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

20070174039 - Method of automatically analyzing claims in patents: A method of automatically analyzing claims includes: a separating structure step for finding a transition phrase within the claims, defining text before the transition phrase as a preamble and text after the transition phrase as a body; a separating elements step for separating one or a plurality of elements and/or... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070174040 - Word alignment apparatus, example sentence bilingual dictionary, word alignment method, and program product for word alignment: A word alignment apparatus includes a word extracting portion that extracts each word from an example sentence and from a translation sentence thereof, an alignment calculator that calculates at least one of a similarity degree and an association degree between a word in a first language and that in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070174042 - Electronic tour guide system: A method and system of an electronic tour guide system having intelligent software that employs the Internet to engage a proprietary database that provides tourists and business travelers with access to useful tourist information related to historic landmarks, hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions, entertainment and sports venues, special events, cultural norms... Agent: Leslie A. Thompson Suite 600

20070174038 - Linear precoding for spatially correlated channels: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate estimating transmit covariance from evaluation of a channel (e.g., forward link channel, reverse link channel, . . . ) to be utilized in linear precoding for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Predefined codebooks that include any number of precoding matrices may be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070174041 - Method and system for concept generation and management: The present invention is in two parts. The first part is manual, semi-automatic, and automatic methods and a system for generating concepts. The second part is a method and system for the management of concepts. Such concepts (lower case c) are linguistics-based patterns or set of patterns. Each pattern comprises... Agent: Robert E Krebs Thelen Reid & Priest

20070174045 - Automatic acronym expansion using pop-ups: A method for automatically defining acronyms can include a step of a user receiving an electronic communication. The electronic communication can include text. The text can include at least one acronym. The text can be displayed within a graphical user interface (GUI) viewable by the user. A positioning of a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070174043 - Method and an apparatus for requesting a service in a network: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus of requesting a service from a communications network. In the method the following steps are to performed: generating an objective statement in a user equipment; communicating the objective statement from the user equipment to a mediator unit; comparing the objective statement... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070174044 - Pedagogically integrated method for the teaching of enhanced reading skills by computer-aided and web-based instruction: A computer program for improving reading speed includes a list of prime words and reading exercising utilizing the prime words.... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070174046 - Method and apparatus to perform speech recognition over a data channel: Various embodiments directed to performing speech recognition over a data channel are described. One or more embodiments may comprise encoding voice information to be communicated over a voice channel using a voice compression algorithm, switching from said voice channel to a data channel, encoding voice information to be communicated over... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070174048 - Method and apparatus for detecting pitch by using spectral auto-correlation: A method and an apparatus for detecting a pitch in input voice signals by using a spectral auto-correlation. The pitch detection method includes: performing a Fourier transform on the input voice signals after performing a pre-processing on the input voice signals, performing an interpolation on the transformed voice signals, calculating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174049 - Method and apparatus for detecting pitch by using subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio: A method and an apparatus for detecting a pitch in input voice signals by using a subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio (SHR). The pitch detection method includes performing a Fourier transform on the input voice signals after performing a pre-processing on the input voice signals, performing an interpolation on the transformed voice signals,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174047 - Method and apparatus for resynchronizing packetized audio streams: An approach is provided for maintaining natural pitch periodicity of the speech or audio signal when processing a late frame in a predictive decoder. Concealment is performed to replace a late frame. The late frame that includes audio information is detected. A pitch phase difference introduced by the concealment is... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070174050 - High frequency compression integration: A speech enhancement system that improves the intelligibility and the perceived quality of processed speech includes a frequency transformer and a spectral compressor. The frequency transformer converts speech signals from the time domain to the frequency domain. The spectral compressor compresses a pre-selected portion of the high frequency band and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070174051 - Adaptive time and/or frequency-based encoding mode determination apparatus and method of determining encoding mode of the apparatus: An adaptive time/frequency-based encoding mode determination apparatus including a time domain feature extraction unit to generate a time domain feature by analysis of a time domain signal of an input audio signal, a frequency domain feature extraction unit to generate a frequency domain feature corresponding to each frequency band generated... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070174052 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for detection of tonal components: Systems, methods, and apparatus for the detection of signals having spectral peaks with narrow bandwidth are described herein. The range of described configurations includes implementations that perform such detection using parameters of a linear prediction coding (LPC) analysis scheme.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070174053 - Audio decoding: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for decoding an audio signal from a frame-based bit stream. Each frame includes processing information pertaining to the frame and entropy-encoded quantization indexes representing audio data within the frame. The processing information includes: (i) code book indexes, (ii) code book application... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20070174054 - Communication apparatus with signal mode and voice mode: A communication apparatus operates under a voice mode or a signal mode has a demodulator, a modifier, a decoder, an error concealment unit and a synthesizer. The demodulator demodulates a received signal to generate a data frame and an original code word. If the communication apparatus is operated under the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070174055 - Method and system for dynamic nametag scoring: A method for dynamic nametag scoring includes receiving at least one confusion table including at least one circumstantial condition wherein the confusion table is based on a plurality of phonetically balanced utterances, determining a plurality of templates for the nametag based on the received confusion tables, and determining a global... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070174056 - Apparatus and method for creating pitch wave signals and apparatus and method compressing, expanding and synthesizing speech signals using these pitch wave signals: A pitch wave signal creation method as a preliminary process for efficiently coding a speech wave signal having a fluctuated pitch period is provided. A speech signal compressing/expanding apparatus and a speech signal synthesizing apparatus using the method, and a signal processing associated therewith are further provided. The pitch wave... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070174057 - Providing programming information in response to spoken requests: A system allows a user to obtain information about television programming and to make selections of programming using conversational speech. The system includes a speech recognizer that recognizes spoken requests for television programming information. A speech synthesizer generates spoken responses to the spoken requests for television programming information. A user... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070174058 - Voice controlled wireless communication device system: A wireless communication device is disclosed that accepts recorded audio data from an end-user. The audio data can be in the form of a command requesting user action. Likewise, the audio data can be converted into a text file. The audio data is reduced to a digital file in a... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070174059 - Methods, systems, and sub-combinations useful in media identification: Identification of media content, such as audio, can be performed through use of watermarking or fingerprinting (aka content signature) technologies. Aspects of these technologies may be combined to advantageous effect. For example, in dealing with the problem of fingerprint errors arising from object distortion, operations known from digital watermarking systems... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070174060 - Control apparatus: a prompter (100) for, when the determined location corresponds to the location defined by the location data, using the speech input data to provide the user with a prompt to assist the user in formulating a spoken command that initiates use of the access data.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070174062 - Complex-transform channel coding with extended-band frequency coding: An audio encoder receives multi-channel audio data comprising a group of plural source channels and performs channel extension coding, which comprises encoding a combined channel for the group and determining plural parameters for representing individual source channels of the group as modified versions of the encoded combined channel. The encoder... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070174061 - Mpeg audio decoding method: In a compression process (S10), each allocation table is converted by reducing each group of subbands sharing a common pattern to one (S11), and the allocation tables are further converted into a single table (S12). Then, offset values each corresponding to one subband are defined in a table (S13), and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070174063 - Shape and scale parameters for extended-band frequency coding: An audio encoder performs frequency extension coding that comprises determining one or more shape parameters using a displacement vector that corresponds to a displacement of an even number (e.g., an even number of sub-bands between a sub-band in a baseband frequency range and a sub-band in an extended-band frequency range).... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070168182 - Electronic dictionary apparatus and recording medium on which search control program is recorded: When an additional search key of an input unit is operated by the user, if a current display on a display screen of a display unit is a list display of respective example sentences, a user input for refining example sentences is received, and example sentences are refined in accordance... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070168175 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and employing different groupings of data sources to disambiguate different parts of input: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to generate compound language solutions by employing... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070168177 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and for prioritizing compound language solutions according to completeness of text components: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to prioritize compound language solutions according to... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070168178 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and for prioritizing compound language solutions according to quantity of text components: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to prioritize compound language solutions according to... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070168176 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and that employs n-gram data to limit generation of low-probability compound language solutions: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to analyze the combinations of language objects... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070168179 - Method, program, and system for optimizing search results using end user keyword claiming: An end-user keyword claiming search of electronic content stored within a distributed system is performed by allowing end-users within the distributed system to claim keywords and associate content with the claimed keywords. A keyword search matching a claimed keyword results in content associated with the claimed keyword being return in... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070168181 - Method and system for information extraction: A method, a system and a computer program for extracting information from a natural language text corpus based on a natural language query are disclosed. The natural language text corpus is indexed and stored. A natural language query is analyzed with respect to phrases, phrase types, syntactic roles, word tokens... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070168180 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing data streams associated with different languages and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a text subtitle stream file, storing a text subtitle, per language, and a playlist file including at least one playitem and at least one subplayitem. The playitem manages reproduction of main data associated with the text subtitle and the subplayitem manages reproduction of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070168183 - Audio distribution system, an audio encoder, an audio decoder and methods of operation therefore: A stereo audio encoder (100) comprises a parametric stereo encoder (115) which generates a mono signal and parametric stereo parameters for at least a high frequency part of an input stereo signal. A stereo intensity encoder (117) generates stereo intensity data for the mono signal. The mono signal and intensity... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168184 - Method and system for managing message distributions in multi-messaging system: A system for managing message distributions in multi-messaging system includes a server, at least one messaging request system and at least one messaging delivery system connected to the server. The server includes a message managing module which is programmed for receiving at least one messaging request from the at least... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070168186 - Audio coding apparatus, audio decoding apparatus, audio coding method and audio decoding method: An audio coding apparatus comprises a frequency converter which performs frequency conversion on an audio signal to obtain frequency conversion coefficients, an importance calculator which calculates importance levels of frequency components corresponding to the frequency conversion coefficients obtained by the frequency converter, a coder which performs entropy coding of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070168185 - Device for recovering missing frequency components: A band recovering device recovers frequency components lying in a frequency band lost due to band-limitation of a sound signal. The device includes a peak-limiting amplifier for amplifying an input narrow-band signal while preventing the resulting amplified signal from exceeding a maximum amplitude. A peak-limitation detector detects the level of... Agent: Venable LLP

20070168187 - Real time voice analysis and method for providing speech therapy: A method (196) for providing speech therapy to a learner (30) utilizes a formant estimation and visualization process (28) executable on a computing system (26). The method (196) calls for receiving a speech signal (35) from the learner (30) at an audio input (34) of the computing system (26) and... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070168188 - Time-scale modification method for digital audio signal and digital audio/video signal, and variable speed reproducing method of digital television signal by using the same method: Problem: A method capable of ensuring a synchronization between an audio signal and a video signal both of which are modified in time-scale is needed. Solution: When analysis shift Sa=Ss/α, where Ss is synthesis shift and α is a designated time-scale (variable speed ratio), has a decimal value, two natural... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070168189 - Apparatus and method of processing speech: A speech processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a conversion-source-speaker speech-unit database; a voice-conversion-rule-learning-data generating means; and a voice-conversion-rule learning means, with which it makes voice conversion rules. The voice-conversion-rule-learning-data generating means includes a conversion-target-speaker speech-unit extracting means; an attribute-information generating means; a conversion-source-speaker speech-unit database;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070168190 - Information processing apparatus with speech recognition capability, and speech command executing program and method executed in information processing apparatus: To facilitate entry of instructions and ensure security, an MFP includes a HDD which previously stores voiceprint data to authorize a user with voiceprint, a communication control element which receives speech, a voiceprint verifying element which verifies the voiceprint of the received speech with the voiceprint data, a speech recognizing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070168191 - Controlling audio operation for data management and data rendering: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for controlling audio operation for data management and data rendering. Embodiments include selecting one of a plurality of predetermined audio configurations in dependence upon context information and setting audio operation of a data management and data rendering module to the selected predetermined audio configuration.... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070168193 - Autonomous system and method for creating readable scripts for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (tts) corpora: A method (and system) which autonomously generates a cohesive script from a text database for creating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, and more particularly, which generates cohesive scripts having fluency and natural prosody that can be used to generate compact text-to-speech recordings that cover a plurality of phonetic events.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070168192 - Method and system of bookmarking and retrieving electronic documents: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document browsing system for storing, in response to a user request, bookmark information relating to a document presentable to a user through an interpreter, the document comprising mark-up language and being providable to the interpreter by a document... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070168196 - Audio source system and method: A system and method for providing an audio source to an audio hardware device is disclosed. The system includes a detection module to detect a first audio input and a selection module to selectively provide the first audio input at an audio output to an audio device after the first... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070168195 - Method and system for measurement of voice quality using coded signals: A method for end-to-end network testing in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. The method includes generating a signature signal at one compatible device, transmitting the signature signal to another compatible device, receiving that signature signal and comparing it to a recognized signal. The method also includes storing the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070168194 - Scheduling audio modalities for data management and data rendering: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for scheduling audio modalities for data management and data rendering which include maintaining an audio modality schedule, selecting one of a plurality of predetermined audio configurations in dependence upon the audio modality schedule and current date and time information, and setting audio operation of... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070168197 - Audio coding: Coding an audio signals with receiving the input audio signal, splitting the input audio signal into at least two sub-bands, scaling the at least two sub-bands with a scaling factor, quantizing the scaled sub-bands using a conditional split lattice quantizer, wherein the output of the conditional split lattice quantizer is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070168198 - Multi-bit stream of multimedia data processing: A system for processing multimedia data outputs multiple digital data streams of different compressed ratios or types to adapt to multiple limitations of storage spaces and transmission bandwidths, and thus reduce the repetition for processing the digital data streams to save the central processing unit (CPU) resources.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070162276 - Method for dynamic context scope selection in hybrid n-gramlanguage modeling: A method and system for dynamic language modeling of a document are described. In one embodiment, a number of local probabilities of a current document are computed and a vector representation of the current document in a latent semantic analysis (LSA) space is determined. In addition, a number of global... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070162275 - Natural language interaction with large databases: A method includes applying at least one tag to at least one data element stored in a database the tag having at least one associated rule, utilizing the at least one associated rule to generate at least one variant of the data element, and storing the at least one variant... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070162273 - Natural language tool for specifying a subset of dynamic inter-related data: A natural language tool is provided for specifying a subset of data. The data may be dynamic and have elements which are inter-related. The natural language tool enables a user to construct a natural language expression having embedded fields to specify the subset of data. A user may configure, add... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070162274 - Specifying a subset of dynamic inter-related data: A natural language tool is provided for specifying a subset of data. The data may be dynamic and have elements which are inter-related. The inter-related data is specified using a natural language expression. The natural language tool enables a user to construct a natural language expression using embedded fields. A... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070162272 - Text-processing method, program, program recording medium, and device thereof: A temporary model generating unit (103) generates a probability model which is estimated to generate a text document as a processing target and in which information indicating which word of the text document to which topic is made to correspond to a latent variable, and each word is made to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070162277 - System and method for low power stereo perceptual audio coding using adaptive masking threshold: A method for stereo audio perceptual encoding of an input signal includes masking threshold estimation and bit allocation. The masking threshold estimation and bit allocation are performed once every two encoding processes. Another method for stereo audio perceptual encoding of an input signal includes performing a time-to-frequency transformation, performing a... Agent: Lisa K. Jorgenson, Esq. Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070162278 - Audio encoder and audio decoder: An audio encoder, generating a stereo signal based on a multi-channel signal, includes a downmix unit (100) for downmixing a multi-channel signal exceeding two channels to a two-channel stereo signal, a first coding unit (101) for generating a first coded signal by coding the downmixed stereo signal, a second coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070162279 - Enhanced conversion of wideband signals to narrowband signals: Wideband speech signals must be converted to narrowband speech signals if the transmission medium or the destination terminal is constructed with narrowband constraints. A typical wideband-to-narrowband conversion method is the elimination of frequencies above 3400 Hz using a low pass filter and a down sampler. However, this method produces a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070162281 - Recognition dictionary system and recognition dictionary system updating method: A recognition dictionary system includes a variant term accumulation unit, a variant frequency analysis unit, and a recognition dictionary update unit. The variant term accumulation unit is configured to accumulate and store a first variant term that has a meaning equivalent to a base term stored in a recognition dictionary... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070162280 - Auotmatic generation of voice content for a voice response system: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for building a voice response system. The method comprises developing voice content for the voice response system, the voice content including prompts and information to be played to a user; and integrating the voice content with logic to define a voice user-interface... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070162282 - System and method for performing distributed speech recognition: A system and method for performing distributed speech recognition is provided. Parts of speech in electronically-stored spoken data are identified against a plurality of stored speech grammars to provide one set of raw speech recognition results for each of the stored speech grammars. A limited number of each set of... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070162283 - Detecting emotions using voice signal analysis: A system and method are provided for detecting emotional states using statistics. First, a speech signal is received. At least one acoustic parameter is extracted from the speech signal. Then statistics or features from samples of the voice are calculated from extracted speech parameters. The features serve as inputs to... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070162284 - Speech-conversion processing apparatus and method: An address character-string structure analyzer analyzes an address character-string structure with respect to address data selected from input data for speech conversion, in accordance with data stored in the address speech-conversion application-rule data storage section. A street speech-conversion structure data element divider divides the address data into structure elements. A... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070162285 - Automated audio sub-band comparison: Automated testing of audio performance of applications across platforms is provided for via capture of audio data. The audio data can include, inter alia, output sounds from a sound card or pre-rendered buffer data. The audio data is processed to produce descriptive data including data describing the audio data at... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070162286 - Portable terminal and method for outputting voice data thereof: Provided is a method for outputting voice data in a portable terminal includes the steps of setting voice frequency bands of one language selected from a plurality of languages; modulating frequency bands of received voice data to the voice frequency bands of the set language; and outputting the voice data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070156392 - Method and system for automatically building natural language understanding models: The invention disclosed herein concerns a system (100) and method (600) for building a language model representation of an NLU application. The method 500 can include categorizing an NLU application domain (602), classifying a corpus in view of the categorization (604), and training at least one language model in view... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070156393 - Semantic processor for recognition of whole-part relations in natural language documents: A semantic processor and method for automatically recognizing Whole-Part relations in at least one natural language electronic or digital document recognizes one or more expanded Subject-Action-Object (eSAO) sets in text, wherein each eSAO set has one or more eSAO components; matches the one or more eSAO sets against Whole-Part relationship... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070156394 - Method of data entry for indic languages: An Indic text entry program is proposed which runs on a computer system simultaneously with application software adapted to receive Indic text. The Indic text entry program provides a graphical user interface on a screen of the computer system. A user selects successive Indic characters using a mouse. The successively... Agent: Banerjee Aroop Kumar

20070156395 - Method and a device for source coding: A method and a device for source coding with a time advanced excitation signal. During an encoding process, a source data signal is first divided into consecutive blocks, then a first set of parameters related to a filter describing properties of a first block covering a first time period is... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070156396 - System and method for state space control of seek acoustics: The embodiments of the present invention establish a sound production model of the storage drive and/or the host in which it is embedded, wherein the model represents the correlation between the current excitation to the storage drive and the acoustic response of the storage drive and/or the host produces. By... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070156398 - Subband synthesis filtering process and apparatus: A subband synthesis filtering apparatus for M sets of signals is provided. Each set of signals includes N subband sample signals. The apparatus includes a processor for processing the ith set of signals among the M sets of signals, wherein i is an integer index ranging from 0 to (M−1).... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070156397 - Coding equipment: Input subband signal is segmented into a plurality of ranges by a range segmentation unit 101. The range segmentation is performed for energy value calculation, chirp factor calculation, noise component calculation, and tone component calculation, respectively, and determined range segmentation information ei, bi, qi, and hi are outputted. Respective processing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070156399 - Noise reducer, noise reducing method, and recording medium: Accepting the speech having the noise superimposed thereon and converting it into a signal on a time axis of the speech, an amplitude component of a speech for each predetermined frequency band of the converted signal on the frequency axis is calculated. Calculating a noise reduction coefficient, the noise component... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070156400 - System and method for wireless dictation and transcription: A system and method for wireless dictation and transcription includes an input device which is connected by the Internet to a computer. The user dictates into the input device which is stored as an audio file which is then sent to the computer for voice recognition training and/or batch transcription.... Agent: Pastel Law Firm Christopher R. Pastel

20070156401 - Detection system for segment including specific sound signal, method and program for the same: The present invention is a detection system of a segment including specific sound signal which detects a segment in a stored sound signal similar to a reference sound signal, including: a reference signal spectrogram division portion which divides a reference signal spectrogram into spectrograms of small-regions; a small-region reference signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070156402 - Method and system for decoding wcdma amr speech data using redundancy: A method and system for decoding WCDMA AMR speech data using redundancy may include generating at least one bit-sequence for at least one of a plurality of channels that comprises received WCDMA speech data. The bit-sequence may be generated by using a decoding algorithm and may be decrypted to recover... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070156403 - Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software: The present invention involves an enhanced method for operating a speech recognition system in which sequential vocabularies are loaded for comparison to the input speech. Form each sequential vocabulary a subset of candidate vocabulary elements are selected for matching, the probability match scores of each of the selected candidate vocabulary... Agent: Brian K. Johnson, Esq., LLC.

20070156404 - String matching method and system using phonetic symbols and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for executing the string matching method: A string matching method and system for searching for a representative string for a plurality of strings which are written in different languages and/or in different ways but share the substantially same meaning, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the string matching method are provided.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156405 - Speech recognition system: A speech recognition system receives digital data. The system determines whether a memory contains some or all of the digital data. When some or all of the digital data does not exist in the memory, the system generates a transcription of the missing parts and stores the missing portion and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070156406 - Voice user interface authoring tool: A voice user interface authoring tool is configured to use categorized example caller responses, from which callflow paths, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing control files can be generated automatically within a single, integrated authoring user interface. A voice user interface (VUI) design component allows an author to create... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070156407 - Integrated speech dialog system: A speech dialog system includes a speech application manager, a message router, service components, and a platform abstraction layer. When a speech command is detected, the speech application manager instructs one or more service components to perform a service. The message router facilitates data exchange between the speech application manager... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070156408 - Voice synthesis device: The voice synthesis device is provided with: voice synthesis DBs (110a and 101z); a voice synthesis unit (103) for acquiring a text (10) and generating a voice synthesis parameter value sequence (11) of voice quality A which corresponds to a character that is included in the text (10) from the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070156409 - Method for analysing signals containing pulses: The invention provides a method for analysing an input signal having an input frequency bandwidth. The method comprises providing at least one frequency-bandwidth limited portion of the input signal. For each frequency-bandwidth limited portion of the input signal the durations of half-periods and signal excursions during respective half-periods are determined.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070156411 - Control center for a voice controlled wireless communication device system: A wireless communication device is disclosed that accepts recorded audio data from an end-user. The audio data can be in the form of a command requesting user action. Likewise, the audio data can be converted into a text file. The audio data is reduced to a digital file in a... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070156410 - Digital audio file search method and apparatus using text-to-speech processing: A digital audio file search method and apparatus for digital audio files is provided that allows a user to navigate the audio files by generating speech sounds related to the information of the audio files to facilitate searching and playback. The digital audio file search method and apparatus searches for... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20070156412 - Use of multiple speech recognition software instances: A wireless communication device is disclosed that accepts recorded audio data from an end-user. The audio data can be in the form of a command requesting user action. Likewise, the audio data can be converted into a text file. The audio data is reduced to a digital file in a... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP