Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 02/07

20070043552 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium, and program: This invention has as its object to save labor time required for correction and adjustments when an error has occurred during either the recognition of input data or the process of the recognition result of an information processing apparatus which recognizes input data and outputs the recognition result. The information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070043553 - Machine translation models incorporating filtered training data: Filtering techniques are applied to extract, based on apparent fluency in a target language, relatively accurate training data based on the output of one or more translation engines. The extracted training data is utilized as a basis for training a statistical machine translation system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070043554 - vital elements of speech recognition: The grammar rules for compensating for variations in digital voice data on health and health-care data generated by physicians in the speech recognition process of the data. The grammar rules effect the presences and uses of certain vital elements and phrases in hierarchies of lists, groups, elements and phrases representing... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20070043556 - Exponential priors for maximum entropy models: The subject invention provides for systems and methods that facilitate optimizing one or mores sets of training data by utilizing an Exponential distribution as the prior on one or more parameters in connection with a maximum entropy (maxent) model to mitigate overfitting. Maxent is also known as logistic regression. More... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070043555 - Maxima search method for sensed signals: An apparatus and method for selecting a set of channels from a plurality channels in a signal processor, the method comprising sampling each one of a plurality of channels and obtaining a binary representation of each one of the samples, arranging each one of the binary representations of samples into... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070043557 - Method and device for quantizing an information signal: Quantizing an information signal of a sequence of information values includes frequency-selective filtering the sequence of information values to obtain a sequence of filtered information values and quantizing the filtered information values to obtain a sequence of quantized information values by means of a quantizing step function which maps the... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070043558 - Priority-based resource allocation: The present invention relates to a resource allocation method, network controller device and a switching control device allocating resources to a subscriber of a communication network, wherein at least one allowed codec type is selected for the subscriber based on a relative priority information received from the communication network, e.g.,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070043559 - Adaptive reduction of noise signals and background signals in a speech-processing system: An audio input signal is filtered using an adaptive filter to generate a prediction output signal with reduced noise, wherein the filter is implemented using a plurality of coefficients to generate a plurality of prediction errors and to generate an error from the plurality of prediction errors, wherein the absolute... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070043560 - Excitation codebook search method in a speech coding system: A method for searching an excitation (or fixed) codebook in a speech coding system. In a speech coding system including a synthesis filter for synthesizing a speech signal, a fixed codebook searcher according to the present invention segments a speech signal frame into a plurality of subframes to generate an... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070043561 - Avoiding repeated misunderstandings in spoken dialog system: A method for improving speech recognition accuracy includes utilizing skiplists or lists of values that cannot occur because of improbability or impossibility. A table or list is stored in a dialog manager module. The table includes a plurality of information items and a corresponding list of improbable values for each... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070043562 - Email capture system for a voice recognition speech application: A system is provided for segmenting a character sting into useable parts and for deriving statistically relevant and searchable patterns from those separate parts. The system includes a corpus containing an initial set of character strings for processing, a corpus processor for identifying and segmenting each of the character strings,... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070043563 - Methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system: Techniques are disclosed for overcoming errors in speech recognition systems. For example, a technique for processing acoustic data in accordance with a speech recognition system comprises the following steps/operations. Acoustic data is obtained in association with the speech recognition system. The acoustic data is recorded using a combination of a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070043564 - Parameterization of counting systems: A system and method for storing and retrieving the written or spoken equivalents for numbers. In order to handle different representation of numbers, including spoken or written representations, the recurring patterns are expressed based on the radix of the system using sub-patterns. The patterns may be indexed to a vocabulary... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070043565 - Systems and methods for providing real-time classification of continuous data streatms: Systems and methods are provided for real-time classification of streaming data. In particular, systems and methods for real-time classification of continuous data streams implement micro-clustering methods for offline and online processing of training data to build and dynamically update training models that are used for classification, as well as incrementally... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070043566 - System and method for maintaining a speech-recognition grammar: A method for distributing voice-recognition grammars includes receiving match data from a first remote element. The match data includes information associated with an attempt by the remote element to match received audio information to first stored audio data. The method also includes generating a grammar entry based on the match... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070043567 - Techniques for aiding speech-to-speech translation: Techniques for assisting in translation are provided. A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070043568 - Method and system for collecting audio prompts in a dynamically generated voice application: A prompt collecting tool (190) for an interactive voice response system (100) includes a voice enabled application server (150), a voice simulator coupled to the voice enabled application server, and a processor coupled to the voice simulator. The processor can be programmed to execute (202) a voice application having a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070043569 - System and method for inheritance of advertised functionality in a user interactive system: Systems and methods are described for use in user interactive systems (UIS) so that multiple disparate applications can cooperate to provide broad functionality to users. These systems and methods allow applications to advertise their ability to handle specific functions. This allows applications developed independently to co-exist within the same call... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070043570 - Method of controlling a dialoging process: A method of controlling a dialoging process is described in which a current situation parameter (sysp, mi, si) is automatically determined and in which the control of the dialoging process takes place as a function of the situation parameter (sysp, mi, si) in such a way that the dialoging process... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070043571 - Numeric weighting of error recovery prompts for transfer to a human agent from an automated speech response system: A method for a speech response system to automatically transfer users to human agents. The method can establish an interactive dialog session between a user and an automated speech response system. An error score can be established when the interactive dialog session is initiated. During the interactive dialog session, responses... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070043574 - Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine: A conversational computing system that provides a universal coordinated multi-modal conversational user interface (CUI) 10 across a plurality of conversationally aware applications (11) (i.e., applications that “speak” conversational protocols) and conventional applications (12). The conversationally aware applications (11) communicate with a conversational kernel (14) via conversational application APIs (13). The... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070043572 - Identifying an action in dependence upon synthesized data: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for identifying an action in dependence upon the synthesized data which include receiving a user instruction, selecting synthesized data in response to the user instruction, and selecting an action in dependence upon the user instruction and the selected data. Identifying an action in dependence... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070043573 - Method and apparatus for speech input: A method for a speech input is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) establishing a hierarchical command list having a plurality of classified commands and a plurality of predetermined commands in a first device, (b) issuing a first speech command to the first device from a third device of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070043575 - Apparatus and method for encoding audio data, and apparatus and method for decoding audio data: A method and apparatus for encoding audio data and a method and apparatus for decoding audio data, which can generate and decode, respectively, scalable lossless streams and which can shorten the time necessary to generate and decode lossless streams. A lossy-core encoder unit performs lossy compression on an input audio... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070038438 - Context knowledge modeling method for sharing and reusing context knowledge in context-aware system: A context knowledge modeling method is provided. The context knowledge modeling method includes the steps of: a) defining a context knowledge space as a two-dimensional space based on an abstract level and an application domain of knowledge; b) locating a share ontology as a highest level of the abstract level... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070038437 - Document anonymization apparatus and method: Named entities in a document are identified. Each named entity is classified as either anonymous or public based on analysis including at least syntactic analysis of one or more portions of the document containing the named entity. In one suitable approach, each named person entity is classified by default as... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070038436 - System and method of supporting adaptive misrecognition in conversational speech: A system and method are provided for receiving speech and/or non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention provides a conversational human-machine interface that includes a conversational speech analyzer, a general cognitive model, an environmental model, and a personalized cognitive model to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070038439 - Audio signal generation: An output audio signal (L, R) is generated based on an input audio signal, the input audio signal comprising a plurality of input subband signals (N). The input subband signals are delayed in a plurality of delay units (76) to obtain a plurality of delayed subband signals, wherein at least... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070038440 - Method, apparatus, and medium for classifying speech signal and method, apparatus, and medium for encoding speech signal using the same: A method, apparatus, and medium for classifying a speech signal and a method, apparatus, and medium for encoding the speech signal using the same are provided. The method for classifying a speech signal includes calculating classification parameters from an input signal having block units, calculating a plurality of classification criteria... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070038441 - Active noise control system: An active noise control system prevents a continuous muffled sound from being generated as an abnormal sound under a high sound pressure from a speaker when a microphone as a sound detector is covered, and reduces noise immediately when the microphone is uncovered. A first threshold value as an upper... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070038442 - Separation of target acoustic signals in a multi-transducer arrangement: The present invention provides a process for separating a good quality information signal from a noisy acoustic environment. The separation process uses a set of at least two spaced-apart transducers to capture noise and information components. The transducer signals, which have both a noise and information component, are received into... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070038443 - User-selectable music-on-hold for a communications device: A communication device receives an encoded signal from a primary input source. The encoded signal includes periods of speech and periods of non-speech. The communication device includes a decoder to decode the received signal to produce a decoded signal. A detector of the communication device detects the periods of speech... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070038444 - Automatic control of adjustable elements associated with a vehicle: A system for automatic adjustment of at least one element provided with at least one actuator and provided inside or outside a vehicular cabin is provided. The system includes at least one microphone array for detecting utterances of at least one speaker and for obtaining microphone signals corresponding to the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070038445 - Incorporation of external knowledge in multimodal dialog systems: A device improves speech recognition accuracy by utilizing an external knowledge source. The device receives a speech recognition result from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, the speech recognition result including a plurality of ordered interpretations, wherein each of the ordered interpretations includes a plurality of information items. The device... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070038446 - System and method for selecting audio contents by using speech recognition: A system and method for selecting audio contents by using the speech recognition to obtain a textual phrase from a series of audio contents are provided. The system includes an output module outputting the audio contents, an input module receiving a speech input from a user, a buffer temporarily storing... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070038447 - Pattern matching method and apparatus and speech information retrieval system: A pattern matching method for matching between a first symbol sequence and a second symbol sequence which is shorter than the first symbol sequence is provided. The method includes the steps of performing DP matching between the first and second symbol sequences to create a matrix of the DP matching... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070038448 - Objection detection by robot using sound localization and sound based object classification bayesian network: An object detection system includes at least one sound receiving element, a processing unit, a storage element and a sound database. The sound receiving element receives sound waves emitted from an object. The sound receiving element transforms the sound waves into a signal. The processing unit receives the signal from... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20070038449 - Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software: A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element... Agent: Brian K. Johnson, Esq., LLC.

20070038450 - Lattice matching: A system is described for matching lattices such as phoneme lattices generated by an automatic speech recognition unit. The system can be used to retrieve files from a database by comparing a query lattice with annotation lattices associated with the data files that can be retrieved, and by retrieving the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070038451 - Voice recognition for large dynamic vocabularies: A voice recognition method includes: representing a vocabulary translated into a Markov network; decoding by means of a Viterbi algorithm; and pruning explored solutions. The vocabulary is described in a tree made up of arcs and of nodes, between which transcriptions are defined that describe phonetic units used by a... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070038453 - Speech recognition system: When an input vocabulary is stored in advance in a pronunciation dictionary unit, a phoneme sequence correlated with the input vocabulary is acquired from the pronunciation dictionary unit and a dictionary code indicating that the acquisition source is the pronunciation dictionary unit is generated. When the input vocabulary is not... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070038452 - Tonal correction of speech: Tonal correction of speech is provided. Received speech is analyzed and compared to a table of commonly mispronounced phrases. These phrases are mapped to the phrase likely intended by the speaker. The phrase determines to be the phrase the user likely intended can be suggested to the user. If the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070038454 - Method and system for improved speech recognition by degrading utterance pronunciations: A speech recognition system (10) or method (20) can include a speech input device and a processor (14) coupled to the speech input. The processor can be programmed to identify (22) a plurality of words that are members of confusable pairs of words where each pair includes a target word... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070038455 - Accent detection and correction system: A concept, method and apparatus for detecting and correcting an accent by means of sound morphing is provided. The input audio signal is analyzed for finding pre-specified unwanted speech patterns, i.e. phonemes or groups of phonemes that are to be corrected, for instance because they represent a foreign accent. These... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20070038458 - Apparatus and method for creating audio annotation: An apparatus and method for creating an audio annotation are provided, in which audio information output corresponding to each of multimedia content files displayed in a group by a user is created and stored in a single file. An interface unit receives a selection command for at least one multimedia... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070038457 - Method and apparatus for extending sound input and output: A method and apparatus for extending sound input and output. The apparatus includes an input unit which receives a sound, a codec which converts the sound into a digital signal and converts the digital signal into a sound signal, an output unit which outputs the sound signal via second speaker... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070038456 - Text inputting device and method employing combination of associated character input method and automatic speech recognition method: The text inputting device and inputting method of a mobile communication apparatus are provided in the present invention. The proposed text inputting device includes a keyboard for keying in a code of a word according to the associated character input method, a microphone for inputting a voice according to an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070038459 - Method and system for creation of voice training profiles with multiple methods with uniform server mechanism using heterogeneous devices: A system and method for creating user voice profiles enables a user to create a single user voice profile that is compatible with one or more voice servers. Such a system includes a training server that receives audio information from a client associated with a user and stores the audio... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070038460 - Method and system to improve speaker verification accuracy by detecting repeat imposters: A system and method for identifying an individual includes collecting biometric information for an individual attempting to gain access to a system. The biometric information for the individual is scored against pre-trained imposter models. If a score is greater than a threshold, the individual as an imposter is identified as... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070038462 - Overriding default speech processing behavior using a default focus receiver: A method for implementing speech focus in a speech processing system can include the step of establishing a default focus receiver as a first entity to request speech focus of a speech processing system having multiple applications that share speech resources based upon speech focus. An event occurrence can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070038461 - Supporting multiple speech enabled user interface consoles within a motor vehicle: An in-vehicle system that shares speech processing resources among multiple applications located within a vehicle. The system can include one or more software applications, each associated with different functionally independent in-vehicle consoles. Each application can have a console specific user interface. The system can also include a single in-vehicle speech... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070038463 - Systems, methods and computer program products providing signed visual and/or audio records for digital distribution using patterned recognizable artifacts: Recognizable visual and/or audio artifacts, such as recognizable sounds, are introduced into visual and/or audio content in an identifying pattern to generate a signed visual and/or audio recording for distribution over a digital communications medium. A library of images and/or sounds may be provided, and the image and/or sounds from... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070033001 - Identifying documents which form translated pairs, within a document collection: A training system for text to text application. The training system finds groups of documents, and identifies automatically similar documents in the groups which are similar. The automatically identified documents can then be used for training of the text to text application. The comparison uses reduced size versions of the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070033002 - Second language writing advisor: A writing advisor program (20) receives a proposed text in an author's second language (L2) and determines at least one candidate replacement word for a selected word based on a determined language model (p(c)) and a determined corruption model (p(r|c)). The determined language model reflects correct usage of the text... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070033006 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select information on a predetermined program as programs interesting to the user and current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first selection section for extracting a keyword from program information of a predetermined program selected from at least... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033007 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select programs that are interesting to the user and are current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first setting section for extracting a keyword from article information described in an RSS format and being delivered to the user,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033004 - Methods and systems for natural language understanding using human knowledge and collected data: Disclosed herein are systems and methods to incorporate human knowledge when developing and using statistical models for natural language understanding. The disclosed systems and methods embrace a data-driven approach to natural language understanding which progresses seamlessly along the continuum of availability of annotated collected data, from when there is no... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070033003 - Spoken word spotting queries: An approach to wordspotting (180) using query data from one or more spoken instance of a query (140). The query data is processed to determining a representation of the query (160) that defines multiple sequences of subword (130) units each representing the query. Then putative instances of the query (190)... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070033005 - Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance: Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural enviromnent... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033008 - Apparatus, method and program for evaluating validity of dictionary: Evaluate the validity of a dictionary in which a notation word is associated with a canonical word. This is accomplished using an apparatus which evaluates the validity of a dictionary for converting a notation word written in a text, the apparatus comprising: a dictionary recording portion which records, for each... Agent: Richard M. Goldman

20070033009 - Apparatus and method for modulating voice in portable terminal: An apparatus and method are provided for modulating voice in a portable terminal. Voice data is modulated so that a user can listen to a desired voice. A memory module is provided for storing the type of voice data modulation and a coefficient value of a filter performing voice data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070033010 - Remote audio surveillance for detection & analysis of wildlife sounds: This invention provides remote audio surveillance by recording audio data via three microphones and storage on a removable digital mass storage device, operating on battery power. The housing is of a weather resistant design to withstand outdoor conditions. Recording can be done in person or recording times can be defined... Agent: Lawrence P. Jones

20070033011 - Method of band group partition for wideband audio codec: This invention discloses a method of frequency band group partition for wideband audio codec. It can determine the initial frequency band group partition within the whole effective range of frequency bands. It further subdivides frequency band groups based on the initial partition. Instead of the iteration-based algorithm, this invention applies... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20070033012 - Method and apparatus for a verbo-manual gesture interface: An interface system including a manipulandum adapted to be moveable according to a manual gesture imparted by the user; a sensor adapted to detect a characteristic of the manual gesture imparted to the manipulandum and to generate a sensor signal representing the detected characteristic of the manual gesture; a microphone... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070033013 - Audio decoding device: An audio decoding device includes a decoding section for decoding an audio bit stream to generate PCM data and outputting input channel configuration information, a control section for receiving input channel configuration information, normalization method instruction information, externally specified normalization coefficient information and output control information and controlling internal processing,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070033016 - Display device and driving device and driving method thereof: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a signal controller synthesizing first and second signals, respectively, having first and second signal levels to output a synthesized signal having third to fifth signal levels, a signal extracting unit extracting the first and second control signals from the synthesized signal, a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070033014 - Encoding of transient audio signal components: A method of encoding (1) an audio signal (x(t) is disclosed. The position of a transient signal component of the audio signal is estimated (110). A first portion (ti) of the transient signal component is modeled (111) with a first plurality of sinusoidal components. A difference (d) between the first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070033015 - Noise canceller: A noise canceller is constituted by a forward linear prediction processor that performs forward linear prediction for a reception signal in a section where the reception signal includes noise, a backward linear prediction processor that performs backward linear prediction for the reception signal in the section, and a signal generator... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070033017 - Spoken language proficiency assessment by computer: A system and method for spoken language proficiency assessment by a computer is described. A user provides a spoken response to a constructed response question. A speech recognition system processes the spoken response into a sequence of linguistic units. At training time, features matching a linguistic template are extracted by... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070033018 - Method and apparatus for determining the transmission data rate in a multi-user communication system: A method and apparatus are described for controlling the data rates for communications to and from a base station and a plurality of remote users. The usage of the communications resource whether the forward link resource (from base station to remote users) or reverse link resource (from remote users to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070033019 - Speech coder and speech decoder: A dispersed vector generator used for a speech encoder or a speech decoder includes a pulse vector provider that provides a pulse vector having a signed unit pulse on one element of a vector axis. A dispersion pattern determiner determines a dispersion pattern of a set of waveforms defined before... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070033020 - Estimation of noise in a speech signal: A speech communication or computing device comprises at least one speech input device for receiving noisy speech uttered by a speaker. A speech processing function comprises a voice recognition function, which comprises a noise reduction function (235) having a Wiener Filter (335) with adjustable filter co-efficients. The speech input device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070033021 - Apparatus and method for audio encoding: A method for audio encoding includes: analyzing an audio frame using a psychoacoustic model to obtain a corresponding masking curve and window information; transforming the audio frame according to the window information to obtain a spectrum, and dividing the spectrum into a plurality of frequency sub-bands; estimating a scale factor... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070033022 - Method of bitrate control and adjustment for audio coding: This invention discloses a method of bit-rate control and adjustment for audio coding, which comprises following steps: obtain the spectrum of the current audio frame and compute the maximum absolute value of each Bark (Bark: in the unit of critical band) frequency band; calculate the initial value of the minimum... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20070033023 - Scalable speech coding/decoding apparatus, method, and medium having mixed structure: Provided are a scalable wide-band speech coding/decoding apparatus, method, and medium. An input wide-band speech input signal is first divided into a low-band signal and a high-band signal. The divided low-band signal is then coded using a code excited linear prediction (CELP) method. The divided high-band signal is coded using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070033024 - Method and apparatus for encoding audio data: A method for processing audio data includes determining a first common scalefactor value for representing quantized audio data in a frame. A second common scalefactor value is determined for representing the quantized audio data in the frame. A line equation common scalefactor value is determined from the first and second... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Portfolioip

20070033025 - Algorithm for n-best asr result processing to improve accuracy: A method of improving speech recognition includes receiving a plurality of recognized sentences from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, each of the plurality of the recognized sentences including a plurality of information items. A confirmation is also receive that a value of an information item of the plurality of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070033031 - Acoustic signal classification system: A system classifies the source of an input signal. The system determines whether a sound source belongs to classes that may include human speech, musical instruments, machine noise, or other classes of sound sources. The system is robust, performing classification despite variation in sound level and noise masking. Additionally, the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070033029 - Noise cancellation helmet, motor vehicle system including the noise cancellation helmet, and method of canceling noise in helmet: A noise cancellation helmet includes a noise detecting unit which detects noise in a helmet body, a sound outputting unit which outputs a control sound for canceling the detected noise, a control signal generating unit which processes an output signal of the noise detecting unit through computation to generate a... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070033028 - System and method for noisy automatic speech recognition employing joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions: A system for, and method of, noisy automatic speech recognition employing joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions and a digital signal processor incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an additive distortion factor estimator configured to estimate an additive distortion factor, (2) an... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070033026 - System for speech recognition and correction, correction device and method for creating a lexicon of alternatives: In a speech recognition and correction system which comprises at least one speech recognition device (1) to which a spoken text (GT) can be fed, it being possible for said spoken text to be transcribe into a recognized text (ET), and a correction device (3) for correcting the text (ET)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070033027 - Systems and methods employing stochastic bias compensation and bayesian joint additive/convolutive compensation in automatic speech recognition: A system for, and method of, noisy automatic speech recognition (ASR) and a digital signal processor (DSP) incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a background noise estimator configured to generate a current background noise estimate from a current utterance, (2) an acoustic model... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070033030 - Techniques for measurement, adaptation, and setup of an audio communication system: Methods and systems for providing automated measurement, adaptation and setup of voice communication system using one or more reference signals. An audio device is automatically configured at or near commencement of establishment of a communications path, such that the configuration is performed in a minimally humanly discernible manner. The methods... Agent: Oded Gottesman

20070033032 - Content-based audio playback emphasis: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the process of proofreading draft transcripts of spoken audio streams. In general, proofreading of a draft transcript is facilitated by playing back the corresponding spoken audio stream with an emphasis on those regions in the audio stream that are highly relevant or likely to have... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070033033 - Dictate section data: A computer-based method is provided for dictating into a report section via an electronic network. The method includes: marking a first insertion point in a report section at a first user-selected position, the first user-selected position being selectable to allow a user to record a dictation at any position in... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070033034 - System and method for noisy automatic speech recognition employing joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions: A system for, and method of, noisy automatic speech recognition employing joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions and a digital signal processor incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an additive distortion factor estimator configured to estimate an additive distortion factor, (2) an... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070033035 - String display method and device compatible with the hindi language: A string display method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving an input string containing a plurality of characters; grouping the characters into a plurality of clusters according to predetermined cluster formation rules; applying predetermined ligature formation rules to the clusters to generate a resultant string; and then displaying the resultant... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070033038 - Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system: Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033036 - Automatic detection and research of novel words or phrases by a mobile terminal: A wireless communication system mobile terminal monitors its acoustic environment. Speech recognition capability in the mobile terminal transcribes monitored speech, and determines if it is novel, such as by comparison to a database of known words and phrases. Terms from the determined novel speech are submitted to one or more... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070033037 - Redictation of misrecognized words using a list of alternatives: Upon selection of a displayed word, a list of alternatives for the selected word is displayed. Each alternative in the list has an associated symbol. A speech signal is then decoded to identify a list of possible words and the list of possible words is displayed with each possible word... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070033039 - Systems and methods for speech recognition using dialect data: A speech-to-text conversion system. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system comprises a computer system, an attached microphone assembly, and speech-to-text conversion software. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system includes a database of dialectal characteristics and queries a user to determine their likely dialect. The system uses this determination... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070033040 - Conversation control system and conversation control method: The present invention includes a morpheme extracting unit 420 configured to extract, based on a character string corresponding to input information, at least one morpheme constituting a minimum unit of the character string, as first morpheme information, a topic search unit 340 configured to compare the first morpheme information extracted... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070033041 - Method of identifying a person based upon voice analysis: A method and apparatus are provided for identifying a person based upon a verbal statement of the person. The method includes the steps of sampling the verbal statement of the person and identifying a sequence of phonemes within the sampled statement. The method further includes the steps of measuring a... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Jon P. Christensen

20070033042 - Speech detection fusing multi-class acoustic-phonetic, and energy features: A speech detection system extracts a plurality of features from multiple input streams. In the acoustic model space, the tree of Gaussians in the model is pruned to include the active states. The Gaussians are mapped to Hidden Markov Model states for Viterbi phoneme alignment. Another feature space, such as... Agent: Duke. W. Yee

20070033043 - Speech recognition apparatus, navigation apparatus including a speech recognition apparatus, and speech recognition method: A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech recognition dictionary and a speech recognition unit. The speech recognition dictionary includes comparison data used to recognize a voice input. The speech recognition unit is adapted to calculate the score for each comparison data by comparing voice input data generated based on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070033044 - System and method for creating generalized tied-mixture hidden markov models for automatic speech recognition: A system for, and method of, creating generalized tied-mixture hidden Markov models (HMMs) for noisy automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an HMM estimator and state tyer configured to perform HMM parameter estimation and state-tying with respect to word transcriptions and a pronunciation dictionary to yield... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070033045 - Method and system for tracking signal sources with wrapped-phase hidden markov models: A method models trajectories of a signal source. Training signals generated by a signal source moving along known trajectories are acquired by each sensor in an array of sensors. Phase differences between all unique pairs of the training signals are determined. A wrapped-phase hidden Markov model is constructed from the... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070033046 - Document based character ambiguity resolution: Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then searches the document for words that do contain ambiguous characters. For each ambiguous word, a set of candidate solutions is created... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070033047 - Voice controllable interactive communication display system and method: A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to receiving a vocal input to the voice-capable system, receiving one or more instructions referential to the first speech output version of the vocal input, and creating a second speech output version of the vocal... Agent: Anderson & Jansson, L.L.P.

20070033049 - Method and system for generating synthesized speech based on human recording: A method and system that incorporates human recording with a TTS system to generate synthesized speech with high quality by searching over a database of pre-recorded utterances to select an utterance best matching text content to be synthesized into speech; dividing the best-matched utterance into a plurality of segments to... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070033048 - Method of producing personalized posters, calendars, and the like which contain copyrighted subject matter: A method of producing personalized posters, calendars, and the like (“printed products”) which enables consumers to select from a store of stored images or other digital assets, which may include copyrighted subject matter. The system allows a user to select a stored digital asset for a printed product and incorporate... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070033051 - Automated digital voice recorder to personal information manager synchronization: Apparatus and methods are presented for Automated Digital voice recorder to Personal information manager Synchronization (ADPS) message creation that allow a user to indicate that an ADPS message is to be created, select and ADPS type selection relating the ADPS message to be created to a type of Personal Information.... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070033050 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains meta-information concerning content; a predicting unit that predicts an emotion of a user who is viewing the content from the meta-information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a recognizing unit that recognizes an emotion of the user using the emotion... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070033052 - Interleaving of information into compressed digital audio streams: Disclosed is a digital audio device that includes a communications port to communicatively connect the device to a server. The device also includes a unique identifier to identify the device. The device also includes a controller to allow transfer of digital audio files from the server. The digital audio files... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070033055 - Command-inputting device having display panel: A device for inputting voice commands into a system such as a car navigation system includes a microphone for inputting voice commands, a display panel for displaying a help frame when required, a memory for storing a list of the voice commands and their respective usage frequencies in the past,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070033054 - Selective confirmation for execution of a voice activated user interface: A voice-activated user interface for an application is described. The voice activated user interface invokes a speech recognition component to recognize audio input from a user. If the audio input is a command, then a validation component is invoked to determine whether to validate the command prior to execution.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070033053 - User-adaptive dialog support for speech dialog systems: A common problem faced by speech dialog systems is that they have to serve users with varying degrees of experience of such a system in an optimal manner. The invention relates to a speech dialog system that differentiates between inexperienced and experienced users and generates speech prompts that are adapted... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070033056 - Apparatus and method for processing a multi-channel signal: An apparatus for processing a multi-channel signal includes a means for determining a similarity between a first one of two channels and a second one of the two channels. Furthermore, a means for performing a prediction filtering of the spectral coefficients is provided, which is formed to perform a prediction... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070033057 - Time-scale modification of data-compressed audio information: A data-compressed audio waveform is temporally modified without requiring complete decompression of the audio signal. Packets of compressed audio data are first unpacked, to remove scaling that was applied in the formation of the packets. The unpacked data is then temporally modified, using one of a number of different approaches.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070027670 - User interface update system: A system uses a readable structured (e.g., XML) file format that contains user interface display image text strings to streamline the translation process of user interface strings in a software application and that facilitates creation of a readable XML document. A system processes user interface image text strings to support... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070027671 - Structured document processing apparatus, structured document search apparatus, structured document system, method, and program: A structured document processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a structured document, a storage unit configured to store a structure model tree which indicates a typical structure of the acquired structured document, a parsing unit configured to parse the acquired structured document, an updating unit configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070027672 - Computer method and apparatus for extracting data from web pages: Computer method and apparatus for extracting information from a Web page is disclosed. The invention apparatus is formed of an extractor coupled to receive Web pages from a source. The extractor uses natural language processing to extract desired information from the Web page. A storage subsystem receives from the extractor... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070027674 - Analytical system for discovery and generation of rules to predict and detect anomalies in data and financial fraud: Methods and computer apparatus are disclosed for deriving first order logic language rules for use in analysing new data to identify anomalies in the new data. Historical data is formatted to be in a form suitable for application of a machine-learning algorithm thereto. The machine-learning algorithm is applied to the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070027673 - Conversion of number into text and speech: A solution for converting a cardinal number into a textual representation or into speech is presented. A converter converts, one by one, each digit of the cardinal number into a textual representation. A combiner adds a textual representation of a place value to a textual representation of a digit depending... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070027677 - Method of implementation of audio codec: This invention discloses an implementation of audio codec, which has low computational complexity, small memory footprint and high coding efficiency. It can be used in handheld devices, SoC or ASIC products and embedded systems. At the encoder side: first, apply time-to-frequency transform to audio signals, obtaining un-quantized spectrum data; second,... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20070027676 - Recording and retrieval of sound data in a hearing prosthesis: A hearing prosthesis for delivering stimuli to a hearing-impaired recipient is disclosed, the hearing prosthesis comprising: a sound transducer for converting received sound signals into electric audio signals; a sound processor for converting said electric audio signals into stimuli signals; a stimulator for delivering said stimuli to the recipient; a... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070027675 - Spectrum analyzer control in an oscilloscope: A time domain measurement instrument and method are provided. The instrument comprises an acquisition circuit for acquiring a signal in a time domain and a processor for performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing on the acquired signal to generate an FFT of the acquired signal. A frequency domain analysis... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20070027678 - Low bit-rate audio encoding: In a sinusoidal audio encoder a number of sinusoids are estimated per audio segment. A sinusoid is represented by frequency, amplitude and phase. The invention uses a track dependent quantizatin of phase. A track is encoded with a suitable initial (e.g. frequency dependent) quantization grid that is chosen among a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070027679 - System and method for optimizing the operation of an oversampled discrete fourier transform filter bank: A system for, and method of optimizing an operation of an oversampled filter bank and an oversampled discrete Fourier transform (DFT) filter bank designed by the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a null space generator configured to produce a basis of a null space... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070027680 - Method and apparatus for coding an information signal using pitch delay contour adjustment: In a speech encoder/decoder a pitch delay contour endpoint modifier is employed to shift the endpoints of a pitch delay interpolation curve up or down. Parficularly, the endpoints of the pitch delay interpolation curve are shifted based on a variation and/or a standard deviation in pitch delay.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070027681 - Method and apparatus for extracting voiced/unvoiced classification information using harmonic component of voice signal: An apparatus and method for extracting precise voiced/unvoiced classification information from a voice signal is disclosed. The apparatus extracts voiced/unvoiced classification information by analyzing a ratio of a harmonic component to a non-harmonic (or residual) component. The apparatus uses a harmonic to residual ratio (HRR), a harmonic to noise component... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070027682 - Regulation of volume of voice in conjunction with background sound: An audio information processing system, which when incorporated in home audio video systems, provides independent volume control capability, independent equalization setting capability and independent special effects capability of voice and background sound, to the home audio-video system. The audio information processing system receives an audio signal and extracts there from... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070027683 - Apparatus and method for concealing frame erasure and voice decoding apparatus and method using the same: An apparatus and method for concealing frame erasure and a voice decoding apparatus and method using the same. The frame erasure concealment apparatus includes: a parameter extraction unit determining whether there is an erased frame in a voice packet, and extracting an excitement signal parameter and a line spectrum pair... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070027684 - Method for converting dimension of vector: Provided is a method for converting a dimension of a vector. The vector dimension conversion method for vector quantization includes the steps of: extracting a specific parameter having a pitch period from an input speech signal and then generating a vector of a dimension that varies according to the pitch... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070027685 - Noise suppression system, method and program: Disclosed is a noise suppression system including a unit for calculating a noise mean spectrum from an input signal, a unit for deriving the provisional estimate speech from the input signal and the noise mean spectrum, a reference speech pattern, and a unit for correcting the provisional estimate speech using... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070027686 - Error detection for speech to text transcription systems: The present invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for error detection within text generated by a speech to text transcription system. The transcribed text is re-transformed into an artificial speech signal by means of a text to speech transcription system. The original, natural speech... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070027687 - Automatic donor ranking and selection system and method for voice conversion: An automatic donor selection algorithm estimates the subjective voice conversion output quality from a set of objective distance measures between the source and target speaker's acoustical features. The algorithm learns the relationship of the subjective scores and the objective distance measures through nonlinear regression with an MLP. Once the MLP... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070027688 - Method and apparatus for an adaptive control system: Apparatus includes a reference model unit operable to generating a reference model state signal and a reference model state acceleration signal, the reference model state signal being based, at least in part, on a command control signal. The apparatus includes a reference model limiter including a minimum reference model acceleration... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070027689 - Femtosecond spectroscopy using minimum phase functions: A method determines a transient response of a sample. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex electric field temporal profile of a pulse sequence comprising a probe pulse and a dummy pulse, wherein the probe pulse is indicative of the transient response of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070027690 - Phonetic searching using partial characters: Some spoken languages can be written, for example, by using a single character to represent a single word. The word can comprise a plurality of phonetic codes. A character from a datastore can be retrieved and compared against an input string which might contain the same phonetic codes.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070027691 - Spatialized audio enhanced text communication and methods: A text communication device (300), and corresponding methods, that receives textual information associated with one or more an attributes, for example, a source or topic attribute, the device converts the textual information to an audio signal, produces sound based on the audio signal, and spatializes the sound based on the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070027692 - Multi-modal information retrieval system: Multi-modal system which enables documents to be interpreted as either or both of voice browser-based documents and/or visual browser-based documents for a thin client such as a portable telephone. Special techniques and additions are added into the document to enable the document to be converted between voice markup and visual... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070027694 - System and method for analysis and adjustment of speech-enabled systems: A method for analyzing and adjusting the performance of a speech-enabled application includes selecting a number of user utterances that were previously received by the speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application receives such user utterances and associates each user utterance with an action-object based on one or more salient terms in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070027693 - Voice recognition system and method: A voice recognition system has a recognition dictionary storing voice information, a primary voice recognition means for performing primary voice recognition in response to input voice information pronounced by a user by the use of the recognition dictionary, and a recognition result judging means for deciding whether the primary voice... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070027695 - Computing circuits and method for running an mpeg-2 aac or mpeg-4 aac audio decoding algorithm on programmable processors: The present invention relates to computing circuits and method for running an MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC algorithm efficiently, which is used as an audio compression algorithm in multi-channel high-quality audio systems, on programmable processors. In accordance with the present invention, the IMDCT process which takes large part of the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.