Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 06/07

20070150260 - Apparatus and method for automatic translation customized for documents in restrictive domain: An apparatus and method for automatic translation of patent documents are provided. Translation knowledge customized for the patent domain is extracted and used. The method includes the steps of: extracting a number of technical terms from a patent document and assigning translated terms for the extracted technical terms; extracting expressions... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070150259 - Apparatus, method, and program product for translation and method of providing translation support service: An apparatus selects from among a plurality of translation records a translation record for use in translation of a newly received text. Each of the translation records stores with respect to past translation results at least one pair of a source-language text, being a divided part corresponding to a translation... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070150256 - Auto translator and the method thereof and the recording medium to program it: This invention is about the auto translator, the automatic translation method that is used by this auto translator, and the recording medium by which this auto translation method is programmed. This invention makes the translation of sentence (English sentence Chinese sentence) more accurate and natural. Because the peculiar properties of... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070150257 - Machine translation using non-contiguous fragments of text: A machine translation method for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language includes receiving the source text in the first language and accessing a library of bi-fragments, each of the bi-fragments including a text fragment from the first language and a text fragment... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070150258 - System and method for providing dynamic multiple language support for application programs: In response to a user activating a language switching mechanism to indicate a newly selected language, a language switch component sends a language key that corresponds to a first language sensitive element displayed in the user interface to a language resource manager. The language resource manager retrieves from a language... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070150261 - Audio signal noise reduction device and method: An audio signal noise reduction device that includes: input means for making an input of one or more audio signals; timing generation means for generating a gap period in accordance with a generation period of noise coming from a noise generation source included in the audio signal; noise removal means... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070150262 - Sound packet transmitting method, sound packet transmitting apparatus, sound packet transmitting program, and recording medium in which that program has been recorded: Input speech is coded in an encoder (11), the coded speech is decoded in a decoder (12), compensatory speech which compensates the speech of the current frame is generated in a compensatory speech generating part (20) by using past decoded speech, the quality of the compensatory speech is evaluated by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150263 - Speech modeling and enhancement based on magnitude-normalized spectra: A frame of a speech signal is converted into the spectral domain to identify a plurality of frequency components and an energy value for the frame is determined. The plurality of frequency components is divided by the energy value for the frame to form energy-normalized frequency components. A model is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070150264 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with voice detection: A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070150265 - Device for synthesis of a composite digital signal with explicit control of the first three moments thereof: s

20070150266 - Search system and method thereof for searching code-vector of speech signal in speech encoder: The present invention provides a method for searching a target code-vector of a speech signal in a speech encoder. The target code-vector defines a plurality of pulse positions and includes a plurality of pulses each assignable to the pulse positions of the code-vector. The pulse positions are distributed to a... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070150267 - Signal encoding device and signal encoding method, signal decoding device and signal decoding method, program, and recording medium: A signal encoding device for encoding an input time-series signal includes: partitioning means; low-frequency encoding means; high-frequency gain information generating means; low-frequency reference value information generating means; high-frequency gain difference information generating means; high-frequency gain difference information encoding means; and multiplexing means.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070150269 - Bandwidth extension of narrowband speech: A system extends the bandwidth of a narrowband speech signal into a wideband spectrum. The system includes a high-band generator that generates a high frequency spectrum based on a narrowband spectrum. A background noise generator generates a high frequency background noise spectrum based on a background noise within the narrowband... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070150270 - Method for removing background noise in a speech signal: A method for removing a background noise from a speech signal is provided, which comprises the following steps. First, an attenuation factor of a frequency band i is calculated. Then, a smoothing filtering is performed based on the attenuation factors of the frequency bands to calculate a forward attenuation factor... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070150268 - Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array: A microphone array having at least three microphones provides a captured signal. Spatial noise suppression estimates a desired signal from a captured signal using spatio-temporal distribution of the speech and the noise. In particular, spatial information indicative of at least two quantities of direction are used. A first quantity is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070150272 - Correlating and decorrelating transforms for multiple description coding systems: Transmitters and receivers in multiple description coding systems use correlating and decorrelating transforms to generate and process multiple descriptions of elements of an input signal. The multiple descriptions include groups of correlating transform coefficients that permit recovery of an inexact facsimile of the original signal if some of the correlating... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070150271 - Optimized multiple coding method: The invention relates to the compression coding of digital signals such as multimedia signals (audio or video), and more particularly a method for multiple coding, wherein several encoders each comprising a series of functional blocks receive an input signal in parallel. According to the invention, a) the functional blocks (BF10,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070150273 - Information retrieval apparatus and method: An information retrieval apparatus which retrieves a program by using speech recognition is provided. A recognition dictionary storage unit stores a recognition dictionary in which a lexicon for the speech recognition is described. A program information storage unit stores program information data. A viewing history storage unit stores a viewing... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070150274 - Utterance state detection apparatus and method for detecting utterance state: An utterance state detection apparatus includes a transmission device carried by a user and one or more reception devices. The transmission device includes an identification-information storage unit, a speech detector and a transmission unit. The identification-information storage unit stores identification information of at least one of the transmission device and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070150275 - Pattern matching method and apparatus: A system is provided for matching two or more sequences of phonemes both or all of which may be generated from text or speech. A dynamic programming matching technique is preferably used having constraints which depend upon whether or not the two sequences are generated from text or speech and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150276 - Method and apparatus for detecting unsolicited multimedia communications: A service is configured to analyze multimedia communications to determine a likelihood that the communication is unsolicited. For example, the service may inspect e-mail messages, instant messaging messages, facsimile transmissions, voice communications, and video telephony, and analyze these forms of communication to determine whether an intended communication is unsolicited. In... Agent: John C. Gorecki, Esq.

20070150277 - Method and system for segmenting phonemes from voice signals: A method and a system for segmenting phonemes from voice signals. A method for accurately segmenting phonemes, in which a histogram showing a peak distribution corresponding to an order is formed by using a high order concept, and a boundary indicating a starting point and an ending point of each... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070150278 - Speech recognition system for providing voice recognition services using a conversational language model: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and article of manufacture for adjusting a language model within a voice recognition system, based on text received from an external application. The external application may supply text representing the words of one participant to a text-based conversation. In such a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070150279 - Word matching with context sensitive character to sound correlating: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with word matching with context sensitive character to sound correlating are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes automatically generating context sensitive character to sound correlation rules, making the rules available to a query processing logic, converting words into sets of sounds using the... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070150284 - Automated sound system designing: An automated sound system design device and a method for operating it. A computer is constructed and arranged to accept input of facility information signals and sound system preference signals requirements, and using a previously stored assemblage of component performance capability data signals to generate a sound system output signal... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070150280 - Interface system, method and apparatus: An interface system, a method and an apparatus are applied for an electronic apparatus and comprise a load module, an instruction database, a macro module, an object module, a command input module and a processing module. A recognition apparatus and an application program are loaded by the load module. A... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20070150281 - Method and system for utilizing emotion to search content: Emotions are utilized as the basis for categorizing and searching content, including creating reviews, characterizing existing Internet items through automated and manual analysis, creating user profiles for behavioral targeting applications, matching consumers to items, searching for items, and recommending items. Content is first classified or characterized by emotion. A person's... Agent: Bruce E. Hayden, P.C.

20070150283 - Speech recognition system and method for employing the same: A speech recognition system that includes a host computer which is operative to communicate at least one graphical user interface (GUI) display file to a mobile terminal of the system. The mobile terminal includes a microphone for receiving speech input; wherein the at least one GUI display file is operative... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070150285 - Recorder adapted to interface with internet browser: A manually or voice-activated recorder interfaces with an Internet browser. A handheld recording device functions to record a vocal input signal including an analog representation of a website address. The analog input is then converted into a digital signal and stored on the recording device to be routed to an... Agent: Abelman Frayne & Schwab

20070150286 - Voice initiated network operations: Embodiments of voice initiated network operations are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070150289 - Electronic apparatus and computer readable medium recorded voice operating program: An electronic apparatus configured, on the assumption of its sharing by a plurality of users, to provide a plurality of functions, in which normal operations and interrupt operations based on a user's voice can be performed is provided. The apparatus comprises: a voice inputting unit for inputting a user's voice;... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070150290 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Information including a first item and a second item is obtained and the first item of the obtained information is compared with registered words. A determination is made as to whether or not text information of the second item is to be subjected to speech synthesis. If the second item... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070150291 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An apparatus and method for speech information processing includes detecting a first operation of a speech processing start instruction element, controlling a display so that speech recognition information is displayed in response to the detection of the first operation, detecting a second operation of the speech processing start instruction element,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070150287 - Method for driving a dialog system: The invention describes a method for driving a dialog system (1) comprising an audio interface (11) for processing audio signals (3,6). The method deduces characteristics (2) of an expected audio input signal (3) and generates audio interface control parameters (4) according to these characteristics (2). The behaviour of the audio... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Corporate Paten Counsel

20070150288 - Simultaneous support of isolated and connected phrase command recognition in automatic speech recognition systems: A system for operating one or more devices using speech input including a receiver for receiving a speech input, a controller in communication with said receiver, software executing on said controller for converting the speech input into computer-readable data, software executing on said controller for generating a table of active... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070143098 - Systems and methods for determining relevant information based on document structure: Techniques are provided for determining relevant information from a document based on document structure. A document is selected and structural elements within the document having a dominance relationship are determined. A first location within the document is selected. The structural element surrounding the first location is determined and the surrounding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143101 - Class description generation for clustering and categorization: A class is to be characterized of a probabilistic classifier or clustering system that includes probabilistic model parameters. For each of a plurality of candidate words or word combinations, divergence of the class from other classes is computed based on one or more probabilistic model parameters profiling the candidate word... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070143100 - Method & system for creation of a disambiguation system: A method and system for addressing disambiguation issues in interactive applications by creating a disambiguation system for generating complex grammars that includes homonym detection and grouping, and provides optimization feedback that eliminates time-consuming and repetitive iterative steps during the grammar generation portion of the interactive application configuration.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070143099 - Method and system for conveying an example in a natural language understanding application: A method (300) and system (100) is provided to add the creation of examples at a developer level in the generation of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models, tying the examples into a NLU sentence database (130), automatically validating (310) a correct outcome of using the examples, and automatically resolving (316)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070143103 - Conference captioning: A system and method for providing captioning in a conference. In an illustrative embodiment, the method includes establishing a conference between a first participant and a second participant. The conference exhibits an exchange of a first type of media between the participants. A user option is provided to augment the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070143102 - Voice processing unit and system, and voice processing method: A client (10) transmits a service request signal to a Web server (20). The Web server which has received the service request signal generates an ID for each session, and transmits the ID to the client together with window information. The client then transmits input voice information to a voice... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070143104 - Learning statistically characterized resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model: A statistical trajectory speech model is constructed where the targets for vocal tract resonances are represented as random vectors and where the mean vectors of the target distributions are estimated using a likelihood function for joint acoustic observation vectors. The target mean vectors can be estimated without formant data. To... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070143105 - Wireless headset and method for robust voice data communication: A wireless device for use with speech recognition applications comprises a frame generator for generating successive frames from digitized original audio signals, the frames representing portions of the digitized audio signals. An autocorrelation circuit generates a set of coefficients for each frame, the coefficient set being reflective of spectral characteristics... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070143106 - Closed-loop command and response system for automatic communications between interacting computer systems over an audio communications channel: A system and method for enabling two computer systems to communicate over an audio communications channel, such as a voice telephony connection. Such a system includes a software application that enables a user's computer to call, interrogate, download, and manage a voicemail account stored on a telephone company's computer, without... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070143107 - Remote tracing and debugging of automatic speech recognition servers by speech reconstruction from cepstra and pitch information: Methods and systems are provided for remote tuning and debugging of an automatic speech recognition system. Trace files are generated on-site from input speech by efficient, lossless compression of MFCC data, which is merged with compressed pitch and voicing information and stored as trace files. The trace files are transferred... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070143109 - Discriminative training for speaker and speech verification: A method for discriminatively training acoustic models is provided for automated speaker verification (SV) and speech (or utterance) verification (UV) systems. The method includes: defining a likelihood ratio for a given speech segment, whose speaker identity (for SV system) or linguist identity (for UV system) is known, using a corresponding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143108 - Sound signal detection system, sound signal detection server, image signal search apparatus, image signal search method, image signal search program and medium, signal search apparatus, signal search method and signal search program and medium: A sound signal detection system of the present invention that searches for a portion of stored sound signals similar to a target sound signal, includes a stored feature calculation portion that calculates a stored feature from time-series data of the stored sound signals; a target feature calculation portion that calculates... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143110 - Time-anchored posterior indexing of speech: A computer-implemented method of indexing a speech lattice for search of audio corresponding to the speech lattice is provided. The method includes identifying at least two speech recognition hypotheses for a word which have time ranges satisfying a criteria. The method further includes merging the at least two speech recognition... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070143111 - Voice controlled portable memory storage device: Method for a portable memory device is provided. The method includes, recording a keyword and creating a voice based template for the keyword, wherein a processor for the portable memory device creates the voice based template and stores the voice based template in non-volatile memory cells; prompting the user to... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070143113 - Sharing voice application processing via markup: A system is described for processing voice applications comprising a client device (10) having associated data indicative of its computing capability. The system has access to a plurality of scripts specifying tasks to be performed in a voice-based dialog between a user and the system. The scripts are interpretable at... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070143112 - Time asynchronous decoding for long-span trajectory model: A time-asynchronous lattice-constrained search algorithm is developed and used to process a linguistic model of speech that has a long-contextual-span capability. In the algorithm, nodes and links in the lattices developed from the model are expanded via look-ahead. Heuristics as utilized by a search algorithm are estimated. Additionally, pruning strategies... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070143114 - Business application dialogues architecture and toolset: An application dialogue architecture and toolkit for creating an application dialogue in accordance with a predefined architecture. A toolkit is provided, comprising: a configurator tool for defining at least one frame, wherein each frame includes a set of talking points capable of being presented to an end user, and wherein... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070143116 - Load balancing based upon speech processing specific factors: A machine readable storage can include a set of instructions for load balancing. The storage can include a plug-in receptor of a load balancer. The plug-in receptor can be compliant with a known industry standard and can be is associated with a two or more load balancing algorithms. The load... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070143115 - Systems and methods for managing interactions from multiple speech-enabled applications: Systems and methods are described for speech systems that utilize an interaction manager to manage interactions—also known as dialogues—from one or more applications. The interactions are managed properly even if multiple applications use different grammars. The interaction manager maintains an interaction list. An application wishing to utilize the speech system... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070143117 - Voice controlled portable memory storage device: A portable memory device (“device”) is provided. The device includes a microphone for receiving a voice command from a user; and a device controller that creates a voice based template for the voice command and stores the voice based template in a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, wherein the voice... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070143118 - Apparatus and method for lossless audio signal compression/decompression through entropy coding: An apparatus and method for lossless audio compression/decompression through entropy coding are provided. The apparatus comprises a buffer, a time-axis predictor, and a bit-allocation entropy coder/decoder, wherein the time-axis predictor is capable of subtracting the predicted value of a current input signal value from its original value, thereby generating a... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070136048 - System for classifying words: A system is disclosed for determining probable meanings of a word. A prior probability is established of the probable meanings of the word. A context frequency probability is established of the probable meanings of the word. The probability that each meaning is a correct meaning may be provided in accordance... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070136049 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070136050 - System and method for audio signal processing: A sound reproduction system comprises a digital audio signal input (1), a digital audio signal processor (2, DSP) and a digital audio signal output (1) wherein the digital signal processor (2, DSP) comprises a high pass filter (21) with a pass frequency (f) of between first and a second frequency,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070136051 - Pitch cycle search range setting apparatus and pitch cycle search apparatus: An apparatus sets a pitch cycle search object in pitch cycle search processing for searching for a pitch cycle included in a linear predictive residual on a per subframe basis. A pitch cycle indicator of the apparatus sequentially output spitch cycle candidates within a predetermined pitch cycle search range at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070136052 - Speech compression system and method: The invention improves the encoding and decoding of speech by focusing the encoding on the perceptually important characteristics of speech. The system analyzes selected features of an input speech signal, and first performing a common frame based speech coding of an input speech signal. The system then performs a speech... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070136053 - Music detector for echo cancellation and noise reduction: An audio signal is divided among exponentially related subband filters. The spectral flatness measure in each subband signal is determined and the measures are weighted and combined. The sum is compared with a threshold to determine the presence of music or noise. If music is detected, the noise estimation process... Agent: Paul F. Wille

20070136054 - Apparatus and method of searching for fixed codebook in speech codecs based on celp: Provided are an apparatus and method of searching for a fixed codebook, the apparatus and method selecting an initial fixed codebook appropriate for a speech feature using a pulse replacement method, and determining a pulse replacement number, a threshold value, etc., to thereby improve sound quality and reduce an amount... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136056 - Noise pre-processor for enhanced variable rate speech codec: An enhanced noise pre-processor in a speech codec smoothes channel energy estimate moving toward a first smoothing constant if a prior signal to noise ratio estimates for more than five channels are above a threshold and toward a second smaller smoothing constant otherwise. Forming a signal to noise ratio estimate... Agent: Robert D. Marshall, Jr. Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070136055 - System for data communication over voice band robust to noise: A signal processing system for receiving digital information across a voice band detects digital information in a received signal and replaces it with generated noise. The system includes a detector, a controller, and a converter. The detector detects whether a received signal transmitted across a voice band includes voice signals... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070136057 - Preamble detection: Detecting a signal included receiving a modulated waveform, and processing a first quantized signal generated from the waveform to produce a second quantized signal. The second quantized signal is a representation of the first quantized signal with lower resolution that the first quantized signal. The second quantized signal is correlated... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070136058 - Apparatus and method for speech recognition using a plurality of confidence score estimation algorithms: An apparatus for speech recognition includes: a first confidence score calculator calculating a first confidence score using a ratio between a likelihood of a keyword model for feature vectors per frame of a speech signal and a likelihood of a Filler model for the feature vectors; a second confidence score... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070136059 - Multi-voice speech recognition: Multi-voice speech recognition systems and methods are provided. A speech recognition apparatus may include a plurality of speech recognition means operating in parallel; means for determining the best scoring hypothesis for each speech recognition means and the best overall score; and pruning means for pruning of hypotheses of the speech... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070136060 - Recognizing entries in lexical lists: A system recognizes speech using lexical lists. The lexical list may have entries that correspond to words or commands. The system includes an interface for receiving voiced speech and a recognition unit that generates string hypotheses based on the voiced speech. The recognition unit assigns a score to each of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070136061 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: A speech recognition apparatus that requires a reduced amount of computation for likelihood calculation is provided. A language lookahead score for a node of interest is generated based on the language scores for each recognition word shared by the node of interest. To this is added the node's acoustic score,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070136062 - Method and apparatus for labelling speech: A method for the prosodic labelling of speech including performing a first analysis step using data from an audio file, wherein the audio file is analysed as a plurality of frames positioned at fixed time intervals in said audio file; and performing a second analysis step on said data from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070136063 - Adaptive nametag training with exogenous inputs: A method of speech recognition includes receiving an utterance at a vehicle telematics unit. The utterance is converted into at least one phoneme. A confidence score is determined based on a comparison between the at least one phoneme and a nametag phoneme. The at least one phoneme is stored in... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070136064 - Mobile personal computer with movement sensor: A mobile personal computer including a case, a display device, a speech recognition system, a movement sensor, a microprocessor, and a power source. The case is sized for handling by a single, adult human hand and maintains the various other components. The display device is adapted to generate a displayed... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070136065 - Method and apparatus for accessing a digital file from a collection of digital files: There is provided a method for accessing at least one digital file from a collection comprising more than one digital file in an electronic device, including: generating one index comprising of information entries obtained from each of the more than one digital file in the collection, with each digital file... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070136066 - Talking book: The present inventions discloses a combination of a book and a voice phonation apparatus comprising a book having a plurality of pages, at least one of which is carrying a plurality of printed words and a plurality of codes associated with said words, said printed words being divided into a... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20070136071 - Apparatus and method for speech segment detection and system for speech recognition: Provided are an apparatus and method for speech segment detection, and a system for speech recognition. The apparatus is equipped with a sound receiver and an image receiver and includes: a lip motion signal detector for detecting a motion region from image frames output from the image receiver, applying lip... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136067 - Audio dialogue system and voice browsing method: An audio dialog system and a voice browsing method are described. An audio input unit (12) acquires an audio input signal. Speech recognition means (20) convert the audio input signal into text input data (21). Content data (D1) comprises text content and at least one reference (LN1). The reference comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070136069 - Method and system for customizing speech recognition in a mobile vehicle communication system: A method of customizing speech recognition in a mobile vehicle communication system is provided. A speech input is received at a telematics unit in communication with a call center, the speech input associated with a failure mode notification. The speech input is recorded at the telematics unit then forwarded to... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070136068 - Multimodal multilingual devices and applications for enhanced goal-interpretation and translation for service providers: A person-to-person communications architecture for communications translation between people who speak different languages in a focused setting is described. In such focused areas, the provisioning of devices, language models and, item and context recognition can be employed by specific service providers (e.g., taxi drivers in a foreign country such as... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070136070 - Navigation system having name search function based on voice recognition, and method thereof: Provided are a navigation system having a name search function based on voice recognition, and a method thereof. The navigation system having a map database in which names of topography features on map data are mapped to the map data, includes a voice recognizing unit, an initial sound extracting unit,... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070136072 - Interactive voice browsing for mobile devices on wireless networks: The wireless data communication system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile computing device, a WLAN infrastructure, a server, and a database. The mobile computing device includes voice interface functionality that enables the device to receive voice signals and generate voice commands for wireless transmission to the WLAN infrastructure. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070136073 - Receiving device and method: A receiving device receives a transmission unit signal that is sent from a sending end and accommodates a result of dividing, the result of the dividing being obtained by quantizing a value based on relative differences between a plurality of sampling values having temporal prior-posterior relationship therebetween, and dividing data... Agent: Venable LLP

20070129932 - Chinese to english translation tool: A Chinese to English Translation Tool (CETT) locates pre-existing translations of phrases and increases probabilities for a match by searching independently of proper nouns and Western characters. The CETT comprises an enhancement program, a search program and a display program. The CETT is adapted to access a translation database, a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070129934 - Method and system of language detection: Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided for automatically determining a language of a document from a set of candidate languages. In one embodiment, a system includes a logic for setting an assumption value associated with each of the languages of the set of candidate languages where the... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070129933 - System, method, and article of manufacture for a deterministic speech patern detection system that eliminates a need for employing bilingual persons in an enterprise: This invention discloses a deterministic speech pattern detection system that can be implemented in an enterprise to eliminate a need for employing bilingual employees. The system includes a transcript that contains questions and answers pertaining to the task to be performed. The system can be utilized to enable a person,... Agent: Afrouz Nikmanesh

20070129937 - Apparatus and method for deterministically constructing a text question for application to a data source: A computer readable medium stores executable instructions to deterministically construct a text question for application to a data source. The executable instructions include executable instructions supply a user with an initial text question. The user is allowed to alter a sentence component of the initial text question to form an... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070129936 - Conditional model for natural language understanding: A conditional model is used in spoken language understanding. One such model is a conditional random field model.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070129935 - Method for generating a text sentence in a target language and text sentence generating apparatus: By inputting words of source language as a keyword (31), a translation pairs are extracted (50) from a parallel corpus database including source language and target one. From the partially corresponding information on the translation sentence, a corresponding phrase group table formed by the corresponding phase of the target language... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070129938 - Method and apparatus for training a prosody statistic model and prosody parsing, method and system for text to speech synthesis: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a prosody statistic model and prosody parsing, a method and system for text to speech synthesis. Said method for training a prosody statistic model with a raw corpus that includes a plurality of sentences with punctuation, comprising: transforming said plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129939 - Method for scale-factor estimation in an audio encoder: A method, system and computer program product for computationally efficient estimation of the scale factors of one or more frequency bands in an encoder. These scale factors are dependant on a plurality of variables. One of the variables is approximated according to embodiments of the invention. This reduces the complexity... Agent: William L, Botjer

20070129940 - Method and apparatus for determining an estimate: For determining an estimate of a need for information units for encoding a signal, a measure for the distribution of the energy in the frequency band is taken into account in addition to the admissible interference for a frequency band and an energy of the frequency band. With this, a... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070129941 - Preprocessing system and method for reducing frr in speaking recognition: Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product of adapting the performance of a biometric system based on factors relating to a characteristic (e.g., quality) of an input sample are described. In accordance with one embodiment, data about one or more factors relating to a characteristic of an input... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070129942 - Visualization and annotation of the content of a recorded business meeting via a computer display: A computer controlled method, with appropriate computer programming support, for providing a visualized outline and index to a meeting of a plurality of individuals comprising recording a sequential audio file of the meeting and identifying each spoken portion of the audio file with one of said plurality of individuals. Then,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070129943 - Speech recognition using adaptation and prior knowledge: A speech recognition system includes a feature extraction component that receives a speech signal and extracts feature vectors from the speech signal. Also included, is a decoder having a speech acoustic model, a feature modification component, and a comparison component. The feature modification component changes the feature vectors, using adaptation... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070129944 - Method and apparatus for compressing a speaker template, method and apparatus for merging a plurality of speaker templates, and speaker authentication: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing a speaker template, a method and apparatus for merging a plurality of speaker templates, a method and apparatus for enrollment and verification of speaker authentication, a system for speaker authentication. Said method for compressing a speaker template that includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129945 - Voice quality control for high quality speech reconstruction: A method and apparatus are provided for reproducing a speech sequence of a user through a communication device of the user. The method includes the steps of detecting a speech sequence from the user through the communication device, recognizing a phoneme sequence within the detected speech sequence and forming a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070129946 - High quality speech reconstruction for a dialog method and system: An electronic device (400) for speech dialog includes functions that receive (405, 205) a speech phrase that includes an instantiated variable (315), generate pitch and voicing characteristics (330) of the instantiated variable, and performs voice recognition (410, 220) of the instantiated variable to determine a most likely set of recognition... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070129947 - Method and system for testing sections of large speech applications: Embodiments in accordance with the invention can include a new method (500) and system (100) for testing code within a speech application. A test file (101) can be automatically generated to verify the functionality of a new section of code (172) presented within a graphical call flow builder application (156).... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070129948 - Method and apparatus for training a duration prediction model, method and apparatus for duration prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a duration prediction model, method and apparatus for duration prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis. Said method for training a duration prediction model, comprising: generating an initial duration prediction model with a plurality of attributes related to duration prediction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129950 - Speech act-based voice xml dialogue apparatus for controlling dialogue flow and method thereof: Provided is a voice dialogue interface field that is related to a speech act-based voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) dialogue apparatus for controlling a dialogue flow and a method thereof. The speech act-based VoiceXML dialogue apparatus includes a dialogue manager for performing dialogue management by extracting speech act information from... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070129949 - System and method for assisted speech recognition: Methods, systems and devices for a server remote to a mobile communication device are disclosed. The methods, systems, and devices process an audio sample of the mobile communication device and then provide a decoded audio sample to the mobile communication device. In one embodiment of a method of a server... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070129952 - Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing input audio and/or video streams: A method and system for the automatic identification of audio, video, multimedia, and/or data recordings based on immutable characteristics of these works. The invention does not require the insertion of identifying codes or signals into the recording. This allows the system to be used to identify existing recordings that have... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070129951 - System and method for testing a motherboard audio module: A method for testing a motherboard audio module is provided. The method includes the steps of: setting an audio module (104) to be tested in a computer (100) to play an original audio file that includes a first audio signal, and outputting the first audio signal to an impedance matching... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp