Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 12/06

20060293876 - Communication support apparatus and computer program product for supporting communication by performing translation between languages: A communication supporting apparatus includes an input accepting unit that accepts a source language sentence to be translated input by a user; a paraphrase knowledge storing unit that stores paraphrase knowledge in which a source language interpretation which is an interpretation of the semantic content of the source language sentence... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060293875 - Translating expressions in a computing environment: A method, and corresponding software and system, for translating an expression are described. The method includes accepting a first expression in a first syntax, the expression including a first character sequence representing a string value using the first syntax; identifying a second syntax for representing the expression; and generating a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060293874 - Translation and capture architecture for output of conversational utterances: Architecture that combines capture and translation of concepts, goals, needs, locations, objects, locations, and items (e.g., sign text) into complete conversational utterances that take a translation of the item, and morph it with fluidity into sets of sentences that can be echoed to a user, and that the user can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060293877 - Method and apparatus for uni-lingual workflow usage in multi-lingual data center environments: A method and apparatus for allowing uni-lingual workflows to manage devices in multi-lingual data center environments. When a managed device in the multi-lingual data center environment is obtained, the mechanism of the present invention identifies the language and locale environment settings of the managed device. A pre-execution process is performed... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20060293878 - Method for learning chinese character script and chinese character-based scripts of other languages: A method for learning scripts of Chinese character-based languages includes forming a list of user-recognized symbols in a Chinese character-based language, each of the symbols having an associated key with a respective bridge. A complex Chinese multi-character to be learned and added to the recognized list is identified. A set... Agent: Gregory L. Mayback, P.A.

20060293879 - Learning facts from semi-structured text: A method and system of learning, or bootstrapping, facts from semi-structured text is described. Starting with a set of seed facts associated with an object, documents associated with the object are identified. The identified documents are checked to determine if each has at least a first predefined number of seed... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20060293880 - Method and system for building and contracting a linguistic dictionary: A method for building and contracting a linguistic dictionary, the linguistic dictionary comprising a list of surface forms and a list of normalized forms, each normalized form being associated with a surface form, the method comprising the steps of: comparing each character of a surface form with each character of... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20060293881 - Haar wavelet transform embedded lossless type iv discrete cosine transform: A shared lossless Haar transform and an appended type-IV discrete cosine transform are combined to form a lossless discrete cosine type-IV transform having a fast pipeline architecture for providing fast reversible lossless DCT-IV transform data.... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski, M1/040 The Aerospace Corporation

20060293882 - System and method for adaptive enhancement of speech signals: A method and system for enhancing the frequency response of speech signals are provided. An average speech spectral shape estimate is calculated over time based on the input speech signal. The average speech spectral shape estimate may be calculated in the frequency domain using a first order IIR filtering or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060293884 - Apparatus and method for determining a quantizer step size: For determining a quantizer step size for quantizing a signal including audio or video information, a first quantizer step size as well as an interference threshold are provided. Then, the actual interference introduced by the first quantizer step size is determined and compared with the interference threshold. Despite the fact... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060293883 - Speech speed converting device and speech speed converting method: The invention relates to speech speed conversion, and provides a speech speed converting device and a speech speed converting method for changing a speed of voice without degrading the voice quality, without changing characteristics, regarding a signal containing voice. The speech speed converting device includes: a voice classifying unit that... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20060293885 - System and method for adaptive transmission of comfort noise parameters during discontinuous speech transmission: Apparatus is provided that includes at least one entity for transmitting speech signals in a discontinuous transmission mode including transmitting speech frames interspersed with frames including comfort noise parameters during periods of speech pauses. The entit(ies) include a first entity for estimating a current noise value. In addition, the apparatus... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060293886 - Confidence threshold tuning: An expected dialog-turn (ED) value is estimated for evaluating a speech application. Parameters such as a confidence threshold setting can be adjusted based on the expected dialog-turn value. In a particular example, recognition results and corresponding confidence scores are used to estimate the expected dialog-turn value. The recognition results can... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060293887 - Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a speech-state model: A method and apparatus determine a likelihood of a speech state based on an alternative sensor signal and an air conduction microphone signal. The likelihood of the speech state is used, together with the alternative sensor signal and the air conduction microphone signal, to estimate a clean speech value for... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060293889 - Error correction for speech recognition systems: Words in a sequence of words that is obtained from speech recognition of an input speech sequence are presented to a user, and at least one of the words in the sequence of words is replaced, in case it has been selected by a user for correction. Words with a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060293888 - Providing text during a live voice conversation over a telephone network: Systems and methods are described for providing text of a voice conversation of a voice call to one or more parties of the voice call. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a voice conversion system receives voice traffic from the voice call and converts the voice traffic to... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20060293890 - Speech recognition assisted autocompletion of composite characters: Speech recognition assisted autocompletion of textual composite words or characters (i.e. words or characters containing a number of components) is provided. In response to user input specifying a component of a word or character, a list of candidate words or characters is generated. The desired word or character can be... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20060293891 - Biometric control systems and associated methods of use: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for controlling various types of electronic systems with biometric input and/or other types of input. A method for controlling an electronic system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes receiving biometric input from a source to perform a desired function. As a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20060293892 - Biometric control systems and associated methods of use: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for controlling various types of vehicle systems and other systems with biometric input and/or other types of input. A method for controlling access to a vehicle in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes receiving biometric input and positional input. The method further... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20060293893 - Context-sensitive communication and translation methods for enhanced interactions and understanding among speakers of different languages: Architecture that interacts with a user, or users of different tongues to enhance speech translation. A recognized concept or situation is sensed and/or converged upon, and disambiguated with mixed-initiative user interaction with a device to provide simplified inferences about user communication goals in working with others who speak another language.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060293894 - Using strong data types to express speech recognition grammars in software programs: In one embodiment, a system for interpretation of natural language inputs to natural language enabled applications has a grammar, a source file, and a speech recognizer. The grammar has a set of data types and semantic code defining rules about the set of data types. The source file includes computer... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060293895 - Information processing apparatus capable of receiving digital broadcast program data, and method of protecting contents which is applied to the apparatus: According to one embodiment, a digital TV tuner module receives digital broadcast program data including encrypted program contents. A descrambler decrypts the program contents included in the received digital broadcast program data. A encryption unit encrypts the decrypted program contents by an encryption key and outputs the encrypted program contents... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060293896 - User interface apparatus and method: A user interface control method for controlling a user interface capable of setting contents of plural setting items using a speech. An input speech is subjected to speech recognition processing, and a speech recognition result is obtained. Further, setup data indicating the content of already-set setting item is obtained from... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060293897 - Distributed voice user interface: A distributed voice user interface system includes a local device which receives speech input issued from a user. Such speech input may specify a command or a request by the user. The local device performs preliminary processing of the speech input and determines whether it is able to respond to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060293898 - Speech recognition system for secure information: A speech recognition system for secure information. Embodiments of the speech recognition system include a sub-word speech recognition component, which interfaces with a security system. The sub-word speech recognition component provides sub-word speech units for an input utterance, such as a password or security code. The sub-word speech units for... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060293900 - Action evaluation apparatus and method: The present invention provides an action evaluation apparatus that evaluates a user's action corresponding to an action desired by a system, and determines ongoing of a story using the evaluation result. There is provided an action evaluation apparatus for evaluating a user's action, including a recognizer for recognizing the user's... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20060293899 - Compressing language models with golomb coding: A method of compressing a language model is provided. A list of numerical values is generated from elements of a user input. The list of values is sorted. Differences between adjacent integer values in the list are calculated. Each calculated difference is encoded using a Golomb code.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060293901 - Methods and apparatus for generating dialog state conditioned language models: Techniques are provided for generating improved language modeling. Such improved modeling is achieved by conditioning a language model on a state of a dialog for which the language model is employed. For example, the techniques of the invention may improve modeling of language for use in a speech recognizer of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060293902 - Method and apparatus for generating bitstream of audio signal and audio encoding/decoding method and apparatus thereof: A method and apparatus for generating a bitstream of an audio signal, in which an audio signal can be easily extended to a multichannel audio signal, the processing speed of an audio signal can be improved, and channel signals of an audio signal can be processed simultaneously, and an audio... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060287844 - Method and system for improved software localization: A method, system, and computer program for software localization extracts text from resource files, handles file management of the resource files, and uses a database for storage. A method for localizing software comprises extracting text strings in a first language from source files of a software development project, determining which... Agent: Edward A. Pennington, Esq. Swidler Berlin LLP

20060287846 - Generating grammar rules from prompt text: A speech grammar is generated using possible answer forms to input prompts. In one embodiment, input prompts are provided to a response prediction system which generates predicted responses to the input prompts. A grammar is pre-populated with the predicted responses.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060287845 - Synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application: Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler; identifying, by the global application update handler, an additional processing function in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060287847 - Association-based bilingual word alignment: A pair of bilingual, aligned text fragments are received and word type alignment is performed on the text fragments. Word token alignment is then performed.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060287848 - Language classification with random feature clustering: An ensemble of random feature clusters is built from training data using a clustering algorithm where some randomness has been introduced. For each clustered feature space, a classifier, such as a Naïve Bayesian Classifier, is trained, realizing a classifier ensemble. The final classification decision is made by the resulting classifier... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060287849 - Words for managing health & health-care information: A system and method of coupling words and terms of a first vocabulary with words, terms, phrases and sentences of a second vocabulary for administering and managing data on patients generated by physicians. The first vocabulary enables the administrations, managements, storage, retrievals, uses and communications of digital voice and text... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20060287850 - User adaptive system and control method thereof: In an interface unit, an input section obtains an input signal of user's speech or the like and an input processing section processes the input signal and detects information relating to the user. On the basis of the detection result, a response contents determination section determines response contents to the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20060287851 - Electronic device and method of keypad function guidance for remote controller used therefor: An electronic device that performs several types of operations under control by a remote controller equipped with a plurality of function keypads, has a power supply to supply power to the electronic device, a power controller to control the power supply to turn on or off the electronic device, a... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20060287852 - Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a clean speech prior: A method and apparatus determine a channel response for an alternative sensor using an alternative sensor signal, an air conduction microphone signal. The channel response and a prior probability distribution for clean speech values are then used to estimate a clean speech value.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060287853 - Encoding device and decoding device: An encoding device (200) includes an MDCT unit (202) that transforms an input signal in a time domain into a frequency spectrum including a lower frequency spectrum, a BWE encoding unit (204) that generates extension data which specifies a higher frequency spectrum at a higher frequency than the lower frequency... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060287854 - Voice integration platform: A voice integration platform and method provide for integration of a voice interface with a data system that includes stored data. The voice integration platform comprises one or more generic software components, the generic software components being configured to enable development of a specific voice user interface that is designed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060287855 - Intra-oral signal modulator and controller: Methods and apparatus for controlling an external device via at least one signal modulated by movements of a user's tongue, maxillaries and lips may include a mouthpiece comprising a controller and at least one signal emitter and one signal detector. A signal generated by the at least one emitter may... Agent: Eliot R. Malamud

20060287856 - Speech models generated using competitive training, asymmetric training, and data boosting: Speech models are trained using one or more of three different training systems. They include competitive training which reduces a distance between a recognized result and a true result, data boosting which divides and weights training data, and asymmetric training which trains different model components differently.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060287857 - Clicking noise detection in a digital audio signal: In a method (M) to detect a noise signal (PS1, PS2, PS3) in a digital audio signal (EAS), it is provided that the audio signal (EAS) is divided into successive signal sections (SAS), and the energy contents of successive signal sections (SAS) are determined, and the energy contents of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060287858 - Modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu with keywords sold to customers: Services, systems, and computer program products are provided for modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu that include selling to a customer a keyword, selling to a customer a location in a grammar in a hierarchical multimodal menu, and storing the keyword in the location. Storing the keyword in... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060287861 - Back-end database reorganization for application-specific concatenative text-to-speech systems: The present invention relates to computer-generated text-to-speech conversion. It relates in particular to a method and system for updating a Concatenative Text-To-Speech (CTTS) system with a speech database from a base version to a new version. The present invention performs an application-specific re-organization of a synthesizer's speech database by means... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20060287860 - Printing to a text-to-speech output device: A method for producing speech output can include the step of selecting a TTS output device from a plurality of available output devices. The selected output device can be associated with outputting content of an application responsive to a print command. According to the method, the print command can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20060287859 - Speech end-pointer: A rule-based end-pointer isolates spoken utterances contained within an audio stream from background noise and non-speech transients. The rule-based end-pointer includes a plurality of rules to determine the beginning and/or end of a spoken utterance based on various speech characteristics. The rules may analyze an audio stream or a portion... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060287862 - Display screen translator: A system and method are provided for audibly interpreting a screen display. The method comprises: locating a display interpreter (DI) with a tactile matrix of sensors overlying a display screen; in response to sensing a proximate pointer, accepting a tactile matrix region selection; loading a first reference map, cross-referencing DI... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20060287869 - Audio-visual apparatus with a voice recognition function: An audio-visual apparatus includes a voice input section, and a voice recognition section configured to recognize the voices inputted from the voice input section. The audio-visual apparatus also includes a control section configured to instruct components of the apparatus body to perform respective operations for executing a command according to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060287868 - Dialog system: A dialog system is provided that enables appropriate processing of reinput by a user without describing a dialog scenario on the assumption of reinput by the user. The dialog system includes a reinput acceptable state storage unit that stores a state prior to transition and a reinput recognition candidates set... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20060287864 - Electronic device, computer program product and voice control method: There is provided an electronic device comprising a processing unit for controlling functions of the electronic device, an input device coupled to the processing unit for receiving voice control, and a voice recognition unit coupled to the processing unit, the processing unit being configured to control functions of the electronic... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20060287865 - Establishing a multimodal application voice: Establishing a multimodal application voice including selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application and creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog. Selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application may also include retrieving a user profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060287867 - Method and apparatus for generating a voice tag: A method and apparatus for generating a voice tag (140) includes a means (110) for combining (205) a plurality of utterances (106, 107, 108) into a combined utterance (111) and a means (120) for extraction (210) of the voice tag as a sequence of phonemes having a high likelihood of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060287866 - Modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu in dependence upon speech command frequency: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for modifying a grammar of a hierarchical multimodal menu that include monitoring a user invoking a speech command in a first tier grammar, and adding the speech command to a second tier grammar in dependence upon the frequency of the user invoking... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060287863 - Speaker identification and voice verification for voice applications: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to voice markup processing and provide a method, system and computer program product for speaker identification and voice verification in a voice processing system. In one embodiment, a speaker identification and voice verification data processing system can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20060282255 - Collocation translation from monolingual and available bilingual corpora: A system and method of extracting collocation translations is presented. The methods include constructing a collocation translation model using monolingual source and target language corpora as well as bilingual corpus, if available. The collocation translation model employs an expectation maximization algorithm with respect to contextual words surrounding collocations. The collocation... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060282256 - Translation method utilizing core ancient roots: A new method of translating, which is suggested for translations of ancient languages based upon new general rules for ancient language translation comprising the steps of: identifying every single core ancient root and associated ancient root family and correlating it to a translated single English root, with near 100% consistency,... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20060282257 - Methods and apparatus for evaluating semantic proximity: Methods and apparatus to evaluate the semantic proximity between reference free-form text entry and a candidate free-form text request.... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20060282258 - Association dictionary creation apparatus: An association dictionary creation apparatus is provided that is capable of easily and efficiently creating an association dictionary suiting the user's taste. The association dictionary creation unit includes: a profile storage unit that stores a profile which is information regarding the user's taste; a word selection unit that determines, every... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20060282259 - Method and apparatus to facilitate vocoder erasure processing: Upon receiving (101) a vocoded voice frame and detecting (102) that the received vocoded voice frame comprises an erased frame, one automatically replaces (103) the erased frame with a valid frame having at least one error condition. In a preferred approach this error condition is one that is known to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060282260 - Display for measuring phase noise characteristics: Time variation of phase noise characteristics is displayed for measurement. A peak power of a signal under test is detected to define the frequency as a reference frequency. An offset frequency from the reference frequency is repetitively changed and each time the phase noise power is integrated for a predetermined... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20060282261 - Sample rate control in pitching audio systems: Processing load in a pitching audio processing device is controlled by varying the sample rate of one or more audio signals at predetermined intervals of pitching to maintain the lowest possible sample rate without loss of audio content. When an overload condition is detected, an early downward change or late... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20060282262 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for gain factor attenuation: A method of signal processing according to one embodiment includes calculating an envelope of a first signal that is based on a low-frequency portion of a speech signal, calculating an envelope of a second signal that is based on a high-frequency portion of the speech signal, and calculating a plurality... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060282263 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for highband time warping: In one embodiment, a method of signal processing includes encoding a low-frequency portion of a speech signal into at least an encoded narrowband excitation signal and a plurality of narrowband filter parameters; and generating a highband excitation signal based on a narrowband excitation signal. The narrowband excitation signal is based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060282264 - Methods and systems for providing noise filtering using speech recognition: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing noise filtering using speech recognition. The disclosed systems and methods may include performing a speech recognition process on a signal. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining a first frequency range based on the performed speech recognition process, the first frequency... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20060282265 - Methods and apparatus to perform enhanced speech to text processing: A method, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to perform speech to text conversion are disclosed. One example method of performing speech to text conversion at a first location includes determining an identity of a speaker, accessing a directory to determine a location at which speaker dependent training data associated with... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20060282266 - Static analysis of grammars: The present invention provides static analysis of speech grammars prior to the speech grammars being deployed in a speech system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060282267 - Static analysis to identify defects in grammars: The present invention provides static analysis of speech grammars prior to the speech grammars being deployed in a speech system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060282268 - Method for a menu-based voice-operated device, and menu-based voice-operated device for realizing the method: A method for a menu-based voice-operated device includes the steps of: enabling the voice-operated device to provide main menu items of a main menu for selection by a user; enabling the voice-operated device to detect a voice command from the user; enabling the voice-operated device to match the detected voice... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20060282269 - Universal translator: The universal translator is a hand held device operable to receive voice communication, translate said communication to another language and return a voice communication in the designated language. It contains a micro chip operable to determine the language of the input voice communication and micro chip operable to determine the... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20060277029 - Method and apparatus for normalizing and converting structured content: A method and apparatus are disclosed for transforming information from one semantic environment to another. In one implementation, a SOLx system (1700) includes a Normalization/Translation NorTran Workbench (1702) and a SOLx server (1708). The NorTran Workbench (1702) is used to develop a knowledge base based on information from a source...

20060277030 - System, method, and technique for identifying a spoken utterance as a member of a list of known items allowing for variations in the form of the utterance: An application-specific dictionary is provided that includes a plurality of entries, where each entry matches to one or more items that comprise one or more records of a record store. For at least some of the plurality of entries, each entry has multiple phonetic representations, including one or more phonetic...

20060277028 - Training a statistical parser on noisy data by filtering: A filtering or identifying approach is disclosed and applied to the task of unsupervised adaptation of a parsing model to a selected domain. In particular, unannotated text data from the selected domain is parsed using a first parser. A subset of the parsed text is then selected and used to...

20060277031 - Authoring speech grammars: A method and apparatus are provided for automatically forming a grammar. Example text strings are received and N-grams are formed based on the text strings. A rule in the grammar is then generated automatically based in part on the n-grams....

20060277032 - Structure for grammar and dictionary representation in voice recognition and method for simplifying link and node-generated grammars: Methods for optimizing grammar structure for a set of phrases to be used in speech recognition during a computing event are provided. One method includes receiving a set of phrases, the set of phrases being relevant for the computing event and the set of phrases having a node and link...

20060277033 - Discriminative training for language modeling: A method of training language model parameters trains discriminative model parameters in the language model based on a performance measure having discrete values....

20060277034 - Method and system for processing hrtf data for 3-d sound positioning: A method and system for processing for processing HRTF data for 3-D sound positioning. According to the present invention, a number of voices to be processed is determined, and a number of HRTF coefficients to be processed is determined based on the number of voices. According to the method and...

20060277035 - Audio signal separation device and method thereof: Problems of permutation can be solved with high accuracy without utilizing knowledge about original signals or information concerning positions of microphones and the like when each one of plural signals mixed in an audio signal is separated using independent component analysis. A short-time Fourier transformation section generates spectrograms of observation...

20060277036 - Method and device for adaptive bandwidth pitch search in coding wideband signals: A pitch search method and device for digitally encoding a wideband signal, in particular but not exclusively a speech signal, in view of transmitting, or storing, and synthesizing this wideband sound signal. The new method and device which achieve efficient modeling of the harmonic structure of the speech spectrum uses...

20060277037 - Method for generating output data: A method for generating output data identifying a class of a predetermined plurality of classes. The method comprises receiving data representing an acoustic signal; determining an amplitude of at least a first predetermined frequency component of said acoustic signal; and comparing the or each amplitude with a respective primary threshold;...

20060277040 - Apparatus and method for coding and decoding residual signal: Provided is a residual signal coding/decoding apparatus and method. The residual signal coding apparatus includes a transformer, an LPC coefficient extractor, an LPC coefficient quantizer, an LP analysis filter, a band splitter, a pulse searcher, and a pulse quantizer. The transformer transforms time-domain residual signals into a frequency domain to...

20060277039 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for gain factor smoothing: In one embodiment, a method of signal processing includes calculating an envelope of a first signal that is based on a low-frequency portion of a speech signal, calculating an envelope of a second signal that is based on a high-frequency portion of the speech signal, and calculating a first plurality...

20060277038 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for highband excitation generation: In one embodiment, a method of generating a highband excitation signal includes harmonically extending the spectrum of a signal that is based on a lowband excitation signal; calculating a time-domain envelope of a signal that is based on the lowband excitation signal; and modulating a noise signal according to the...

20060277041 - Sparse convolution of multiple vectors in a digital signal processor: A method for performing convolution on one or more first vectors including multiple vector elements using one or more second vectors. The method includes identifying one or more of the multiple vector elements of the one or more first vectors that do not have a value of zero, and convoluting...

20060277042 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for anti-sparseness filtering: In one embodiment, a method of generating a highband excitation signal includes generating a spectrally extended signal by extending the spectrum of a signal that is based on an encoded lowband excitation signal; and performing anti-sparseness filtering of a signal that is based on the encoded lowband excitation signal. In...

20060277043 - Voice authentication system and methods therefor: The present invention relates to methods and systems for enrolling a user for voice authentication and for performing voice authentication on a user of a network. The method of enrolling a user for voice authentication includes verifying the identity of the user and assigning an enrolment identifier to the user,...

20060277044 - Client-based speech enabled web content: A system for client-based speech enabled web content is disclosed. A client-side software program is free to download and the website owner or content provider subscribes to the service to speech enable their website content. The visitor downloads a small browser plug-in free from the enabled site. The system allows...

20060277045 - System and method for word-sense disambiguation by recursive partitioning: A device and related methods for word-sense disambiguation during a text-to-speech conversion are provided. The device, for use with a computer-based system capable of converting text data to synthesized speech, includes an identification module for identifying a homograph contained in the text data. The device also includes an assignment module...

20060277046 - Dynamic generation of vocabulary practice: The apparatus includes an electronic dictionary and a dictionary word exercise generator to generate vocabulary exercises for any requested vocabulary-type word in the electronic dictionary. The dictionary word exercise generator includes an exercise creator to generate the exercises from at least the definition of the word in the dictionary, and...

20060277047 - Automatic identification of repeated material in audio signals: A system and method are described for recognizing repeated audio material within at least one media stream without prior knowledge of the nature of the repeated material. The system and method are able to create a screening database from the media stream or streams. An unknown sample audio fragment is...

20060277048 - Handheld analysis instrument having acoustic ouput of measurement results: The present invention relates to a handheld analysis instrument for assaying a medically significant sample. The instrument comprises a measuring device for measuring the concentration of an analyte in the sample, an output device for outputting measurement results. The output device has both an acoustic signal output device for outputting...

20060277049 - Personal mobile computing device having antenna microphone and speech detection for improved speech recognition: A mobile computing device, adapted to be held in the palm of a user's hand, includes an antenna for transmission of information from the mobile computing device. A first microphone, adapted to convert audible speech from the user into speech signals, is positioned at a distal end of the antenna....

20060277050 - Television receiver: A television receiver includes an OSD display section configured to display a desired OSD, and a voice input section to which voices are inputted. The receiver also includes a storage section having prestored therein a control code associated with a voice representing a command to change channels or an analogous...

20060277051 - Method and devices for evaluating transmission times and for procesing a vioce singnal received in a terminal connected to a packet network: A method of evaluating the processing delay of a speech signal contained in data packets received in a receiver terminal equipped with a telephony module during a voice call to a terminal sending said data packets over a packet-switched network. The method includes the step of obtaining (E32) from the...

20060277052 - Variable speed playback of digital audio: A method and system for modifying a digital audio signal to vary its playback speed while preserving the signal's pitch and quality. The variable speed playback (VSP) system and method mitigates artifacts remaining after processing by existing techniques. The VSP system and method produces a consistent and pleasing sound to...