Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 12/07

20070299652 - Applying service levels to transcripts: Speech is transcribed to produce a draft transcript of the speech. Portions of the transcript having a high priority are identified. For example, particular sections of the transcript may be identified as high-priority sections. As another example, portions of the transcript requiring human verification may be identified as high-priority sections.... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070299651 - Verification of extracted data: Facts are extracted from speech and recorded in a document using codings. Each coding represents an extracted fact and includes a code and a datum. The code may represent a type of the extracted fact and the datum may represent a value of the extracted fact. The datum in a... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070299653 - Serial transmission system, transmission device, and serial transmission method: A serial transmission system has a transmission signal generator and a transmission signal receiver. The transmission signal generator generates a digital audio signal of multi-channel based on information of a sampling frequency, and serially transmits the information of the sampling frequency together with the digital audio signal. The transmission signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070299654 - Method for generating an individual hearing device program: Sound quality and speech comprehensibility are to be improved for hearing device wearers when watching television. Provision is made for this purpose to record acoustic signals at a recording site on a data medium. The acoustic signals are recorded simultaneously with a first microphone as a first recording. The data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070299656 - Method and apparatus for adaptively encoding and decoding high frequency band: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. According to the present application, a signal of a high frequency band above a preset frequency band is adaptively encoded or decoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain by using a signal of a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070299655 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing low frequency expansion of speech: An apparatus for providing low frequency expansion of speech includes a nonlinear function element, a band-pass filter element and a level control element. The non-linear function element is configured to receive a signal including at least two harmonic components and to produce a signal including at least one lower frequency... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070299657 - Method and apparatus for monitoring multichannel voice transmissions: A method of speech processing includes receiving at least two separate, but temporally overlapping speech waveforms in real time; extracting a pitch waveform from each of the speech waveforms by segmenting the speech waveform pitch synchronously, fixing an analysis window size, and analyzing the speech waveform in real time; concatenating... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070299658 - Pitch frequency estimation device, and pich frequency estimation method: A pitch frequency estimation device capable of estimating a pitch frequency precisely while reducing the computational complexity required for the estimation of the pitch frequency. In this device, a spectrum extraction unit (104) extracts a pitch-harmonized spectrum from a voice spectrum. A spectral average calculation unit (106) calculates the average... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070299659 - Vocoder and associated method that transcodes between mixed excitation linear prediction (melp) vocoders with different speech frame rates: A vocoder and method transcodes Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (MELP) encoded data for use at different speech frame rates. Input data is converted into MELP parameters such as used by a first MELP vocoder. These parameters are buffered and a time interpolation is performed on the parameters with quantization to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070299660 - Audio encoding apparatus and audio encoding method: There is provided an audio encoding device capable of causing a decoding side to freely select an audio decoding mode corresponding to a control method used for audio encoding and capable of generating data which can be decoded even when the decoding side does not correspond to the control method.... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070299661 - Method and apparatus of voice mixing for conferencing amongst diverse networks: A conferencing system is provided that utilizes both time domain signal mixing and direct signal fast transcoding. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention utilizes both time domain signal mixing and direct signal fast transcoding to process a bit-stream from a same channel during a conference.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070299662 - Method and apparatus for encoding audio data: Provided are an audio data encoding method and apparatus including determining an initial scale factor value for each frequency band of the audio data according to a quantization error and a maximum permissible distortion level for each frequency band; comparing the initial scale factor value for each frequency band and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070299663 - Speech recognition optimization tool: A method of optimizing audio input for speech recognition applications can include identifying a source waveform and at least one optimization parameter, wherein the optimization parameter is configured to adjust audio input to a speech recognition application. The source waveform can be modified according to the optimization parameter resulting in... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070299665 - Automatic decision support: Speech is transcribed to produce a transcript. At least some of the text in the transcript is encoded as data. These codings may be verified for accuracy and corrected if inaccurate. The resulting transcript is provided to a decision support system to perform functions such as checking for drug-drug, drug-allergy,... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070299664 - Automatic text correction: The present invention provides a method of generating text transformation rules for speech to text transcription systems. The text transformation rules are generated by means of comparing an erroneous text generated by a speech to text transcription system with a correct reference text. Comparison of erroneous and reference text allows... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070299666 - Spoken language identification system and methods for training and operating same: A method for training a spoken language identification system to identify an unknown language as one of a plurality of known candidate languages includes the process of creating a sound inventory comprising a plurality of sound tokens, the collective plurality of sound tokens provided from a subset of the known... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070299667 - System and method for reducing storage requirements for a model containing mixed weighted distributions and automatic speech recognition model incorporating the same: A system for, and method of, generating an acoustic model and a mobile communication device that includes an acoustic model having at least one mixture weight vector generated by the method. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) generating at least one mixture weight vector, (2) re-ordering elements of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070299668 - Systems and methods for determining the determinizability of finite-state automata and transducers: Finite-state transducers and weighted finite-state automata may not be determinizable. The twins property can be used to characterize the determinizability of such devices. For a weighted finite-state automaton or transducer, that weighted finite-state automaton or transducer and its inverse are intersected or composed, respectively. The resulting device is checked to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070299669 - Audio encoding apparatus, audio decoding apparatus, communication apparatus and audio encoding method: An audio encoding apparatus capable of improving the frame cancellation error tolerance, without increasing the number of bits of a fixed code book, in a CELP type audio encoding. In this apparatus, a low frequency component waveform encoding part (210) calculates, based on a quantized LPC received from an LPC... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070299670 - Biometric and speech recognition system and method: A biometric and speech recognition system and method is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the system includes a remote control device having a non-voice based biometric detector and a speech recognition engine. User profile data may be stored in a memory device of the remote control device. The system may... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070299671 - Method and apparatus for analysing sound- converting sound into information: The present invention provides means of identifying a sound or acoustic event and converting this into suitable information for the user. This may be used for remote monitoring, for defense, for health applications, and for helping hearing impaired people for identifying the sounds. The system may also be used by... Agent: Ms Ruchika Kapur C/o Sanjiv Kapur

20070299672 - Perception-aware low-power audio decoder for portable devices: A method of decoding audio data representing an audio clip, said method comprising the steps of selecting one of a predetermined number of frequency bands; decoding a portion of the audio data representing said audio clip according to the selected frequency band, wherein a remaining portion of the audio data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070294080 - Automatic translation of advertisements: In an embodiment of a messaging system, a method for presenting a commercial message to a user is provided. A target language in which the user is comfortable communicating may be determined based on at least one communication received by the user or at least one communication provided by the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070294078 - Language conversation system and service method moving in combination with messenger: Disclosed is a language conversion system and a service method thereof, capable of allowing a user to easily obtain foreign language translation data while using a messenger by operating a skin for a messenger application helper in combination with the messenger based on window message information of the messenger without... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20070294076 - Language translation using a hybrid network of human and machine translators: A Hybrid Distributed Network Language Translation (HDNLT) system having a distributed network of human and machine translators that communicate electronically and provide for the translation of material in source language. Individual translators receive a reputation that reflects their translation competency, reliability and accuracy. An individual translator's reputation is adjusted dynamically... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070294077 - Socially cognizant translation by detecting and transforming elements of politeness and respect: A socially-cognizant translation system that takes social state between speaker and listener into account when making the translation. The translation may be more formal or less formal based on the social relationship between speaker and listener. Profanities in the source speech may be detected, and used to determine the social... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070294079 - Information processing apparatus, computer, information processing system, information processing method, and program: Even in the case of an information processing apparatus different from a computer usually used by a user, the same kana-kanji conversion candidates as the computer are acquired without unifying Japanese-language converting programs and unifying usage environments. The computer comprises a kana-kanji converting portion that receives a character string from... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070294081 - Speech recognition system with user profiles management component: A speech recognition and control system continuously operable by two or more users including a receiver for receiving a speech input, a processor in communication with the receiver, a database in communication with the processor, the database including a plurality of user profiles, profile management software executing on the processor... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070294082 - Voice recognition method and system adapted to the characteristics of non-native speakers: The invention relates to a voice signal recognition method comprising a step of producing an iterative learning procedure of acoustic models representing a standard set of models of voice units pronounced in a given target language and a step of using the acoustic models to recognize the voice signal by... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070294083 - Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice: A method and system for training a user authentication by voice signal are described. In one embodiment, a set of feature vectors are decomposed into speaker-specific recognition units. The speaker-specific recognition units are used to compute distribution values to train the voice signal. In addition, spectral feature vectors are decomposed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070294084 - Context-based grammars for automated speech recognition: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing a context-based grammar for automatic speech recognition, including creating by a multimodal application a context, the context comprising words associated with user activity in the multimodal application, and supplementing by the multimodal application a grammar for automatic speech recognition in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070294085 - System and method operative to interact with a secure, self-contained network: A system operative to interact with a secure, self-contained network comprising a signal detection component operative to detect a vocal utterance from a user, a command generation component coupled to the network that is operative to analyze the vocal utterance detected by the signal detection component using a phonic-based speech... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070294086 - Speech recognition apparatus and navigation system: Both a telephone number dictionary and a number dictionary are used for speech recognition of telephone numbers. The telephone number dictionary stores actually existent telephone numbers for fixed-line phones. The number dictionary stores variable numbers and digits. The telephone number dictionary ensures a relatively high recognition rate. When only the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070294087 - Synthesizing comfort noise: In order to improve the audio quality of an audio signal including comfort noise, a time scaling is performed as an integral part of a comfort noise signal synthesis.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070288231 - Uncertainty interval content sensing: Repetition of content words in a communication is used to increase the certainty, or, alternatively, reduce the uncertainty, that the content words were actual words from the communication. Reducing the uncertainty of a particular content word of a communication in turn increases the likelihood that the content word is relevant... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070288229 - Automated word processor for chinese style languages: A process for inputting word character includes the step of inputting a specific character denoting a nature art of destining word character; inputting a phonetic character denoting a phoneme of the destining word character; sorting out the destining word character in responsive to the specific character and the phonetic character;... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070288230 - Simplifying query terms with transliteration: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, operable to perform operations including receiving from a user a search query; and receiving an indication of a user preference to apply transliteration in simplifying the query terms of the search query. Alternatively, the operations include receiving from a user a search... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070288232 - Method and apparatus for estimating harmonic information, spectral envelope information, and degree of voicing of speech signal: A degree of voicing is extracted using the characteristic of harmonic peaks existing in a constant period by converting an input speech or audio signal to a speech signal of the frequency domain, selecting the greatest peak in a first pitch period of the converted speech signal as a harmonic... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288233 - Apparatus and method for detecting degree of voicing of speech signal: In order to detect a degree of voicing of a speech signal, an input speech signal is converted to a speech signal in the frequency domain, a pitch value is calculated from the speech signal, a plurality of harmonic peaks existing in the speech signal are detected, and a difference... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288234 - Method and apparatus for audio transcoding: An apparatus for transcoding an audio signal between a CELP-based coder and a hybrid coder includes a source bitstream unwrapper configured to receive a source bitstream, extract one or more CELP compression parameters from the source bitstream, and construct an audio signal vector from the source bitstream while maintaining the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070288235 - Equalization based on digital signal processing in downsampled domains: This invention relates to a device, a method, a software application program, a software application program product and an audio device for processing a digital signal, wherein the digital signal is separated and downsampled into at least two downsampled subband signals, wherein at least one of the at least two... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070288236 - Speech signal pre-processing system and method of extracting characteristic information of speech signal: A speech signal pre-processing system and a method of extracting characteristic information of a speech signal. To do this, it is determined whether characteristic information of an input speech signal is extracted using harmonic peaks. According to the determination result, a speech signal frame or characteristic frequency regions derived according... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070288237 - Method and apparatus for multimedia data management: A method and an apparatus for multimedia data management are disclosed. The method provides an indexing and retrieval scheme for digital photos with speech annotations based on image-like patterns transformed from the recognized syllable candidates. For annotated spoken content, the recognized n-best syllable candidates are transformed into a sequence of... Agent: Jason Z. Lin Lin & Associates

20070288238 - Speech end-pointer: An end-pointer determines a beginning and an end of a speech segment. The end-pointer includes a voice triggering module that identifies a portion of an audio stream that has an audio speech segment. A rule module communicates with the voice triggering module. The rule module includes a plurality of rules... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070288239 - Interactive tool for semi-automatic generation of a natural language grammar from a device descriptor: A method, system and tool product for creating a grammar (100) for a natural language dialog system from a device description is provided. The system can include a device descriptor (30) for identifying a configuration, interface, object, and attribute information of the device, a speech grammar (26) for identifying one... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070288240 - User interface for text-to-phone conversion and method for correcting the same: A user interface for a text-to-phone conversion and the method for correcting the results of the text-to-phone in the user interface are provided. The user interface for the text-to-phone conversion comprises a vocabulary column, a pronunciation column, a category column, and an index column. The vocabulary column is displaying a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070288241 - Oral modification of an asr lexicon of an asr engine: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for providing oral modification of an ASR lexicon of an ASR engine that include receiving, in the ASR engine from a user through a multimodal application, speech for recognition, where the ASR engine includes an ASR lexicon of words capable of recognition... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070288242 - Speech recognition and control system, program product, and related methods: A speech activated control system for controlling aerial vehicle components, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system can include a host processor adapted to develop speech recognition models and to provide speech command recognition. The host processor can be positioned in communication with a database for storing and... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070288243 - Display updating program and display updating apparatus: A game machine has an LCD, a cross key, and a memory. The memory stores a plurality of words and a plurality of translations each corresponding to the plurality of words. A computer of the game machine displays at least one of the plurality of words on the LCD, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070282590 - Grammatical element generation in machine translation: Grammatical element prediction is used in the context of machine translation. Features from both the source language and the target language sentences (or other text fragments) are used in predicting the grammatical elements.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070282591 - Predicting results for input data based on a model generated from clusters: A method for predicting results for input data based on a model that is generated based on clusters of related characters, clusters of related segments, and training data. The method comprises receiving a data set that includes a plurality of words in a particular language. In the particular language, words... Agent: Hickman Palmero Truong & Becker LLP/ Yahoo! Inc.

20070282597 - Data summarization method and apparatus: A method of generating caption abstract, including: generating a target text from a predetermined caption, analyzing a morpheme of a word included in the target text, and analyzing a grammatical structure of the target text by referring to the morpheme; extracting and removing low content words from the target text... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070282596 - Generating grammatical elements in natural language sentences: Grammatical element prediction is used to predict grammatical elements in text fragments (such as phrases or sentences). In one embodiment, a statistical model, using syntax features, is used to predict grammatical elements.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070282593 - Hierarchical state machine generation for interaction management using goal specifications: A Statechart is generated automatically from a set of goals for completion of a data model. A set of states is generated corresponding to completion states of the data model, an initial pseudo-state and a final state. Transitions are generated from the initial pseudo-state to an empty state of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070282594 - Machine translation in natural language application development: Machine translation architecture for natural language application development. The architecture facilitates automatic translation of developed training datasets into a full set of desired target languages. Additionally, select ones of the training data can be tagged and utilized as a test dataset for testing performance. Accordingly, only a single input dataset... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070282595 - Natural language personal information management: A PIM application provides a single page natural language interface for entering and managing PIM data. The natural language interface may receive a natural language entry as a text character string. The entry may be associated with a task, calendar, contact or other PIM data type. The received entries are... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070282592 - Standardized natural language chunking utility: A method is disclosed for providing a chunking utility that supports robust natural language processing. A corpus is chunked in accordance with a draft chunking specification. Chunk inconsistencies in the corpus are automatically flagged for resolution, and a chunking utility is provided in which at least some of the flagged... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070282598 - Speech and textual analysis device and corresponding method: A speech and textual analysis device and method for forming a search and/or classification catalog. The device is based on a linguistic database and includes a taxonomy table containing variable taxon nodes. The speech and textual analysis device includes a weighting module, a weighting parameter being additionally assigned to each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070282599 - Method and apparatus to encode and/or decode signal using bandwidth extension technology: A method and apparatus to perform bandwidth extension encoding and decoding encodes and/or decodes a high frequency signal using an excitation signal for a low frequency signal encoded in a time domain or a frequency domain or using an excitation spectrum for the low frequency signal. Accordingly, although an audio... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070282600 - Decoding of predictively coded data using buffer adaptation: A decoder (e.g., an AAC-LTP decoder) receives a stream containing coded audio data and prediction data. The coded data is upsampled or downsampled during decoding. Portions of the decoded data are stored in a buffer for use in decoding subsequent coded data. The buffer into which the decoded data is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070282601 - Packet loss concealment for a conjugate structure algebraic code excited linear prediction decoder: A method to improve packet loss concealment for generation of a synthetic speech signal in a algebraic code excited linear prediction decoder for a voice over packet network. One method improves features for coding gains in the decoder and for post-filtering of the signals. An alternative method uses a classification... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070282602 - Pitch shifting apparatus: A pitch shifting apparatus detects peak spectra P1 and P2 from amplitude spectra of inputs sound. The pitch shifting apparatus compresses or expands an amplitude spectrum distribution AM1 in a first frequency region A1 including a first frequency f1 of the peak spectrum P1 using a pitch shift ratio which... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070282603 - Methods and devices for low-frequency emphasis during audio compression based on acelp/tcx: A first aspect of the present invention relates to a method for low-frequency emphasizing the spectrum of a sound signal transformed in a frequency domain and comprising transform coefficients grouped in a number of blocks, in which a maximum energy for one block is calculated and a position index of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070282604 - Noise suppression process and device: In one aspect, a noise suppression process for a decoded signal comprising a first decoded signal portion and a second decoded signal portion is provided. A first energy envelope generating curve and a second energy envelope generating curve of the first signal portion and of the second decoded signal portion... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070282605 - Method and system for screening using voice data and metadata: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising: (a) maintaining a database of known fraudsters, wherein each fraudster has a voice signature and metadata associated therewith; (b) performing a screening operation to match a candidate with a fraudster in the database based on matching a voice signature and metadata... Agent: Hahn And Moodley LLP

20070282606 - Frame goals for dialog system: A frame definition for use by dialog system during an interaction with a user, the frame definition includes at least one data field and at least one goal comprising a Boolean function of one or more filled predicates, each of which takes a reference to a field of the frame... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070282609 - Electronic device and control program: The present invention provides an electronic device capable of offering a user easy-to-understand guidance on button operations, and a control program that controls the electronic device. The electronic device has a memory (110) that stores an audible text explaining a button operation, a guidance speaker control section (135) that causes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070282608 - Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech: A system and computer-readable medium synthesize speech from text using a triphone unit selection database. The instructions on the computer-readable medium control a computing device to perform the steps: receiving input text, selecting a plurality of N phoneme units from the triphone unit selection database as candidate phonemes for synthesized... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070282607 - System for distributing a text document: The invention provides a system for distributing a text document (101) comprising: a data conditioning system (102) including: a data receiver for receiving the text document (101) in a received document format; and a conversion system for converting the text document (101) from the received document format to text data... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070282610 - Automated adaptive method for identity verification with performance guarantees: This invention provides an automated adaptive method for identity verification of claimants that attempt to get access into a resource by responding to a sequence of identifiers. The sequence has a specified maximal length and the identifiers are partitioned into multiple groups where identifiers in the same group are correlated... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070282612 - Electronic equipment: Disclosed is electronic equipment including; an information storage to store menu screen identification information about a menu screen displayed on a display section, the menu screen including an item corresponding to the command information, the identification information associated with the command information corresponding to the item displayed on the menu... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070282611 - Electronic equipment and television receiver: Disclosed an electric equipment including: a command information storage section to store command information for controlling the electric equipment associated with a plurality of pieces of control information pertaining respectively to operation control in a plurality of operation states; a speech information obtainment section to obtain speech information; a command... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070282613 - Audio buddy lists for speech communication: A method for controlling audio characteristics of communications with another party includes initiating communications between a first communication device of a user and a second communication device and determining, at the first communication device, audio characteristics associated with one of the second communication device or a name of a contact... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane