Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 02/08

20080052061 - Domain-adaptive portable machine translation device for translating closed captions using dynamic translation resources and method thereof: P

20080052064 - Method for searching for chinese character using tone mark and system for executing the method: A method for searching for a Chinese character using a tone mark and system for executing the method is provided. The method includes: receiving a search term from a user; verifying a type of said received search term based on at least a portion of said received search term wherein... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080052063 - Multi-language speech recognition system: 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 natural languages are used to support and detect a natural language spoken by a user. In some implementations an interactive electronic agent... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080052062 - System and method for transcribing audio files of various languages: System, method and program product for transcribing an audio file included in or referenced by a web page. A language of text in the web page is determined. Then, voice recognition software of the language of text is selected and used to transcribe the audio file. If the language of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080052065 - Time-warping frames of wideband vocoder: A method of communicating speech comprising time-warping a residual low band speech signal to an expanded or compressed version of the residual low band speech signal, time-warping a high band speech signal to an expanded or compressed version of the high band speech signal, and merging the time-warped low band... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080052066 - Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method: An encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method enabling acquisition of high-quality decoded signal in scalable encoding of an original signal in first and second layers even if the second or upper layer section performs low bit-rate encoding. In the encoder, a spectrum residue shape codebook (305) stores candidates of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080052067 - Noise suppressor for removing irregular noise: A noise suppressor detects a peak position in the frequency spectrum of an input speech signal, and masks frequency components in the spectrum as a function of the peak position. The masking process attenuates or removes frequency components near the peak position if their magnitudes are significantly lower than the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080052068 - Scalable and embedded codec for speech and audio signals: A system and method for processing of audio and speech signals is disclosed, which provide compatibility over a range of communication devices operating at different sampling frequencies and/or bit rates. The analyzer of the system divides the input signal in different portions, at least one of which carries information sufficient... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC

20080052069 - Integrated speech recognition, closed captioning, and translation system and method: A system and method that integrates automated voice recognition technology and speech-to-text technology with automated translation and closed captioning technology to provide translations of “live” or “real-time” television content is disclosed. It converts speech to text, translates the converted text to other languages, and provides captions through a single device... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080052070 - Mass-scale, user-independent, device-independent voice messaging system: A mass-scale, user-independent, device-independent, voice messaging system that converts unstructured voice messages into text for display on a screen is disclosed. The system comprises (i) computer implemented sub-systems and also (ii) a network connection to human operators providing transcription and quality control; the system being adapted to optimise the effectiveness... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080052071 - Mass-scale, user-independent, device-independent voice messaging system: A mass-scale, user-independent, device-independent, voice messaging system that converts unstructured voice messages into text for display on a screen is disclosed. The system comprises (i) computer implemented sub-systems and also (ii) a network connection to human operators providing transcription and quality control; the system being adapted to optimise the effectiveness... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080052072 - Speaker recognition method based on structured speaker modeling and a scoring technique: A technique for improved score calculation and normalization in a framework of recognition with phonetically structured speaker models. The technique involves determining, for each frame and each level of phonetic detail of a target speaker model, a non-interpolated likelihood value, and then resolving the at least one likelihood value to... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080052073 - Voice recognition device and method, and program: A speech recognition system in which a user may correct a recognition error resulting from speech recognition more efficiently and easily. Speech recognition means compares a plurality of words inputted from speech input means with a plurality of words stored in dictionary means, respectively, and determines a most-competitive word candidate.... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20080052075 - Incrementally regulated discriminative margins in mce training for speech recognition: A method and apparatus for training an acoustic model are disclosed. A training corpus is accessed and converted into an initial acoustic model. Scores are calculated for a correct class and competitive classes, respectively, for each token given the acoustic model. From this score a misclassification measure is calculated and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080052074 - System and method for speech separation and multi-talker speech recognition: A method, and a system to execute this method is being presented for the identification and separation of sources of an acoustic signal, which signal contains a mixture of multiple simultaneous component signals. The method represents the signal with multiple discrete state-variable sequences and combines acoustic and context level dynamics... Agent: Innovation Interface, LLC

20080052076 - Automatic grammar tuning using statistical language model generation: The present invention discloses a speech processing solution that utilizes an original speech recognition grammar in a speech recognition system to perform speech recognition operations for multiple recognition instances. Instance data associated with the recognition operations can be stored. A replacement grammar can be automatically generated from the stored instance... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080052077 - Multi-language speech recognition system: 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 natural languages are used to support and detect a natural language spoken by a user. In some implementations an interactive electronic agent... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080052078 - Statistical language model trained with semantic variants: An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identifying the meaning of the utterance, the system selects a single... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080052079 - Electronic appliance and voice signal processing method for use in the same: An electronic appliance includes a speaker which outputs a first sound wave based on a first voice signal generated from the electronic appliance, and a microphone to detect a second sound wave on which a sound wave generated for control of the electronic appliance is superimposed to output a second... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080052080 - Emotion recognition system: An emotion recognition system for assessing human emotional behavior from communication by a speaker includes a processing system configured to receive signals representative of the verbal and/or non-verbal communication. The processing system derives signal features from the received signals. The processing system is further configured to implement at least one... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080052081 - Mixed-mode interaction: A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and receive voice replies, or perform similar operations... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080052082 - Voice control method: A voice control method is provided, which includes the following steps. First, a sound signal is received, wherein the sound signal includes a voice signal and a predetermined signal. Next, and electronic device is used to filer the predetermined signal to acquire the voice signal from the sound signal. Next,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080052083 - Systems and methods for audio-marking of information items for identifying and activating links to information or processes related to the marked items: Systems and methods of creating and utilizing audio-marking of specific information items for pointing at the existence of Additional Information and Processes (AIPs) related to such information items and, when required, activating preset links to such specific AIPs. The invention describes processes and methods that enable authorized creation, insertion and... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080052084 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052085 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052086 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052087 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052088 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080052089 - Acoustic signal encoding device and acoustic signal decoding device: Herein disclosed is an acoustic signal encoding device comprising: a coefficient table (17) having described therein coefficients representable in the form of a matrix with 2 rows by N columns simulating head-related transfer characteristics to be applied when a multi-channel signal is reproduced, a first signal outputting unit (12) for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080046229 - Disfluency detection for a speech-to-speech translation system using phrase-level machine translation with weighted finite state transducers: A computer-implemented method for creating a disfluency translation lattice includes providing a plurality of weighted finite state transducers including a translation model, a language model, and a phrase segmentation model as input, performing a cascaded composition of the weighted finite state transducers to create a disfluency translation lattice, and storing... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080046230 - Reception support system and program therefor: The system carries out a voice recognition process for generating a log file by converting a voice signal uttered from the client terminal and operator terminal into a text, and storing the log file in a log database by being correlated with the client terminal for detecting a presence of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080046232 - Method and system for e-tol english language test online: The present invention is an Internet-based English language test online designed to help Human Resources Departments in Non-English speaking countries find the right person for the bilingual job, The system will also assess employee's English language communication skills, on a scale from 0-100%. The system is job-business oriented and measures... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080046231 - System and method of language translation: A system and method for multilingual communication utilizes a client computer to construct messages in a first language from a plurality of message templates. The message templates may include content that is specifically tailored to address a topic or topics relevant to the type of communication desired. A user constructs... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20080046233 - Packet loss concealment for sub-band predictive coding based on extrapolation of full-band audio waveform: A technique for concealing the effect of a lost frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal in a sub-band predictive coding system is provided. In accordance with the technique, one or more received frames in the series of frames are decoded to generate a full-band output... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046234 - Audio reproduction circuit: An audio reproduction circuit has an input buffer for holding MP3 data. The audio reproduction circuit also has an MP3 decoder for reading and decoding, in certain processing units, the MP3 data held in the input buffer, and generating voice data. The audio reproduction circuit also has an output buffer... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080046236 - Constrained and controlled decoding after packet loss: A technique is described herein for reducing audible artifacts in an audio output signal generated by decoding a received frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal in a predictive coding system. In accordance with the technique, it is determined if the received frame is one of... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046235 - Packet loss concealment based on forced waveform alignment after packet loss: A packet loss concealment method and system is described that attempts to reduce or eliminate destructive interference that can occur when an extrapolated waveform representing a lost segment of a speech or audio signal is merged with a good segment after a packet loss. This is achieved by guiding a... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046237 - Re-phasing of decoder states after packet loss: A technique is described herein for updating a state of a decoder configured to decode a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal. In accordance with the technique, an output audio signal associated with a lost frame in the series of frames is synthesized. The decoder state is set... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046238 - Voiced programming system and method: A voiced programming system and methods are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080046240 - Software web crowler and method therefor: Description of a web crawler that crawlers the web for audio and video files and indexes the files based on sound analysis and algorithmic translation and analysis of sounds in audio and video files to text.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046239 - Speech-based file guiding method and apparatus for mobile terminal: A speech-based file guiding apparatus and method for a mobile terminal capable of playing multimedia files is provided. The speech-based file guiding method includes checking if a music play mode is activated; checking whether a file selection signal is input, if the music play mode is activated; and outputting, audio... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046241 - Method and system for detecting speaker change in a voice transaction: Method and System for detecting speaker change in a voice transaction is provided. The system analyzes a portion of speech in a speech stream and determines a speech feature set. The system then detects a feature change and determines speaker change.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080046242 - Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar: A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that both represent transitions from a first state. The second transition entry is contiguous with the first transition entry in the data structure and includes a... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080046243 - Method and system for automatic detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices: The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detecting morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080046244 - Speech recognition device: The speech recognition device includes: a language model storage unit (104) which stores a language model indicating appearance probabilities of words or word sequences; an acoustic feature amount extracting unit (101) and a checking unit (102) which extract a feature amount of an inputted speech signal, and identifies the word... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080046245 - Using a discretized, higher order representation of hidden dynamic variables for speech recognition: A hidden dynamics value in speech is represented by a higher order, discretized dynamic model, which predicts the discretized dynamic variable that changes over time. Parameters are trained for the model. A decoder algorithm is developed for estimating the underlying phonological speech units in sequence that correspond to the observed... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080046246 - Method of auditory display of sensor data: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of auditory communication comprising: measuring a data set; identifying the type of data set; obtaining the auditory cue associated with the type of data set; and generating an auditory notification; and emitting the auditory notification.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080046247 - System and method for supporting text-to-speech: A system for generating high-quality synthesized text-to-speech includes a learning data generating unit, a frequency data generating unit, and a setting unit. The learning data generating unit recognizes inputted speech, and then generates first learning data in which wordings of phrases are associated with readings thereof. The frequency data generating... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080046248 - Packet loss concealment for sub-band predictive coding based on extrapolation of sub-band audio waveforms: A technique is described for concealing the effect of a lost frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal in a sub-band predictive coding system. In accordance with the technique, a first synthesized sub-band audio signal is synthesized, wherein synthesizing the first synthesized sub-band audio signal comprises... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046249 - Updating of decoder states after packet loss concealment: A technique is described herein for updating a state of a decoder in a predictive coding system after synthesizing an audio output signal corresponding to a lost frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal. In accordance with the technique, an audio signal associated with the synthesized... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046251 - Enhancing environment voice macros via save/restore state of object within an environment controlled by voice comands: A method for state transition in voice systems including: generating one or more stackable state macros, each of the one or more stackable state macros including a plurality of commands; saving the current state before executing another macro; enabling restoring the previous state after a plurality of commands is completed,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20080046250 - Performing a safety analysis for user-defined voice commands to ensure that the voice commands do not cause speech recognition ambiguities: The present invention discloses a solution for assuring user-defined voice commands are unambiguous. The solution can include a step of identifying a user attempt to enter a user-defined voice command into a voice-enabled system. A safety analysis can be performed on the user-defined voice command to determine a likelihood that... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080046252 - Time-warping of decoded audio signal after packet loss: A technique is described for use in a decoder configured to decode a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal. The technique is for transitioning between a lost frame and one or more received frames following the lost frame in the series of frames. In accordance with the technique,... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080046253 - Temporal envelope shaping for spatial audio coding using frequency domain wiener filtering: Certain types of parametric spatial coding encoders use interchannel amplitude differences, interchannel time differences, and interchannel coherence or correlation to build a parametric model of a multichannel soundfield that is used by a decoder to construct an approximation of the original soundfield. However, such a parametric model does not reconstruct... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080040094 - Proxy for real time translation of source objects between a server and a client: The present invention relates to a proxy for providing a translated source object, the proxy comprising: (i) a first interface with a client, (ii) a second interface, (iii) a third interface, (iv) a translating engine, and (v) an output interface, wherein the translating engine performing the steps of: (a) receiving... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080040099 - Device and method for language model switching and adaption: This invention provides a device and method for language model switching and adaptation, wherein the device comprises a notification manager which notifies a language model switching section of the current status information or the request for the language model of an destination application when the status of the destination application... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040095 - System for multiligual machine translation from english to hindi and other indian languages using pseudo-interlingua and hybridized approach: The present invention relates to a method and system for translating a source language into a target language comprising the steps of:—identifying the nature of text extracted from a source document, - filtering and storing the text formatting and structure information of the extracted text,—selecting an appropriate text translation engine... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080040096 - Machine translation system, a machine translation method and a program: In machine translation and automatic interpretation processing, it is possible to appropriately translate proper nouns not registered to a dictionary. The proper noun dictionary data generating means 21 generates proper noun user dictionary data according to a predetermined rule using proper nouns in a target language kept in the proper... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080040098 - Machine translation apparatus and method: A machine translation apparatus includes a plurality of target language document databases used for a translation from an original language to a target language. A database control unit assigns a priority degree to each of the plurality of target language document databases, and indicates a target language document database of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080040097 - System, method and program product for bidirectional text translation: A system, method, and program product for translating text. The invention provides a bidirectional translation corpus that is used to translate phrases from a first language to a second language and vice versa. The bidirectional translation corpus has multiple entries, each having a phrase in the first language and a... Agent: Gerald R. Woods IBM Corporation T81/503

20080040100 - Playback apparatus, playback method and computer-readable medium: A playback apparatus, a playback method and a computer-readable medium are provided. The playback method includes the following steps. Firstly, real-time information including voice real-time information is received. Next, whether the real-time information is a first kind or a second kind is determined according to the voice sample and the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080040101 - Method of estimating sound arrival direction, sound arrival direction estimating apparatus, and computer program product: Sound signals from sound sources present in multiple directions are accepted as inputs of multiple channels, and signal of each channel is transformed into a signal on a frequency axis. A phase component of the transformed signal is calculated for each identical frequency, and phase difference between the multiple channels... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080040102 - Frequency compensation for perceptual speech analysis: The invention provides a softscaled frequency compensation function that allows the evaluation of a first quality measure indicating a global impact of all distortions in an audio transmission system, including linear frequency response distortions and second quality measure that only lakes into account the impact of linear frequency response distortions.... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080040103 - Temporal envelope shaping for spatial audio coding using frequency domain wiener filtering: Certain types of parametric spatial coding encoders use interchannel amplitude differences, interchannel time differences, and interchannel coherence or correlation to build a parametric model of a multichannel soundfield that is used by a decoder to construct an approximation of the original soundfield. However, such a parametric model does not reconstruct... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080040104 - Speech coding apparatus, speech decoding apparatus, speech coding method, speech decoding method, and computer readable recording medium: In a speech coding apparatus, a band-pass filter unit separates a residual signal generated by a predictive analyzer into band by band components. Then, a gain calculation unit and a voiced/unvoiced discrimination and pitch extraction unit acquire information on an intensity characterizing each band, information on a result of discrimination... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080040106 - Digital recording and playback system with voice recognition capability for concurrent text generation: A recording and playback system is provided. The system includes an audio capturing device configured to receive an analog input and an encoder coupled to the audio capturing device configured to generate a digital signal based on the analog input. The system further includes a recognition engine coupled to the... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080040105 - Sub-band voice codec with multi-stage codebooks and redundant coding: Techniques and tools related to coding and decoding of audio information are described. For example, redundant coded information for decoding a current frame includes signal history information associated with only a portion of a previous frame. As another example, redundant coded information for decoding a coded unit includes parameters for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080040107 - Method for quantizing speech and audio through an efficient perceptually relevant search of multiple quantization patterns: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for quantizing data using a perceptually relevant search of multiple quantization patterns. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing a perceptually relevant search of multiple quantization patterns in which one of a plurality of prototype patterns and its associated permutation are selected to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040108 - Speech processing apparatus and control method thereof: In order to implement proper sensitivity setting with respect to a connected speech input device, this invention includes a connector for detachable connection of a speech input device, a detection unit which detects that the speech input device has connected to the connector, and a setting unit which sets a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080040109 - Yule walker based low-complexity voice activity detector in noise suppression systems: A Yule-Walker based, low-complexity voice activity detector (VAD) is disclosed. An input signal is typically noisy speech (i.e., corrupted with, for example, babble noise). In one embodiment, a first initialization stage of the VAD computes an occurrence of a silent period within the input signal and the AR parameters. The... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080040110 - Apparatus and methods for the detection of emotions in audio interactions: An apparatus and method for detecting an emotional state of a speaker participating in an audio signal. The apparatus and method are based on the distance in voice features between a person being in an emotional state and the same person being in a neutral state. The apparatus and method... Agent: Mark Soffer Gary Kain

20080040111 - Caption correction device: A device of the present invention obtains a character string of a speech recognition result and a confidence factor thereof. A time monitor monitors time and determines whether or not processing is delayed by checking the confidence factor and time status. When the processing is not delayed, a checker is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040112 - Voice recognition system for interactively gathering information to generate documents: A voice recognition system and method for interactively gathering information to generate a document, form, or application. An applicant establishes voice connection with the system and provides verbal responses to a plurality of verbal questions generated by system to compile a document, form or application.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080040113 - Computer product, operator supporting apparatus, and operator supporting method: Speech keywords are extracted from voice data on a response that an operator has made to an inquiry from a customer while referring to case data. Response keywords to be responded to the inquiry are extracted from the case data. After detecting a common keyword in the speech and response... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080040114 - Reranking qa answers using language modeling: In a QA (Question/Answer) system, candidate answers in response to a question received are ranked by probabilities estimated by a language model. The language model is created based on an ordered centroid created from the question and information learned from an information source such as the Internet.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080040115 - System and method for evaluating the difficulty of understanding a document: A system is provided for evaluating the degree of difficulty a user is likely to encounter when trying to understanding the contents of one or more document pages by listening to a voice output from a screen reader. An evaluation value representing the likely degree of difficulty is generated based... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040116 - System for and method of providing improved intelligibility of television audio for the hearing impaired: The present invention is a TV hearing system that generally includes an analog or digital TV broadcast signal feeding a hearing health interface that subsequently drives the input of a standard television. The hearing health interface further includes a receiver, a digital signal processor (DSP) logic block, a driver, an... Agent: Norris Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20080040117 - Method and apparatus of audio switching: A method for speech switching, including: extracting mute flags from encoded speech data transmitted by each of the terminals respectively in order to determine one or more non-mute terminals; decoding the encoded speech data of each non-mute terminal respectively; calculating speech energy of each non-mute terminal according to the decoded... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080040118 - System and method for facilitating call routing using speech recognition: A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to illicit a response from the user that indicates the purpose of the user's communication. The... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080040119 - Apparatus, method, and program for supporting speech interface design: c

20080040120 - Estimating rate controlling parameters in perceptual audio encoders: Perceptual audio coder refers to audio compression schemes that exploit the properties of human auditory perception. The coder allocates the quantization noise below the masking threshold such that even with the bit rate limitation, the noise is imperceptible to the ear. These distortion and bit rate requirement makes the bit... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080040121 - Sub-band voice codec with multi-stage codebooks and redundant coding: Techniques and tools related to coding and decoding of audio information are described. For example, redundant coded information for decoding a current frame includes signal history information associated with only a portion of a previous frame. As another example, redundant coded information for decoding a coded unit includes parameters for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080040122 - Packet loss concealment for a sub-band predictive coder based on extrapolation of excitation waveform: Systems and methods are described for performing packet loss concealment using an extrapolation of an excitation waveform in a sub-band predictive speech coder, such as an ITU-T Recommendation G.722 wideband speech coder. The systems and methods are useful for concealing the quality-degrading effects of packet loss in a sub-band predictive... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080040123 - Music-piece classifying apparatus and method, and related computer program: Audio data representative of a music piece is converted into data components in respective different frequency bands for every unit time interval to generate time frequency data pieces assigned to the respective different frequency bands. From the generated time frequency data pieces, detection is made as to each sustain region... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080033711 - Method and system for testing translatability of non-textual resources: The present invention is a method and system for testing translatability of non-textual resources. A method of the present invention for testing translatability of non-textual resources may include identifying and locating non-textual resources. The method of the present invention may further include modifying non-textual resources. Modification of non-textual resources may... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080033712 - Method of learning a second language through the guidance of pictures: After users input a plurality of words, a picture/text interface will display the plurality of input words, a plurality of output words, and a plurality of pictures. The plurality of output words represent the plurality of input words in another language, and the plurality of pictures represent the plurality of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080033713 - Predicting entered text: A communication device receives a word, provides a first next word candidate list based on the received word, and provides a second next word candidate list based on a received character input by a user of the communication device. At least one word in the second next word candidate list... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080033714 - Acronym extraction system and method of identifying acronyms and extracting corresponding expansions from text: An acronym expansion system of the present invention receives electronic documents and extracts acronyms and their corresponding expansions. A part-of-speech tagger decomposes text into string tokens or words and tags them with their part-of-speech, while an acronym identifier determines whether a word is a potential acronym based on various conditions.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080033715 - System for normalizing a discourse representation structure and normalized data structure: A system and method for normalizing a discourse representation structure (DRS) are provided. The elements of the structure are rewritten and sorted in a way such that structures which may appear different but are nonetheless equivalent can be associated with the same, normalized representation. Various embodiments can also include a... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080033717 - Speech coding apparatus, speech decoding apparatus and methods thereof: A speech coding apparatus includes a base layer coder that codes an input signal and generates first coded information. A base layer decoder decodes the first coded information and generates a first decoded signal. The base layer decoder also generates long term prediction information comprising information representing long term correlation... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080033716 - System and methods for concealing errors in data transmission: The present invention provides a frame erasure concealment device and method that is based on reestimating gain parameters for a code excited linear prediction (CELP) coder. During operation, when a frame in a stream of received data is detected as being erased, the coding parameters, especially an adaptive codebook gain... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080033718 - Classification-based frame loss concealment for audio signals: An audio decoding system performs frame loss concealment (FLC) when portions of a bit stream representing an audio signal are lost within the context of a digital communication system. The audio decoding system employs two different FLC methods: one designed to perform well for music, and the other designed to... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080033719 - Voice modulation recognition in a radio-to-sip adapter: A radio-to-SIP adapter is shown to include a voice detection algorithm processor as well as other circuitry to provide an interface between a radio and SIP adapter to accommodate a transition from half duplex to full duplex and to cause a radio to transmit when human speech is present in... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080033720 - A method and system for speech classification: The present invention deals with a method and system for classifying at least one speech-user-utterance in a speech classification system to one of a plurality of pre-defined class types. The method comprises transcribing automatically the at least one speech-user-utterance to obtain at least one automatic-transcribed-text and estimating an estimated-transcribed-text corresponding... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080033721 - System for concurrent display and textual annotation of prepared materials by voice-to-text converted input: A system and method for converting spoken vocal input to a data-encoded text string, and annotating/mixing the text string with prepared presentation materials while concurrently displaying the materials to a live audience.... Agent: Ater Wynne LLP

20080033722 - Method and system for hand geometry recognition biometrics on a fob: The present invention discloses a system and methods for biometric security using hand geometry recognition biometrics in a transponder-reader system. The biometric security system also includes a hand geometry scan sensor that detects biometric samples and a device for verifying biometric samples. In one embodiment, the biometric security system includes... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080033723 - Speech detection method, medium, and system: A speech recognition method, medium, and system. The method includes detecting an energy change of each frame making up signals including speech and non-speech signals, and identifying a speech segment corresponding to frames that include only speech signals from among the frames based inclusive of the detected energy change.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033724 - Method for generating a context-based voice dialogue output in a voice dialog system: The user friendliness of voice dialog systems is increased by drawing the user's attention in a context-based manner to additional themes modeled in the system during the dialog, so this additional information has a content-related connection with the instantaneous actions of the user. A conversation character which, to a certain... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033725 - Methods and a system for providing digital media content: The present disclosure includes methods for providing digital media content. A method includes capturing content, receiving the captured content as a file, and determining a recipient of the received file. The received file is converted to a digital media file and automatically transmitted to the recipient. Another method includes providing... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20080033726 - Audio waveform processing device, method, and program: An audio waveform processing not imparting any feeling of strangeness and high in definition, in which time stretch and pitch shift are performed by a vocoder method, and the variation of phase over the whole waveform caused by the vocoder method at all times is reduced. An audio input waveform... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080033727 - Method of supporting the user of a voice input system: In the case of a method of supporting the user of a voice input system by which a quantity of potential voice commands is visually issued to the user, the voice commands are at least partially issued acoustically to the user in a successive manner and, during the acoustic output... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080033728 - Communication support apparatus and method: An input unit inputs a drawing information based on a first language on a display by at least one of a plurality of users each locating at predetermined position relative to the display. A conversion unit converts the drawing information based on the first language to an information based on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080033729 - Method, medium, and apparatus decoding an input signal including compressed multi-channel signals as a mono or stereo signal into 2-channel binaural signals: A decoding method, medium, and device decoding an input signal, including compressed multi-channel signals as a mono or stereo signal, into 2-channel binaural signals. A full band channel level of each channel in the multi-channel system is calculated from channel level differences between the channels, and data of each channel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033730 - Alias-free subband processing: A digital signal is processed by splitting it into at least two frequency subbands and the two subband signals are downsampled. A filter is applied in at least one of the subband signals. At least one of the phase and magnitude of the subband filtered signals is matched in the... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080033732 - Channel reconfiguration with side information: During production, at least one audio signal is processed in order to derive instructions for channel reconfiguring it. The at least one audio signal and the instructions are stored or transmitted. During consumption, the at least one audio signal is channel reconfigured in accordance with the instructions. Channel reconfiguring includes... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080033731 - Temporal envelope shaping for spatial audio coding using frequency domain wiener filtering: Certain types of parametric spatial coding encoders use interchannel amplitude differences, interchannel time differences, and interchannel coherence or correlation to build a parametric model of a multichannel soundfield that is used by a decoder to construct an approximation of the original soundfield. However, such a parametric model does not reconstruct... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation