech recognition engine, an XML configuration repository, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The XML...

20060206340 - Methods for synchronous and asynchronous voice-enabled content selection and content synchronization for a mobile or fixed multimedia station: A system is provided for enabling voice-enabled selection and execution for playback of media files stored on a media content playback device. The system includes a voice input circuitry and speech recognition module for enabling voice input recognizable on the device as one or more voice commands for task performance;...

20060206339 - System and method for voice-enabled media content selection on mobile devices: A system for voice-enabled location and execution for playback of media content selections stored on a media content playback device has a voice input circuitry for inputting voice-based commands into the playback device; codec circuitry for converting voice input from analog content to digital content for speech recognition and for...

20060206341 - Record carrier having an encoded wide-band digital audio signal recorded thereon: Reproduction accuracy of a digital signal, representing, for example, stereo audio signals, is improved by transmitting sample data which have been encoded to form transmission signals. The stereo audio signals are coded into sub(band) signals. Corresponding sub(band) signals of the stereo audio signals may be processed to obtain composite sub(band)...

20060200335 - Device and method for outputting translated text: A device for outputting translated document has a document input part that inputs document data to be translated; a translation part that translates the document data inputted by the document input part; an output destination specifying part that specifies an output destination of the translated document for each target language;...

20060200336 - Creating a lexicon using automatic template matching: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200338 - Method and system for creating a lexicon: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200337 - System and method for template authoring and a template data structure: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200339 - Translation requesting method, translation requesting terminal and computer readable recording medium: As described above, the present invention also provides, in one aspect, a translation requesting device for translating a document having: a first replacing unit that replaces an original phrase to a substitute phrase; a translating unit that translates the substitute phrase; and a second replacing unit that replaces the original...

20060200340 - Grammatically correct contraction spelling suggestions for french: A method and product are provided that identify properly spelled words from an input string. Separate lexical entries are identified for different parts of an input word. Grammatical information associated with one of the lexical entries is examined to determine if it satisfies a grammatical constraint associated with another of...

20060200341 - Method and apparatus for processing sentiment-bearing text: The present invention provides a system for identifying, extracting, clustering and analyzing sentiment-bearing text. In one embodiment, the invention implements a pipeline capable of accessing raw text and presenting it in a highly usable and intuitive way....

20060200343 - Enhanced data storage: An electronic device that includes a stored data stream composed of dictionary entries. Each dictionary entry or coded data correlates with video or audio (spoken, music or other). Spoken words will have one or more dictionary entries to allow for different quality enunciations, pronunciations, inflections, accents and tones. These qualities...

20060200342 - System for processing sentiment-bearing text: The present invention provides a system for identifying, extracting, clustering and analyzing sentiment-bearing text. In one embodiment, the invention implements a pipeline capable of accessing raw text and presenting it in a highly usable and intuitive way....

20060200344 - Audio spectral noise reduction method and apparatus: A method of reducing noise in an audio signal, comprising the steps of: using a furrow filter to select spectral components that are narrow in frequency but relatively broad in time; using a bar filter to select spectral components that are broad in frequency but relatively narrow in time; analyzing...

20060200345 - Method for operating a speech recognition system: A method for operating a speech recognition system is described in which a speech signal (S1) of a user is detected and analyzed so as to recognize speech information contained in the speech signal (S). The speech recognition system determines a reception quality value (SQ) or a noise value which...

20060200346 - Speech quality measurement based on classification estimation: Auditory processing is used in conjunction with cognitive mapping to produce an objective measurement of speech quality that approximates a subjective measurement such as MOS. In order to generate a data model for measuring speech quality from a clean speech signal and a degraded speech signal, the clean speech signal...

20060200347 - User adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus: A user adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed that controls user confirmation of a recognition candidate using a new threshold value adapted to a user. The user adaptive speech recognition method includes calculating a confidence score of a recognition candidate according to the result of speech recognition, setting...

20060200348 - Method and system for voice recognition menu navigation: A method and system for error prevention and recovery of voice activated navigation through a menu having plural nodes provides situation dependent utterance verification by relating confirmation to utterance determination confidence levels. In one embodiment, a high confidence level results in implicit confirmation, a medium confidence level results in explicit...

20060200349 - Electronic device of an electronic voice dictionary and method for looking up a word and playing back a voice: An electronic device of an electronic voice dictionary and a method for looking up a word and playing back a pronouncing voice include a key code table in a memory for storing key code values and letters corresponding to key code values, a storage unit containing data signals and voice...

20060200350 - Multi dimensional confidence: A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed in response to a confidence value, wherein the confidence value is dependent upon speech recognition confidence and at least one non-acoustic confidence value....

20060200351 - Two-stage implementation for phonetic recognition using a bi-directional target-filtering model of speech coarticulation and reduction: A structured generative model of a speech coarticulation and reduction is described with a novel two-stage implementation. At the first stage, the dynamics of formants or vocal tract resonance (VTR) are generated using prior information of resonance targets in the phone sequence. Bi-directional temporal filtering with finite impulse response (FIR)...

20060200352 - Speech synthesis method: In a phoneme-selection-type speech synthesis apparatus, sound quality when a suitable phoneme is not found is prevented from being deteriorated without changing an input sentence. A plurality of pieces of reading prosody information are obtained. The cost when an optimum phoneme sequence is selected with respect to each of the...

20060200353 - Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support: A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is distributed across a client and server architecture, and is adaptive so that speech processing operations can be allocated as needed between the two....

