Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 08/07

20070203690 - Method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model, method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for training bilingual word alignment model, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model for a first language and a second language, using a bilingual corpus of the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070203691 - Translator support program, translator support device and translator support method: A translator support device consists of a display device, an input device, and a main body to which these devices are connected. The main body has a CPU, a DRAM, a MD, and a HDD built-in. A translator support software is installed in the HDD. The translator support software consists... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070203688 - Apparatus and method for word translation information output processing: When it accepts an input sentence, the present apparatus divides the input sentence into substrings through morpheme analysis and obtains a candidate word group for translation of the substrings from a machine translation dictionary. It then obtains information on occurrence of each candidate word in the candidate word group within... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070203689 - Method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model: The present invention provides method and apparatus for bilingual word alignment, method and apparatus for training bilingual word alignment model. The method for bilingual word alignment, comprising: training a bilingual word alignment model using a word-aligned labeled bilingual corpus; word-aligning a plurality of bilingual sentence pairs in a unlabeled bilingual... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070203692 - Method and system of creating and using chinese language data and user-corrected data: Unique identifiers for each of a plurality of Chinese Pinyin syllables are generated and stored in an array of identifiers. A plurality of Hanzi character candidate lists is also generated, each list including Hanzi character candidates associated with a Pinyin syllable. Each identifier in the array has an array index,... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20070203693 - Knowledge discovery agent system and method: A system and method for processing information in unstructured or structured form, comprising a computer running in a distributed network with one or more data agents. Associations of natural language artifacts may be learned from natural language artifacts in unstructured data sources, and semantic and syntactic relationships may be learned... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070203694 - Single-sided speech quality measurement: A non-intrusive speech quality estimation technique is based on statistical or probability models such as Gaussian Mixture Models (“GMMs”). Perceptual features are extracted from the received speech signal and assessed by an artificial reference model formed using statistical models. The models characterize the statistical behavior of speech features. Consistency measures... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070203695 - Method and apparatus for transforming a digital audio signal and for inversely transforming a transformed digital audio signal: A known time domain to frequency domain or frequency domain to time domain transform used in audio codecs is MDCT, which has the disadvantage of being costly in terms of required computational power due to high-precision multiplications, but which facilitates overlapping transform and subsampling. The invention uses a transform or... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070203696 - Content distribution server for distributing content frame for reproducing music and terminal: There is provided a system capable of distributing code-compressed data based on audio data on a music composition via the Internet to a mobile telephone so that a user can cut out a desired range from the code-compressed data and register it as a call sound. The system has a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070203697 - Time slot position coding of multiple frame types: Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g.,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070203698 - Method and apparatus for speech disruption: A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to which of the sounds is the real source. The privacy sound may be based on the speaker's own voice or may be based on another voice. At least one characteristic of the speaker (such as... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070203699 - Speech recognizer control system, speech recognizer control method, and speech recognizer control program: A speech recognizer control system, a speech recognizer control method, and a speech recognizer control program make it possible to properly identify a device on the basis of a speech utterance of a user and to control the identified device. The speech recognizer control system includes a speech input unit... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070203700 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method: A speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method are provided for reducing such events as erroneous recognition and disabled recognition and improving a recognition efficiency. The speech recognition apparatus generates a word model based on a dictionary memory and a sub-word sound model, and matches the word model with a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203701 - Communication device having speaker independent speech recognition: Techniques for performing speech recognition in a communication device with a voice dialing function is provided. Upon receipt of a voice input in a speech recognition mode, input feature vectors are generated from the voice input. Also, a likelihood vector sequence is calculated from the input feature vectors indicating the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070203702 - Speech synthesizer, speech synthesizing method, and program: A speech synthesizer that provides high-quality sound along with stable sound quality, including: a target parameter generation unit; a speech element DB; an element selection unit; a mixed parameter judgment unit which determines an optimum parameter combination of target parameters and speech elements; a parameter integration unit which integrates the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070203705 - Database storing syllables and sound units for use in text to speech synthesis system: In embodiments the present invention includes a method for populating a text to speech synthesis database. This method can include the steps of defining a set of phonetic symbols, wherein each symbol is a single alphabetic character representing a separate sound, representing a syllable by at least one phonetic symbol... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20070203703 - Speech synthesizing apparatus: A corpus-based speech synthesizing apparatus is provided which has a text analysis unit for analyzing a given sentence in text data and generating phonetic symbol data corresponding to the sentence; a prosody estimation unit for generating a prosodic parameter representing an accent and an intonation corresponding to each phonetic symbol... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070203706 - Voice analysis tool for creating database used in text to speech synthesis system: In embodiments the present invention includes a method for analyzing a verbal expression for use in a vehicle navigation system. Such a navigation system can include a database having a map with text describing street names and points of interest of the map. The method can include the steps of... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20070203704 - Voice recording tool for creating database used in text to speech synthesis system: In embodiments the present invention includes a method for recording verbal expressions of a person for use in a vehicle navigation system. The vehicle navigation system has a database including a map and text describing street names and points of interest of the map. The method includes the steps of... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20070203707 - System and method for document filtering: A system and method for filtering documents to determine section boundaries between dictated and non-dictated text. The system and method identifies portions of a text report that correspond to an original dictation and, correspondingly, those portions that are not part of the original dictation. The system and method include comparing... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070203708 - System and method for providing transcription services using a speech server in an interactive voice response system: The present invention is directed to a system and method in which an interface (proxy) is positioned between a browser and a speech server such that the proxy, while transparent to both the browser and the speech server, collects and stores data, including utterances and other media obtained from a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070203709 - Voice dialogue apparatus, voice dialogue method, and voice dialogue program: Keywords are enumerated preliminarily by an dialogue apparatus. The keywords are enumerated again after a pause for requesting a person to make a choice. If there is any effective choice, the scenario proceeds in accordance with the choice. If there is no effective choice, the keywords are enumerated again. If... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070198245 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for supporting in communication through translation between different languages: A communication supporting apparatus includes a rule storage unit that stores an extraction condition for extracting a keyword from a speech and a linking procedure linked with the extraction condition; an input receiving unit that receives an input of a speech; an extracting unit that extracts a keyword from a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198250 - Information retrieval and reporting method system: A method. The method including receiving medical information, and comparing electronic text representative of the medical information with information associated with a field of a report template. The method also includes populating the report template with at least a portion of the electronic text. The report template is populated when... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070198248 - Voice recognition apparatus, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program: Keywords are extracted from input voice. A bit is set to each of objects as subjects, and a bit about affirmation/negation is set. The scope defined by combining bits for the respective objects is interpreted as a topic. Based on the bit about affirmation/negation, the input for the topic is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070198246 - Interactive system for building, organising, and sharing one's own encyclopedia in one or more languages: An interactive system for building, organizing, and sharing one's own encyclopedia in one or more languages is disclosed; it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, that uses a computer system and comprising of: (i) a User Interface; (ii).... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070198247 - Creating a sentence that describes a walk of a graph: In an embodiment, a sentence is created that describes a walk of a graph. The graph includes a set of nodes and a set of edges that are incident to the nodes. The sentence includes label words that describe the nodes and relationship words that describe the edges. The walk... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070198249 - Imformation processor, customer need-analyzing method and program: The present invention enables analysis of customer needs with a high level of precision, not by indicating whether the customer opinions are positive or negative, but by quantitatively indicating their levels of importance. An information processor storing customer opinion information containing document data expressing opinions of customers in natural language,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198251 - Voice activity detection method and apparatus for voiced/unvoiced decision and pitch estimation in a noisy speech feature extraction: The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for voice activity detection (VAD) in which a set of measurements are made over the interval of a processed frame, and which are used to determine if segments of the frame contain voiced or unvoiced signals. The proposed measurements include... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070198252 - Optimum design management apparatus, optimum design calculation system, optimum design management method, and optimum design management program: The present invention provides an optimum design management apparatus 1 that analyzes response variable values from groups of predictor variable values, and performs optimization using the analysis result, which includes a predictor variable transmission unit that transmits groups of predictor variable values to be used for the analysis to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198253 - Method and system for facilitating mediated communication: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating mediated communication. In such an embodiment of the disclosures made herein, a voice-based communication request transmitted from a first communication device is received by a mediation system. The voice based communication request is requesting voice-based communication between the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070198254 - Error conceal device and error conceal method: The conventional error conceal processing generates a greatly fluctuating irregular sound which is unpleasant to ears and causes a remarkable echo effect and click noise. A notification signal detection unit (301) judges processing for an input frame. In case of an error frame, a sound detection unit (303) makes judgment... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070198255 - Method for noise reduction in a speech input signal: A method reduces for noise in a speech input signal of a speaker by detecting the speech input signal; accessing a determined speech characteristic of the speaker; reducing a noise portion in the speech input signal using the determined speech characteristic of the speaker.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198256 - Method for middle/side stereo encoding and audio encoder using the same: An audio encoder includes a time-frequency mapping block, a psychoacoustic model block, a middle/side (M/S) encoding block, a parameter calculation block, a bit allocation and quantization block and a bitstream formatting block. The encoder is forced to operate in M/S mode for reducing the calculation time of the parameter used... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070198257 - Speaker authentication: Speaker authentication is performed by determining a similarity score for a test utterance and a stored training utterance. Computing the similarity score involves determining the sum of a group of functions, where each function includes the product of a posterior probability of a mixture component and a difference between an... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070198258 - Method and portable device for inputting characters by using voice recognition: A method for inputting characters by using voice recognition, which is applied to a portable device, and comprises the steps of: collecting at least one external voice to convert into a voice data by a voice collection unit; receiving the voice data by a voice recognition unit; recognizing the voice... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070198259 - Time ordered indexing of an information stream: Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered indication is assigned with each of the identified attributes. Each of the identified attributes shares a common time reference... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070198260 - Parameter learning in a hidden trajectory model: Parameters for distributions of a hidden trajectory model including means and variances are estimated using an acoustic likelihood function for observation vectors as an objection function for optimization. The estimation includes only acoustic data and not any intermediate estimate on hidden dynamic variables. Gradient ascent methods can be developed for... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070198261 - Voice recognition with parallel gender and age normalization: Methods and apparatus for voice recognition are disclosed. A voice signal is obtained and two or more voice recognition analyses are performed on the voice signal. Each voice recognition analysis uses a filter bank defined by a different maximum frequency and a different minimum frequency and wherein each voice recognition... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070198262 - Topological voiceprints for speaker identification: The speaker recognition techniques of this application use a topological description of his/her voice spectral properties in order to use it as a biometric characterization for the speaker. Distinctly different from computing distances between spectral curves obtained from voices of different speakers in various spectral analysis methods, such topological features... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070198263 - Voice recognition with speaker adaptation and registration with pitch: Voice recognition methods and systems are disclosed. A voice signal is obtained for an utterance of a speaker. A runtime pitch is determined from the voice signal for the utterance. The speaker is categorized based on the runtime pitch and one or more acoustic model parameters are adjusted based on... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070198264 - Bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification: Systems and methods for bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification are disclosed. Generally, a speaker identity verification engine generates a dynamic phrase including at least one dynamically-generated word. The speaker identity verification engine prompts a user to speak the dynamic phrase and receives a dynamic phrase utterance. The speaker identity verification... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070198265 - System and method for combined state- and phone-level and multi-stage phone-level pronunciation adaptation for speaker-independent name dialing: A system for, and method of, combined state- and phone-level pronunciation adaptation. One embodiment of the system includes: (1) a state-level pronunciation variation analyzer configured to use an alignment process to compare base forms of words with alternate pronunciations and generate a confusion matrix, (2) a state-level pronunciation adapter associated... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070198266 - Time synchronous decoding for long-span hidden trajectory model: A time-synchronous 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, hypotheses are represented as traces that include an indication of a current frame, previous frames and future frames. Each frame can include an associated linguistic unit... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070198267 - Method for accessing data via voice: A method for providing access to data via a voice interface. In one embodiment, the system includes a voice recognition unit and a speech processing server that work together to enable users to interact with the system using voice commands guided by navigation context sensitive voice prompts, and provide user-requested... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198270 - Dialog supporting device: Provided is a dialog supporting device which can support dialog to be speedily completed on the whole, by reducing the number of operations required to generate one utterance regardless of dialog partner's interrupting utterances. The dialog supporting device includes: an example database which holds examples used in the dialog; an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070198268 - Method for controlling a speech dialog system and speech dialog system: The invention is directed to a method for controlling a speech dialog system, wherein an acoustic output signal is provided in response to an acoustic input signal, comprising the steps of receiving a further acoustic input signal, processing the further acoustic input signal by a voice activity detector, processing the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070198269 - Methods and systems for assessing and improving the performance of a speech recognition system: A method for assessing a performance of a speech recognition system may include determining a grade, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or recognition of instances of various words among a set of words, wherein the grade indicates a level of the performance of the system and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070198271 - Method for training a user of speech recognition software: A method of training a user in the proper use of speech recognition software includes instructing the user how to properly pause between commands and dictation.... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070198272 - Voice response system: A voice response system attempts to respond to spoken user input and to provide computer-generated responses. If the system decides it cannot provide valid responses, the current state of user session is determined and forwarded to a human operator for further action. The system maintains a recorded history of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070198273 - Voice-controlled data system: A voice-controlled data system may include a data storage unit including media files having associated file identification data, and a vocabulary generating unit generating phonetic data corresponding to the file identification data, the phonetic data being supplied to a speech recognition unit as a recognition vocabulary, where one of the... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070198274 - Scalable audio coding: The invention relates to an audio encoder and decoder and methods for audio encoding and decoding. In a preferred encoder embodiment an audio signal is encoded by deterministic encoder means to form a first encoded signal part. A spectrum of the audio signal is determined and represented by an excitation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070192083 - Linguistic structure for data flow diagrams: A linguistic system and method of representing a data flow diagram is provided. Given the capabilities of a conventional data flow graph, and given the types of nodes that can exist in the graph, the subject innovation employs a specific method to create a language capable of describing the data... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192084 - Induction of grammar rules: A method of grammar rule induction comprises obtaining a monolingual set of phrases from a bilingual corpus of translation pairs. For each of the monolingual phrases in turn, initialising, with inactive edges formed from headwords identified in the phrase, the agenda of a dependency grammar chart parser arranged to form... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070192085 - Natural language processing for developing queries: A system suited to self-troubleshooting includes a processor which identifies normalized forms of at least some of the words of a natural language user query input by a user. The user query may describe a problem experienced with a machine, such as a printer. The processor retrieves text strings which... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070192087 - Method, medium, and system for music retrieval using modulation spectrum: An audio information retrieval method, medium, and system that can rapidly retrieve audio information, even in noisy environments, by extracting a modulation spectrum that is robust against noise, converting features of the extracted modulation spectrum into hash bits, and using a hash table. The audio information retrieval method may include... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070192086 - Perceptual quality based automatic parameter selection for data compression: The automatic and optimal selection of coding parameter values according to analyses of coding trials is disclosed. The Neural Encoding Model (NEM) provides a method for providing a quantitative measure of the likelihood that a human observer can distinguish an original sensory signal from an approximation thereof, thus providing a... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070192088 - Formant frequency estimation method, apparatus, and medium in speech recognition: A formant frequency estimation method which is important information in speech recognition by accelerating a spectrum using a pitch frequency, and an apparatus using the method is provided. That is, the formant frequency estimation method includes preprocessing an input speech signal and generating a spectrum by a fast Fourier transforming... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070192089 - Apparatus and method for reproducing audio data: In an apparatus for reproducing audio data, a non-silent sound/silent sound determining section determines whether the audio data is a non-silent sound or a silent sound in accordance with a level of the audio data, to thereby generate a first determination result. A speech sound/non-speech sound determining section determines whether... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070192090 - Dynamic capacity operating point management for a vocoder in an access terminal: A variable rate vocoder is configured to encode speech signals with a plurality of encoding rates and to change from a first encoding rate to a second encoding rate according to a received signal indicating reverse link load.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192091 - Protection against sound piracy by microphones: Aspects of this invention include devices and methods for protecting acoustic signals from being pirated by a microphone. Such devices include a signal generator adapted to produce acoustic signals (“aliasing signals”) having frequencies greater than about ½ of the sampling frequency of the microphone Methods for protecting against piracy include... Agent: Borson Law Group, PC

20070192092 - Method and apparatus for high performance low bit-rate coding of unvoiced speech: A low-bit-rate coding technique for unvoiced segments of speech, without loss of quality compared to the conventional Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) method operating at a much higher bit rate. A set of gains are derived from a residual signal after whitening the speech signal by a linear prediction filter.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192094 - Method and apparatus for transmitting speech activity in distributed voice recognition systems: A system, method, apparatus, signal-bearing medium, and means for transmitting speech activity in a distributed voice recognition (VR) system. The distributed voice recognition system includes a local VR engine in a subscriber unit (102) and a server VR engine on a server (160). The local VR engine comprises a voice... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070192093 - Systems and methods for comparing speech elements: A method for comparing a first audio data source with a plurality of audio data sources, wherein the first audio data source has an utterance spoken by a first person and the plurality of audio data sources have the same utterance spoken by a second person. The method includes performing... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070192095 - Methods and systems for adapting a model for a speech recognition system: Methods are disclosed for identifying possible errors made by a speech recognition system without using a transcript of words input to the system. A method for model adaptation for a speech recognition system includes determining an error rate, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or recognition of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070192096 - System, apparatus and method for detecting audio signal frames: A system and apparatus for establishing whether a received signal frame is an audio signal frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a predetermined position in an audio signal frame containing a piece of secondary information for an audio characteristic of the audio data, with a selection device... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070192097 - Method and apparatus for detecting affects in speech: A method and apparatus for speaker independent real-time affect detection includes generating (205) a sequence of audio frames from a segment of speech, generating (210) a sequence of feature sets by generating a feature set for each frame, and applying (215) the sequence of feature sets to a sequential classifier... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070192099 - Sound identification apparatus: A sound identification apparatus which reduces the chance of a drop in the identification rate, including: a frame sound feature extraction unit which extracts a sound feature per frame of an inputted audio signal; a frame likelihood calculation unit which calculates a frame likelihood of the sound feature in each... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070192098 - System and method for dynamic modification of speech intelligibility scoring: A system and method to detect and measure remediated speech intelligibility by evaluating received test audio transmitted across and received in a space or region of interest. Remediation of the test audio may include altering the rate, pitch, amplitude and frequency bands energy during presentation of the speech signal.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070192100 - Method and system for the quick conversion of a voice signal: A method for converting a voice signal from a source speaker into a converted voice signal with acoustic characteristics similar to those of a target speaker includes the steps of determining (1) at least one function for transforming source speaker acoustic characteristics into acoustic characteristics similar to those of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070192101 - Methods and systems for optimizing model adaptation for a speech recognition system: A method for efficient use of resources of a speech recognition system includes determining a recognition rate, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or recognition of instances of various words among a set of words, and determining an accuracy range of the recognition rate. The method may... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070192103 - Conversational speech analysis method, and conversational speech analyzer: The invention provides a conversational speech analyzer which analyzes whether utterances in a meeting are of interest or concern. Frames are calculated using sound signals obtained from a microphone and a sensor, sensor signals are cut out for each frame, and by calculating the correlation between sensor signals for each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070192102 - Method and system for aligning windows to extract peak feature from a voice signal: Disclosed is a method capable of adaptively aligning windows to extract features according to the types and characteristics of voice signals. To this end, window lengths based on the widow update points in a corresponding order are determined by employing the concept of a higher order peak, and windows are... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070192104 - A system and method for providing large vocabulary speech processing based on fixed-point arithmetic: Disclosed herein is a system, method and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device according to the method. The invention relates to a system, method and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device according to the method. As an example embodiment, the method uses a speech... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070192105 - Multi-unit approach to text-to-speech synthesis: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are provided for synthesizing speech. One method includes matching a first level of units of a received input string to audio segments from a plurality of audio segments including using properties of or between first level units to locate matching audio segments from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070192106 - System and method for creating and using personality models for user interactions in a social network: A social computing system and method includes a model creator configured to create an initial model of a user and a model enhancement module configured to analyze and record interactions of the user with other users in a social network to update and adjust the initial model to provide an... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070192108 - System and method for detection of emotion in telecommunications: A system and method monitor the emotional content of human voice signals after the signals have been compressed by standard telecommunication equipment. By analyzing voice signals after compression and decompression, less information is processed, saving power and reducing the amount of equipment used. During conversation, a user of the disclosed... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20070192107 - Self-improving approximator in media editing method and apparatus: A self-improving approximator for use in media editing is disclosed. The approximator estimates location in the media file/video data domain of a user-selected word or text unit in the text script transcription of the corresponding audio of the video data. During editing, the approximator calculates and displays the estimated time... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070192109 - Voice command interface device: A device includes a speech input device. A speech recognition processor connected to the speech input device receives speech input. The device includes a computer readable medium coupled to the speech recognition processor. A command table stored on the computer readable medium includes commands corresponding to a control on a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070192110 - Dialogue supporting apparatus: A dialogue supporting apparatus is provided which carries out a trade-off between the speed of the translation process and the fluency of the translation result, in accordance with the contents of a dialogue. The dialogue supporting apparatus includes a first input accepting unit 101 which accepts an utterance of a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070185703 - Method, computer program and apparatus for analysing symbols in a computer system: A computer-implemented method of analysing symbols in a computer system, and a computer program and apparatus therefor are provided. The symbols conform to a specification for the symbols. The specification is codified into a set of computer-readable rules. The symbols are analysed using the computer-readable rules to obtains patterns of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070185704 - Information processing apparatus, method and computer program product thereof: An information processing apparatus includes a counting mechanism configured to count a number of prescribed parts of a content of speech, a speech time measuring mechanism for measuring time of the speech and a calculating mechanism for calculating speed of the speech based on the number of the prescribed parts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070185702 - Language independent parsing in natural language systems: There are provided methods and apparatus for parsing and for self-learning in natural language systems. A parsing method for a natural language system includes the step of parsing an input phrase to identify at least one word or phrase in the input phrase for which synonyms exist. The method further... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070185705 - Speech signal separation apparatus and method: A speech signal separation apparatus for separating an observation signal in a time domain of a plurality of channels wherein a plurality of signals having a speech signal are mixed using independent component analysis to produce a plurality of separation signals of the different channels, including: a first conversion section,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070185706 - Quality improvement techniques in an audio encoder: An audio encoder implements multi-channel coding decision, band truncation, multi-channel rematrixing, and header reduction techniques to improve quality and coding efficiency. In the multi-channel coding decision technique, the audio encoder dynamically selects between joint and independent coding of a multi-channel audio signal via an open-loop decision based upon (a) energy... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070185707 - Audio coding: The method creates an audio stream comprising tracks of sinusoidal components linked across a plurality of sequential time segments. Segments in each track are weighted with a normal window (WI, W2, W3), and consecutive segments have a normal period of overlap (0) of their trailing edges and leading edges. Segments... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070185708 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency-domain waveform alignment: Systems, methods, and apparatus described include waveform alignment operations in which a single set of evaluated cosines and sines is used to calculate cross-correlations of two periodic waveforms at two different phase shifts.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070185709 - Voicing estimation method and apparatus for speech recognition by using local spectral information: A method and apparatus of estimating a voicing for speech recognition by using local spectral information. The voicing estimation method for speech recognition includes performing a Fourier transform on input voice signals after performing pre-processing on the input voice signals. The method further includes detecting peaks in the input voice... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185710 - Apparatus and method for preventing senility: Preparing for the full-fledged aged society, measures to prevent senility are required. Senility is prevented by extracting signals of prescribed bands from a speech signal using a first bandpass filter section having a plurality of bandpass filters, extracting the envelopes of each frequency band signal using an envelope extraction section... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070185711 - Speech enhancement apparatus and method: A speech enhancement apparatus and method and a computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon execute a speech enhancement method. The speech enhancement apparatus includes a spectrum subtraction unit generating a subtracted spectrum by subtracting an estimated noise spectrum from a received speech spectrum, a correction function modeling unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185712 - Method, apparatus, and medium for measuring confidence about speech recognition in speech recognizer: A method of measuring confidence of speech recognition in a speech recognizer compares a phase change point with a phoneme string change point and uses a difference between the phase change point and the phoneme string change point and a likelihood ratio, and an apparatus using the method is provided.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185714 - Large-vocabulary speech recognition method, apparatus, and medium based on multilayer central lexicons: A speech recognition method including: layering a central lexicon in a tree structure with respect to recognition-subject vocabularies; performing multi-pass symbol matching between a recognized phoneme sequence and a phonetic sequence of the central lexicon layered in the tree structure; and selecting a final speech recognition result via a Viterbi... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185713 - Recognition confidence measuring by lexical distance between candidates: A recognition confidence measurement method, medium and system which can more accurately determine whether an input speech signal is an in-vocabulary, by extracting an optimum number of candidates that match a phone string extracted from the input speech signal and estimating a lexical distance between the extracted candidates is provided.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185715 - Method and apparatus for generating a frequency warping function and for frequency warping: A method for generating a frequency warping function comprising preparing the training speech of a source and a target speaker; performing frame alignment on the training speech of the speakers; selecting aligned frames from the frame-aligned training speech of the speakers; extracting corresponding sets of formant parameters from the selected... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070185716 - Internet based speech recognition system with dynamic grammars: A speech-enabled WWW based computing system allows a user to interact with content associated with a web page and select items of interest using speech as a mode of input. Dynamic grammars can assist in the recognition operations to improve speed and comprehension.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070185717 - Method of interacting through speech with a web-connected server: A speech recognition engine is configured to permit partial or full recognition of an utterance at a client device and/or a server device. This allows for support for client devices having differing computing capabilities. Natural language operations can also be supported as desired. A user can thus interact with content... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070185718 - Method and system for bio-metric voice print authentication: A method (700) and system (900) for authenticating a user is provided. The method can include receiving one or more spoken utterances from a user (702), recognizing a phrase corresponding to one or more spoken utterances (704), identifying a biometric voice print of the user from one or more spoken... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070185719 - Response waveform synthesis method and apparatus: Using frequency characteristics determined for individual ones of a plurality of analyzed bands of a predetermined audio frequency range with frequency resolution that becomes finer in order of lowering frequencies of the analyzed bands, a synthesized band is set for each one or for each plurality of the analyzed bands,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070179779 - Language information translating device and method: In language information translating device and method, registered vocabulary information pieces of plural users registered into a user dictionary registering unit are referred to, and when plural vocabulary information pieces having the same direction word exist, a direction word to be added to a basic dictionary is extracted on the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070179773 - Portable electronic apparatus capable of multilingual display: In a portable electronic apparatus, a memory is provided to store a plurality of groups of messages. Each group of messages includes messages having the same meaning, which are expressed in different languages such as Japanese, English, and French. A user designates a main language corresponding to a mother tongue... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070179774 - System and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warning of dangerous behavior: The present invention is a system and method for computer analysis of computer generated communications to produce indications and warnings of dangerous behavior. A method of computer analysis of computer generated communications in accordance with the invention, includes collecting at least one computer generated communication produced by or received by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070179775 - Method and system for translating a software application into an alternative language: A method, system, and computer program product for allowing a translator to dynamically change the static text displayed by an application to an alternative language.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070179777 - Automatic grammar generation using distributedly collected knowledge: The invention includes a computer based system or method for automatically generating a grammar associated with a first task comprising the steps of: receiving first data representing the first task based from responses received from a distributed network; automatically tagging the first data into parts of speech to form first... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070179778 - Dynamic grammar for voice-enabled applications: A graphical user interface may include a form with a plurality of fields, each field associated with a predetermined category. Each category may have its own, independent, discrete grammar associated therewith, and the independent grammars may be individually activated, simultaneously with their respective categories. In this way, a voice-recognition system... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070179776 - Linguistic user interface: A system for retrieval of text includes a processor which identifies grammar rules associated with text fragments of a text string that is retrieved from an associated storage medium, and retrieves text strings from the storage medium which satisfy the grammar rules. A display displays retrieved text strings. A user... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070179780 - Voice/musical sound encoding device and voice/musical sound encoding method: A voice and musical tone coding apparatus is provided that can perform high-quality coding by executing vector quantization taking the characteristics of human hearing into consideration. In this voice and musical tone coding apparatus, a quadrature transformation processing section (201) converts a voice and musical tone signal from time components... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070179781 - Efficient filtering with a complex modulated filterbank: A filter apparatus for filtering a time domain input signal to obtain a time domain output signal, which is a representation of the time domain input signal filtered using a filter characteristic having an non-uniform amplitude/frequency characteristic, comprises a complex analysis filter bank for generating a plurality of complex subband... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070179782 - Methods and apparatus for frequency tracking of a received signal: Methods and apparatus for frequency tracking of a received signal. In an aspect, a method is provided wherein the received signal comprises one or more symbols having a periodic structure. The method comprises receiving a plurality of samples of a selected symbol that comprises pilot signals scrambled with data and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070179783 - Variable rate speech coding: A method and apparatus for the variable rate coding of a speech signal. An input speech signal is classified and an appropriate coding mode is selected based on this classification. For each classification, the coding mode that achieves the lowest bit rate with an acceptable quality of speech reproduction is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070179784 - Dynamic match lattice spotting for indexing speech content: A system for indexing and searching speech content, the system includes two distinct stages, a speech indexing stage (100) and a speech retrieval stage (200). A phone lattice (103) is generated by passing speech content (101) through a speech recogniser (102). The resulting phone lattice is then processed to produce... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070179785 - Method for automatic real-time identification of languages in an audio signal and device for carrying out said method: The approach of the invention offers a compromise between various problems: number of languages processed, labeling of phonemes, speed. Its principle is acoustic discrimination of languages, which is performed with a neural modeling guaranteeing a low calculation time on execution (for example less than 3 seconds). Furthermore, neural networks generally... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070179786 - Av content processing device, av content processing method, av content processing program, and integrated circuit used in av content processing device: A CM detection unit (101) detects a CM section based on a power level of a sound signal in a stored AV content or the like, and acquires information indicating boundaries between the CM section and program sections. The user inputs, via a purpose reception unit (102), a view purpose... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070179787 - Update technique for speech recognition applications with uninterrupted (24x7) operation: A method of updating an application in a processing system, the aforesaid method comprising the steps of: (a) starting operation of a first version of an application in the aforesaid processing system; (b) starting operation of a second version of the aforesaid application in the aforesaid processing system; and (c)... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070179788 - Network support for interactive language lessons: An apparatus in one example has: a mobile terminal having at least a display, audio input/output and a text entry part; a language server operatively coupled to a language lesson database; and a network operatively coupled to the mobile terminal and the language server.... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070179789 - Speech recognition system with support for variable portable devices: A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine which allows support for client devices having differing computing capabilities. Natural language operations can also be supported as desired.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney