Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 11/07

20070276649 - Replacing text representing a concept with an alternate written form of the concept: A system enables a transcriptionist to replace a first written form (such as an abbreviation) of a concept with a second written form (such as an expanded form) of the same concept. For example, the system may display to the transcriptionist a draft document produced from speech by an automatic... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070276650 - Techniques for customization of phonetic schemes: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and using phonetic schemes. A phonetic scheme creation feature is provided to allow a user to create a phonetic scheme that has one or more available phonetic character combinations in a source language and a resulting one or more native characters in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070276652 - Display control apparatus, display control method and program: A display control apparatus that can display bitmap images in a form depending on characteristics of a language. An identifying unit identifies a display language; a management unit adapted to manage determination information for determining whether or not a lateral orientation, or a lateral display position, or a lateral traveling... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070276651 - Grammar adaptation through cooperative client and server based speech recognition: A system (200) and method (300) for grammar adaptation is provided. The method can include attempting a first recognition of a spoken utterance (304) using a first speech grammar (204), consulting (308) a second speech grammar (224) based on a recognition failure, and receiving a correct recognition result (310) and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070276653 - Method and apparatus for multilingual spelling corrections: A system and method for multilingual spelling corrections employs a lexicon builder, which uses a metadata build process that extracts all words from the data source, along with their frequencies, to build a lexicon file using the data source with which a user will be working; and a spell checker... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070276655 - Method and apparatus to search fixed codebook and method and apparatus to encode/decode a speech signal using the method and apparatus to search fixed codebook: A method and an apparatus to encode and decode a speech signal using a code excited linear prediction (CELP) algorithm. In order to reduce a bit rate without degrading performance in an enhancement layer based on CELP, each of a fixed codebook of a core layer and a fixed codebook... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070276654 - Method and system for communicating digital voice data: Methods and systems have been provided for communicating digital voice data. According to various embodiments of the invention, a user interface is provided at a network device in the presence of DSP resources. Selection is made by the user interface about whether to use the DSP resources. Based on the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070276656 - System and method for processing an audio signal: Systems and methods for audio signal processing are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a filter cascade of complex-valued filters are used to decompose an input audio signal into a plurality of frequency components or sub-band signals. These sub-band signals may be processed for phase alignment, amplitude compensation, and time delay prior... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070276657 - Method for the time scaling of an audio signal: A method for the time scaling of a sampled audio signal is presented. The method includes a first step of performing a pitch and voicing analysis of each frame of the signal in order to determine if a given frame is voiced or unvoiced and to evaluate a pitch profile... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070276658 - Apparatus and method for detecting speech using acoustic signals outside the audible frequency range: The present invention employs sound generators, also known as acoustic transducers, which produce ultrasound or infrasound outside the normal human hearing range, placed in proximity to the vocal tract of the person whose speech is being detected, such as in front of the mouth. One or more microphones sensitive to... Agent: Barry Grayson Douglass

20070276659 - Apparatus and method for identifying prosody and apparatus and method for recognizing speech: A prosody identifying apparatus for identifying input speech on the basis of prosodic features of the input speech is provided. The prosody identifying apparatus includes a sound analyzing section for acquiring an amount of change in movement of a feature distribution obtained from an autocorrelation matrix of the frequency characteristic... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070276660 - Method of denoising an audio signal: This method is a method of analyzing time coherence in the noisy signal and comprises the steps consisting in: a) determining a reference signal from the noisy signal by applying treatment (10, 18) to the noisy signal that is suitable for attenuating speech components more strongly than the noise component,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070276661 - Apparatus and methods for encoding digital audio data with a reduced bit rate: A method and an apparatus for encoding digital audio data with reduced bit rates, the apparatus having a provider of psycho-acoustically quantized digital audio data with a bit rate being higher than the reduced bit rate. The apparatus further has an identifier for identifying a frequency band according to a... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070276662 - Feature-vector compensating apparatus, feature-vector compensating method, and computer product: A feature extracting unit extracts a feature vector of an input speech. A similarity calculating unit calculates degrees of similarity for each of a plurality of noise environments, based on the feature vector. A compensation-vector calculating unit acquires a first compensation vector from a storing unit, calculates a second compensation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070276663 - Robust speaker recognition: Example embodiments provide techniques to compensate for effects which arise from the usage of different compression techniques. A database is provided which stores a mean error signal for each of different compression techniques which may have been applied to a source signal. When an input signal stemming from a certain... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070276665 - Individual processing of voip contextual information: A method and system for processing received VoIP data packets based on preferences of a recipient client or capabilities of a recipient computing device is provided. Several users and/or service providers are allowed to specify rules instructing how to process contextual information upon receipt of the contextual information. More specifically,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070276664 - Method and system to generate finite state grammars using sample phrases: A method and system for generating a finite state grammar is provided. The method comprises receiving user input of at least two sample phrases; analyzing the sample phrases to determine common words that occur in each of the sample phrases and optional words that occur in only some of the... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20070276666 - Method and device for selecting acoustic units and a voice synthesis method and device: A method for selecting acoustic units each of which contains a natural speech signal and symbolic parameters involves a stage (4) for determining at least one target symbolic unit sequence; a stage (5) for determining a contextual acoustic model sequence corresponding to the target sequence; a stage (6) for determining... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070276667 - System and method for configuring voice readers using semantic analysis: A system and method for using semantic analysis to configure a voice reader is presented. A text file includes a plurality of text blocks, such as paragraphs. Processing performs semantic analysis on each text block in order to match the text block's semantic content with a semantic identifier. Once processing... Agent: Joseph T. Van Leeuwen

20070276668 - Method and apparatus for accessing an audio file from a collection of audio files using tonal matching: A method and apparatus for accessing at least one audio file from a collection comprising more than one audio file stored within or accessible with an electronic device. The method includes generating one index comprising information entries obtained from each of the more than one audio file in the collection,... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070276669 - Quantifying psychological stress levels using voice patterns: A system and method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern of a human subject wherein the score is indicative of the psychological stress level of the human subject. A verbal utterance of a human subject is converted into electrical signals to provide a subject wave pattern. The... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20070276670 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for synchronization of audio and video signals: Methods of processing an audiovisual signal that has a video portion and an audio portion are described. One example includes detecting a video synchronization event in the video portion and, in response to the detecting, embedding a marker relating to the video synchronization event into a serial data stream carrying... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20070276671 - System and method for announcement transmission: Described is a system and method for announcement transmission. The system comprises a server and a network management arrangement coupled to the server. A wireless computing unit transmits an announcement request to the arrangement. The announcement request includes a first message in a non-audio format and output data identifying the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070276672 - Device control, speech recognition device, agent and device control method: A language analyzer performs speech recognition on a speech input by a speech input unit, 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. The agent processing unit stores process item data which defines... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070271087 - Language-independent language model using character classes: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve handwriting recognition accuracy. A set of character classes that are suitable across the various languages to be supported is established. The characters in one or more of the languages to be supported are grouped into the character classes. Probabilities are determined for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070271088 - Systems and methods for training statistical speech translation systems from speech: An iterative language translation system. The system includes a first automatic speech recognition component adapted to recognize spoken language in a source language and to create a source language hypothesis and a first machine translation component adapted to translate the source language hypothesis into a target language. The system also... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20070271089 - Automated spell analysis: An apparatus, program product and method utilize automated analysis techniques to assist in the determination of acceptable usages of linguistic terms (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.). In particular, an acceptable usage of a linguistic term in a document on the Internet may be determined by detecting a spell definition tag... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070271086 - Topic specific models for text formatting and speech recognition: The present invention relates to a method, a computer system and a computer program product for speech recognition and/or text formatting by making use of topic specific statistical models. A text document which may be obtained from a first speech recognition pass is subject to segmentation and to an assignment... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070271090 - Indexing and storing verbal content: Systems and/or methods (“tools”) are described that enable indexing and storing verbal content, and other techniques. Some of these tools may be enabled using a computer-implemented method that includes receiving events that result from detecting keywords within a stream. In a first operating mode, the tools may create metadata in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070271091 - Apparatus, method and program for vioce signal interpolation: A voice signal interpolation apparatus is provided which can restore original human voices from human voices in a compressed state while maintaining a high sound quality. When a voice signal representative of a voice to be interpolated is acquired by a voice data input unit 1, a pitch deriving unit... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070271092 - Scalable encoding device and scalable enconding method: There is provided a scalable encoding device capable of realizing a bandwidth scalable LSP encoding with high performance by improving the conversion performance from narrow band LSPs to wide band LSPs. The device includes: an autocorrelation coefficient conversion unit (301) for converting the narrow band LSPs of Mn order to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070271093 - Audio signal segmentation algorithm: The present invention discloses an audio signal segmentation algorithm comprising the following steps. First, an audio signal is provided. Then, an audio activity detection (AAD) step is applied to divide the audio signal into at least one noise segment and at least one noisy audio segment. Then, an audio feature... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070271094 - Method and system for coding an information signal using closed loop adaptive bit allocation: A method and system for analysis-by-synthesis encoding of an information signal is provide. The encoder (400) can include the steps of generating a first synthetic signal based on a first pitch-related codebook (402), generating a second synthetic signal based on a second pitch-related codebook (404), selecting a codebook configuration parameter... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070271095 - Audio encoder: An audio encoder (10), which compresses and encodes audio signals of N-channels (N>1), includes a downmixed signal encoding unit (11) which encodes the downmixed signal obtained by downmixing the audio signals, and an auxiliary information generation unit (12a) which generates auxiliary information necessary for decoding the downmixed signal encoded by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070271096 - Voice recognition method and system based on the contexual modeling of voice units: The method of recognizing speech in an acoustic signal comprises developing acoustic stochastic models of voice units in the form of a set of states of an acoustic signal and using the acoustic models for recognition by a comparison of the signal with predetermined acoustic models obtained via a prior... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070271097 - Voice recognition apparatus and recording medium storing voice recognition program: A vocabulary dictionary storing unit for storing a plurality of words in advance, a vocabulary dictionary managing unit for extracting recognition target words, a matching unit for calculating a degree of matching with the recognition target words based on an accepted voice, a result output unit for outputting, as a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070271098 - Method and apparatus for recognizing and reacting to user personality in accordance with speech recognition system: Techniques are disclosed for recognizing user personality in accordance with a speech recognition system. For example, a technique for recognizing a personality trait associated with a user interacting with a speech recognition system includes the following steps/operations. One or more decoded spoken utterances of the user are obtained. The one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070271099 - Speech synthesis apparatus and method: A waveform memory stores a plurality of speech unit waveforms. A information memory correspondingly stores speech unit information and an address of each of the plurality of speech unit waveforms. A selector selects a speech unit sequence corresponding to the input phoneme sequence by referring to the speech unit information.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070271100 - Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis: Systems and methods for automatically segmenting speech inventories. A set of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are initialized using bootstrap data. The HMMs are next re-estimated and aligned to produce phone labels. The phone boundaries of the phone labels are then corrected using spectral boundary correction. Optionally, this process of using... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070271101 - Audio/music decoding device and audiomusic decoding method: An audio/music decoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal generated by conceal processing of a frame erase using a scalable encoding method. The audio/music decoding device includes a frame loss detector that determines whether encoded information is normally received and generates frame loss information indicating the result... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070271102 - Voice decoding device, voice encoding device, and methods therefor: An encoding device capable of realizing a scalable CODEC of a high performance. In this encoding device, an LPC analyzing unit (551) analyzes an input voice (301) efficiently with a synthesized LPC parameter obtained from a core decoder (305), to acquire an encoded LPC coefficient. An adaptive code note (552)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070271103 - Interactive voice response system: Methods and systems for testing and analyzing integrated voice response systems are provided. Computer devices are used to simulate caller responses or inputs to components of the integrated voice response systems. The computer devices receive responses from the components. The responses may be in the form of VXML and grammar... Agent: Charles L. Miller Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070271104 - Streaming speech with synchronized highlighting generated by a server: A speech synthesis system and method including an application consisting of two networked parts, a client and a server, which uses the capabilities of the server to speech enable a client that does not have speech capabilities. The system has been designed to enable a client computer with audio capabilities... Agent: Brian L. Michaelis Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20070265824 - Diversified semantic mapping engine (dsme): The Diversified Semantic Mapping Engine (DSME) exploits user-defined word and document class designations to differentially formalize the semantic content of a language source. The coordination of these classes, especially when based upon naturally occurring classes in the language, such as part-of-speech, provides a rich, machine readable and automatically generated semantic... Agent: Lawape, LLC The Law Office Of Eastburn & Gray

20070265831 - System-level correction service: A system-level text correction service (330) is provided. The service (330) includes monitoring (410) the input of text (340) on a computer system, identifying an incorrect input word in a first application. Correction proposal words are retrieved from a system-level dictionary (320), wherein the system-level dictionary (320) stores a reference... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070265825 - Machine translation using elastic chunks: A machine translation method includes receiving source text in a first language and retrieving text fragments in a target language from a library of bi-fragments to generate a target hypothesis. Each bi-fragment includes a text fragment from the first language and a corresponding text fragment from the second language. Some... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070265826 - Systems and methods for fast and memory efficient machine translation using statistical integrated phase lattice: A phrase-based translation system and method includes a statistically integrated phrase lattice (SIPL) (H) which represents an entire translational model. An input (I) is translated by determining a best path through an entire lattice (S) by performing an efficient composition operation between the input and the SIPL. The efficient composition... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070265827 - Globalization component: A globalization component including a base class NewResourceManager that provides a layer of abstraction from the Microsoft Resource Manager and a new WinForm class that inherits from the .NET Windows Form and utilizes NewResourceManager. The globalization component uses culture information and resource folder information from the registry to set a... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20070265828 - Handheld electronic device including automatic selection of input language, and associated method: A method of automatically establishing an input language for a handheld electronic device includes receiving a request to initiate the composition of a new message, receiving a selection of a particular contact that is the intended recipient of the message, and determining whether the particular contact has a stored preferred... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070265829 - Techniques for passing data across the human-machine interface: Techniques for presenting a key to a human across a human-machine interface include receiving key data that indicates a key to be input to a target process. The key is reversibly converted to a first human-language statement. The human language statement is designed so that multiple variations in the human-language... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070265830 - Voip call center: A method and system for routing a call connection signal and corresponding contextual information to an appropriate destination is provided. A call center and at least one user may exchange signals, and/or contextual information during a call set-up phase. Relevant contextual information and other detailed information may be identified and... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070265833 - Constructing regular-expression dictionary for textual analysis: A regular-expression dictionary, as opposed to an exact-match dictionary, is constructed for utilization within computerized textual analysis. One or more data types are defined for entries within the regular-expression dictionary, within a markup-language schema. A structure in the markup-language schema is provided that encompasses the data types of the entries... Agent: Mollborn Patents Attn: Ibm

20070265834 - In-context analysis: Systems and methods are described for automatically presenting at least one definition in context, for a dictionary entry, based a contextual analysis of the grammatical unit, such as the sentence, the clause, or the phrase, in which the dictionary entry is embedded. The dictionary entry may be single word, for... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070265832 - Updating dictionary during application installation: Methods, computer program products and systems for updating a dictionary on a computer are provided including identifying a set of words included with an application program being installed on the computer and identifying one or more installed dictionaries within the computer. The dictionaries that are identified, typically by searching the... Agent: Streets & Steele

20070265836 - Audio signal encoding apparatus and method: An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a frame dividing unit (1), an auditory psychological arithmetic unit (2), a filter bank unit (3), a scale factor calculation unit (4) which weights the spectra in the respective frequency bands by an arithmetic result of the auditory psychological arithmetic unit (2), a quantization... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070265835 - Method and system for securing execution of untrusted applications: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for securing execution of untrusted applications. These mechanisms and methods for securing execution of untrusted applications can enable embodiments to provide a “sandbox” environment in which applications that are less than trusted may execute. The ability of embodiments to provide... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070265838 - Voice messaging systems: A voice messaging system sends a notification to a receiving unit that a message has been recorded and immediate attention is required for the proper person to listen to the message. Upon listening to the message a return notification may be sent to the unit from which the message originated... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070265839 - Apparatus and method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound: A method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound, includes the steps of: storing an input sound signal in a buffer; leaving a sound signal from the buffer as it is or extending the sound signal from the buffer in a sound section where a power of the input sound... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070265837 - Scalable decoding device and signal loss compensation method: There is provided a scalable decoding device capable of improving resistance against a transmission error. In the device, a narrow band LSP decoding unit (108) decodes narrow band LSP encoded information corresponding to a core layer of the current encoded information. A storage unit (126) stores a wide band quantized... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070265840 - Signal processing method and device: In a signal processing method and device which enhance a following speed of an estimated noise in a steep rise section of a noise level and generate little estimation error of a noise spectrum due to an influence of voice in a voice section, a time domain signal that is... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070265841 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus, comprises: a lower time series data generation unit having a plurality of recurrent neural networks which learn predetermined time series data, and generate prediction time series data according to the learning result; an upper time series data generation unit having recurrent neural networks which learn error... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070265842 - Adaptive voice activity detection: Encoding audio signals with selecting an encoding mode for encoding the signal categorizing the signal into active segments having voice activity and non-active segments having substantially no voice activity by using categorization parameters depending on the selected encoding mode and encoding at least the active segments using the selected encoding... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070265843 - Robust noise estimation: An enhancement system improves the estimate of noise from a received signal. The system includes a spectrum monitor that divides a portion of the signal at more than one frequency resolution. Adaptation logic derives a noise adaptation factor of the received signal. A plurality of devices tracks the characteristics of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070265844 - Audio device control device, audio device control method, and program: 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

20070265845 - Computer-aided transcription system using pronounceable substitute text with a common cross-reference library: A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys is disclosed. Cross-reference libraries, phoneme libraries, phoneme dictionaries, and pronunciation indices are used by a reporter terminal to generate readable text transcripts which are communicated to the other terminals for real-time review.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070265846 - Computer-aided transcription system using pronounceable substitute text with a common cross-reference library: A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys is disclosed. Cross-reference libraries, phoneme libraries, phoneme dictionaries, and pronunciation indices are used by a reporter terminal to generate readable text transcripts which are communicated to the other terminals for real-time review.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070265847 - System and method for relating syntax and semantics for a conversational speech application: A conversation manager processes spoken utterances from a user of a computer. The conversation manager includes a semantics analysis module and a syntax manager. A domain model that is used in processing the spoken utterances includes an ontology (i.e., world view for the relevant domain of the spoken utterances), lexicon,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20070265848 - Quantizing feature vectors in decision-making applications: A system, method and computer program product for classification of an analog electrical signal using statistical models of training data. A technique is described to quantize the analog electrical signal in a manner which maximizes the compression of the signal while simultaneously minimizing the diminution in the ability to classify... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070265849 - Distinguishing out-of-vocabulary speech from in-vocabulary speech: A speech recognition method includes receiving input speech from a user, processing the input speech using a first grammar to obtain parameter values of a first N-best list of vocabulary, comparing a parameter value of a top result of the first N-best list to a threshold value, and if the... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070265850 - Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance: Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070265851 - Synchronizing distributed speech recognition: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for synchronizing distributed speech recognition (‘DSR’) that include receiving in a DSR client notification from a voice server of readiness to conduct speech recognition and, responsive to the receiving, transmitting by the DSR client, from the DSR client to the voice server,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070260452 - Method and device for selecting a word to be defined in mobile communication terminal having an electronic dictionary: A method and device for selecting a word to be defined in a mobile communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function. The method includes selecting a word in a displayed text document in response to a first input, displaying the selected word in a search window, searching for the displayed... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070260448 - Methods of offering guidance on common language usage: Usages of language are analyzed in ways that are at least partially language independent. In preferred embodiments, portions of a document are hashed, and the resulting hash values are compared with each other and with those of other documents in real-time. Analyses can be used to gauge conformity of a... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20070260450 - Indexing parsed natural language texts for advanced search: Techniques are provided for enhancing a search index to indicate the grammatical contexts of words. In one aspect, a hierarchy is generated for a sentence. The hierarchy is based on the sentence's grammatical structure. Grammatical and positional values are determined for each node in the hierarchy. Each node's grammatical value... Agent: Hickman Palmero Truong & Becker LLP/ Yahoo! Inc.

20070260449 - Instance-based sentence boundary determination by optimization: A method for instance-based sentence boundary determination optimizes a set of criteria based on examples in a corpus, and provides a general domain-independent framework for the task by balancing a comprehensive set of sentence complexity and quality constraints. The characteristics and style of naturally occurring sentences are simulated through the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070260451 - Information display control apparatus and recording medium recording information display control program: An information display control apparatus includes an example sentence storage unit that stores a plurality of example sentences, an input unit that accepts a user's operation of inputting a string of characters, an example sentence search unit that, when a compound word consisting of a plurality of constituting words which... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070260453 - Phone enabled direct response: An acoustic transmission is retransmitted by telephone to a network operations center over one path. The network operations center receives acoustic transmissions containing inaudible marks from other sources over secondary paths. The retransmitted acoustic transmission and secondary transmissions are processed and compared to determine a best match between the retransmitted... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070260454 - Noise reduction for automatic speech recognition: Disclosed herein is a noise reduction method for automatic speech recognitionl. A noise reduction method for automatic speech recognition, including: computing a magnitude spectrum of a noisy speech containing a clean speech to be recognized and noise affecting the clean speech; computing a power spectrum of the noisy speech; computing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070260455 - Feature-vector compensating apparatus, feature-vector compensating method, and computer program product: A noise-environment storing unit stores therein a compensation vector for compensating a feature vector of a speech. A feature-vector extracting unit extracts the feature vector of the speech in each of a plurality of frames. A noise-environment-series estimating unit estimates a noise-environment series based on a feature-vector series and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070260457 - Audio and video transcription system for manipulating real-time testimony: A transcription network having linked computer terminals for a court reporter and for examining, defending, and associate attorneys is disclosed. Based on the hardware present, the court reporter terminal automatically selects the most appropriate synchronization and audio and video transcript delivery schemes for the other terminals. A multi-mode synchronization scheme... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070260456 - Voice message converter: A textual representation of a voice message is provided to a communication device, such as a mobile phone, for example, when the mobile phone is operating in a silent mode. The voice message is input by a caller and the voice message converted to phonemes. A text representation of the... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLC

20070260458 - Subword parallelism method for processing multimedia data and apparatus for processing data using the same: Disclosed is a parallel processing method in a data processing system that temporarily loads data stored in a memory in word registers and parallel-processes subwords constituting the loaded word using Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) which are equal in size to the subwords. The method includes generating a shortened subword by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070260459 - System and method for generating heterogeneously tied gaussian mixture models for automatic speech recognition acoustic models: A system for, and method of, generating an acoustic model and a heterogeneously tied mixture (HTM) acoustic model generated by means of the system and the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a first tyer configured to employ a first tying structure to tie weighted Gaussian distributions in... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070260460 - Method and system for announcing audio and video content to a user of a mobile radio terminal: An electronic equipment for playing audiovisual content to a user and announcing information associated with the audiovisual content. The electronic equipment may include an audiovisual data player for playing back audiovisual data; a synthesizer for converting text data associated with the audiovisual data into a representation of the text data... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070260461 - Prosodic speech text codes and their use in computerized speech systems: Disclosed are a method of, and system for, acoustically coding text for use in the synthesis of speech from the text, the method comprising marking the text to be spoken with one or more graphic symbols to indicate to a speaker a desired prosody to impart to the spoken text... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070260462 - Method and arrangement in a communication system: The present invention relates to the decoding/playback part of received sound data packets in systems for transmission of sound over packet switched networks. According to the invention, the lengths of received signal frames are manipulated by performing time expansion or time compression of one or more signal frames at time... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070260463 - Method and apparatus to provision a network appliance: A method and apparatus to provision a network node such as a network appliance is described.... Agent: John F. Kacvinsky Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20070255552 - Demographic based classification for local word wheeling/web search: Systems and methods that create a classification of sentences in a language, and further construct associated local versions of language models, based on geographical location and/or other demographic criteria—wherein such local language models can be of different levels of granularity according to chosen demographic criteria. The subject innovation employs a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070255549 - Method for creating a character string excluding inhibited term: There is provided a method for transforming numeric information into a character string which is generated by a combination of characters and symbols, whereby a character string can be generated which does not make up a combination of character strings which violates the public order and morals, including a storage... Agent: Hansen Huang Technology Law Group, LLP

20070255550 - Machine translation split between front end and back end processors: A method of translation includes uploading a source text portion to a back end processor. The back end processor identifies a subset of translation knowledge associated with the source text portion. The back end processor downloads the subset to a front end processor. A translation engine runs on the front... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070255551 - Language reinforcement system: A language reinforcement system comprising of one or more cups. Each cup comprises of markings. Said markings comprise at least one foreign word, a translation of said word(s), and a graphical illustration of said foreign word(s).... Agent: Law Office Of Mai Vu Pare

20070255553 - Information extraction system: Contents of a description such as a fact and an opinion related to a thing expressed in a text are extracted with a viewpoint of the fact and the opinion related to a description. To execute it, there are provided an input unit that inputs a text, a viewpoint and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070255554 - Language translation service for text message communications: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing automatic language translation in a telecommunications network. Communications from a speaker or generator of text in one language are routed to a service center for automatically converting to another language. The service center stores the language preference(s) of destination terminals... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070255555 - Systems and methods for detecting entailment and contradiction: Techniques are provided for detecting entailment and contradiction. Packed knowledge representations for a premise and conclusion text are determined comprising facts about the relationships between concept and/or context denoting terms. Concept and context alignments are performed based on alignments scores. A union is determined. Terms are marked as to their... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20070255556 - Audio level control for compressed audio: Audio level control is provided for compressed audio. Scale factors for the compressed audio are extracted from an MPEG audio data stream, the extracted scale factors are altered without decompressing the compressed audio, and the MPEG audio data stream is updated with the altered scale factors. All of the scale... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20070255557 - Morphology-based speech signal codec method and apparatus: Disclosed is a function of applying a speech signal to a harmonic codec without distinguishing a voiced signal from an unvoiced signal. A peak portion having harmonic and non-harmonic components is extracted from a speech signal based on morphology, and a characteristic frequency is extracted from the extracted peak portion... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070255558 - Speech coder and speech decoder: A target vector is coded by multi-stage vector quantization. A first stage of the coding of the target vector is performed using a first code vector stored in a first codebook. A scalar associated with a code of each first code vector is stored in an amplifier storing section. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070255559 - Speech gain quantization strategy: A speech encoder that analyzes and classifies each frame of speech as being periodic-like speech or non-periodic like speech where the speech encoder performs a different gain quantization process depending if the speech is periodic or not. If the speech is periodic, the improved speech encoder obtains the pitch gains... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070255560 - Low complexity noise reduction method: A method of reducing noise in a speech signal involves converting the speech signal to the frequency domain using a fast fourier transform (FFT), creating a subset of selected spectral subbands, determining the appropriate gain for each subband, and interpolating the gains to match the number of FFT points. The... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20070255561 - System for speech encoding having an adaptive encoding arrangement: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070255562 - Adaptive rate control algorithm for low complexity aac encoding: A system and method for adaptive rate control in audio processing is provided. The process could include receiving uncompressed audio data from an input and generating MDCT spectrum for each frame of the uncompressed audio data using a filterbank. The process could also include estimating masking thresholds for current frame... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070255563 - Machine prognostics and health monitoring using speech recognition techniques: A method of monitoring the health of a machine by capturing sound data of the machine in operation and comparing the sound data to known sounds, preferably using human speech recognition techniques. Diagnostic and/or prognostic information about the machine's operation may then be determined based at least in part on... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20070255564 - Voice authentication system and method: A user's voice is authenticated by prompting a user to say a challenge phrase from a list of predetermined phrases and comparing the user's response with a prerecorded version of the same response. The user's stored recordings are associated with an electronic identification or serial number for a specific device,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070255565 - Clickable snippets in audio/video search results: Search results are provided in a format that allows users to efficiently determine whether audio or video documents identified from a search query actually contain the words in the query. This is achieved by returning snippets of text around query term matches and allowing the user to play a segment... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070255566 - Multi-slot dialog systems and methods: Systems and methods for constructing a series of interactions with a user to collect multiple pieces of related information for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal or topic (a multi-slot dialog) using a component-based approach are disclosed. The method generally includes outputting a primary header prompt to elicit values... Agent: Jung-hua Kuo Attorney At Law

20070255567 - System and method for generating a pronunciation dictionary: Disclosed is a system, method and computer-readable medium that stores instructions for controlling a computing device. The method embodiment relates to processing speech data wherein the method comprises generating phoneme transcriptions for words in a first language, generating a pronunciation dictionary comprising three-parts including, for each word in the dictionary,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070255570 - Multi-platform visual pronunciation dictionary: The multi-platform visual pronunciation dictionary is capable of cross-referencing words and phrases between a user's native language and a foreign language by presenting to the user a correct translation and pronunciation in a recorded video presentation by a native speaker of the foreign language. Monolinguistic cross-referencing may also be provided.... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20070255569 - Method and apparatus for efficient presentation of content over a network to a visually impaired user: Methods and apparatus are provided for efficient presentation of content over a network to a visually impaired user. Requests for content from a visually impaired user are processed by observing behavior of the user in connection with the requests; determining if the observed behavior constitutes a behavior pattern; and generating... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070255568 - Methods for communicating a menu structure to a user within a vehicle: A method for communicating a menu structure to a user within a vehicle includes assigning menu levels to predetermined sets of spatial coordinates of a vehicle interior, each menu level spatially corresponding to at least one of the sets of spatial coordinates. An audio prompt is played through one or... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070255571 - Method and device for displaying image in wireless terminal: Disclosed is a mobile terminal and method for displaying an image including receiving a voice input from a user in a voice recognition mode, retrieving an image stored with a filename corresponding to the input voice and displaying the retrieved image in a preset format.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070255572 - Audio decoder, method and program: An audio decoder which reproduces original signals from a bit stream including a downmix signal of the original signals and supplementary information indicating the gain ratio D and the phase difference θ between the original signals. The audio decoder which reproduces the original signals includes: a decoding unit (100) which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.