20060200354 - Medical practice support system: A medical practice support system according to the present invention comprises a voice conversion unit for obtaining a voice and converting the voice to an electric signal for making voice data; a voice recognition unit for recognizing the voice data and generating character information by converting the voice to a...

20060200355 - System and method for a real time client server text to speech interface: A method and system may provide an interface (e.g., “API”), client side software module or other process that may accept an input from a client process such as a website, being executed on a local computer. The module may send the input and possibly authentication information to a remote server,...

20060200335 - Device and method for outputting translated text: A device for outputting translated document has a document input part that inputs document data to be translated; a translation part that translates the document data inputted by the document input part; an output destination specifying part that specifies an output destination of the translated document for each target language;...

20060200336 - Creating a lexicon using automatic template matching: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200338 - Method and system for creating a lexicon: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200337 - System and method for template authoring and a template data structure: The present invention provides a lexicon development tool which allows an author to first define templates which define morphological properties of a class of words and then assign words in an input word list to correct templates. The present invention can be used to automatically match a template to an...

20060200339 - Translation requesting method, translation requesting terminal and computer readable recording medium: As described above, the present invention also provides, in one aspect, a translation requesting device for translating a document having: a first replacing unit that replaces an original phrase to a substitute phrase; a translating unit that translates the substitute phrase; and a second replacing unit that replaces the original...

20060200340 - Grammatically correct contraction spelling suggestions for french: A method and product are provided that identify properly spelled words from an input string. Separate lexical entries are identified for different parts of an input word. Grammatical information associated with one of the lexical entries is examined to determine if it satisfies a grammatical constraint associated with another of...

20060200341 - Method and apparatus for processing sentiment-bearing text: The present invention provides a system for identifying, extracting, clustering and analyzing sentiment-bearing text. In one embodiment, the invention implements a pipeline capable of accessing raw text and presenting it in a highly usable and intuitive way....

20060200343 - Enhanced data storage: An electronic device that includes a stored data stream composed of dictionary entries. Each dictionary entry or coded data correlates with video or audio (spoken, music or other). Spoken words will have one or more dictionary entries to allow for different quality enunciations, pronunciations, inflections, accents and tones. These qualities...

20060200342 - System for processing sentiment-bearing text: The present invention provides a system for identifying, extracting, clustering and analyzing sentiment-bearing text. In one embodiment, the invention implements a pipeline capable of accessing raw text and presenting it in a highly usable and intuitive way....

20060200344 - Audio spectral noise reduction method and apparatus: A method of reducing noise in an audio signal, comprising the steps of: using a furrow filter to select spectral components that are narrow in frequency but relatively broad in time; using a bar filter to select spectral components that are broad in frequency but relatively narrow in time; analyzing...

20060200345 - Method for operating a speech recognition system: A method for operating a speech recognition system is described in which a speech signal (S1) of a user is detected and analyzed so as to recognize speech information contained in the speech signal (S). The speech recognition system determines a reception quality value (SQ) or a noise value which...

20060200346 - Speech quality measurement based on classification estimation: Auditory processing is used in conjunction with cognitive mapping to produce an objective measurement of speech quality that approximates a subjective measurement such as MOS. In order to generate a data model for measuring speech quality from a clean speech signal and a degraded speech signal, the clean speech signal...

20060200347 - User adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus: A user adaptive speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed that controls user confirmation of a recognition candidate using a new threshold value adapted to a user. The user adaptive speech recognition method includes calculating a confidence score of a recognition candidate according to the result of speech recognition, setting...

20060200348 - Method and system for voice recognition menu navigation: A method and system for error prevention and recovery of voice activated navigation through a menu having plural nodes provides situation dependent utterance verification by relating confirmation to utterance determination confidence levels. In one embodiment, a high confidence level results in implicit confirmation, a medium confidence level results in explicit...

20060200349 - Electronic device of an electronic voice dictionary and method for looking up a word and playing back a voice: An electronic device of an electronic voice dictionary and a method for looking up a word and playing back a pronouncing voice include a key code table in a memory for storing key code values and letters corresponding to key code values, a storage unit containing data signals and voice...

20060200350 - Multi dimensional confidence: A method for managing interactive dialog between a machine and a user is claimed. In one embodiment, an interaction between the machine and the user is managed in response to a confidence value, wherein the confidence value is dependent upon speech recognition confidence and at least one non-acoustic confidence value....

20060200351 - Two-stage implementation for phonetic recognition using a bi-directional target-filtering model of speech coarticulation and reduction: A structured generative model of a speech coarticulation and reduction is described with a novel two-stage implementation. At the first stage, the dynamics of formants or vocal tract resonance (VTR) are generated using prior information of resonance targets in the phone sequence. Bi-directional temporal filtering with finite impulse response (FIR)...

20060200352 - Speech synthesis method: In a phoneme-selection-type speech synthesis apparatus, sound quality when a suitable phoneme is not found is prevented from being deteriorated without changing an input sentence. A plurality of pieces of reading prosody information are obtained. The cost when an optimum phoneme sequence is selected with respect to each of the...

20060200353 - Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support: A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is distributed across a client and server architecture, and is adaptive so that speech processing operations can be allocated as needed between the two....

20060200354 - Medical practice support system: A medical practice support system according to the present invention comprises a voice conversion unit for obtaining a voice and converting the voice to an electric signal for making voice data; a voice recognition unit for recognizing the voice data and generating character information by converting the voice to a...

20060200355 - System and method for a real time client server text to speech interface: A method and system may provide an interface (e.g., “API”), client side software module or other process that may accept an input from a client process such as a website, being executed on a local computer. The module may send the input and possibly authentication information to a remote server,...