Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 09/07

20070225964 - Apparatus and method for image recognition and translation: An apparatus and a method for image recognition and translation are disclosed. In the present invention, an image is captured by an image capturing unit and the words in the image are recognized by a character recognizing module. Next, the recognized words are then translated into a designated language by... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070225968 - Extraction of compounds: A system for extracting a compound from a plurality of texts is provided. The system includes an obtaining section that analyzes a plurality of first texts and obtains a compound candidate based on analysis of the plurality of first texts, a calculation section that searches a plurality of second texts... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070225967 - Cadence management of translated multi-speaker conversations using pause marker relationship models: A system, method, and medium for cadence management of translated multi-speaker conversations including a demultiplexer for separating a multi-speaker audio source into time-related single-speaker audio tracks, each track containing first language audio snippets; and a pause relationship model generator and manager that determines the time relationships between the single-speaker snippets... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070225969 - Method and apparatus for dynamic modification of command weights in a natural language understanding system: A method and system for dynamically assigning weights to the subset of commands in a natural language dialog system based on prior context of the user's interaction with the system. The search space of the translation process may be reduced when some context information is available. A user presents input... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070225966 - Single server instance, multi-lingual applications based on loosely coupled metadata and presentation layers: Techniques to provide dynamic multi-lingual support for software applications such as analytics, which typically rely on two different types of data, underlying data and metadata, to generate reports. The metadata defines the underlying data and a presentation layer displays the reports, which may be generated using presentation and metadata layer... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070225965 - Terminology database: Text strings from computer-based applications are converted from multiple external formats into an internal format. The text strings are stored in a terminology database. Translations for the test strings are also stored in the terminology database and associated with the corresponding text strings. In one aspect, text strings are converted... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070225970 - Multi-context voice recognition system for long item list searches: A multi-context speech recognition system includes a device for providing phrase based speech recognition and keyword based speech recognition from a single user utterance. A first speech recognition engine coupled to a phrase based dictionary is used for searching out matches between the utterance and one or more entries in... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070225971 - Methods and devices for low-frequency emphasis during audio compression based on acelp/tcx: A first aspect of the present invention relates to a method for low-frequency emphasizing the spectrum of a sound signal transformed in a frequency domain and comprising transform coefficients grouped in a number of blocks, in which a maximum energy for one block is calculated and a position index of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070225972 - Speech signal classification system and method: Provided is a speech signal classification system and method. The speech signal classification system includes a primary recognition unit for determining using characteristics extracted from a speech frame whether the speech frame is a voice sound, a non-voice sound, or background noise and a secondary recognition unit for determining using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070225973 - Collective audio chunk processing for streaming translated multi-speaker conversations: A system, method, and software-encoded computer readable medium which receives an electronic streaming information resource, such as a multi-party audio conversation, determines demarcations between collective audio chunks (CAC) within the resource by determining when universal pauses (UP) exist across all party contributions; and submits the collective audio chunks in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070225974 - Fixed, variable and adaptive bit rate data source encoding (compression) method: According to the invention, quantization encoding is conducted using the probability density function of the source, enabling fixed, variable and adaptive rate encoding. To achieve adaptive encoding, an update is conducted with a new observation of the data source, preferably with each new observation of the data source. The current... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070225975 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing voice in speech: A speech processing apparatus includes a rule storing unit that stores therein a rule that correlates one another causes of errors in speech recognition, responding methods each of which is used when an error has occurred during the speech recognition, and responding users each of whom is one of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070225976 - Method of producing speech files: A method for method for producing audible speech files has the steps of transmitting a phonebook in a cell phone to a supported speech-playing device, converting the phonebook to text format data, uploading the text format data to a server, producing speech files based on the text format data with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070225977 - System and method for diacritization of text: A system and method for restoration of diacritics includes making classification decisions regarding an utterance in accordance with an aggregate of a plurality of information sources in a diacritization model for diacritic restoration. A best diacritic representation is determined for graphemes in the utterance based upon a best match with... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070225978 - System and method for network based transcription: The systems and methods described herein allow dictation and associated routing and formatting information to be forwarded to a transcription system. The transcription system converts the information into a document. The additional information associated with the dictation is then applied to the document to ensure proper formatting, routing, or the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P C

20070225979 - Method and apparatus for estimating degree of similarity between voices: A similarity degree estimation method is performed by two processes. In a first process, an inter-band correlation matrix is created from spectral data of an input voice such that the spectral data are divided into a plurality of discrete bands which are separated from each other with spaces therebetween along... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070225980 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for recognizing speech: A speech recognition apparatus includes a first-candidate selecting unit that selects a recognition result of a first speech from first recognition candidates based on likelihood of the first recognition candidates; a second-candidate selecting unit that extracts recognition candidates of a object word contained in the first speech and recognition candidates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070225981 - Method and system for recognizing phoneme in speech signal: A method of correctly segmenting phonemes by determining a boundary indicating a start point and an end point of each of the segmented phonemes, and correctly finding the phoneme in the speech signal by determining which phoneme in a phoneme recognition standard table corresponds to each of the segmented phonemes.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070225982 - Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method, and recording medium recorded a computer program: A speech recognition apparatus and a method are provided in which even when a speech recognition grammar is employed independently or alternatively, speech recognition response is improved. Voice data is received. Then, an output suspended state for a speech recognition result is maintained until the duration of a silence interval... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070225984 - Digital voice profiles: Generally described, the present invention is directed toward generating, maintaining, updating, and applying digital voice profiles. Voice profiles may be generated for individuals. The voice profiles include information that is unique to each individual and which may be applied to digital representations of that individual's voice to improve the quality... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070225983 - Worldwide time device: A speech recognition-based, digital electronic timekeeping device capable of displaying current time information for numerous worldwide locations, is described. Speech recognition templates are stored in the device memory, and include a speech recognition template for a spoken worldwide location, that includes a plurality of randomly accessible city entries. In one... Agent: Timothy R. Kroboth Kroboth Law Office

20070225985 - Parameter management apparatus for acoustic apparatus: A parameter management apparatus manages a plurality of parameters provided for control of an externally connected acoustic apparatus. The parameter management apparatus has a storing portion for storing a plurality of parameters stored in the acoustic apparatus. The parameter management apparatus selects, from among the parameters stored in the storing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070219780 - Method and system for responding to user-input based on semantic evaluations of user-provided expressions: A method for processing user input includes the step of receiving, during a session, via one of a plurality of media gateways, from a user, an expression having a semantic structure. The semantic structure of the expression is evaluated. An expression type is identified, responsive to the evaluation of the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070219781 - Method and system for responding to user-input based on semantic evaluations of user-provided resources: A method for processing user input includes the step of receiving, during a first session between a user and an interaction environment, via one of a plurality of media gateways, from the user, a resource including a plurality of predefined markers and at least one expression. An expression type is... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070219783 - Bilingual dictionary creating apparatus, bilingual dictionary creating method and computer program: According to the present invention, there is provided a bilingual dictionary creating apparatus 100, a bilingual dictionary creating method and a computer program. The bilingual dictionary creating apparatus 100 creates a new bilingual dictionary by using a bilingual corpus including plural pairs of strings shown in both a source language... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070219773 - Syntactic rule development graphical user interface: A graphical user interface provides a rule editor which displays linguistic elements of a selected text string, such as in the form of a tree structure where words and phrases of the text string are represented by nodes. A processor generates a linguistic rule in accordance with those linguistic elements... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070219774 - System and method for machine learning a confidence metric for machine translation: A machine translation system is trained to generate confidence scores indicative of a quality of a translation result. A source string is translated with a machine translator to generate a target string. Features indicative of translation operations performed are extracted from the machine translator. A trusted entity-assigned translation score is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219775 - Phrase translation and language instruction system: A phrase translation and language instruction system is provided comprising a plurality of printed sheets having disposed thereupon information relating to the translation of certain generic phrases. Additionally, there is provided therein a set of alternative verbs, nouns, adjectives and the like to enable the substitution of words relating to... Agent: Jonathan Smith

20070219779 - Clustering system, clustering method, clustering program and attribute estimation system using clustering system: A clustering system that clusters a language model group includes a union language model preparation unit that prepares a union language model for each language model so as to include a union of vocabularies in the language model group as entries, and a clustering unit that performs clustering with respect... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070219777 - Identifying language origin of words: The language of origin of a word is determined by analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219776 - Language usage classifier: A corpus is provided of language usage by non-native users of the language. Characteristics of the corpus are measured and used to create a language usage classifier for indicating non-native usage of the language. Once the language usage classifier is created, a natural language input may be entered, and the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219778 - Speech processing system: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a speech processing system comprising a data base manager to access a speech corpus comprising a plurality of sets of speech data; means for processing a selectable set of speech data to produce correlated redundancy data and means for creating a speech file... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070219782 - User-supported multi-language online dictionary: This invention describes an electronic dictionary that is built and maintained by the user community. It is a single source to translate any word from any language into any other language. The dictionary resides with an online server. User with online connection specifies his/her native language and looks up any... Agent: Qing Li

20070219784 - Environment detection and adaptation in hearing assistance devices: Method and apparatus for environment detection and adaptation in hearing assistance devices. Performance of feature extraction and environment detection to perform adaptation to hearing assistance device operation for a number of hearing assistance environments. The system detecting various noise sources independent of speech. The system determining adaptive actions to take... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070219785 - Speech post-processing using mdct coefficients: There is provided a speech post-processor for enhancing a speech signal divided into a plurality of sub-bands in frequency domain. The speech post-processor comprises an envelope modification factor generator configured to use frequency domain coefficients representative of an envelope derived from the plurality of sub-bands to generate an envelope modification... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070219786 - Method for providing external user automatic speech recognition dictation recording and playback: A method of providing information storage by means of Automatic Speech Recognition through a communication device of a vehicle comprises establishing a voice communication between an external source and a user of the vehicle, receiving information from the external source, processing the received information using an Automatic Speech Recognition unit... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070219787 - Selection of encoding modes and/or encoding rates for speech compression with open loop re-decision: In a device configurable to encode speech performing an open loop re-decision may comprise representing a speech signal by amplitude components and phase components for a current frame and a past frame. During the current frame, there may be an extraction of uncompressed amplitude components and uncompressed phase components. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070219789 - Method for quantifying an ultra low-rate speech coder: Method of coding and decoding speech for voice communications using a vocoder with very low bit rate comprising an analysis part for the coding and the transmission of the parameters of the speech signal, such as the voicing information per sub-band, the pitch, the gains, the LSF spectral parameters and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070219788 - Pitch prediction for packet loss concealment: There is provided a pitch lag predictor for use by a speech decoder to generate a predicted pitch lag parameter. The pitch lag predictor comprises a summation calculator configured to generate a first summation based on a plurality of previous pitch lag parameters, and a second summation based on a... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070219790 - Method and system for sound synthesis: A method and system for synthesizing an audio (equivalent) signal with a desired perceived pitch P″ is disclosed. A train of pulses with relative spacing P and impulse responses h seen by the train of pulses is determined, yielding an audio (equivalent) signal with actual perceived pitch P′. Information related... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070219791 - Method and system for reducing effects of noise producing artifacts in a voice codec: There is provided a method of reducing effect of noise producing artifacts in silence areas of a speech signal for use by a speech decoding system. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of incoming samples of a speech subframe; summing an absolute value of an energy level for each of... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070219792 - Method and system for user authentication based on speech recognition and knowledge questions: A method and system for user authentication based on speech recognition and knowledge questions. The method comprises receiving a speech recognition result derived from ASR processing of a received utterance. A reference information element is obtained for the utterance. Then, the method determines at least one similarity metric indicative of... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070219793 - Shareable filler model for grammar authoring: A method of forming a shareable filler model (shareable model for garbage words) from a word n-gram model is provided. The word n-gram model is converted into a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG). The PCFG is modified into a substantially application-independent PCFG, which constitutes the shareable filler model.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219794 - Facilitating content generation via messaging system interactions: The following disclosure relates generally to techniques for generating useful content based on user interactions, such as by enabling users to submit questions to and otherwise interact with an answer-providing service. In some situations, one or more interfaces are provided to allow users to specify a variety of types of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070219795 - Facilitating content generation via paid participation: Techniques are described that facilitate generating useful content based on user interactions, such as by providing an answer-providing service that facilitates interactions between users who supply questions and users who supply responses to the questions of other users, as well as using the generated content in various ways. In some... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070219796 - Weighted likelihood ratio for pattern recognition: A Weighted Likelihood Ratio Hidden Markov Model is utilized for speech processing. The model emphasizes spectral peaks when comparing spectra. Probability density functions for states in the model can be developed with weights based on the comparison.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219797 - Subword unit posterior probability for measuring confidence: Speech recognition such as command and control speech recognition generally use a context free grammar to constrain the decoding process. Word or subword background model are constructed to repopulate dynamic hypothesis space, especially when word spareness is at issue. The background models can be later used in speech recognition. During... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219798 - Training system for a speech recognition application: A training system for a speech recognition application is disclosed. In embodiments described, the training system is used to train a classification model or language model. The classification model is trained using an adaptive language model generated by an iterative training process. In embodiments described, the training data is recognized... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219799 - Text to speech synthesis system using syllables as concatenative units: The invention, in its several embodiments, pertains to methods and apparatuses for text to speech synthesis. In embodiments, the method can include obtaining text of a word having a first syllable and a second syllable, providing from a database a first voice recording of the first syllable, providing from the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20070219801 - System, method and computer program product for updating a biometric model based on changes in a biometric feature of a user: Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product are described for updating a biometric model of a user enrolled in a biometric system based on changes in a biometric feature of the user. In accordance with one embodiment, a user is authenticated based on an analysis of a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070219800 - Voice message systems and methods: A voice message system is provided that includes a voice control that receives voice messages and identified voice message pattern types within respective voice messages. The voice message system also includes a graphical user interface that displays voice message representations associated with the voice messages and visual indicator identifiers that... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070219802 - Wireless speech recognition: A method of interacting with a speech recognition (SR)-enabled personal computer (PC) is provided in which a user SR profile is transferred from a wireless-enabled device to the SR-enabled PC. Interaction with SR applications, on the SR-enabled PC, is carried out by transmitting speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070219803 - Method for creating and deploying system changes in a voice application system: A system for configuring and implementing changes to a voice application system has a first software component and host node for configuring one or more changes; a second software component and host node for receiving and implementing the configured change or changes; and a data network connecting the host nodes.... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20070219805 - Device in which selection is activated by voice and method in which selection is activated by voice: A selecting device according to voice includes output unit for outputting guide voice for guiding a selection item, voice recognition unit for recognizing a selection instruction for selecting the selection item that is issued during the output of the guide voice by output unit or within a certain time after... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070219804 - Processing apparatus of markup language information, information processing method and recording medium with program: An apparatus includes a recording tag recognition unit 1 recognizing a recording tag representing a start of recording, a recording termination tag recognition unit 1 recognizing a recording termination tag representing termination of recording, and a voice data storage control unit 2 having acquired voice data stored during a period... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070219806 - Surgical system controlling apparatus and surgical system controlling method: In this invention, a voice recognition engine 110 outputs to a controlling section 103 a matching state of a voice input signal as an error code. Then, the controlling section 103 determines the matching state based on the error code in the error determination section 105 and outputs to a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070219807 - Wirelessly delivered owner's manual: This invention is directed to a method of delivering vehicle owner's manual or other vehicle-specific information to the vehicle operator from a remote data center and associated vehicle information database by utilizing a voice recognition system at the remote data center and delivering the information to the vehicle operator in... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20070219808 - Device and method for generating a coded multi-channel signal and device and method for decoding a coded multi-channel signal: In a multi-channel encoder generating several different parameter sets for reconstructing a multi-channel output signal using at least one transmission channel, the data stream is written such that the two parameter sets are decodable independently of each other. Thus, a multi-channel decoder is enabled to skip a parameter set which... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070213973 - Pattern generation: A method and system is disclosed herein for generating a plurality of equivalent sentence patterns from a declared sentence pattern for a specific language. The declared pattern is fed into a pattern generator. The pattern generator reads a predetermined library of equivalent pattern specification sets and selects an equivalent pattern... Agent: Ashok Tankha Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070213971 - Method for operating an output device: The invention related to a method for operating an output device and for outputting text data in one of at least two languages with at least partly different character sets by utilizing only one input means for all languages comprising the following steps inputting at least one character by said... Agent: Matthew K Ryan Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070213975 - Information transmission method and information transmission system in which content is varied in process of information transmission: An information transmission method in which in a process of transmitting information the transmission is conducted so as to increase uncertainty has not been established. Information terminals have a plurality of fixed phrases for sentence generation, and sentences are generated by inserting words, which are inputted into the information terminals... Agent: Dickenstein Shapiro, LLP

20070213972 - Method and apparatus for graphically constructing applications utilizing information from multiple sources: A software component and method for constructing computer applications running on different runtime environments, which consume services provided in multiple protocols. Usage of the component and method is preferably done by a content professional and does not require programming knowledge for supporting the runtime environments or the protocols.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070213974 - Syntax analysis program, syntax analysis method, syntax analysis device, and computer-readable medium storing syntax analysis program: A syntax analysis program includes an input step for inputting a sentence of a natural language, an analysis step for executing a morphological analysis and a syntax analysis with respect to the input sentence inputted in the input step, an extraction step for extracting the most similar analyzed corpus to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070213976 - Method and apparatus for transmitting wideband speech signals: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a speech signal are provided. A speech signal transmitter includes a quadrature mirror filter, a base sub-band encoder, an enhancement sub-band encoder, and a network connector. The quadrature mirror filter receives a speech signal, divides the speech signal into an enhancement band speech... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070213977 - Fixed codebook searching apparatus and fixed codebook searching method: A fixed codebook searching apparatus which slightly suppresses an increase in the operation amount, even if the filter applied to the excitation pulse has the characteristic that it cannot be represented by a lower triangular matrix and realizes a quasi-optimal fixed codebook search. This fixed codebook searching apparatus is provided... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070213980 - Apparatus and methods for providing network-based information suitable for audio output: The invention is directed to techniques for navigating a network based on audio input to retrieve information from a network. A user enters audio commands into a two-way communication device to access information located on a network, such as the Internet. For example, a user enters a voice request for... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070213979 - One-step repair of misrecognized recognition strings: A method for use in automatic speech recognition corrects erroneous recognition elements within a recognition hypothesis. A user input is recognized as a correction hypothesis which contains various recognition elements. A non-deterministic alignment is performed to align at least a portion of the correction hypothesis with an earlier recognition hypothesis... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070213978 - User and vocabulary-adaptice determination of confidence and rejection thresholds: During a voice recognition, a theoretic identification result is deducible or already given. The recognition process is carried out and a confidence measure of the theoretic identification result is determined.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070213982 - Method and system for using automatic generation of speech features to provide diagnostic feedback: A method and system for providing immediate diagnostic feedback on speech samples of non-native speakers are disclosed. A scoring model is generated based on speech features extracted from one or more training speech samples. An evaluation speech sample is received and speech features of the evaluation speech sample are determined.... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070213981 - Methods and systems for detecting, measuring, and monitoring stress in speech: As disclosed herein, the present invention provides methods and systems for detecting, measuring, or monitoring the presence of absence of at least one emotion in a subject from a speech sample obtained from the subject. In particular, the methods and systems of the present invention comprise extracting at least one... Agent: Office Of The Staff Judge Advocate (sks) U.s. Army Med. Research & Materiel Command

20070213983 - Spell checking system including a phonetic speller: A spell checking system includes a letter spelling engine. The letter spelling engine is configured to select a plurality of candidate letter target strings that closely match a misspelled source string. The spell checking system includes a phoneme spelling engine. The phoneme spelling engine is configured to select a plurality... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070213985 - Self-annotating identifiers: A computer-implemented method provides, to a user, representations of a plurality of discriminants of meanings of a plurality of symbols in a natural language. Each of the plurality of discriminants is associated with a corresponding finite set of mutually exclusive answers to the discriminant. The discriminants are orthogonal to each... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070213984 - Dynamic help including available speech commands from content contained within speech grammars: A method for providing help to voice-enabled applications, including multimodal applications, can include a step of identifying at least one speech grammar associated with a voice-enabled application. Help fields can be defined within the speech grammar. The help fields can include available speech commands for the voice enabled application. When... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070213986 - Email administration for rendering email on a digital audio player: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for email administration for rendering email on a digital audio player. Embodiments include retrieving an email message; extracting text from the email message; creating a media file; and storing the extracted text of the email message as metadata associated with the media... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070213987 - Codebook-less speech conversion method and system: The conversion of speech can be used to transform an utterance by a source speaker to match the speech characteristic of a target speaker, for applications such as dubbing a motion picture. During a training phase, utterances corresponding to the same sentences by both the target speaker and source speaker... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070213989 - Task minder system: In one or more embodiments, a task minder comprises a personal electronic device configured to prompt its user for input at timed intervals. The task minder, which may be a wearable device, allows its user to input a “positive” response indicating that the user is on task, or a “negative”... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070213988 - Using speech processing technologies for verification sequence instances: A method for verifying sequential steps using speech processing technologies can include a step of initializing a verification sequence instance. The instance sequence can include one or more sequentially linked verification points. A computer produced speech prompt can be presented for one of the verification points. A speech response can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070213990 - Binaural decoder to output spatial stereo sound and a decoding method thereof: A binaural decoder for an MPEG surround stream, which decodes an MPEG surround stream into a stereo 3D signal, and a decoding method thereof. The method includes dividing a compressed audio stream and head related transfer function (HRTF) data into subbands, selecting predetermined subbands of the HRTF data divided into... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070208556 - Apparatus for providing voice dialogue service and method of operating the same: A speech dialogue service apparatus including: a language analysis module tagging a part of speech (POS) of each respective word included in a sentence recorded in a predetermined text, syntactically analyzing the sentence by classifying a meaning of each respective word, and generating at least one semantic frame corresponding to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070208553 - Visual context for translation: A visual context displays a graphical user interface for an application without executing the application. The visual context is constructed from a definition for the graphical user interface. In one aspect, executable code for various components of the graphical user interface are extracted from the definition and written into the... Agent: Csa LLP

20070208555 - Dynamically adjusting speech grammar weights based on usage: A speech processing method can automatically and dynamically adjust speech grammar weights at runtime based upon usage data. Each of the speech grammar weights can be associated with an available speech command contained within a speech grammar to which the speech grammar weights apply. The usage data can indicate a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070208554 - Systems for displaying conversions of text equivalents: Embodiments of the invention include a system for displaying an audit diagram. The system includes a monitor capable of electronically displaying the audit diagram. The monitor includes a text equivalent constructed from an input text, and a conversion representation including an operator indicator, a result arrow, and a rule arrow.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070208557 - Perceptual, scalable audio compression: The perceptual scalable audio coding/decoding technique lies in the use of a psychoacoustic mask to guide residue coding in enhancement layer coders. At the encoder, a psychoacoustic mask is calculated for the enhancement layer coders or is simply extracted from the coded base layer bitstream. One can also decode the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070208558 - System and method for measuring sound: A system and method for measuring sound is described. In one embodiment frequency-banded-noise samples, which collectively cover at least a portion of a spectrum, are sequentially generated at different points in time, and a baseline sound-pressure-level reading for each of the frequency banded noise samples is received. Using data received... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070208560 - Block-diagonal covariance joint subspace typing and model compensation for noise robust automatic speech recognition: Model compression is combined with model compensation. Model compression is needed in embedded ASR to reduce the size and the computational complexity of compressed models. Model-compensation is used to adapt in real-time to changing noise environments. The present invention allows for the design of smaller ASR engines (memory consumption reduced... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070208559 - Joint signal and model based noise matching noise robustness method for automatic speech recognition: A noise robustness method operates jointly in a signal domain and a model domain. For example, energy is added in the signal domain for frequency bands where an actual noise level of an incoming signal is lower than a noise level used to train models, thus obtaining a compensated signal.... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070208561 - Method and apparatus for searching multimedia data using speech recognition in mobile device: A method of searching music using speech recognition in a mobile device, the method including: recognizing a speech signal uttered by a user as a phoneme sequence; and searching music information by performing partial symbol matching between the recognized phoneme sequence and a standard pronunciation sequence.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070208562 - Method and apparatus for normalizing voice feature vector by backward cumulative histogram: A method and apparatus for normalizing a histogram utilizing a backward cumulative histogram which can cumulate a probability distribution function in an order from a greatest to smallest value so as to estimate a noise robust histogram. A method of normalizing a speech feature vector includes: extracting the speech feature... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070208563 - Device, system and method for enabling speech recognition on a portable data device: Devices, systems and methods for converting analog data to digital data or digital data to analog data for enabling speech recognition processing on a portable data device are provided. The system includes at least one portable data device including an input module configured to receive analog audio signals; a processing... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070208564 - Telephone based search system: A system includes a telephone coupled to a wide area network; and a server coupled to the telephone over the wide area network, the server receiving a search query from the telephone; the server searching one or more taxonomic databases based on the search query and returning a search result... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070208565 - Synthesizing a mono audio signal: The invention relates to a method of synthesizing a mono audio signal 3 based on an available encoded multichannel audio signal 2. The encoded multichannel audio signal 2 is assumed to comprise at least for a part of an audio frequency band separate parameter values for each channel of the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070208566 - Voice signal conversation method and system: A method of converting a voice signal spoken by a source speaker into a converted voice signal having acoustic characteristics that resemble those of a target speaker. The method includes the following steps: determining (1) at least one function for the transformation of the acoustic characteristics of the source speaker... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070208569 - Communicating across voice and text channels with emotion preservation: Emotion across voice and text communication channels are abstracted, preserved and translated. A voice communication is received and analyzed for emotion content. The textual content of the communication is realized summarily using word recognition techniques. The textual content is then analyzed for emotion content. Words and phrases derived from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070208567 - Error correction in automatic speech recognition transcripts: A method, a processing device, and a machine-readable medium are provided for improving speech processing. A transcript associated with the speech processing may be displayed to a user with a first visual indication of words having a confidence level within a first predetermined confidence range. An error correction facility may... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070208568 - Menu hierarchy skipping dialog for directed dialog speech recognition: A method and a processing device for managing an interactive speech recognition system is provided. Whether a voice input relates to expected input, at least partially, of any one of a group of menus different from a current menu is determined. If the voice input relates to the expected input,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070208570 - Message transcription, voice query and query delivery system: A message transmission system accepts a telephone call from a user who wishes to send an e-mail message, send an SMS message, perform an Internet query or retrieve his or her electronic mail. The voice call is transcribed and the message is sent, or the question in the voice call... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070208571 - Audio bitstream format in which the bitstream syntax is described by an ordered transversal of a tree hierarchy data structure: A bitstream format for representing audio information in which the bitstream syntax is described by an ordered transversal of a tree hierarchy data structure, has a tree hierarchy comprising a plurality of tree hierarchy levels, each having one or more nodes, in which at least some progressively smaller subdivisions of... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation