Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 05/07

20070124131 - Input apparatus, input method and input program: An input apparatus which presents examples suitable to users, including an example storage module to store a plurality of example expressions; an edit storage module to store edits when a user edits the plurality of example expressions; a presentation example determining module to determine one or more presentation examples to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124132 - Method, system and computer program product for composing a reply to a text message received in a messaging application: A method, system and computer program product for composing a reply to a text message received in a messaging application and automatically changing the settings of an input method editor are provided. The language of a received text message is determined and compared to a current input language of the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070124133 - Method and apparatus for training transliteration model and parsing statistic model, method and apparatus for transliteration: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a parsing statistic model, a method and apparatus for transliteration. Said parsing statistic model is to be used in transliteration between a single-syllable language and a multi-syllable language and includes sub-syllable parsing probabilities of said multi-syllable language. Said method for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124134 - Method for personalization of a service: Method for building a multimodal business channel between users, service providers and network operators. The service provided to the users is personalized with a user's profile derived from language and speech models delivered by a speech recognition system. The language and speech models are synchronised with user dependent language models... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070124135 - Impairment detection using speech: A device may include logic configured to receive a first speech input from a party, to compare the first speech input to a second speech input to produce a result, and to determine if the party is impaired based on the result.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070124137 - Highly optimized nonlinear least squares method for sinusoidal sound modelling: A method for modelling, i.a. analyzing and/or synthesizing, a windowed signal such as sound or speech signals, by computing the frequencies and complex amplitudes from the signal using a nonlinear least squares method is disclosed. The computations complexity is reduced by taking into account the bandlimited property of a window.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070124136 - Quality of decoded audio by adding noise: The present invention relates to a method of encoding and decoding an audio signal. The invention further relates to an arrangement for encoding and decoding an audio signal. The invention further relates to a computer-readable medium comprising a data record indicative of an audio signal and a device for communicating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124138 - Transcoding between the indices of multipulse dictionaries used in compressive coding of digital signals: The invention relates to compressive transcoding between pulse coders using multipulse dictionaries in which each pulse occupies a position marked by an index. For each current pulse position supplied by a first coder, a neighborhood (Vge, Vde) is formed around that position. As a function of the pulse positions accepted... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070124139 - Method and apparatus for one-stage and two-stage noise feedback coding of speech and audio signals: Codec structures for achieving two-stage prediction and two-stage noise spectral shaping at the same time, resulting in a Two-Stage Noise Feedback Coding (TSNFC) method. One approach combines two predictors into a single composite predictor; and derives appropriate filters for use in a conventional single-stage NFC codec structure. Another approach duplicates... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070124140 - Method for extending the spectral bandwidth of a speech signal: A method for extending the spectral bandwidth of an excitation signal of a speech signal includes determining a bandwidth limited excitation signal of the speech signal, and applying a nonlinear function to the excitation signal for generating a bandwidth extended excitation signal.... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070124141 - Audio encoding system: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for encoding an audio signal, in which is obtained a sampled audio signal which has been divided into frames. The location of a transient within one of the frames is identified, and transform data samples are generated by performing multi-resolution filter... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20070124142 - Voice enabled knowledge system: This invention discloses a voice enabled knowledge system, comprising a speech recognition engine and text to speech engine. The speech recognition engine further comprises a representation unit to represent the spoken words, a model classification unit to classify the spoken words, a training database to match the spoken words with... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070124143 - Adaptation of environment mismatch for speech recognition systems: The present invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for speech recognition with environmental adaptation. Feature vectors being descriptive of a power spectrum of incorming speech are transformed in order to eliminate environmental mismatch between the recording conditions of training speech and the recording conditions... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124144 - 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.

20070124145 - Method and apparatus for estimating discriminating ability of a speech, method and apparatus for enrollment and evaluation of speaker authentication: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enrollment and evaluation of speaker authentication, a method for estimating discriminating ability of a speech, and a system for speaker authentication. A method for enrollment of speaker authentication, comprising: inputting a speech containing a password that is spoken by a speaker;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124146 - Pattern detection: Apparatus for detecting a pattern in a data stream comprises a pattern matching device for receiving the data stream. The pattern matching device comprises one or more rule engines, each rule engine operating under a plurality of state transition rules encoding a plurality of patterns, a first state transition rule... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070124147 - Methods and apparatus for use in speech recognition systems for identifying unknown words and for adding previously unknown words to vocabularies and grammars of speech recognition systems: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for identifying and assigning meaning to words not recognized by a vocabulary or grammar of a speech recognition system. In an embodiment of the invention, the word may be in an acoustic vocabulary of the speech recognition system, but may be unrecognized by... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070124148 - Speech processing apparatus and speech processing method: A permission portion to permit application of fast-forward and an inhibition portion to inhibit application of fast-forward are discriminated in text. Upon speech synthesis of the text in a fast-forward setting, speech synthesis in the fast-forward setting is performed on the permission portion. Further, upon speech synthesis of the text... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070124149 - User-defined speech-controlled shortcut module and method thereof: A speech-controlled shortcut module for an electronic device to edit and execute at least a speech-controlled function item therein is provided. The provided module contains a speech-controlled database storing the at least a speech-controlled function item having a command name being a name of the at least a speech-controlled function... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070124150 - Audio device: The present invention provides an audio codec for converting digital audio signals to analogue audio signals, the audio codec comprising: two digital audio bus interfaces for coupling to respective digital audio buses; a digital-only signal path between the two digital audio bus interfaces, such that no analogue processing of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070118351 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for translating speech input using example: An apparatus includes a first search unit that searches a storage unit for a first example of a first language based on a sentence in the first language; a second search unit that searches for a second example of a second language corresponding to the first example, the second language... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118352 - Language-understanding systems employing machine translation components: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for augmenting a training database of an automated language-understanding system. In one embodiment, a training example in a first language may be received from the training database. The first language-training example may be translated to a second language output.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070118353 - Device, method, and medium for establishing language model: A device, a method, and a medium for establishing a language model for speech recognition are disclosed. The language-model-establishing device includes: a schema expander for expanding a state schema which is composed of at least one state defined by a finite state grammar using a general grammar database; a grammatical-structure-expander... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070118354 - Data element naming system and method: A computer program for naming at least one of several data elements that can identify business information in a communication is described. Operations include associating a data element with an aggregate data element that includes one or more data elements. The data element is configured to have associated therewith an... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070118355 - Prosody generating devise, prosody generating method, and program: A prosody generation apparatus capable of suppressing distortion that occurs when generating prosodic patterns and therefore generating a natural prosody is provided. A prosody changing point extraction unit in this apparatus extracts a prosody changing point located at the beginning and the ending of a sentence, the beginning and the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20070118356 - Automatic segmentation of texts comprising chunks without separators: Syntagms of a text including individual elements written without separators are segmented into chunks having strings including at least one individual element, such as an ideogram of the Mandarin Chinese language. A lexicon is defined including a set of strings, each string having at least one of the individual elements.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118358 - Phrase processor: A method of implementing a grammar in hardware processing is described. The method comprises determining a delineation of one or more terminals in a received string; assigning one or more non-terminals to one or more of the one or more terminals, wherein the one or more non-terminals belong to a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070118357 - Word recognition using ontologies: Systems, and associated apparatus, methods, or computer program products, may use ontologies to provide improved word recognition. The ontologies may be applied in word recognition processes to resolve ambiguities in language elements (e.g., words) where the values of some of the characters in the language elements are uncertain. Implementations of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070118359 - Emphasis of short-duration transient speech features: A sound processor including a microphone (1), a pre-amplifier (2), a bank of N parallel filters (3), means for detecting short-duration transitions in the envelope signal of each filter channel, and means for applying gain to the outputs of these filter channels in which the gain is related to a... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070118360 - In-situ voice reinforcement system: A voice reinforcement system extracts a portion of a converted speech signal and redirects it towards a listening area where it may be added with the original signal. The system includes a speech input, a filter, and a converter. The speech input generates an intermediate signal from a speech signal.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118361 - Window apparatus and method: An envelope for a window function establishes (a) a power complementary condition, and (b) at least a first derivative (or higher order) that is continuous. The window function is developed from samples of the envelope. This discrete window function has a predetermined domain. The window function can be embodied as... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070118362 - Audio compression/decompression device: An audio compression and decompression device of the present invention includes an LPF (102) which cuts off high frequency components existing at a high-frequency band of the digital audio data before compressed which are inputted to an ADPCM circuit (101) when the digital audio data are compressed or decompressed by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070118363 - Voice speed control apparatus: A voice speed control apparatus comprising: an utterance/non-utterance judging unit judging whether a processing target segment in inputted a voice signal is an utterance segment or a non-utterance segment; a non-utterance continuation length acquiring unit acquiring a non-utterance continuation length representing a length of the voice signal judged continuously to... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070118364 - System for generating closed captions: A system for detecting and modifying breath pauses in a speech input signal includes a breath detection unit connected to receive the speech input signal and to detect breath pauses. The system also includes a modification unit connected to receive input from the breath detection unit and to replace the... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070118365 - Methods and apparatuses for variable dimension vector quantization: Improved variable dimension vector quantization-related (“VDVQ-related”) processes have been developed that provide quality improvements over known coding processes in codebook optimization and the quantization of harmonic magnitudes that can be applied to a broad range of distortion measures, including those that would involve inverting a singular matrix using known centroid... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118366 - Methods and apparatuses for variable dimension vector quantization: Improved variable dimension vector quantization-related (“VDVQ-related”) processes have been developed that provide quality improvements over known coding processes in codebook optimization and the quantization of harmonic magnitudes that can be applied to a broad range of distortion measures, including those that would involve inverting a singular matrix using known centroid... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118368 - Audio encoding apparatus and audio encoding method: An audio encoding apparatus comprising: a power calculation unit that calculates a power fluctuation ratio based on the input signal; a calculation unit that calculates a prediction gain fluctuation ratio based on the input signal; and a block length judging unit that selects one of encoding using a long block... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070118367 - Method and device for low delay processing: Adaptive processing of an input signal is achieved by offline analysis, with inline processing comprising an adaptive filter. The method comprises passing the input signal through an adaptive time domain filter to produce an output signal. The input signal and/or output signal is used as an offline analysis signal. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070118369 - Classification-based frame loss concealment for audio signals: A system and method for performing frame loss concealment (FLC) when portions of a bit stream representing an audio signal are lost within the context of a digital communication system. The system and method utilizes a plurality of different FLC techniques, wherein each technique is tuned or designed for a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070118370 - Methods and apparatuses for variable dimension vector quantization: Improved variable dimension vector quantization-related (“VDVQ-related”) processes have been developed that provide quality improvements over known coding processes in codebook optimization and the quantization of harmonic magnitudes that can be applied to a broad range of distortion measures, including those that would involve inverting a singular matrix using known centroid... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118371 - Methods and apparatuses for variable dimension vector quantization: Improved variable dimension vector quantization-related (“VDVQ-related”) processes have been developed that provide quality improvements over known coding processes in codebook optimization and the quantization of harmonic magnitudes that can be applied to a broad range of distortion measures, including those that would involve inverting a singular matrix using known centroid... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118374 - Method for generating closed captions: A method for detecting and modifying breath pauses in a speech input signal includes detecting breath pauses in a speech input signal; modifying the breath pauses by replacing the breath pauses with a predetermined input and/or attenuating the breath pauses; and outputting an output speech signal. A computer program for... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070118372 - System and method for generating closed captions: A system for generating closed captions is provided. The system includes a speech recognition engine configured to generate one or more text transcripts corresponding to one or more speech segments from an audio signal. The system further includes a processing engine, one or more context-based models and an encoder. The... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070118373 - System and method for generating closed captions: A system for generating closed captions from an audio signal includes an audio pre-processor configured to correct one or more predetermined undesirable attributes from an audio signal and to output one or more speech segments. The system also includes a speech recognition module configured to generate from the one or... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070118375 - Audio identification system and method: A method and system for direct audio capture and identification of the captured audio. A user may then be offered the opportunity to purchase recordings directly over the Internet or similar outlet. The system preferably includes one or more user-carried portable audio capture devices that employ a microphone, analog to... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070118376 - Word clustering for input data: A clustering tool to generate word clusters. In embodiments described, the clustering tool includes a clustering component that generates word clusters for words or word combinations in input data. In illustrated embodiments, the word clusters are used to modify or update a grammar for a closed vocabulary speech recognition application.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070118378 - Dynamically changing voice attributes during speech synthesis based upon parameter differentiation for dialog contexts: A method of speech synthesis can include automatically identifying spoken passages within a text source and converting the text source to speech by applying different voice configurations to different portions of text within the text source according to whether each portion of text was identified as a spoken passage. The... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070118377 - Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor: A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070118379 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070118380 - Method and device for controlling a speech dialog system: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a speech dialog system comprising the steps of receiving an input signal emanating from a device not being part of the speech dialog system, automatically classifying the input signal according to a predetermined criterion, initiating outputting and output speech signal by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118382 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Candidates for channels of television programs to be displayed are determined in accordance with a result of voice recognition of a voice input by a user. The channel candidates are assigned to a limited number of tuners and television programs received by the tuners are displayed to allow the user... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070118383 - Speech output method: In order to prevent or reduce setting errors, a speech output of information concerning the contents of settings is produced so that important setting information can be output as speech to users. The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for outputting setting information via speech, the apparatus... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070118384 - Voice activated mammography information systems: A mammography information system (“MIS”) including voice command and audio feedback capabilities. A radiologist using the MIS can navigate a MIS application using voice command, thus enabling a “heads-up” and “hands free” environment for the radiologist and minimizing the amount of time required for reading mammograms. The MIS can include... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070118381 - Voice control methods: Disclosed is a voice control method, by which a user may effectively control an electronic device to operate through a voice control input without the situation encountered where a voice control command can sometimes not be received and responded by the electronic device.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070112553 - System, method, and program for identifying the corresponding translation: Suitable translations of phrases to be translated in original sentences having a high probability of obtaining natural translated sentences as sentences in a target language from the original sentences in a source language are obtained. A plurality of natural sentences, in the source language composed of a plurality of words,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070112554 - System of interactive dictionary: System for building one's own interactive dictionary and/or thesaurus of words, terms, phrases, etc. in one or more languages. It being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest of vocabulary in one or more languages by well-defined classifications that uses a computer.... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070112555 - Dynamic natural language understanding: Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070112556 - Dynamic natural language understanding: Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070112557 - Translation system and method: The invention relates a translation system for a portable communication apparatus and a method thereof. The translation system includes a storage unit, an input unit, a processing module, and a display unit. The storage unit stores an inquiry datum being one of a short message and an e-mail transceived by... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20070112558 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus to create an arithmetic expression by combining one or more operators includes a detection unit to detect a permutation of plural operators existing in common to the plural created arithmetic expressions, and a registration unit to register the detected permutation of the operators as a new... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070112559 - Audio signal synthesis: Synthesizing an output audio signal is provided on the basis of an input audio signal, the input audio signal comprising a plurality of input sub-band signals, wherein at least one input sub-band signal is transformed (T) from the sub-band domain to the frequency domain to obtain at least one respective... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070112560 - Low bit-rate audio encoding: In a sinusoidal audio encoder a number of sinusoids are estimated per audio segment. A sinusoid is represented y frequency, amplitude and phase. Normally, phase is quantised independent of frequency The invention uses a frequency dependent quantisation of phase, and in particular the low frequencies are quantised using smaller quantisation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070112561 - Lpas speech coder using vector quantized, multi-codebook, multi-tap pitch predictor: A method and apparatus for reducing the complexity of linear prediction analysis-by synthesis (LPAS) speech coders. The speech coder includes a multi-tap pitch predictor having various parameters and utilizing an adaptive codebook subdivided into at least a first vector codebook and a second vector codebook. The pitch predictor removes certain... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070112562 - System and method for winding audio content using a voice activity detection algorithm: A system and method for locating a preferable playback start location after a winding or rewinding action in an audio playing device. In response to an adjustment of the playing location for audio content to a desired playing position, the system determines whether at least one non-speech or silent period... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070112563 - Determination of audio device quality: The quality of particular audio device configurations in a computer system is determined. A model sample audio file stored in memory on the computing device is played through a loudspeaker connected with the computer system. The sound generated thereby is captured by a microphone connected with the computer system to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070112564 - Method and device for robust predictive vector quantization of linear prediction parameters in variable bit rate speech coding: The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate to a method and device for quantizing linear prediction parameters in variable bit-rate sound signal coding, in which an input linear prediction parameter vector is received, a sound signal frame corresponding to the input linear prediction parameter vector is classified, a prediction vector... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070112565 - Device, method, and medium for generating audio fingerprint and retrieving audio data: Provided are device, method, and medium for generating an audio fingerprint and retrieving audio data. The device for generating an audio fingerprint includes: a coefficient extracting section partially decoding audio data in a compression area and extracting MDCT (Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients; a coefficient selecting section selecting an MDCT... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070112566 - Method and system for gaussian probability data bit reduction and computation: Use of runtime memory may be reduced in a data processing algorithm that uses one or more probability distribution functions. Each probability distribution function may be characterized by one or more uncompressed mean values and one or more variance values. The uncompressed mean and variance values may be represented by... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070112567 - Techiques for model optimization for statistical pattern recognition: In one embodiment, a statistical pattern recognition engine determines content for a statistical pattern recognition task. The content and/or information related to the content is analyzed to determine a model to use in the statistical pattern recognition. For example, models may be classified in a plurality of domains based on... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070112568 - Method for speech recognition and communication device: Speaker-dependent speech recognition is performed upon detecting a speech signal encompassing a voice command. The speech signal is divided into time frames and characterized in each detected time frame by forming a corresponding property vector. A property vector sequence is formed from one or several property vectors and then stored.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070112569 - Method for text-to-pronunciation conversion: Disclosed is a method for text-to-pronunciation conversion, which comprises a process for searching grapheme-phoneme segments and a three-stage process of text-to-pronunciation conversion. This method looks for a sequence of grapheme-phoneme pairs (a sequence of grapheme-phoneme pairs is referred to a chunk) via a trained pronouncing dictionary, proceeds grapheme segmentation, chunk... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070112570 - Voice synthesizer, voice synthesizing method, and computer program: A voice synthesizer includes a recorded voice storage portion (124) that stores recorded voices that are pre-recorded; a voice input portion (110) that is input with a reading voice reading out a text that is to be generated by the synthesized voice; an attribute information input portion (112) that is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070112571 - Speech recognition at a mobile terminal: Informational text is provided to a mobile terminal capable of being coupled to a mobile communications network. Digitally-encoded voice data is received at the mobile terminal via the network. The digitally-encoded voice data is converted to text via a speech recognition module of the mobile terminal. Informational portions of the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070112572 - Method and apparatus for assisting vision impaired individuals with selecting items from a list: A method, system, and computer program product for assisting individuals with vision impairment in their selection of items that are typically displayed in a list.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070112573 - Sinusoid selection in audio encoding: A method of encoding (1) an audio signal (x(t)) by representing (12) at least part of said audio signal by a plurality of sinusoids. The method comprising the steps of performing an analysis on a first segment of said audio signal, selecting candidate sinusoids based on said analysis, defining for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070106491 - Method and mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and comparison of semantic abstracts: Codifying the “most prominent measurement points” of a document can be used to measure semantic distances given an area of study (e.g., white papers on some subject area). A semantic abstract is created for each document. The semantic abstract is a semantic measure of the subject or theme of the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20070106495 - Adaptive task framework: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for performing natural language processing in which natural language input is mapped to a task. The system includes a task interface for defining a task, the associated data and the manner in which the task data is interpreted. Furthermore, the system provides... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070106496 - Adaptive task framework: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for performing natural language processing in which natural language input is mapped to a task. The system includes a task interface for defining a task, the associated data and the manner in which the task data is interpreted. Furthermore, the system provides... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070106492 - Apparatus and method for inputting alphabet characters: The invention shows that words or phrases may be input without ambiguity in some languages and with a little ambiguity in most languages by applying (language restricted) RSM and CVSK. Moreover, this invention proposes an innovative system which recognizes in early stage of input whether an input value is a... Agent: Jonathan Y Kang Lee Hong Degerman Kang & Schmadeka

20070106494 - Automatic detection and application of editing patterns in draft documents: An error detection and correction system extracts editing patterns and derives correction rules from them by observing differences between draft documents and corresponding edited documents, and/or by observing editing operations performed on the draft documents to produce the edited documents. The system develops classifiers that partition the space of all... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070106493 - Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, computer systems, and articles of manufacture: Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, computer systems, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a word disambiguation method includes accessing textual content to be disambiguated, wherein the textual content comprises a plurality of words individually comprising a plurality of word senses, for... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070106497 - Natural language interface for driving adaptive scenarios: A “Natural Language Script Interface” (NLSI), provides an interface and query system for automatically interpreting natural language inputs to select, execute, and/or otherwise present one or more scripts or other code to the user for further user interaction. In other words, the NLSI manages a pool of scripts or code,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070106498 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefor: A method is provided for text input in which a command is received to activate a dictionary input mode. Thereafter an input sequence is received and interpreted thereby generating a word. As the word is accepted it is stored in a dictionary. Corresponding apparatus and a computer program are also... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070106500 - Multi-language document search and retrieval system: A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization phase of the process, a string of text is separated into individual word tokens, and predetermined types of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070106499 - Natural language search system: A natural language system searching system develops concept and string indexes of a textual database, such as a group of litigation documents, by breaking the text to be indexed into sentences, words, dates, names and places in a reader, identifying phrases in a phrase parser, recovering word stems in a... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20070106501 - System and method for subvocal interactions in radiology dictation and ui commands: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a medical workflow system including a subvocal input device, an impulse processing component, and an information management system. The subvocal input device is capable of sensing nerve impulses in a user. The impulse processing component is in communication with the subvocal input device.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070106502 - Adaptive time/frequency-based audio encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods: Adaptive time/frequency-based audio encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods. The encoding apparatus includes a transformation & mode determination unit to divide an input audio signal into a plurality of frequency-domain signals and to select a time-based encoding mode or a frequency-based encoding mode for each respective frequency-domain signal, an encoding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070106503 - Method and apparatus for extracting pitch information from audio signal using morphology: A function of improving accuracy of the extraction of pitch information in an audio signal including voice and sound signals is implemented. To do this, a morphological operation is used. In detail, an input audio signal is converted to an audio signal in a frequency domain, an optimum structuring set... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070106504 - Method of determining uncertainty associated with acoustic distortion-based noise reduction: A method and apparatus are provided for determining uncertainty in noise reduction based on a parametric model of speech distortion. The method is first used to reduce noise in a noisy signal. In particular, noise is reduced from a representation of a portion of a noisy signal to produce a... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070106505 - Audio coding: An audio coder is arranged to process a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments of an audio signal (x). The coder comprises an analyser (TSA) arranged to analyse the sampled signal values to provide one or more sinusoidal codes (Cs) corresponding to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070106506 - Personal synergic filtering of multimodal inputs: A method and apparatus is provided for identifying an input sequence entered by a user of a communication unit. The method includes the steps of providing a database containing a plurality of partial sequences from the user of the communication unit, recognizing an identity of at least some information items... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070106507 - Noise playback enhancement of prerecorded audio for speech recognition operations: A speech processing method including the step of identifying prerecorded audio comprising an original speech segment and a corresponding original noise segment. An audio stream can be generated from the prerecorded audio. The audio stream can comprise a stream speech segment and a stream noise segment. The stream speech segment... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070106508 - Methods and systems for creating a second generation session file: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a speech editor for creating a second file have text segments synchronized with an audio file. The editor receives a text segment and a first file that has tag information lines associated with the text segment. Each tag information line has... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070106509 - Indexing and searching speech with text meta-data: An index for searching spoken documents having speech data and text meta-data is created by obtaining probabilities of occurrence of words and positional information of the words of the speech data and combining it with at least positional information of the words in the text meta-data. A single index can... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070106510 - Voice based data capturing system: Methods and apparatuses for collecting data utilizing voice recognition and voice authentication technologies. In one variation, the method comprises recording a plurality of clinical data entries through voice inputs and verifying the identity of the user through voice authentication. The method can further include associating each of the recorded clinical... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070106511 - Speaker identifying apparatus and computer program product: A speaker identifying apparatus includes: a module for performing a principal component analysis on predetermined vocal tract geometrical parameters of a plurality of speakers and calculating an average and principal component vectors representing speaker-dependent variation; a module for performing acoustic analysis on the speech data being uttered for each of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070106513 - Method for facilitating text to speech synthesis using a differential vocoder: A text to speech system (100) uses differential voice coding (230, 416) to compress a database of digitized speech waveform segments (210). A seed waveform (535) is used to precondition each speech waveform prior to encoding which, upon encoding, provides a seeded preconditioned encoded speech token (550). The seed portion... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070106514 - Method of generating a prosodic model for adjusting speech style and apparatus and method of synthesizing conversational speech using the same: An apparatus and method for adjusting the friendliness of a synthesized speech and thus generating synthesized speech of various styles in a speech synthesis system are provided. The method includes the steps of defining at least two friendliness levels; storing recorded speech data of sentences, the sentences being made up... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070106512 - Speech index pruning: A speech segment is indexed by identifying at least two alternative word sequences for the speech segment. For each word in the alternative sequences, information is placed in an entry for the word in the index. Speech units are eliminated from entries in the index based on a comparison of... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070106515 - Automated interactive statistical call visualization using abstractions stack model framework: Statistical speech recognition application call data is visually presented. A data model is built using speech application data from disparate events. The data model is modified using predetermined abstraction rules. The modified data model is translated into a visual representation of the modified data model with multiple levels of abstraction.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070106516 - Creating alternative audio via closed caption data: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, create an alternative audio file with alternative audio segments and embed markers in the alternative audio file. Each of the markers is associated with a respective alternative audio segment, and the markers identify original closed caption data segments in... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070106517 - System and method of subscription identity authentication utilizing multiple factors: A system and method of providing voice authentication to institutional customers having consumers or users. The system includes an enrollment module, a verification module, and a database. Each institutional customer has an authentication profile on the system that includes both i) instructions indicating which one or more of the voice... Agent: Pryor Cashman, LLP

20070100601 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for optimum translation based on semantic relation between words: A machine translation apparatus includes a identification information detection unit that detects information identifiable to a designated object; a receiving unit that receives a source language sentence; a word dividing unit that divides the source language sentence into a plurality of first word by morphological analysis; a deixis detection unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100600 - Explication system and method: An explication system and method provides a storage unit for storing a plurality of words, explications corresponding to the words and a plurality of roots; segments a word to be searched according to the contents stored in the storage unit so as to segment the searched word into at least... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070100602 - Method of generating an exceptional pronunciation dictionary for automatic korean pronunciation generator: Disclosed is a method of creating an exceptional pronunciation dictionary for automatic pronunciation generation in Korean. The automatic pronunciation generator in Korean is an essential element of a Korean speech recognition system and a TTS (Text-To-Speech) system. The automatic pronunciation generator in Korean is comprised of a part of regular... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070100603 - Method for routing electronic correspondence based on the level and type of emotion contained therein: A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer support worker, to flag those workers who are using inappropriate language with the customer, or to determine another best course to... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070100604 - Semantic analysis system for interpreting linguistic structures output by a natural language linguistic analysis system: The present invention is a system and method for performing semantic analysis that interprets a linguistic structure output by a natural language linguistic analysis system. The semantic analysis system converts the linguistic output by the natural language linguistic analysis system into a data structure model referred to as a semantic... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070100605 - Method for processing audio-signals: The invention regards a method for processing audio-signals whereby audio signals are captured at two spaced apart locations and subject to a transformation in the perceptual domain (Bar or Mel), whereupon: a) a (blind or supervised) source separation process is performed to give a first estimate of the wanted signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070100606 - Pre-resampling to achieve continuously variable analysis time/frequency resolution: A digital audio signal can be processed using continuously variable time-frequency resolution by selecting a portion of an input digital audio signal, resampling the selected portion of the input digital audio signal, generating a plurality of spectral characteristics associated with the resampled portion of the input digital audio signal, generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070100607 - Time warped modified transform coding of audio signals: A spectral representation of an audio signal having consecutive audio frames can be derived more efficiently, when a common time warp is estimated for any two neighbouring frames, such that a following block transform can additionally use the warp information. Thus, window functions required for successful application of an overlap... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070100608 - Speaker verification system using acoustic data and non-acoustic data: A method and system for speech characterization. One embodiment includes a method for speaker verification which includes collecting data from a speaker, wherein the data comprises acoustic data and non-acoustic data. The data is used to generate a template that includes a first set of “template” parameters. The method further... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of California

20070100609 - Voice signal detection system and method: Provided is a voice signal detection system and method, which extracts peaks from an input signal, compares a voltage level of each of the extracted peaks to a pre-set threshold voltage level, converts the comparison result to a binary sequence, determines the length of a test window to examine the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070100610 - Information signal processing by modification in the spectral/modulation spectral range representation: Processing of information signals separated according to modulation and carrier components in a more controlled way is made possible by a device for processing an information signal including a unit for converting the information signal to a time/spectral representation by block-wise transforming of the information signal and a unit for... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070100611 - Speech codec apparatus with spike reduction: A method and an apparatus are disclosed to reduce spikes present in speech signals of a VOP (Voice over Packet) communication system. The apparatus receives speech signals, detect spikes if present in the speech signals and filters the spikes in the speech signals so as to communicate speech signals having... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070100612 - Partially complex modulated filter bank: An apparatus for processing a plurality of real-valued subband signals using a first real-valued subband signal and a second real-valued subband signal to provide at least a complex-valued subband signal comprises a multiband filter for providing an intermediate real-valued subband signal and a calculator for providing the complex-valued subband signal... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070100613 - Excitation vector generator, speech coder and speech decoder: An excitation vector generator includes an input vector provider configured to provide an input vector having at least one pulse, each pulse having a pre-determined position and a respective polarity. An arranger is configured to arrange a waveform in accordance with the position and the polarity of the pulse. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070100614 - Speech decoder and code error compensation method: When an error is detected in coded data in the current frame, data separation section 201 separates the data into coding parameters first. Then, mode information decoding section 202 outputs decoding mode information in the previous frame and uses this as the mode information of the current frame. Furthermore, using... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070100615 - Method for recovering target speech based on amplitude distributions of separated signals: The present invention provides a method for recovering target speech based on shapes of amplitude distributions of split spectra obtained by use of blind signal separation. This method includes: a first step of receiving target speech emitted from a sound source and a noise emitted from another sound source and... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070100616 - Method for audio calculation: A method for an audio algorithm is provided. The method includes steps of (a) providing an audio datum, a block division rule of unfixed sample size, and an encoding optimization process; (b) establishing a block from the audio datum by the block division rule of unfixed sample size; (c) obtaining... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070100617 - Text microphone: A microphone that transduces incident pressure waves (e.g. those representing sounds) and generates text streams as a response. The microphone is a single, integrated unit with device specifications that apply to the entire unit.... Agent: Haikya Corp.

20070100618 - Apparatus, method, and medium for dialogue speech recognition using topic domain detection: An apparatus, method, and medium for dialogue speech recognition using topic domain detection are disclosed. An apparatus includes a forward search module performing a forward search in order to create a word lattice similar to a feature vector, which is extracted from an input voice signal, with reference to a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070100619 - Key usage and text marking in the context of a combined predictive text and speech recognition system: A combined predictive speech and text recognition system. The present invention combines the functionality of text input programs with speech input and recognition systems. With the present invention, a user can both manually enter text and speak desired letters, words or phrases. The system receives and analyzes the provided information... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070100621 - Data management of audio aspects of a data stream: In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input designating an audio aspect of an audio data stream; and accepting input for retaining at a high resolution the audio aspect of the audio data stream. In addition, other method, system, and program... Agent: Searete LLC

20070100620 - System, method and computer program product for verifying an identity using voiced to unvoiced classifiers: Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product for verifying an identity claimed by a claimant using voiced to unvoiced classifiers are described. In accordance with one embodiment, a speech sample from a claimant claiming an identity may be captured. From the speech sample, a ratio of unvoiced frames... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070100622 - Adaptation method for inter-person biometrics variability: Embodiments of a system and method for verifying an identity of a claimant are described. In accordance with one embodiment, a feature may be extracted from a biometric sample captured from a claimant claiming an identity. The extracted feature may be compared to a template associated with the identity to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070100623 - Device and method for assessing a quality class of an object to be tested: A device for assessing a quality class of an object to be tested includes a unit for detecting a test signal from the object to be tested. Furthermore, the device for assessing includes a unit for providing a stochastic Markov model including states and transitions between states on the basis... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070100625 - Method and apparatus for speech processing: An audible utterance is received from a user. A procedure determines a user intent associated with the audible utterance and identifies multiple parameters associated with the user intent. The procedure then determines whether any of the multiple parameters associated with the user intent are missing from the audible utterance. If... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20070100624 - Unified treatment of data-sparseness and data-overfitting in maximum entropy modeling: A method of statistical modeling is provided which includes constructing a statistical model and incorporating Gaussian priors during feature selection and during parameter optimization for the construction of the statistical model.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100626 - System and method for improving speaking ability: A speech analysis system and method for analyzing speech. The system includes: a voice recognition system for converting inputted speech to text; an analytics system for generating feedback information by analyzing the inputted speech and text; and a feedback system for outputting the feedback information.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070100627 - Device, method, and program for selecting voice data: The present invention provides a voice data selector and the like for obtaining natural synthetic speech at high speed in simple configuration. In a voice data selector of the present invention, when data expressing a message template is supplied, a voice unit editor retrieves voice unit data of a voice... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070100628 - Dynamic prosody adjustment for voice-rendering synthesized data: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for dynamic prosody adjustment for voice-rendering synthesized data that include retrieving synthesized data to be voice-rendered; identifying, for the synthesized data to be voice-rendered, a particular prosody setting; determining, in dependence upon the synthesized data to be voice-rendered and the context information for the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100629 - Porting synthesized email data to audio files: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for porting synthesized email data to audio files containing waveform data representing speech presentation of the synthesized emails which includes selecting an individual synthesized email; selecting a file type; identifying one or more elements of the individual synthesized email to be recorded as an... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100630 - Speech recognition system, speech recognition method, speech synthesis system, speech synthesis method, and program product: The speech recognition system comprises a sound signal processor 10 configured to acquire a sound signal, and to calculate a sound signal parameter based on the acquired sound signal; an electromyographic signal processor 13 configured to acquire potential changes on a surface of the object as an electromyographic signal, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070100631 - Producing an audio appointment book: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for producing an audio appointment book which include, selecting synthesized calendar events to be recorded as an audio file, converting the text and markup of the synthesized calendar events to waveform data of a selected file type, and recording the waveform data as one... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100633 - Controlling a computer user interface with sound: Controlling a computer user interface with sound including defining ranges of audio frequencies; associating each range with a user interface command; receiving as input from a user a sound representing an instruction to execute a user interface command, the sound characterized by a spectrum of frequencies and energies; identifying the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070100632 - Speaker-dependent voice recognition method and voice recognition system: A speaker-dependent voice recognition method is provided involving the use of a voice recognition system, during which voice utterances of the user are trained, and commands are assigned to the trained voice utterances. The present disclosure seeks to carry out a training of new commands in a time-saving manner. To... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070100634 - Tracking time using portable recorders and speech recognition: In general, the present invention converts speech, preferably recorded on a portable recorder, to text, analyzes the text, and determines voice commands and times when the voice commands occurred. Task names are associated with voice commands and time segments. These time segments and tasks may be packaged as time increments... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20070100635 - Combined speech and alternate input modality to a mobile device: Both speech and alternate modality inputs are used in inputting information spoken into a mobile device. The alternate modality inputs can be used to perform sequential commitment of words in a speech recognition result.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070100636 - Speech recognition apparatus: A speech recognition apparatus that enables efficient multimodal input in setting a plurality of items by one utterance is provided. An input unit inputs a setting instruction by speech. A speech interpretation unit recognizes and interprets the contents of the setting instruction by speech to generate first structured data containing... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070100637 - Autonomous integrated headset and sound processing system for tactical applications: A sound processing system including a user headset for use in tactical military operations provides integrated sound and speech analysis including sound filtering and amplification, sound analysis and speech recognition for analyzing speech and non-speech sounds and taking programmed actions based on the analysis, recognizing language of speech for purposes... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070100638 - System and method to use text-to-speech to prompt whether text-to-speech output should be added during installation of a program on a computer system normally controlled through a user interactive display: An auditory user interactive interface to an application program being installed in the computer controlled system. A routine in an object, in an application program being installed in the computer controlled system for providing an auditory user interface to the program in combination with auditory means for offering the user... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070100639 - Audio encoding: Coding of an audio signal (x) represented by a respective set of sampled signal values (x(t)) for each of a plurality of sequential time segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are analyzed to determine one or more sinusoidal components for each of the plurality of sequential segments. The sinusoidal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards