Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 04/07

20070094005 - Conversation control apparatus: To return a predetermined answer in a predetermined order, even in the event that user utterance contents differ from an original objective. A conversation control apparatus, which transmits an answer sentence in response to a user utterance, includes: a conversation data base storing a plurality of plans each including the... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070094003 - Conversation controller: A conversation controller outputs a reply sentence according to a user utterance. The conversation controller comprises a conversation database and a conversation control unit. The conversation database stores a plurality of plans. Each plan has a reply sentence and one or more pieces of next plan designation information for designating... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070094004 - Conversation controller: A conversation controller outputs a reply sentence according to a user utterance. The conversation controller comprises a conversation database and a conversation control unit. The conversation database stores a plurality of plans. Each plan has a reply sentence and one or more pieces of next plan designation information for designating... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070094006 - System and method for cross-language knowledge searching: A system and method for cross-language knowledge searching. The system has a Semantic Analyzer, a natural language user request/document search pattern/semantic index Generator, a user request search pattern Translator and a Knowledge Base Searcher. The system also provides automatic semantic analysis and semantic indexing of natural language user requests/documents on... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20070094008 - Conversation control apparatus: To maintain an establishment of a conversation according to a user utterance condition, even in respect to an “answer impossible” user utterance. A conversation control apparatus includes: a conversation data base which stores a plurality of plans each including an answer sentence and next candidate prescription information which prescribes a... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070094007 - Conversation controller: A conversation controller outputs a reply sentence according to a user utterance. The conversation controller comprises a conversation database and a conversation control unit. The conversation database stores a plurality of plans. Each plan has a reply sentence and one or more pieces of next plan designation information for designating... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070094009 - Encoder-assisted frame loss concealment techniques for audio coding: Encoder-assisted frame loss concealment (FLC) techniques for decoding audio signals are described. A decoder may discard an erroneous frame of an audio signal and may implement the encoder-assisted FLC techniques in order to accurately conceal the discarded frame based on neighboring frames and side-information transmitted from the encoder. The encoder-assisted... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070094010 - Removing time delays in signal paths: The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094011 - Removing time delays in signal paths: The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094012 - Removing time delays in signal paths: The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094013 - Removing time delays in signal paths: The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094014 - Removing time delays in signal paths: The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094015 - Audio codec using the fast fourier transform, the partial overlap and a decomposition in two plans based on the energy.: Audio codec using the Fast Fourier Transform, the partial overlap and a decomposition in two plans based on the energy. The present invention concerns a method of audio compression and decompression, simple, of high quality, not requiring a lot of computations and allowing to obtain very high compression ratios. This... Agent: Georges Samake

20070094016 - Adaptive equalizer for a coded speech signal: A speech communication system provides a speech encoder that generates a set of coded parameters representative of the desired speech signal characteristics. The speech communication system also provides a speech decoder that receives the set of coded parameters to generate reconstructed speech. The speech decoder includes an equalizer that computes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070094017 - Frequency domain format enhancement: A method for enhancing speech prediction coefficient signals, including: a) receiving a set of prediction coefficient signals; b) calculating a set of amplitude spectrum coefficient signals based on the prediction coefficient signals; c) calculating a set of enhancement coefficient signals based on the amplitude spectrum coefficient signals; d) calculating a... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.C.

20070094018 - Melp-to-lpc transcoder: A method for transcoding a bit stream encoded according to a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) standard to a bit stream encoded according to a linear predictive coding (LPC) standard, including: decoding a bit stream into a first set of vocoder parameters compatible with the MELP standard; transforming the first set... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.C.

20070094019 - Compression and decompression of data vectors: For an enhanced sequential compression of data vectors in a respective compression pass, a current data vector is mapped to at least one current code vector of at least one codebook in at least one quantization stage. The at least one codebook is reordered taking account of at least one... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070094020 - Method and system for matching speech data: A method and system used to determine the similarity between an input speech data and a sample speech data is provided. First, the input speech data is segmented into a plurality of input speech frames and the sample speech data is segmented into a plurality of sample speech frames. Then,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070094021 - Spelling sequence of letters on letter-by-letter basis for speaker verification: A user is instructed to spell a word, or say a sequence of letters, on a letter-by-letter basis for purposes such as speaker verification. A first user may be instructed to spell a word on a letter-by-letter basis. Spoken information from the first user is recorded, in which the first... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070094023 - Method and apparatus for processing heterogeneous units of work: Methods and apparatus are provided which may be employed to perform speech recognition processing on a grid computing system. In some embodiments, the grid computing system includes a server system which receives processing tasks from one or more client applications, divides the processing tasks into units of work, and assigns... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070094022 - Method and device for recognizing human intent: A method (300) and apparatus (100) for recognizing human intent includes capabilities of recognizing (305) a sequence of words by a expression recognizer (115), and determining (310) a most likely value of a replacement for a target word in the sequence of words using the target word, a correction model... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070094024 - System and method for improving text input in a shorthand-on-keyboard interface: A word pattern recognition system improves text input entered via a shorthand-on-keyboard interface. A core lexicon comprises commonly used words in a language; an extended lexicon comprises words not included in the core lexicon. The system only directly outputs words from the core lexicon. Candidate words from the extended lexicon... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070094025 - Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus system and control method of information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus system and a control method of an information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a network unit which receives user recognition information having time data from an external device; and a processor which outputs a user recognition signal corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094026 - Creating a mixed-initiative grammar from directed dialog grammars: A method of building a mixed-initiative grammar can include identifying a plurality of directed dialog grammars for inclusion in the mixed-initiative grammar and automatically generating the mixed-initiative grammar, in accordance with a selected grammar generation technique, such that the mixed-initiative grammar specifies the plurality of directed dialog grammars.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070094027 - Methods and apparatus for implementing embedded scalable encoding and decoding of companded and vector quantized audio data: The invention concerns a scalable version of an audio encoder based on lattice quantization of companded audio data, wherein the scalability is achieved using bitplane encoding. In methods and apparatus of the invention, a time-domain to discrete-frequency-domain transformation is performed on an audio signal, creating a plurality of frequency domain... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070094028 - Portable device with speech-synthesizing and prelude functions: A portable device providing a speech-synthesizing interface is provided. The portable device includes a portable main unit being inputted thereinto, storing and processing one of a text data and a music, transmitting a human voice data, receiving a command for one of the text data and the music, and at... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070094030 - Prosodic control rule generation method and apparatus, and speech synthesis method and apparatus: A prosodic control rule generation method includes dividing an input text into language units, estimating a punctuation mark incidence at a boundary between language units in the input text, the punctuation mark incidence indicating a degree that a punctuation mark occurs at the boundary, based on attribute information items of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070094029 - Speech synthesis method and information providing apparatus: To provide a speech synthesis method of reading out units of synthesized speech without fail and in an easy to understand manner, even when playback of the units of synthesized speech are simultaneously requested. The duration prediction unit predicts the playback duration of synthesized speech to be synthesized based on... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070094031 - Audio time scale modification using decimation-based synchronized overlap-add algorithm: A high-quality, low-complexity audio time scale modification (TSM) algorithm useful in speeding up or slowing down the playback of an encoded audio signal without changing the pitch or timbre of the audio signal. The TSM algorithm uses a modified synchronized overlap-add (SOLA) algorithm that maintains a roughly constant computational complexity... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070094032 - Adjustable resource based speech recognition system: A real-time speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. Both the client and server can dedicate a variable number of processing resources for performing speech recognition functions. The partitioning of responsibility for speech recognition operations can be done... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070094033 - Voice recognition device controller: A voice recognition device controller is provided, which is capable of properly determining a user's leaning level in speech so as to provide an efficient interaction. It includes a voice input unit 2 for receiving speech input from a user, a voice recognition unit 3 for recognizing the input speech,... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070094034 - Incident report transcription system and methodologies: A system and methodologies are provided that support speech-based generation of incident reports.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070094035 - Audio coding: An audio coding method is described that includes receiving an input audio signal, splitting the input audio signal into at least two sub-bands, downscaling the at least two sub-band with a factor depending at least on a standard deviation of the corresponding sub-band, companding each of the at least downscaled... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070094037 - Slot position coding for non-guided spatial audio coding: Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094036 - Slot position coding of residual signals of spatial audio coding application: Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070088538 - Method and system of editing a language communication sheet: A method of editing communication sheets comprises providing a picture/text editing interface; providing a dividing function for communication sheet; providing a expression (s) database, a picture database and a voice database; providing a correlation searching function; providing expression (s) insertion function; providing picture insertion function; providing language assigning function; and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070088539 - Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program: A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of information such as an e-mail and is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070088540 - Voice data processing method and device: In a voice data processing method and device detecting a pitch from history data during a packet loss and generating compensating data thereof, input signal data is decoded in a normal mode, a calculation of a normalized cross-correlation in coarse search used for a pitch detection is repeated by a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070088541 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for highband burst suppression: In one embodiment, a highband burst suppressor includes a first burst detector configured to detect bursts in a lowband speech signal, and a second burst detector configured to detect bursts in a corresponding highband speech signal. The lowband and highband speech signals may be different (possibly overlapping) frequency regions of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070088542 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for wideband speech coding: A wideband speech encoder according to one embodiment includes a narrowband encoder and a highband encoder. The narrowband encoder is configured to encode a narrowband portion of a wideband speech signal into a set of filter parameters and a corresponding encoded excitation signal. The highband encoder is configured to encode,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070088543 - Multimode speech coding apparatus and decoding apparatus: Square sum calculator 603 calculates a square sum of evolution in smoothed quantized LSP parameter for each order. A first dynamic parameter is thereby obtained. Square sum calculator 605 calculates a square sum using a square value of each order. The square sum is a second dynamic parameter. Maximum value... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070088544 - Calibration based beamforming, non-linear adaptive filtering, and multi-sensor headset: A first set of signals from an array of one or more microphones, and a second signal from a reference microphone are used to calibrate a set of filter parameters such that the filter parameters minimize a difference between the second signal and a beamformer output signal that is based... Agent: Bryan F. Erickson Westman, Champlin & Kelly

20070088545 - Lpc-to-melp transcoder: A method for transcoding a bit stream encoded according to a linear predictive coding (LPC) standard to a bit stream encoded according to a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) standard, including: decoding a bit stream into a first set of vocoder parameters compatible with the LPC standard; transforming the first set... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.C.

20070088546 - Apparatus and method for transmitting audio signals: An apparatus and a method for transmitting audio signals in such a manner that audio signals transmitted and received in a mobile telephone network are preprocessed before being inputted to a voice encoder are provided. The audio signals are preprocessed by using an optimal filter gain based on error signals... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070088547 - Phonetic speech-to-text-to-speech system and method: A speech-to-text-to-speech for use with on-line and real time transmission of speech with a small bandwidth from a source to a destination. A speech is received and broken down to speechlets, which are encoded into series of symbols compatible with communication systems and other than a known symbolic representation of... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070088548 - Device, method, and computer program product for determining speech/non-speech: A first storage unit stores a transformation matrix, and a second storage unit stores a first parameter of a speech model and a second parameter of a non-speech model. A dividing unit divides an acoustic signal into a plurality of frames. An extracting unit extracts a feature vector from acoustic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070088549 - Natural input of arbitrary text: A method and system for enabling a speech recognition system to recognize entities having arbitrary text. The method includes identifying an entity having arbitrary text from a user and detecting that the entity has an identifiable pattern of characters. The speech recognition system prompts the user to assign an alternative... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088550 - Method for predictive maintenance of a machine: A method for predictive maintenance of a machine includes collecting feature data for the machine which includes a plurality of feature vectors. At least some of the feature vectors are standardized to facilitate compatibility between different vectors. At least some of the standardized feature vectors are transformed into corresponding two-dimensional... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070088551 - Multiple sound fragments processing and load balancing: A method, system and article of manufacture of recognizing a voice command. One embodiment of the invention comprises: receiving a voice input; using the number of sound fragments, determining a number of sound fragments to be processed in a first set of sound fragments; determining whether the first set of... Agent: Gero G. Mcclellan Moser, Patterson & Sheridan,llp

20070088552 - Method and a device for speech recognition: Method for speech recognition comprising inputting frames comprising samples of an audio signal; forming a feature vector comprising a first number of vector components for each frame; projecting the feature vector onto at least two subspaces so that the number of components of each projected feature vector is less than... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070088554 - Method and system for building/updating grammars in voice access systems: Method and System to update grammar information in a voice access system that provides access to a data system. A user interface (UI) is provided to enable an administrator to select UI object pertaining to a user interface provided by the data system to provide grammar update support for. The... Agent: Csa LLP

20070088553 - Synthesized interoperable communications: A method for interoperable communications including at least the step of: a) at least one radio user's being able to transmit at least one transmission on a first radio frequency to a computer having at least one sound card and at least two sound card channels on one or more... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070088555 - Mobile listing system: A method for use on a hand-held mobile self-powered wireless device including a listing program is provided. The listing programs extracts commands from a user's voice streams and initiates subroutines in response to those commands. For example, the method of the present invention allows a user to navigate through a... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20070088556 - Flexible speech-activated command and control: A collection of human language terms is obtained. The terms describe a system resource. At least one term in the collection does not describe the identify of the resource. The collection of human language terms is incorporated into a grammar. The grammar is utilized as a basis for identifying spoken... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088557 - Raising the visibility of a voice-activated user interface: A system is configured to enable a user to assert voice-activated commands. When the user issues a non-ambiguous command, the system activates a corresponding control. The area of activity on the user interface is visually highlighted to emphasize to the user that what they spoke caused an action. In one... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088558 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for speech signal filtering: A wideband speech encoder according to one embodiment includes a filter bank having a lowband processing path and a highband processing path. The processing paths have overlapping frequency responses. A first encoder is configured to encode a speech signal produced by the lowband processing path according to a first coding... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070083357 - Weighted linear model: A weighted linear word alignment model linearly combines weighted features to score a word alignment for a bilingual, aligned pair of text fragments. The features are each weighted by a feature weight. One of the features is a word association metric, which may be generated from surface statistics.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070083358 - System and method for synchronizing languages and data elements: Data languages, executable programs, and user interfaces are synchronized by a database for storing data enumerations in a first language, a configuration file for mapping language neutral tags to the data enumerations, a user interface operable responsive to the language neutral tags for presenting to a user interface view selected... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070083359 - Relationship analysis system and method for semantic disambiguation of natural language: A system, method, and computer program product for natural language understanding, including forming pairs of words and/or phrases in independent phrases in a sentence, wherein each word and/or phrase is paired with every other word and/or phrase; determining meanings for the words and/or phrases; comparing the meanings of each word... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070083360 - Testing a context-free language compiler: Systems and methods for testing a context-free language compiler are provided. Given a description of a context-free grammar including a set of production rules, a test component applies the grammar description to generate one or more valid test strings of terminal symbols (a.k.a. tokens). The set of test strings may... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070083361 - Method and apparatus for disturbing the radiated voice signal by attenuation and masking: A method and apparatus to disturb a voice signal by attenuating and masking the voice signal are provided. The method includes; receiving a voice signal from a wired or wireless network; obtaining a masked voice signal by dividing the received voice signal into a plurality of segments of the same... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083362 - Digital signal coding and decoding methods and apparatuses and programs therefor: At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083363 - Method, medium, and apparatus encoding/decoding audio data with extension data: A method, medium, and apparatus encoding/decoding audio data in which audio data is hierarchically encoded, and at least one extension data of the audio data is encoded using at least one encoding method, and decoding is performed in the same manner, thereby ensuring fine grain scalability (FGS) and unlimited extendibility... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083364 - Method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities and general purpose audio codec: A method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities arising from lossy compression and decompression of continuous signals, especially audio signals. One embodiment encompasses a general purpose, ultra-low latency, efficient audio codec algorithm. More particularly, the invention includes a method and apparatus for compression and decompression of audio signals using... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070083365 - Neural network classifier for separating audio sources from a monophonic audio signal: A neural network classifier provides the ability to separate and categorize multiple arbitrary and previously unknown audio sources down-mixed to a single monophonic audio signal. This is accomplished by breaking the monophonic audio signal into baseline frames (possibly overlapping), windowing the frames, extracting a number of descriptive features in each... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20070083366 - Intelligent speech recognition with user interfaces: The invention relates to a method, an apparatus, a Graphical User Interface and a computer program product for transforming speech to text. In a speech recognition step (100) a text is provided to which an automatic text modification based on text modification rules is applied (102). Text portions to which... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070083367 - Method and system for bandwidth efficient and enhanced concatenative synthesis based communication: A voice communication system and method for improved bandwidth and enhanced concatenative speech synthesis includes a transmitter (10) having a voice recognition engine (12) that receives speech and provides text, a voice segmentation module (24) that segments the speech into a plurality of speech units or snippets, a database (18)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070083368 - Document clustering: Methods and systems for clustering document collections are disclosed. A system for clustering observations may include a processor and a processor-readable storage medium. The processor-readable storage medium may contain one or more programming instructions for performing a method of clustering observations. A plurality of parameter vectors and a plurality of... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070083369 - Generating words and names using n-grams of phonemes: Generating words and/or names, comprising: receiving at least one corpus based on a given language; generating a plurality of N-grams of phonemes and a plurality of frequencies of occurrence using the corpus, such that each frequency of occurrence corresponds to a respective pair of phonemes and indicates the frequency of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070083370 - Methods and apparatus for audio data analysis and data mining using speech recognition: A system and method provide an audio analysis intelligence tool with ad-hoc search capabilities using spoken words as an organized data form. An SQL-like interface is used to process and search audio data and combine it with other traditional data forms to enhance searching of audio segments to identify those... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20070083372 - Apparatus and method for controlling portable device: An apparatus and method for controlling a portable device. An apparatus for controlling a portable device includes: a touch sensor which comprises at least one touch cell which is chosen by a touch of a user; a first calculation unit which calculates a first probability value while taking dependency relationships... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083371 - Apparatus and method for recognizing voice: An apparatus and method for recognizing voice. The apparatus includes a feature vector extraction unit dividing an input voice signal into predetermined unit regions, and extracting feature vectors corresponding to each of the unit regions; a predicted node extraction unit extracting a list of second nodes whose travels to a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083373 - Discriminative training of hmm models using maximum margin estimation for speech recognition: An improved discriminative training method is provided for hidden Markov models. The method includes: defining a measure of separation margin for the data; identifying a subset of training utterances having utterances misrecognized by the models; defining a training criterion for the models based on maximizing the separation margin; formulating the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070083374 - Voice language model adjustment based on user affinity: Methods, systems and computer readable medium for improving the accuracy of voice processing are provided. Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods, systems and articles of manufacture for adjusting a language model within a voice recognition system. In one embodiment, changes are made to the language model by identifying... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070083375 - Method and system for template inquiry dialogue system: A method for recognizing a voice is provided. The method includes steps of (a) displaying a substitute choice and a hint sentence containing a suggested choice as a reference for a user, (b) receiving the voice to be recognized from the user, (c) conducting a search in a database to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070083376 - Synthesis subband filter process and apparatus: A synthesis subband filter apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing 18 sets of signals which each includes 32 subband sampling signals in accordance with a specification providing 512 window coefficients. The apparatus includes a processor for processing the 18 sets of signals in sequence. The processor further... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070083377 - Time scale modification of audio using bark bands: This invention involves time-scale modification of audio signals. In this invention the input audio signal is separated into a plurality of frequency bands selected according to a Bark scale where each frequency band has an extent dependent upon human frequency perception via a filter bank. Time-scale modification is applied separately... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070078642 - Natural language processing of disfluent sentences: An advanced model that includes new processes is provided for use as a component of an effective disfluency identifier. The disfluency identifier tags edited words in transcribed speech. A speech recognition unit in combination with a part-of-speech tagger, a disfluency identifier, and a parser form a natural language system that... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070078644 - Detecting segmentation errors in an annotated corpus: Segmentation error candidates are detected using segmentation variations found in an annotated corpus.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070078643 - Method for formation of domain-specific grammar from subspecified grammar: The method of the present invention is a method of designing a semantic grammar, that is to say one relating to a domain of application on the basis of a generic grammar and of a lexical knowledge base of the domain of application considered. The generic grammar is a grammar... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070078645 - Filterbank-based processing of speech signals: A method for suppressing noise from a digital audio signal, the method comprising: obtaining the digital signal; dividing the digital audio signal into sub-bands of non-uniform frequency division essentially mitigate Bark scale, corresponding sub-band signals having downsampling ratios by which a frame rate of an audio encoder, expressed in a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070078646 - Method and apparatus to encode/decode audio signal: A method and apparatus to encode/decode an audio signal, in which a bit rate for each bit plane can be controlled. A method of encoding an audio signal for each of a plurality of bit plane can include dividing the audio signal into a plurality of frequency bands and encoding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070078647 - Method and system for suppressing receiver audio regeneration: The invention concerns a method (500) and system (100) for suppressing receiver audio regeneration. The method (500) includes the steps of receiving a communication signal (502), at a Radio Frequency (RF) unit (102), demodulating the communication signal to an audio signal (504), monitoring a volume level of the audio signal... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070078648 - Audio processing system and method for hearing protecting: The present invention relates to an audio processing method for hearing protecting, includes steps of: fetching an audio file; decoding the audio file and generating digital audio signals; sampling the digital audio signals thereby obtaining a plurality of amplitude values; obtaining a current gain value; calculating an accumulated audio energy... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078649 - Signature noise removal: A speech enhancement system improves the perceptual quality of a processed voice signal. The system improves the perceptual quality of a voice signal by removing unwanted noise components from a voice signal. The system removes undesirable signals that may result in the loss of information. The system receives and analyzes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070078651 - Device and method for encoding, decoding speech and audio signal: A device and method for encoding/decoding a speech signal and an audio signal. The device for encoding the speech signal and the audio signal includes a speech encoding unit which speech-encodes an input signal; an speech decoding unit which speech-decodes the speech-encoded signal; and an audio encoding unit which divides... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070078650 - Echo avoidance in audio time stretching: A transient echo can be avoided during time stretching of a digital audio signal by detecting a transient in a frame of a digital audio signal, identifying another occurrence of the transient in a subsequent frame of the digital audio signal, rotating the transient occurring in the subsequent frame to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070078652 - System and method for detecting the recognizability of input speech signals: A system and method for detecting the recognizability of input speech signal is provided. It is designed in the pre-stage of speech recognition or a dialog system. The invention detects the user's environmental condition and verifies if the input speech signal can be recognized. It mainly comprises an environment parameter... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070078653 - Language model compression: A method for compressing a language model that comprises a plurality of N-grams and associated N-gram probabilities. The method comprises forming at least one group of N-grams from the plurality of N-grams; sorting N-gram probabilities associated with the N-grams of the at least one group of N-grams; and determining a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070078654 - Weighted linear bilingual word alignment model: A weighted linear word alignment model linearly combines weighted features to score a word alignment for a bilingual, aligned pair of text fragments. The features are each weighted by a feature weight. One of the features is a word association metric, which may be generated from surface statistics.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070078655 - Report generation system with speech output: A text- or data-to-speech architecture that communicates speech to a user based on data and/or input text. In an industrial automation environment, the input text can be generated by the automation system from alarm logs, notification messages, status messages, operational parameters, current alarm conditions, production numbers, work orders to be... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078656 - Server-provided user's voice for instant messaging clients: A system and method to allow an author of an instant message to enable and control the production of audible speech to the recipient of the message. The voice of the author of the message is characterized into parameters compatible with a formative or articulative text-to-speech engine such that upon... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070078657 - Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines: The present invention provides an application-independent and engine-independent middleware layer (204) between applications (202) and engines (206, 208). The middleware provides speech-related services to both applications (202) and engines (206, 208), thereby making it far easier for application vendors and engine vendors to bring their technology to consumers.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070078658 - Hmi presentation layer configuration system: A human-machine interface generation system comprises a voice recognition component that receives voice commands relating to generation of a human-machine interface within an industrial automation environment. The voice recognition component further translates the voice commands into machine code, such as into a query that conforms to a database query language.... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078659 - Wireless communication device for providing reliable voice-based web browsing: A wireless communication device for voice-based web browsing comprising a processor (204) coupled to a memory (206), a speech input device (224), and a display (216). The memory (206) stores voice commands and sequential values such that each voice command is associated with a sequential value. The speech input device... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070078660 - Digital transactions for the delivery of media files: An incomplete/partly corrupted media file is delivered ‘in the clear’; in addition, a delta file is delivered to users meeting access control criteria which, when combined with the incomplete/partly corrupted parts allows a complete and uncorrupted version of the media file to be re-constructed. The method allows, in one implementation,... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070078661 - Configurable system for performing repetitive actions and method for configuring and operating same: In some embodiments, a data processing system including an operation unit including circuitry configurable to perform any selected one of a number of operations on data (e.g., audio data) and a configuration unit configured to assert configuration information to configure the operation unit to perform the selected operation. When the... Agent: Alfred A. Equitz Girad & Equitz LLP

20070078662 - Seamless audio speed change based on time scale modification: This invention involves time-scale modification of audio signals. The invention describes overlap and add time scale modification with variable input and output buffer sizes. Seamless speed change is achieved by keeping track of previously processed data to avoid discontinuities during playback speed transitions.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated