Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 10/07

20070250305 - Systems and methods for the generation of alternate phrases from packed meaning: Techniques are provided to generate alternate phrases from a packed meaning representation. The semantics of input items in a packed meaning representation are matched against a lexicon to determine initial entries in a phrasal information structure. Context, syntax and semantic information describing each phrasal entry are added to the phrasal... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20070250307 - System, method, and computer readable medium thereof for language learning and displaying possible terms: A language learning system, method, and computer readable medium thereof are provided. In this system, (1) the deciding module decides an original term, (2) the retrieving module retrieves a plurality of possible terms, and (3) the displaying apparatus displays the possible terms. Thereafter, the receiving interface receives an input option,... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070250306 - Systems and methods for identifying parallel documents and sentence fragments in multilingual document collections: Systems, computer programs, and methods for identifying parallel documents and/or fragments in a bilingual collection are provided. The method for identifying parallel sub-sentential fragments in a bilingual collection comprises translating a source document from a bilingual collection. The method further includes querying a target library associated with the bilingual collection... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070250308 - Method and device for transcoding: A method and device for transcoding a first audio or video signal represented in one compression format to a second audio or video signal represented in another compression format. The transcoding is performed by direct mapping symbols from the first signal format to symbols of the second signal format. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070250309 - Method and apparatus for determining a bit boundary of a repetition-coded signal: A method for determining a bit boundary of a repetition-coded signal including bits each having a plurality of epochs includes (a) counting the epochs repeatedly from an initial number to a predetermined number in a predetermined time, (b) sensing sign changes in the epochs, (c) recording each sensed sign change... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070250310 - Audio encoding device, audio decoding device, and method thereof: There is disclosed an audio encoding device capable of realizing effective encoding while using audio encoding of the CELP method in an extended layer when hierarchically encoding an audio signal. In this device, a first encoding section (115) subjects an input signal (S11) to audio encoding processing of the CELP... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070250311 - Method and apparatus for automatic adjustment of play speed of audio data: A method for managing audio data includes identifying a condition in the audio data. A rate of playback of the audio data is automatically adjusted in response to identifying the condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Portfolioip

20070250312 - Signal processing apparatus and method thereof: An improved and computationally efficient signal processing is provided to estimate and reduce noise in a sampled signal. Hence, a first filter recursive filters a vector in the signal in one direction along the vector, a second filter recursive filters the vector in the opposite direction to the first filter... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070250314 - Noise-canceling device for voice communication terminal: A noise-canceling device of a voice communication terminal that removes noise elements included in received voice signals. The device comprises: a digital filter array that exhibits filter qualities in response to a coefficient setting signal showing each supplied arrays of filter coefficients, and includes a first-stage filter that receives the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070250313 - Systems and methods for analyzing video content: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media having programs for analyzing video. In one embodiment, a method includes: detecting a plurality of whistle sounds in an audio stream of a video; and determining a video content based on a plurality of properties corresponding to the plurality of whistle sounds.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070250316 - System and method for automatic merging of multiple time-stamped transcriptions: A system for automatically merging multiple time-stamped transcriptions is provided. The system includes a transcription server for receiving a signal having time-stamp information, a splitter, a merging utility, and a text output. A method for automatic merging of multiple time-stamped transcriptions comprises the following steps: transferring a signal having timestamp... Agent: Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC

20070250315 - Downline transcription system using automatic tracking and revenue collection: A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys is disclosed. Real-time transcription text is communicated from the reporter's terminal through the network. Secure message interchange between the examining attorneys and between defending attorneys is provided along independent communication links and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070250317 - Speech recognition and transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols: A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a system transaction manager that receives a speech information request from at least one of the users. The speech information request includes formatted spoken text generated... Agent: Lee G. Meyer, Esq. Meyer & Associates, LLC

20070250318 - Automatic speech analysis: A system for providing automatic quality management regarding a level of conformity to a specific accent, including, a recording system, a statistical model database with statistical models representing speech data of different levels of conformity to a specific accent, a speech analysis system, a quality management system. Wherein the recording... Agent: Mavis S. Gallenson, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070250319 - Song feature quantity computation device and song retrieval system: Several feature phrases including combinations of words are predetermined to indicate a feature of a song. TF-IDF values are computed based on appearances counts of the feature phrases. A song feature quantity is computed as a vector constituted by the TF-IDF values. This vector is an index indicating the feature... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070250320 - Dynamic clustering of nametags in an automated speech recognition system: A speech recognition method includes receiving a nametag utterance, decoding the nametag utterance to recognize constituent subwords of the nametag utterance, determining the number of subwords in the nametag utterance, and associating the nametag utterance with one or more of a plurality of different nametag clusters based on the number... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070250321 - Personal and remote article-on-demand system: A communication system (10) includes a remote personal communication device (14) that has an input device 68, 70, 72) and a data transceiver (62). The input device (68, 70, 72) receives a text article request command from a user. The data transceiver (62) transmits text article request signals in response... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070250322 - Method and device for verifying the identity of a user of several telecommunication services using biometric characteristics: A method and device for verification of an identity of a subscriber of a communication service on a telecommunications network is provided. The communication service requires authentication of the subscriber. The verification includes comparing a reference biometric with at least one biometric characteristic detected from a biometric sample of the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070250323 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding plurality of digital data sets: Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a plurality of digital data sets, a digital data set having a data frame structure, in which a data frame corresponds to a time period, the number of bits per time period being variable, the plurality of digital data sets being ordered in... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070250324 - Audio-signal time-axis expansion/compression method and device: An audio-signal time-axis expansion/compression method for subjecting an audio signal to time-axis expansion/compression at a time domain includes the steps of: cross-fade-signal generating wherein a first period and a second period which are similar within the audio signal are employed to generate the cross-fade signal of the first period signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070244694 - Dictionary-content processing apparatus, content displaying system, and content displaying method: In a hierarchical database in which a schema of a property is defined, a group-information creating unit creates group information that properties are automatically grouped based on their metadata. When a property is selected on a content display screen for change of its display position, a content aggregating unit aggregates... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070244687 - Dialog supporting device: Provided is a dialog supporting device which supports dialog to speedily complete by reducing the number of utterances resulted from misunderstandings and hasty conclusion. The dialog supporting device has: an example database which holds examples used in the dialog; an utterance receiving unit which receives utterances of a user and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070244688 - On-demand language translation for television programs: A method, a system and a machine-readable medium are provided for an on demand translation service. A translation module including at least one language pair module for translating a source language to a target language may be made available for use by a subscriber. The subscriber may be charged a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070244690 - Clustering of text for structuring of text documents and training of language models: The present invention relates to a method, a text segmentation system and a computer program product for clustering of text into text clusters representing a distinct semantic meaning. The text clustering method identifies text portions and assigns text portions to different clusters in such a way that each text cluster... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070244689 - Integrating related data from incompatible systems for enhanced business functionality: An embodiment of the present invention describes a method and system for using related data from external systems employing incompatible character sets to affect a business process. For one embodiment, a first external system uses a first character set. A first data set is received from the first external system,... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070244691 - Translation of user interface text strings: Described are methods of translating text strings displayed by a user interface application in a source language into text strings in a target language. A translator application creates a dynamic database file containing a mapping of source language text strings to corresponding target language text strings. When a request to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070244692 - Identification and rejection of meaningless input during natural language classification: A method for identifying data that is meaningless and generating a natural language statistical model which can reject meaningless input. The method can include identifying unigrams that are individually meaningless from a set of training data. At least a portion of the unigrams identified as being meaningless can be assigned... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070244693 - Natural language watermarking: A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided for watermarking natural language digital text. A deep structure may be generated and a group of features may be extracted from natural language digital text input. The deep structure may be modified based, at least partly, on a watermark. Natural language digital... Agent: Samuel H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070244696 - Method for obtaining information representative of the channel quality indication on at least one frequency subband: The present invention concerns a method and a device for obtaining, by a first telecommunication device and from a second telecommunication device, information representative of the channel quality indication on at least one frequency subband, the first and the second telecommunication devices being linked through a wireless telecommunication network using... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070244695 - Selection of encoding modes and/or encoding rates for speech compression with closed loop re-decision: In a device configurable to encode speech performing an closed loop re-decision may comprise representing a speech signal by amplitude components and phase components for a current frame and a past frame. In a first closed loop stage, a first set of compressed components and a first set of uncompressed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070244697 - System and method for processing speech: Systems and methods for processing speech are provided. A system may include an acoustic model to transform speech input into one or more word strings. The system may also include a semantic model to convert each of the one or more word strings into a detected object and a detected... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070244698 - Response-select null steering circuit: A response select null steering circuit includes a beamformer, a plurality of separate fixed filters, and a selection circuit. In response to sound signals emitted from a desired speaker and an unwanted interferer, a sum signal containing signal components of the speaker and interferer is generated, and the beamformer generates... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20070244699 - Audio signal encoding method, program of audio signal encoding method, recording medium having program of audio signal encoding method recorded thereon, and audio signal encoding device: Disclosed herein is an audio signal encoding method for dividing an audio signal into a plurality of subband signals, allocating bits to the subband signals on a basis of psychoacoustic analysis, and encoding the audio signal, in which the audio signal encoding method may include an evaluation criterion calculating step,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070244700 - Session file modification with selective replacement of session file components: An apparatus comprising a session file, session file editor, annotation window, concatenation software and training software. The session file includes one or more audio files and text associated with each audio file segment. The session file editor displays text and provides text selection capability and plays back audio. The annotation... Agent: Jonathan Kahn

20070244701 - Methods, systems and computer program products for organizing and/or manipulating cohort based information: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for storing, organizing and/or manipulating cohort based information associated with a research study. Project information associated with a first project is received at an interface of a computer database environment. The project information associated with the first project includes cohort information associated... Agent: Elizabeth A. Stanek Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070244702 - Session file modification with annotation using speech recognition or text to speech: An apparatus comprising a session file, session file editor, annotation window, concatenation software and training software. The session file includes one or more audio files and text associated with each audio file segment. The session file editor displays text and provides text selection capability and plays back audio. The annotation... Agent: Jonathan Kahn

20070244703 - System, server and method for distributed literacy and language skill instruction: A server for providing language and literacy tutoring information to a plurality of user devices connected to a communications network, comprising a network adapter for connection to the network; a content database for providing learning content to devices via the network adaptor and the network; a plurality of speech recognition... Agent: David Aker

20070244705 - Electronic instrument: An electronic instrument includes: a display control unit for displaying a control content corresponding to the command information based on the result of the speech recognition; an instruction unit for instructing that a control for the control content displayed by the display control unit, is cancelled; a control unit for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070244704 - Menu-driven voice control: In a gaming system, a user controls actions of characters in the game environment using speech commands. In a learning mode, available speech commands are displayed in a command menu on a display device. In a non-learning mode, the available speech commands are not displayed. A speaker-independent context-sensitive speech recognition... Agent: Wendi R. Schepler Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070244706 - Audio signal encoder and audio signal decoder: A portable player (710) or a multi-channel home player (730) includes: a mixed signal decoding unit (711) that extracts, from a first inputted coded stream, a second coded stream representing a downmix signal into which multi-channel audio signals are mixed and supplementary information for reverting the downmix signal back to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070239423 - Method and system of machine translation: A system and method is provided for generating a translingual parsing model and for using the model to machine translate a source language to a destination language. The system and method includes receiving a sentence in the source language, and with the translingual parsing model, searching among and statistically ranking... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20070239424 - Foreign language communication aid: The invention addresses the problem of communicating effectively in a foreign language. A phrase to be communicated is selected from an address in a table (4A) and is displayed, in the user's mother tongue, on one side (3A) of a display so that it can be seen by the user.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070239425 - Handheld electronic device and method for employing contextual data for disambiguation of text input: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070239426 - Handheld electronic device providing a learning function to facilitate correction of erroneous text entry in environment of text requiring multiple sequential actuations of the same key, and associated method: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070239427 - Handheld electronic device providing proposed corrected input in response to erroneous text entry in environment of text requiring multiple sequential actuations of the same key, and associated method: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able in... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070239428 - Voip contextual information processing: A method and system for processing contextual information relating to an exchange of a conversation over a communication channel is provided. Several users, and/or service providers are allowed to specify a set of rules relating to a conversation channel. Contextual information, including information relating to the specified set of rules... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070239429 - Systems and methods for multiple mode voice and data communications using intelligently bridged tdm and packet buses and methods for implementing language capabilities using the same: Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus, and... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk Loudermilk + Associates

20070239432 - Common word graph based multimodal input: Multiple input modalities are selectively used by a user or process to prune a word graph. Pruning initiates rescoring in order to generate a new word graph with a revised best path.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070239430 - Correcting semantic classification of log data: Speech log data is received, and possible semantic classifications for that log data are obtained from grammars that were active in the system when the log data was received. Audio information from the log data, along with the possible semantic values, are then presented for user selection. A user selection... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070239435 - Generating a unique name for a data element: Operations for generating a unique name for at least one of several data elements include receiving a definition of a data element for which a unique name is to be created. The unique name is to comply with a predefined name format. The definition comprises human-understandable descriptive language. The data... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070239431 - Scalable probabilistic latent semantic analysis: A scalable two-pass scalable probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) methodology is disclosed that may perform more efficiently, and in some cases more accurately, than traditional PLSA, especially where large and/or sparse data sets are provided for analysis. The improved methodology can greatly reduce the storage and/or computational costs of training... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070239433 - Variables and method for authorship attribution: A method uses linguistic units of analysis to identify the authorship of a document. The method is useful to determine authorship of brief documents, and in situations where there are less than ten documents per known author, i.e. when there is scarcity of text. The method analyzes parameters such as... Agent: Mitchell P. Novick, Esq. Law Offices Of Mitchell P. Novick

20070239434 - Word completion in a handheld electronic device: A method for enabling generation of text on a handheld electronic device which has a plurality of input members, at least some of which have a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, and a memory having language objects stored therein. The method comprises enabling detection of a number of input... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070239436 - Methods and instructions for outputting data comprising a data dictionary: In one embodiment, a method has steps for 1) determining a number of data types and associated data structure definitions, the data types being utilized as potential output by a machine running a program; 2) creating a data dictionary with listings, the listings comprising the data types and the associated... Agent: Verigy

20070239437 - Apparatus and method for extracting pitch information from speech signal: An apparatus and method for extracting pitch information from a speech signal. The apparatus includes a pilot pitch detector for extracting predicted pitch information from a frame of an input speech signal, a pitch candidate value selector for selecting one or more pitch candidate values from the predicted pitch information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070239438 - Digital microphone system and method thereof: A digital microphone system and a method thereof are described. The digital microphone comprises a receiving unit, an amplifier, a modulator, an audio processing unit and a high definition audio link. After the receiving unit receives an analog audio signal, the analog audio signal is amplified by the amplifier. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070239440 - Processing of excitation in audio coding and decoding: In an apparatus and method, time-varying signals are processed and encoded via a frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP) scheme to arrive at an all-pole model. Residual signals resulted from the scheme are estimated and transformed into a time domain signal. Through the process of heterodyning, the time domain signal is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070239439 - Method and apparatus for training f0 and pause prediction model, method and apparatus for f0 and pause prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training F0 and pause prediction model, method and apparatus for F0 and pause prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis. Said method for training an F0 prediction model, comprising: representing F0 with an orthogonal polynomial; for each parameter of the orthogonal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070239441 - System and method for addressing channel mismatch through class specific transforms: A method and system for speaker recognition and identification includes transforming features of a speaker utterance in a first condition state to match a second condition state and provide a transformed utterance. A discriminative criterion is used to generate a transform that maps an utterance to obtain a computed result.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070239442 - Multi-channel encoder: This document gives a technical description of a multi-channel parametric audio coding system. The goal of this system is to describe an m-channel signal by an n-channel signal, with n<m, and parameters describing a spatial image in order to reconstruct the m-channel signal.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070239443 - Device control device and device control method: A language analyzer (2) performs speech recognition on a speech input by a speech input unit (1), specifies a possible word which is represented by the speech, and the score thereof, and supplies word data representing them to an agent processing unit (6). The agent processing unit (6) stores process... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070239444 - Voice signal perturbation for speech recognition: A system (100) and method (200) for generating a perturbed phonetic string for use in speech recognition. The method can include generating (202) a feature vector set from a spoken utterance, applying (204) a perturbation to the feature vector set for producing a perturbed feature vector set, and phonetically decoding... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070239447 - Scene information extraction method, and scene extraction method and apparatus: An apparatus includes unit acquiring comment information items related to video content, each of the comment information items including a comment, and a start time and an end time of the comment, unit dividing the comment into words by morpheme analysis for each of the comment information items, unit acquiring... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070239446 - Down-line transcription system using automatic tracking and revenue collection: A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys is disclosed. Real-time transcription text is communicated from the reporter's terminal through the network. Secure message interchange between the examining attorneys and between defending attorneys is provided along independent communication links and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070239445 - Method and system for automatic transcription prioritization: A visual toolkit for prioritizing speech transcription is provided. The toolkit can include a logger (102) for capturing information from a speech recognition system, a processor (104) for determining an accuracy rating of the information, and a visual display (106) for categorizing the information and prioritizing a transcription of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070239448 - Speech recognition using channel verification: A method for automatic speech recognition includes determining for an input signal a plurality scores representative of certainties that the input signal is associated with corresponding states of a speech recognition model, using the speech recognition model and the determined scores to compute an average signal, computing a difference value... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070239449 - Method and apparatus for verification of speaker authentication: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for verification of speaker authentication. A method for verification of speaker authentication, comprising: inputting an utterance containing a password that is spoken by a speaker; extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from said inputted utterance; DTW-matching said extracted acoustic feature vector sequence... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070239450 - Robust personalization through biased regularization: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for personalization of a recognizer. In general, recognizers can be used to classify input data. During personalization, a recognizer is provided with samples specific to a user, entity or format to improve performance for the specific user, entity or format. Biased regularization... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239451 - Method and apparatus for enrollment and verification of speaker authentication: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enrollment and verification of speaker authentication. The method for enrollment of speaker authentication, comprising: extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from an enrollment utterance of a speaker; and generating a speaker template using the acoustic feature vector sequence; wherein said step... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070239452 - Targeting of buzz advertising information: A system and method to facilitate targeting of advertising based on buzz-related information in a network, wherein users access an entity through the network, such as the Internet, and request content from the entity or initiate other events based on various topics of interest at the time of each event.... Agent: Stattler-suh PC

20070239453 - Augmenting context-free grammars with back-off grammars for processing out-of-grammar utterances: Architecture for integrating and generating back-off grammars (BOG) in a speech recognition application for recognizing out-of-grammar (OOG) utterances and updating the context-free grammars (CFG) with the results. A parsing component identifies keywords and/or slots from user utterances and a grammar generation component adds filler tags before and/or after the keywords... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239454 - Personalizing a context-free grammar using a dictation language model: Architecture for integrating and generating back-off grammars (BOG) in a speech recognition application for recognizing out-of-grammar (OOG) utterances and updating the context-free grammars (CFG) with the results. A parsing component identifies keywords and/or slots from user utterances and a grammar generation component adds filler tags before and/or after the keywords... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239455 - Method and system for managing pronunciation dictionaries in a speech application: A voice toolkit (100) and a method (700) for managing pronunciation dictionaries are provided. The visual toolkit can include a user-interface (110) for entering in a text and a corresponding spoken utterance, a text-to-speech system (120) for synthesizing a pronunciation from the text, a talking speech recognizer (132) for generating... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070239457 - Method, apparatus, mobile terminal and computer program product for utilizing speaker recognition in content management: An apparatus for utilizing speaker recognition in content management includes an identity determining module. The identity determining module is configured to compare an audio sample which was obtained at a time corresponding to creation of a content item to stored voice models and to determine an identity of a speaker... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070239456 - Audio accessibility enhancement for computer audio events: A computer program product is presented including program instructions embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium. Execution of the program instructions results in operations including: monitoring at least one pathway between at least one application and a sound device in order to detect a presence of data that represents an audio... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070239458 - Automatic identification of timing problems from speech data: A speech application is analyzed to automatically identify timing problems therein. Information related to the application is recorded and problems are identified. A recognizer can be utilized to perform recognition on the recorded information.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070239459 - Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognition system for use in handsfree conversational dialogue: Conversational dialog with a computer or other processor-based device without requiring push-to-talk functionality. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines that a user desires to engage in a dialog. Based thereon the method turns on a speech recognition functionality for a period of time referred to as a listening... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239460 - Geographic feature name reduction using phonetic algorithms: Embodiments of the present invention concern a way of using geographic-phonetic strings, such as modified geographic-phonetic strings, for constructing a geographic database for use with geographic applications.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070239463 - Encoding device, decoding device, and system thereof utilizing band expansion information: A decoding device (30a) comprises a narrow-band decoding unit (31) operable to reproduce a PCM signal (P1) from a narrow-band bit stream included in a wide-band bit stream (S0), a wide-band decoding unit (32) operable to reproduce a PCM signal (P2) having a frequency band which is wider than that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070239461 - Interactive package system: The present invention provides a package which includes a container and structure within such container to hold storage media or a product including such storage media therewithin. An audio system is operatively associated with the exterior of such package. The audio system includes a self-contained electrical power source and a... Agent: Snider & Associates

20070239462 - Spectral parameter substitution for the frame error concealment in a speech decoder: A method for use by a speech decoder in handling bad frames received over a communications channel a method in which the effects of bad frames are concealed by replacing the values of the spectral parameters of the bad frames (a bad frame being either a corrupted frame or a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070233456 - Document localization: Methods for localizing documents may include tokenizing a document to extract localizable text data from the document. The tokenization may in some instances create skeleton pages that contain a global presentation structure for the documents, and resource pages that contain the localizable text data in the form of localizable terms... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070233462 - Method for analyzing morpheme using additional information and morpheme analyzer for executing the method: A method of performing a morpheme analysis by utilizing additional information is provided. The method includes acquiring an analysis target phrase and additional information associated with the target phrase. A term is obtained form the additional information. And the phrase is analyzed to extract a key term or keyword by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070233461 - Method, system and computer program for computer-assisted comprehension of texts: A solution is proposed for the data-handling system-assisted comprehension of texts (particularly, when they are written in a foreign language). For this purpose, a difficulty index is associated with each known word (for example, according to its frequency of use in standard texts). The words of a current document opened... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070233465 - Information extracting apparatus, and information extracting method: The information extracting apparatus includes an analyzer, an element extracting unit, and a supplementary-information obtaining unit. The analyzer analyzes text in input data. The supplementary-information obtaining unit obtains accompanying information such as property information that accompanies the data. The element extracting unit supplements the analysis result with the accompanying information,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233464 - Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method, and recording medium storing speech recognition program: A speech recognition apparatus for recognizing a plurality of sequential words contained in a speech includes an acoustic model reading part for reading an acoustic model, a dictionary management part for reading required data from dictionary data, and a recognition part for successively recognizing the sequential words by matching a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070233457 - System and method for adding semantic support to existing syntactic infrastructure: UDDI is not capable of handling semantic markups for Web services due to its flat data model and limited search capabilities. The present invention provides semantic service description and matchmaking with registries that conforms to UDDI specification. Specifically, the present invention stores complex semantic markups in UDDI data model and... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070233460 - Computer-implemented method for use in a translation system: A computer-implemented method for use in natural language translation. The method involves attaching pieces of linguistic information to two or more source language elements in a source material in a first natural language. The pieces of linguistic information are matched to one or more predetermined parse rules. Associations are then... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070233459 - Statistical language-model based system for detection of missing attachments: A method for processing electronic mail includes computing a probability that a text string in an electronic mail message refers to an attachment as a function of a stored probability value for each of a plurality of sequences of words within the text string. Where the email message lacks an... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070233458 - Text mining device, method thereof, and program: Language analysis means 21 analyzes texts read from a text DB 11, and generates a sentence structure as the analysis result. Similar-structure generation adjustment means 25 generates, from an input of an input device, a determination item for determining whether or not the structures are identical every type of differences... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070233463 - On-line predictive text dictionary: Disclosed is electronic equipment (e.g., a communication device) and method for acquiring remote dictionary information for use in SMS applications. The electronic equipment includes a processor that executes an application program within memory, the application program when executed causing the electronic equipment to: request remote dictionary information related to the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070233466 - Low complexity subband-domain filtering in the case of cascaded filter banks: A filtering method and system for a subband-domain is provided. A first analysis filter bank is configured to divide an input signal into a plurality of subbands. A second analysis filter bank divides one or more of the subbands into a second set of subbands. A modification unit accepts the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070233467 - Hierarchy encoding apparatus and hierarchy encoding method: A hierarchy encoding apparatus capable of calculating appropriate delay amounts and also capable of suppressing increase in the bit rate. In this apparatus, a first layer encoding part (101) encodes the input signal of the n-th frame to produce a first layer encoded code. A first layer decoding part (102)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070233468 - Detecting near-term suicidal risk utilizing vocal jitter: Method and apparatus to measure jitter (period-to-period fluctuations in fundamental frequency) among the voices of suicidal, major depressed, and non-suicidal patients to predict near-term suicidal risk.... Agent: Charles N. Quinn Fox Rothschild LLP

20070233469 - Method for speech quality degradation estimation and method for degradation measures calculation and apparatuses thereof: A method for speech quality degradation estimation, a method for degradation measures calculation, and the apparatuses thereof are provided. The first method above estimates the speech quality of a speech signal that is modified by a pitch-synchronous prosody modification method, which comprises the following steps. First, extract at least one... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070233470 - Multichannel signal coding equipment and multichannel signal decoding equipment: Multichannel signal coding equipment is provided for presenting a high quality sound at a low bit rate. In the multichannel signal coding equipment (2), a down mixpart (10) generates monaural reference channel signals for N number of channel signals. A coding part (11) codes the generated reference channel signal. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070233471 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for speech processing: A speech processing apparatus includes a sound input unit that receives an input of a sound including a voice of one of an operator and a person other than the operator; a designation-duration accepting unit that accepts a designation-duration designated by the operator as a time interval that is a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233474 - Apparatus and method for quantization in digital communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for actively adjusting the quantization interval of signals inputted to a decoder in a digital communication system. The apparatus includes a quantization level generator for measuring a dynamic range of received packet data and calculating a corresponding scale factor, and an input signal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070233473 - Multi-path trellis coded quantization method and multi-path coded quantizer using the same: A method of multi-path trellis coded quantization (TCQ) usable in a speech coding system, and a quantizer using the method. Specifically the method includes calculating accumulated distortions corresponding to 2N survivor paths, wherein N indicates an integer greater than two, each of the 2N survivor paths is going towards one... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070233472 - Voice modifier for speech processing systems: A speech converter in a speech processing system modifies various aspects of input speech. The speech converter receives a formants signal representing an input speech signal. The speech converter may also receive a formant scaling command or a user selection of one of multiple control signals, each specifying a manner... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070233475 - Speech recognizing apparatus and speech recognizing method: A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered vocabulary, by using the time series of the amount of characteristics of an input speech. An environment adaptive noise model comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of a noise model... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233476 - Speech recognizing apparatus and speech recognizing method: A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered vocabulary, by using the time series of the amount of characteristics of an input speech. An environment adaptive noise model comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of a noise model... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233477 - Lossless data compression using adaptive context modeling: The present invention is a system and method for lossless compression of data. The invention consists of a neural network data compression comprised of N levels of neural network using a weighted average of N pattern-level predictors. This new concept uses context mixing algorithms combined with network learning algorithm models.... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20070233478 - Active noise control system and active vibration control system: An active noise control system includes a filter coefficient updating unit including an imaginary term estimator. The imaginary term estimator estimates an imaginary term Ie from a real term Re of an error signal e supplied from a microphone. The filter coefficient updating unit updates a filter coefficient W of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070233479 - Detecting voiced and unvoiced speech using both acoustic and nonacoustic sensors: Systems and methods are provided for detecting voiced and unvoiced speech in acoustic signals having varying levels of background noise. The systems receive acoustic signals at two microphones, and generate difference parameters between the acoustic signals received at each of the two microphones. The difference parameters are representative of the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070233480 - Speech recognizing apparatus and speech recognizing method: A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered vocabulary, by using the time series of the amount of characteristics of an input speech. An environment adaptive noise model comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of a noise model... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233481 - System and method for developing high accuracy acoustic models based on an implicit phone-set determination-based state-tying technique: A system for, and method of, developing high accuracy acoustic models and a digital signal processor incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an acoustic model initializer configured to generate initial acoustic models by seeding with seed monophones, (2) a monophone retrainer associated with the acoustic model... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070233482 - Method for providing an electronic dictionary in wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method and wireless terminal for providing an electronic dictionary function in the wireless terminal having the electronic dictionary are provided, in which a word is searched in the electronic dictionary, which corresponds to characters input through a character recognition mode, when the wireless terminal is in a word search... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070233483 - Speaker authentication in digital communication networks: Example embodiments provide a speaker authentication technology that compensates for mismatches between enrollment process conditions and test process conditions using correction parameters or correction models, which allow for correcting one of the test voice characterizing parameter set and the enrollment voice characterizing parameter set according to a mismatch between the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070233484 - Method for automatic speaker recognition: It is proposed a text-independent automatic speaker recognition (ASkR) system which employs a new speech feature and a new classifier. The statistical feature pH is a vector of Hurst parameters obtained by applying a wavelet-based multi-dimensional estimator (M dim wavelets) to the windowed short-time segments of speech. The proposed classifier... Agent: Trask Britt

20070233485 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition program: A speech recognition apparatus includes a storage medium for storing tree structured dictionary data containing words as nodes in a tree structure with a root and leaf nodes. An input speech is compared with a forward acoustic model corresponding to a speech resulting from chronologically reproducing words indicated by nodes... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070233486 - Transcript alignment: An approach to alignment of transcripts with recorded audio is tolerant of moderate transcript inaccuracies, untranscribed speech, and significant non-speech noise. In one aspect, a number of search terms are formed from the transcript such that each search term is associated with a location within the transcript. Possible locations of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070233487 - Automatic language model update: A method for generating a speech recognition model includes accessing a baseline speech recognition model, obtaining information related to recent language usage from search queries, and modifying the speech recognition model to revise probabilities of a portion of a sound occurrence based on the information. The portion of a sound... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070233488 - System and method for applying dynamic contextual grammars and language models to improve automatic speech recognition accuracy: The invention involves the loading and unloading of dynamic section grammars and language models in a speech recognition system. The values of the sections of the structured document are either determined in advance from a collection of documents of the same domain, document type, and speaker; or collected incrementally from... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070233489 - Speech synthesis device and method: A speech synthesis device, in which the sound quality is not significantly degraded when generating a synthesized sound, includes a target element information generation unit (102), an element database (103), an element selection unit (104), a voice characteristics designation unit (105), a voice characteristics transformation unit (106), a distortion determination... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070233494 - Method and system for generating sound effects interactively: The invention provides a method and system for generating sound effects interactively. The method provides a plurality of sound effect tags to a user, wherein each of the plurality of sound effects corresponds to a specific sound effect object. The sound effect object includes a seed sound representing a predefined... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070233492 - Speech synthesizer: The present invention relates to a technology capable of providing a hearer with an easy-to-hear synthetic speech to the hearer. The speech synthesizer includes an input unit receiving an input of a sentence, a generation unit generating synthetic speech data from the sentence inputted to the input unit, an accumulation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233493 - Speech-synthesis device: In a speech-synthesis device, it is possible to determine whether or not a user dictionary that supports processing for reading aloud a specific phrase associated with specific reading should be used. The speech-synthesis device includes a speech-synthesis unit configured to perform read-aloud processing, a user dictionary provided to support processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070233490 - System and method for text-to-phoneme mapping with prior knowledge: A system for, and method of, text-to-phoneme (TTP) mapping and a digital signal processor (DSP) incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a letter-to-phoneme (LTP) mapping generator configured to generate an LTP mapping by iteratively aligning a full training set with a set of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070233491 - Word pronunciation system and method for producing pronunciations having various special effects as based on the parameters corresponding to characteristics of words: A system and method capable of producing word pronunciations having various special effects based on the parameters corresponding to the characteristics of words is provided. A plurality of word pronunciation files is stored in the word pronunciation database, with each of the word pronunciation files having its corresponding word pronunciation... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070233497 - Dialog repair based on discrepancies between user model predictions and speech recognition results: An architecture is presented that leverages discrepancies between user model predictions and speech recognition results by identifying discrepancies between the predictive data and the speech recognition data and repairing the data based in part on the discrepancy. User model predictions predict what goal or action speech application users are likely... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070233496 - Multi-function digitizer: A multi-function digitizer is provided, which contains a speaker unit and a microphone unit, in addition to the digitizing board and stylus. A user's handwriting traces and voice are collected by the digitizing board and the microphone unit respectively, delivered by the digitizer to a computer, and then processed and... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070233495 - Partially automated technology for converting a graphical interface to a speech-enabled interface: A method for constructing speech elements within an interface can include a step of identifying a visual interface having multiple visual elements. Visual selectors can be presented proximate each of the visual elements. The visual selectors can permit a user to input a speech control type for the associated visual... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20070233498 - Methods for evaluating near-term suicidal risk using vocal parameters: A method for evaluating near-term suicidal risk by analysis of a series of spoken words includes converting the spoken series of words into a signal having characteristics indicative of said words as spoken, dynamically monitoring said signal to detect changes therein and identifying the person as having a relatively high... Agent: Charles N. Quinn Fox Rothschild LLP

20070233499 - Systems and methods for voice control of a medical imaging device: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing voice control of a device, an ultrasound device for example. One embodiment of the present invention comprises an apparatus for providing voice control of the ultrasound device having a plurality of features. The apparatus comprises a memory device adapted... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd