Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 01/08

20080027705 - Speech translation device and method: A speech translation device includes a speech input unit, a speech recognition unit, a machine translation unit, a parameter setting unit, a speech synthesis unit, and a speech output unit, and a speech volume value of speech data to be outputted is determined from plural likelihoods obtained by the speech... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080027706 - Lightweight windowing method for screening harvested data for novelty: Biasing of language model customization due to repetitious data is substantially reduced by introducing novelty screening to data harvesting process. Novelty detection based filtering is added to ensure that an adaptation system gives more weight to representative adaptation data that is not repetitious. The value of the adaptation data is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080027707 - Systems and methods for persistent context-aware guides: Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080027709 - Determining scale factor values in encoding audio data with aac: Techniques for determining scale factor values when encoding audio data are described. According to one technique, a particular scale factor value (SFV) is estimated using an audio quality estimator function that is non-linear. After a certain point, a decrease in noise results in a smaller increase in audio quality. According... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080027708 - Method and system for fft-based companding for automatic speech recognition: A method and system processes a speech signal. A fast Fourier transform is performed on a speech signal to produce a speech signal having a plurality of frequency bands in a frequency domain. For each frequency bands, filter the speech signal in the frequency domain with a spatial broadband filter,... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080027711 - Systems and methods for including an identifier with a packet associated with a speech signal: A method for including an identifier with a packet associated with a speech signal is described. A signal is received. The signal is partitioned into a plurality of frames. A frame of the signal is encoded into a packet. A determination is made if the packet is encoded as a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027713 - Information display apparatus, information display method and program therefor: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080027710 - Method and apparatus for detecting bad data packets received by a mobile telephone using decoded speech parameters: A speech signal is decoded by a vocoder and the reconstructed speech samples are provided to a decoded frame check unit. The decoded frame check unit examines the energy of the reconstructed speech and compares the energy of the reconstructed speech to a range of acceptable energy values. If the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027712 - Signal processing for speech signal: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for generating a control signal for processing a speech signal comprising the steps of: adjusting the signal relative to a threshold level; and responsive to detection of a falling edge of the signal, holding the signal level for a holding period. The technique... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080027714 - Sound source separation apparatus and sound source separation method: To shorten an output delay while a high sound source separation performance is ensured when a sound separation process based on an ICA method is performed. A second Fourier transform process execution cycle t2 for obtaining a second frequency-domain signal S1 used as an input signal of a filter process... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080027715 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for wideband encoding and decoding of active frames: Applications of dim-and-burst techniques to coding of wideband speech signals are described. Reconstruction of a highband portion of a frame of a wideband speech signal using information from a previous frame is also described.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027716 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for signal change detection: Disclosed configurations include systems, methods, and apparatus arranged to generate a sequence of spectral tilt values that is based on inactive frames of a speech signal. For each of a plurality of inactive frames of the speech signal, a transmit decision is made according to a change calculated among at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027717 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for wideband encoding and decoding of inactive frames: Speech encoders and methods of speech encoding are disclosed that encode inactive frames at different rates. Apparatus and methods for processing an encoded speech signal are disclosed that calculate a decoded frame based on a description of a spectral envelope over a first frequency band and the description of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027718 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for gain factor limiting: The range of disclosed configurations includes methods in which subbands of a speech signal are separately encoded, with the excitation of a first subband being derived from a second subband. Gain factors are calculated to indicate a time-varying relation between envelopes of the original first subband and of the synthesized... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027719 - Systems and methods for modifying a window with a frame associated with an audio signal: A method for modifying a window with a frame associated with an audio signal is described. A signal is received. The signal is partitioned into a plurality of frames. A determination is made if a frame within the plurality of frames is associated with a non-speech signal. A modified discrete... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080027720 - Method and apparatus for speech data: There is disclosed a speech processing device in which prediction taps for finding prediction values of the speech of high sound quality are extracted from the synthesized sound obtained on affording linear prediction coefficients and residual signals, generated from a preset code, to a speech synthesis filter, speech of high... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080027721 - System and method for measurement of perceivable quantization noise in perceptual audio coders: A technique for computing perceptual noise in an audio signal that is computationally efficient. In one example embodiment, the technique includes computing perceptual noise in an input audio signal. The steps involve pre-computing NER (noise-to-excitation ratio) values associated with critical bands within a frame by zeroing out associated spectral coefficient... Agent: GlobalIPServices PLLC

20080027722 - Background noise reduction system: A noise reduction system includes a microphone configured to detect an acoustic signal. A first digitizer converts an output of the microphone into a discrete output signal. An acoustic sensor detects structure-borne noise, and a second digitizer converts an output of the acoustic sensor into a discrete acoustic noise reference... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080027723 - Methods and apparatus for performing speech recognition over a network and using speech recognition results: Techniques for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models are described. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080027724 - Methods of recording voice signals in a mobile set: Systems and methods for processing information are disclosed and may include comparing a plurality of signals having identical time stamps. The method may further include identifying which of the plurality of signals comprise voice signals and which of the plurality of signals comprise corresponding non-voice signals based on the comparison.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080027725 - Automatic accent detection with limited manually labeled data: An accent detection system for automatically labeling accent in a large speech corpus includes a first classifier which analyzes words in the speech corpus and automatically labels accents to provide first accent labels. A second classifier analyzes the words to automatically label accent of the words to provide second accent... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080027726 - Text to audio mapping, and animation of the text: Apparati, methods, and computer-readable media for creation of a text to audio chronological mapping. Apparati, methods, and computer-readable media for animation of the text with the playing of the audio. A Mapper (10) takes as inputs text (12) and an audio recording (11) corresponding to that text (12), and with... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080027727 - Speech synthesis apparatus and method: A speech unit corpus stores a group of speech units. A selection unit divides a phoneme sequence of target speech into a plurality of segments, and selects a combination of speech units for each segment from the speech unit corpus. An estimation unit estimates a distortion between the target speech... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080027728 - Device for determining latency between stimulus and response: A device which uses an input of speech and measures latency between stimulus and response. The device generally includes an input transducer for converting a stimulus speech sound into an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal to an electric circuit. In the preferred embodiment, the electric circuit includes a... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080027729 - Watermark embedding: According to an inventive scheme for introducing a watermark into an information signal, the information signal is at first transferred from a time representation to a spectral/modulation spectral representation). The information signal is then manipulated in the spectral/modulation spectral representation in dependence on the watermark to be introduced to obtain... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080027730 - System and method for providing access to an interactive service offering: A system and method are disclosed for providing access to an interactive service offering. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving a first communication in a format that complies with a first protocol. The first communication may be associated with a desired interaction between a first... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080027731 - Comprehensive spoken language learning system: A computerized method of teaching spoken language skills includes receiving multiple user utterances into a computer system, receiving criteria for pronunciation errors, analyzing the user utterances to detect pronunciation errors according to basic sound units and Pronunciation error criteria, and providing feedback to the user in accordance with the analysis.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080027732 - Bitrate control for perceptual coding: Techniques for generating a target digital media item based on a source digital media item are described. A digital media item may be a song, a video clip, an album, or any length of audio or video. When adjusting the bit count for a portion of the target digital media... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080027733 - Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof: There is disclosed an encoding device capable of appropriately adjusting the dynamic range of spectrum inserted according to the technique for replacing a spectrum of a certain band with a spectrum of another band. The device includes a spectrum modification unit (112) which modifies a first spectrum S1(k) of the... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080027734 - Media program identification method and apparatus based on audio watermarking: The invention provides a method for obtaining related information about a media program containing an audio signal, comprising: an embedding step of embedding an audio watermark containing identification information of the media program into the audio signal of the media program; a transmitting step of transmitting the media program; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080021699 - Multi-lingual text entry using a dynamically reconfigurable keyboard: The invention is directed to user-friendly multi-lingual text entry using a dynamically reconfigurable keyboard. A method for dynamically reconfiguring a keyboard according to an embodiment of the invention includes: displaying a first set of characters on the keyboard; providing language settings to an upper level system manager of a keyboard... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080021700 - System and method for automating the generation of an ontology from unstructured documents: Systems and methods for the substantially automatic creation of ontologies from unstructured documents identify phrases and core noun phrases from the respective documents. Links can be extracted from the documents. Concepts can be identified from the documents. Ontologies can be automatically created for the documents. The processing is domain independent.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080021698 - Machine translation system, method and program: A translated text creator translates a text in which an unknown word is left in an original language representation without being translated, while known words are translated. Translated text created by the translated text creator is displayed. A link setter sets a link for performing a search for the unknown... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080021697 - System and method of ubiquitous language translation for wireless devices: A system and method of providing a location-based translation service is disclosed. A wireless device receives from a wireless network an updated priority target language list according to the location of the wireless device. The wireless device and/or wireless network are capable of automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) services... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080021701 - Techniques for creating computer generated notes: Text is extracted from and information resource such as documents, emails, relational database tables and other digitized information sources. The extracted text is processed using a decomposition function to create. Nodes are a particular data structure that stores elemental units of information. The nodes can convey meaning because they relate... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080021702 - Wireless communication apparatus including a mechanism for suppressing uplink noise: A wireless communication apparatus includes a voice encoder and uplink suppression logic. The voice encoder may be configured to encode a number of digital audio samples into voice payload data using one or more audio compression algorithms. The uplink suppression logic may be configured to provide an indication such as... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080021703 - Howling detection device and method: A howling detection device detects a dominance ratio, which indicates a risk of howling to be occurred when a mixed signal obtained by a sound mixing section for mixing a plurality of sound signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones is outputted by a speaker, for each of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080021704 - Quantization and inverse quantization for audio: An audio encoder and decoder use architectures and techniques that improve the efficiency of quantization (e.g., weighting) and inverse quantization (e.g., inverse weighting) in audio coding and decoding. The described strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or independently. For example, an audio encoder quantizes... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080021705 - Speech processing apparatus and control method therefor: A speech processing apparatus includes a speech input device which inputs speech, a connection unit which detachably connects the speech input device, a speech recognizer which recognizes speech input by the speech input device through the connection unit, and a monitor which monitors the connection state of the speech input... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080021706 - Speech distribution system: A method of distributing speech which includes the steps of, at a given location, receiving an audio signal, extracting from the audio signal a signal representing speech originating from or near the location, and distributing an electric signal which is mixed with the extracted speech signal via an audio system... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080021707 - System and method for an endpoint detection of speech for improved speech recognition in noisy environment: According to a disclosed embodiment, an endpointer determines the background energy of a first portion of a speech signal, and a cepstral computing module extracts one or more features of the first portion. The endpointer calculates an average distance of the first portion based on the features. Subsequently, an energy... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080021708 - Speech recognition system interactive agent: A speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. A number of different speech models for different languages are used to support and detect a language spoken by a user. In some implementations an interactive electronic agent responds in... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080021709 - application to worker communication interface: A substantially real-time voice, text, and messaging communications system employs application triggers for communications. A system provides communication between an executable application and a worker The system comprises at least one repository including, mapping information associating predetermined indicators conveyed by transaction messages with tasks performed by corresponding workers and communication... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080021710 - Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the internet: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content of the file or podcast.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080021711 - Systems and methods for voice control of a medical device: The invention is generally directed to systems and methods for medical care, and more particularly to systems and methods for voice control of a medical device. A first embodiment includes a voice controlled surgical system, such as a phacoemulsification system, a microphone coupled to the surgical system, and a voice... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080021712 - Scalable lossless audio codec and authoring tool: An audio codec losslessly encodes audio data into a sequence of analysis windows in a scalable bitstream. This is suitably done by separating the audio data into MSB and LSB portions and encoding each with a different lossless algorithm. An authoring tool compares the buffered payload to an allowed payload... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20080015841 - Directional input system with automatic correction: A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The circular keyboard is manipulated via a hardware joystick or... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080015840 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and reinitiating a text disambiguation session upon returning to a delimited word: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080015842 - Statistical method and apparatus for learning translation relationships among phrases: The present invention learns phrase translation relationships by receiving a parallel aligned corpus with phrases to be learned identified in a source language. Candidate phrases in a target language are generated and an inside score is calculated based on word association scores for words inside the source language phrase and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080015843 - Linguistic image label incorporating decision relevant perceptual, semantic, and relationships data: Data processing system and computer implemented method for obtaining linguistic image labels and populating linguistic image label entries are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method comprises creating a first data from an image that includes descriptive information of the image. A linguistic image label is populated that includes a... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080015844 - System and method of creating and using compact linguistic data: A system and method of creating and using compact linguistic data are provided. Frequencies of words appearing in a corpus are calculated. Each unique character in the words is mapped to a character index, and characters in the words are replaced with the character indexes. Sequences of characters are mapped... Agent: F. Drexel Feeling, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20080015845 - Audio signal component compensation system: A system compensating audio signal components in a communication system is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of detecting, by a microphone, a sound signal, the sound signal comprising audio signal components resulting from reproducing an audio signal of an audio source, the sound signal further comprising speech signal components... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080015847 - Customized storybook: A unit for providing an interactive, light-activated, voice recorder unit for a book wherein said interactive voice recorder unit automatically initiates a playback mode when the front cover of a book is opened and light enters the unit.... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20080015846 - Detecting an answering machine using speech recognition: An answering machine detection module is used to determine whether a call recipient is an actual person or an answering machine. The answering machine detection module includes a speech recognizer and a call analysis module. The speech recognizer receives an audible response of the call recipient to a call. The... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080015848 - System and method for speech recognition system: A digital speech enabled middleware module is disclosed that facilitates interaction between a large number of client devices and network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) resources. The module buffers feature vectors associated with speech received from the client devices when the number of client devices is greater than the available ASR... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080015849 - Digital wireless communication apparatus: A prediction signal calculator with a limit function is provided with a multiplier calculating a partial prediction signal composed of the product of a polar prediction coefficient for generating a regenerative signal and a quantized regenerative signal, a display conversion section for converting the partial prediction signal from floating point... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080015850 - Quantization matrices for digital audio: Quantization matrices facilitate digital audio encoding and decoding. An audio encoder generates and compresses quantization matrices; an audio decoder decompresses and applies the quantization matrices. The invention includes several techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or separately. For example, the audio encoder can generate quantization matrices from... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080015851 - Acoustic device: A purpose of the present invention is to provide an acoustic apparatus capable of automatically setting a gain which is suitable for both an averaged signal strength of input voice and an instantaneous signal strength thereof, capable of easily recognizing an effect by a user, which is achieved by switching... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080015852 - Method and device for coding audio data based on vector quantisation: A wideband audio coding concept is presented that provides good audio quality at bit rates below 3 bits per sample with an algorithmic delay of less than 10 ms. The concept is based on the principle of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) in an analysis-by-synthesis framework. A spherical codebook is used... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080015853 - Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program: A signal processing device for processing an input signal includes gain calculating means and feature quantity calculating means. The gain calculating means is configured to obtain information indicating magnitude of noise to be added to the input signal on a basis of periodicity information indicating periodicity of the input signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080015854 - Voice signal encoding/decoding method: The present invention is disclosed a voice signal encoding/decoding methods. It is judged whether the time-point at which the voices signal is about to be encoded is one of the synchronous time parameters in the steps of voice signal encoding. If yes, output an output port code; otherwise, then output... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd

20080015856 - Method and apparatus for diversity control in mutiple description voice communication: A method and apparatus for performing multiple descriptive source coding in which a plurality of homogeneous encoders are advantageously employed in combination with a corresponding plurality of advantageously substantially identical decoders. In particular, diversity is provided to the multiple encoders by modifying the quantization process in at least one of... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192

20080015855 - Signal encoding apparatus and method thereof, and signal decoding apparatus and method thereof: In a signal encoding apparatus (1) a frequency normalization unit (11) normalizes each spectrum of spectral signals by using respectively normalization factors and supplies a normalization factor index per spectrum to a quantization accuracy determining unit (13). The quantization accuracy determining unit (13) adds a weighting factor using auditory properties... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080015857 - Usb dictation device: The invention includes a handheld device for receiving audio input in the form of speech. The handheld device is specifically optimized for digitally recording speech input for the purpose of speech recognition. The handheld device includes an ergonomically positioned pointing device to enable dictation and navigation through a document using... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080015858 - Methods and apparatus to perform speech reference enrollment: A speech reference enrollment method involves the following steps: (a) requesting a user speak a vocabulary word; (b) detecting a first utterance (354); (c) requesting the user speak the vocabulary word; (d) detecting a second utterance (358); (e) determining a first similarity between the first utterance and the second utterance... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080015859 - Voice over ip based biometric authentication: An individual's identity is verifiable using voice biometrics. A voice biometric system includes a receiver configured to receive, from a remote communications device, a voice biometric sample of a party attempting to obtain a service from a remote system. The service is provided contingent on authentication of the party as... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080015860 - Methods and apparatus for delivering audio information: Methods and apparatus for providing enhanced audio are described. In some embodiments speech synthesis information is used to provide user control of attributes of received broadcast speech, such as language, tone, speed, gender, and volume. In other embodiments, speech synthesis information is transmitted prior to a broadcast audio signal, allowing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080015861 - System for low-latency animation of talking heads: Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a client device that relate to bridging delays... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080015862 - Synchronized externally generated sound effects for model trains: A system for generating realistic train sounds which are synchronized with the motion of a model train. A sensor is placed aboard the model train to sense the position of desired components, such as the driving pistons of a model steam engine. Preferably, sound data is gathered and transmitted as... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080015863 - Distinguishing among different types of abstractions using voice commands: The present invention discloses a method for a voice-enabled computing environment. The method includes a step of receiving a series of voice commands related to an abstraction, wherein the voice command specifies an abstraction type. The method further includes responding to the voice command to replay the commands, executing at... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080015864 - Method and apparatus for managing dialog management in a computer conversation: A dialog management system functions to manage the dialog between a user of a computer system and one or more speech enabled software applications. The user provides spoken input to a microphone connected to the computer system, and hears responses from one or more applications through a speaker connected to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080015865 - Method and apparatus for managing dialog management in a computer conversation: A behavioral adaptation engine integrated with a voice application creation and deployment system has at least one data input port to receive XML-based client interaction data including audio files attached to the data; at least one data port to send data to and receive data from external data systems and... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20080015866 - Interchangeable noise feedback coding and code excited linear prediction encoders: A system and method for encoding and decoding speech signals that includes a specially-designed Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) encoder and a vector quantization (VQ) based Noise Feedback Coding (NFC) decoder or that includes a specially-designed VQ-based NFC encoder and a CELP decoder. The VQ based NFC decoder may be... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080015868 - Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks: The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080015867 - Systems and methods for multi-dialog surround audio: Systems and processes for transmission of multi-channel audio from a sender to one or more recipients. Multi-channel audio is encoded with a plurality of different dialog channels. The encoded multi-channel audio and dialog channels can be compressed to facilitate transmission with limited bandwidth. A recipient can select a desired dialog... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080015869 - Method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding extension data for surround: A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding an audio signal to surround data. While encoding spatial information, which can up-mix an audio signal to a surround signal, to extension data, a length of a payload corresponding to the spatial information is encoded and a payload of the spatial information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080010056 - Aligning hierarchal and sequential document trees to identify parallel data: A set of candidate parallel pages is identified based on trigger words in one or more pages downloaded from a given network location (such as a website). A set of document trees representing each of the candidate pages are aligned to identify translationally parallel content and hyperlinks. The parallel content... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080010057 - Applying speech recognition adaptation in an automated speech recognition system of a telematics-equipped vehicle: A speech recognition adaptation method for a vehicle having a telematics unit with an embedded speech recognition system. Speech is received and pre-processed to generate acoustic feature vectors, and an adaptation parameter is applied to the acoustic feature vectors to yield transformed acoustic feature vectors. The transformed acoustic feature vectors... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080010058 - Method and apparatus for recognizing large list of proper names in spoken dialog systems: Embodiments of a name recognition process for use in dialog systems are described. In one embodiment, the name recognition process assigns weighting values to names used in a dialog based on the usage of these names. This process takes advantage of the general tendency of people to speak names, either... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080010054 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and learning a context of a text input for use by a disambiguation routine: 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: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010053 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and outputting as variants textual variants of text disambiguation: In view of the foregoing, an improved handheld electronic device includes a keypad in the form of a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. As a user enters keystrokes, the device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants from which... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010050 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and providing a learning function in a text disambiguation environment: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010051 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and providing text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010052 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and using non-edited characters as context in text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010055 - Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and providing a prior variant list when employing a disambiguation routine and reinitiating a text entry session on a word: A method of replacing a first word in a text component displayed by an electronic device, such as a handheld electronic device, that employs a text disambiguation function, wherein the first word resulted from a key depression sequence previously input into the electronic device. The text disambiguation function caused the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080010059 - Systems and methods for regularly approximating context-free grammars through transformation: Context-free grammars generally comprise a large number of rules, where each rule defines how a string of symbols is generated from a different series of symbols. While techniques for creating finite-state automata from the rules of context-free grammars exist, these techniques require an input grammar to be strongly regular. Systems... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080010060 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to generate metadata corresponding to content including, a data output, a data input section, a control section, an interaction execution section, an interaction metadata generation section, and a content control section.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080010061 - Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks: The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080010062 - Adaptive encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses: An adaptive encoding method includes splitting an input signal into a low-frequency band signal and a high-frequency band signal; performing forward adaptive linear prediction on the low-frequency band signal and thus filtering the low-frequency band signal; selectively performing backward adaptive linear prediction or long-term prediction on the filtered low-frequency band... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080010063 - Noise suppressing device, noise suppressing method, noise suppressing program, and computer readable recording medium: A noise suppression apparatus calculates a sound spectrum and a noise spectrum from an input sound, further calculates gain based on the sound spectrum and noise spectrum, and suppresses noise in the input sound. The noise suppression apparatus includes a first frame-dividing unit that divides the input sound into frames... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080010064 - Apparatus for coding a wideband audio signal and a method for coding a wideband audio signal: Activity is determined for each frequency band in a frame, and when it is determined that an activity-OFF state has not continued for a predetermined number of times for preceding frames, normal coding processing is performed for the frequency band. When it is determined that the activity-OFF state has continued... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080010065 - Method and apparatus for speaker recognition: A method and apparatus for speaker recognition is provided. One embodiment of a method for determining whether a given speech signal is produced by an alleged speaker, where a plurality of statistical models (including at least one support vector machine) have been produced for the alleged speaker based on a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20080010066 - Speaker recognition in a multi-speaker environment and comparison of several voice prints to many: One-to-many comparisons of callers' voice prints with known voice prints to identify any matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service center, the system makes a recording of the real-time call including both the customer's and agent's voices. The system segments the... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080010067 - Target specific data filter to speed processing: A method is presented which reduces data flow and thereby increases processing capacity while preserving a high level of accuracy in a distributed speech processing environment for speaker detection. The method and system of the present invention includes filtering out data based on a target speaker specific subset of labels... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080010069 - Authoring and running speech related applications: A semantic and speech component provides a user interface for interaction with a user or author, and handles interactions with speech subsystems and semantic subsystems, so the user or author is not required to know the idiosyncrasies of each of those subsystems.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080010068 - Method and apparatus for language training: A language training method and apparatus is provided for effectively training a native speaker's intonation and rhythm/tempo at the same time with fun. The model voice data file and trainer's voice input from a microphone may be repeatable at user's discretion through speaker, while generating and constructing a display image... Agent: Yukifusa Seita Beyond The Language Walls Corp.

20080010070 - Spoken dialog system for human-computer interaction and response method therefor: A spoken dialog system comprises a speech recognition unit for recognizing a user's input speech to generate a character sequence corresponding thereto; a sentence contents database for storing therein a plurality of sentence contents; a knowledge search unit for searching through the sentence contents to find a match for the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080010071 - Neural translator: A method and apparatus are provided for processing a set of communicated signals associated with a set of muscles, such as the muscles near the larynx of the person, or any other muscles the person use to achieve a desired response. The method includes the steps of attaching a single... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080010072 - Sound coding device and sound coding method: A sound coding device having a monaural/stereo scalable structure and capable of efficiently coding stereo sound. even when the correlation between the channel signals of a stereo signal is small. In a core layer coding block (110) of this device, a monaural signal generating section (111) generates a monaural signal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C