Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 04/08

20080097741 - Text analysis, transliteration and translation method and apparatus for hieroglypic, hieratic, and demotic texts from ancient egyptian: A system for translating a body of text in an initial language into a target language, that comprises an input device for imputing a body of text comprising a plurality of elements, a first analyzer for analyzing said text and identifying one or more possible characters of said initial language... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080097742 - Computer product for phrase alignment and translation, phrase alignment device, and phrase alignment method: A unified-evaluated-value computing unit quantitatively combines a translation probability between words computed by a corpus-based statistical-value computing unit, dictionary information computed by a dictionary-information referring unit, and syntactic structure information computed by a syntactic-structure-value computing unit, to compute a unified evaluated-value as an index for phrase alignment.... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080097743 - Translation system and method of providing translation service: A translation system is provided, which comprises: a translation server comprising guidelines for writing original text that serve as criteria for determining whether errors exist in the original text, an original text controller determining whether the original text conforms to the guidelines for writing original text, and a translation engine... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080097744 - Context-free grammar: In one embodiment, a method comprising accessing a first data object and a second data object of a data structure representing electronic content, the second data object being associated with the first data object, selecting, based on first content included in the first data object, a grammar rule included in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/adobe

20080097745 - Text analysis, transliteration and translation method and apparatus for hieroglypic, hieratic, and demotic texts from ancient egyptian: A system for translating a body of text in an initial language into a target language, that comprises an input device for imputing a body of text comprising a plurality of elements, a first analyzer for analyzing said text and identifying one or more possible characters of said initial language... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080097747 - Method and apparatus for using a language assistant: A medical diagnostic system comprises a processor for acquiring diagnostic imaging data of a patient. A language assistant module stores a plurality of audio files associated with a plurality of phrases. The plurality of audio files are in at least one language which is different than a predetermined primary language.... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080097746 - Server device, method used in server device, and computer program: A server device which can provide a client device with information in a plurality of languages includes a supportable language recognizing unit recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information, a requested language recognizing unit recognizing a requested language desired by the client device using the language identification... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080097748 - System for enterprise knowledge management and automation: The present invention is directed to a system for managing business knowledge expressed as statements, preferably sentences using a vocabulary, where such statements may be automated by the generation of programming language source code or computer program instructions. As such, the present invention also manages software design specifications that define,... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20080097749 - Dual-transform coding of audio signals: Methods, devices, and systems for coding and decoding audio are disclosed. At least two transforms are applied on an audio signal, each with different transform periods for better resolutions at both low and high frequencies. The transform coefficients are selected and combined such that the data rate remains similar as... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080097750 - 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

20080097751 - Encoder, method of encoding, and computer-readable recording medium: An SBR encoder includes a filter bank that receives an input signal, a time/frequency grid generator that controls a number of bits of various parameters, a parameter calculator that calculates various parameters, a parameter coding unit that encodes the parameters, a multiplexer that multiplexes encoded data, an upper-limit number-of-bit storage... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080097752 - Apparatus and method for expanding/compressing audio signal: In an audio signal expanding/compressing apparatus adapted to expand or compress, in a time domain, a plurality of channels of audio signals by using similar waveforms, a similar-waveform length detection unit calculates similarity of the audio signal between two successive intervals for each channel, and detects a similar-waveform length of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080097754 - Automatic system for temporal alignment of music audio signal with lyrics: An automatic system for temporal alignment between a music audio signal and lyrics is provided. The automatic system can prevent accuracy for temporal alignment from being lowered due to the influence of non-vocal sections. Alignment means of the system is provided with a phone model for singing voice that estimates... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080097753 - Time authentication system, terminal device, time authentication method for conversation voice data for use therein, and program thereof: A time authentication system provided can detect an alteration of the case, in which either of the speakers of a conversation makes the alteration, and can verify, in the case of no alteration, that a conversation voice has occurred at a time within a range. When a speaker #1 terminal... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080097755 - Fast lattice vector quantization: Methods, devices, and systems for coding and decoding audio are disclosed. Digital samples of an audio signal are transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain. The resulting transform coefficients are coded with a fast lattice vector quantizer. The quantizer has a high rate quantizer and a low rate... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080097756 - Method of and apparatus for analyzing audio content and reproducing only the desired audio data: A method of detecting and reproducing data comprises the steps of receiving a first signal comprising data, analyzing the data comprised by the first signal, categorizing the data into at least two categories of data defined as first category and second category; and reproducing the data when it is of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080097757 - Audio coding: Quantized audio data may be represented by a codevector that is associated to a point of an outer shell of a rectangular truncated lattice. For indexing this codevector, number and positions of non-zero components of the codevector are determined. Moreover, signs of the non-zero components are determined. An index is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080097758 - Inferring opinions based on learned probabilities: An opinion system infers the opinion of a sentence of a product review based on a probability that the sentence contains certain sequences of parts of speech that are commonly used to express an opinion as indicated by the training data and the probabilities of the training data. When provided... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080097759 - Method and apparatus for remote control in portable terminal: Provided is a method and apparatus for remotely controlling a second-party terminal in a portable terminal during call communication. The method includes transmitting a screen displayed in a display unit to the second-party terminal when a remote control event is created, and recognizing a speech signal transmitted from the second-party... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080097760 - User-initiative voice service system and method: A voice service system which includes a database storing information and is connected with a plurality of terminals by a communication network, comprising a call connection unit for transmitting-receiving a signal, on a voice service to/from each of the terminals, a voice processing unit for interpreting a voice instruction received... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080097761 - Motion picture watermarking technique: Watermarking of a motion picture release print occurs by providing on at least one soundtrack at least one tone of a particular frequency on at least one location unique to the release print. Typically, placement of the particular frequency tone occurs on location(s) where the tone will have minimal impact... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080097762 - Multicultural and multimedia data collection and documentation computer system, apparatus and method: A computer system apparatus and method uses a display (20) to present a query (40, 50, 60) and responses (41-45) to the query (40, 50, 60) in a first language. The user may select the most appropriate response (41-45) to the given query (40, 50, 60) or may select a... Agent: Joseph S. Heino, Esq. Davis & Kuelthau, S.c.

20080097764 - Analysis filterbank, synthesis filterbank, encoder, de-coder, mixer and conferencing system: An embodiment of an analysis filterbank for filtering a plurality of time domain input frames, wherein an input frame comprises a number of ordered input samples, comprises a windower configured to generating a plurality of windowed frames, wherein a windowed frame comprises a plurality of windowed samples, wherein the windower... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080097766 - Method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding multichannel audio signals: A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding a multichannel audio signal. The method includes detecting the type of spatial extension data included in an encoding result of an audio signal, if the spatial extension data is data indicating a core audio object type related to a technique of encoding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080097763 - Combined audio coding minimizing perceptual distortion: An audio encoder in which two or more preferably different encoders cooperate to generate a joint encoded audio signal. Encoding parameters of the two or more encoders are optimized in response to a measure of distortion of the joint encoded audio signal in accordance with a predetermined criterion. The distortion.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080097765 - Generic on-chip homing and resident, real-time bit exact tests: Details of media encoding and decoding devices which support generic homing sequences, and methods for operating such devices are disclosed. The use of generic homing sequences may permit an embodiment of the disclosed invention to support real-time, bit-exact testing of existing and future media encoding and decoding devices. An embodiment... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080091405 - Method and system for analyzing various languages and constructing language-independent semantic structures: A method and computer system for analyzing sentences of various languages and constructing a language-independent semantic structure are provided. On the basis of comprehensive knowledge about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are created, and lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analyses for one or more sentences of a natural or... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080091406 - System and method for a cooperative conversational voice user interface: A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080091409 - Customizable mathematic expression parser and evaluator: A customizable, portable, object-oriented expression parser and evaluator provides the ability to customize syntactic and semantic elements of expression parsing and evaluation via class inheritance and interface implementation. The customizable expression parser/evaluator provides independence from a fixed variable resolution process, provides flexibility in the data types used for representing numbers... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080091410 - Method for forming words: A method of forming words utilizing a character actuator unit in which the character actuators are segregated into certain categories. First and second categories are employed and activated simultaneously to generate the beginning and ending of a word. First and second actuating categories may be combined with third and fourth... Agent: Theodore J. Bielen Jr. Bielen, Lampe, & Thoeming

20080091411 - Method for identifying a meaning of a word capable of identifying several meanings: A series of methods and systems for identifying a meaning or plurality of meanings of a word are disclosed for registering, searching and/or retrieving information. In one embodiment, a person identifies a word and a meaning is selected or added. In addition, the methods further suggest the implementation of other... Agent: Frank John Williams

20080091408 - Navigation system for text: A computer retrieval system includes memory which stores instructions for (1) receiving a user query in a natural language, (2) identifying text strings from an associated knowledge base, each containing at least one expression (word or multi-word expression) which is matched with at least one expression of the user query,... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080091412 - Business listing search: A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes receiving category-business pairs, each category-business pair including a business category and a specific business, and establishing a data structure having nodes based on the category-business pairs. Each node of the data structure is associated with one or more business... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091413 - Systems and methods for building an electronic dictionary of multi-word names and for performing fuzzy searches in the dictionary: The present invention automatically builds a contracted dictionary from a given list of multi-word proper names and performs fuzzy searches in the contracted dictionary. The contracted dictionary of proper names includes two linked trie-based dictionaries: a first dictionary is used to store single word names, each word name having an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080091407 - Apparatus performing translation process from inputted speech: A speech translating apparatus includes a input unit, a speech recognizing unit, a translating unit, a first dividing unit, a second dividing unit, an associating unit, and an outputting unit. The input unit inputs a speech in a first language. The speech recognizing unit generates a first text from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080091414 - Perceptible signals giving an impression of continuous pace change: A perceptible signal is provided, which is a repetition of a time-limited perceptible signal sequence. The time-limited perceptible signal sequence comprises at least two sets of signal elements, each of which constituting a general trend in signal characteristics as well as interval. The general trend in the end of one... Agent: Douglas T. Johnson Miller & Martin

20080091416 - Method, medium and apparatus enhancing a bass signal using an auditory property: Provided are a method, medium and apparatus for enhancing an acoustic signal using an auditory property. An acoustic signal is enhanced by generating a plurality of harmonic signals based on a predetermined acoustic signal frequency, selecting harmonic signals, which exist in an area masked by the predetermined harmonic signal, from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080091415 - System and method for canceling acoustic echoes in audio-conference communication systems: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a frequency-domain coder/decoder for an audio-conference communication system that includes acoustic-echo-cancellation functionality. In one embodiment of the present invention, an acoustic echo canceller is integrated into the frequency-domain coder/decoder and ameliorates or removes acoustic echoes from audio signals that have been... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080091417 - Pitch conversion method and device: In a pitch conversion method and device which can reduce data throughput while suppressing a degradation of sound quality due to a pitch conversion as much as possible, an input signal pitch pattern per predetermined processing unit and a target pitch pattern are inputted, and a degradation degree indicating how... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080091418 - Pitch lag estimation: Autocorrelation values are determined as a basis for an estimation of a pitch lag in a segment of an audio signal. A first considered delay range for the autocorrelation computations is divided into a first set of sections, and first autocorrelation values are determined for delays in a plurality of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080091419 - Audio encoding device and audio encoding method: There is provided an audio encoding device capable of generating an appropriate monaural signal from a stereo signal while suppressing the lowering of encoding efficiency of the monaural signal. In a monaural signal generation unit (101) of this device, an inter-channel prediction/analysis unit (201) obtains a prediction parameter based on... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080091420 - Apparatus and method for reproducing audio data: An apparatus is used for reproducing digitized and compressed encoded audio data from a portable audio storage device. The apparatus includes a data reader, a processor, a volume adjusting module, and an output module. The data reader is for reproducing compressed encoded audio signals of the digitized and compressed encoded... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080091421 - Device and method for voice activity detection: A device includes a sound signal analyser configured to determine whether a sound signal comprises speech. The device further includes a microphone system configured to discriminate sounds emanating from sources located in different directions from the microphone system so that sounds only emanating from a range of directions are included... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080091422 - Speech recognition method and apparatus therefor: A speech recognition method includes inputting an audio signal including a speech signal and a non-speech signal, discriminating a signal mode of the audio signal, processing the audio signal according to a discrimination result of the discriminating to separate substantially the speech signal from the audio signal, and subjecting the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080091423 - Generation of domain models from noisy transcriptions: A method of building a domain specific model from transcriptions is disclosed. The method starts by applying text clustering to the transcriptions to form text clusters. The text clustering is applied at a plurality of different granularities, and groups topically similar phrases in the transcriptions. The relationship between text clusters... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080091424 - Minimum classification error training with growth transformation optimization: Hidden Markov Model (HMM) parameters are updated using update equations based on growth transformation optimization of a minimum classification error objective function. Using the list of N-best competitor word sequences obtained by decoding the training data with the current-iteration HMM parameters, the current HMM parameters are updated iteratively. The updating... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080091425 - Voice print recognition software system for voice identification and matching: Positive identification of local inhabitants plays an important role in modern military, police and security operations. Since terrorists use all means to masquerade as local inhabitants, the identification of terrorist or hostile suspects becomes an increasingly complicated task. The instant software solution will assist military, police and security forces in... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080091426 - Adaptive context for automatic speech recognition systems: A system improves speech recognition includes an interface linked to a speech recognition engine. A post-recognition processor coupled to the interface compares recognized speech data generated by the speech recognition engine to contextual information retained in a memory, generates a modified recognized speech data, and transmits the modified recognized speech... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080091427 - Hierarchical word indexes used for efficient n-gram storage: Systems and methods are provided for compressing data models, for example, N-gram language models used in speech recognition applications. Words in the vocabulary of the language model are assigned to classes of words, for example, by syntactic criteria, semantic criteria, or statistical analysis of an existing language model. After word... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080091428 - Methods and apparatus related to pruning for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis: The present invention provides, among other things, automatic identification of near-redundant units in a large TTS voice table, identifying which units are distinctive enough to keep and which units are sufficiently redundant to discard. According to an aspect of the invention, pruning is treated as a clustering problem in a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080091429 - Enhancement to viterbi speech processing algorithm for hybrid speech models that conserves memory: The present invention discloses a method for semantically processing speech for speech recognition purposes. The method can reduce an amount of memory required for a Viterbi search of an N-gram language model having a value of N greater than two and also having at least one embedded grammar that appears... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080091430 - Method and apparatus for predicting word prominence in speech synthesis: A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech. A method for generating speech that sounds more natural may comprise generating synthesized speech having certain word prominence characteristics and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080091431 - Method and apparatus of generating text script for a corpus-based text-to speech system: A method of text script generation for a corpus-based text-to-speech system includes searching in a source corpus having L sentences, selecting N sentences with a best integrated efficiency as N best cases, and setting iteration k to be 1; for each case n of the N best cases, selecting Mk+1... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080091432 - System and method for voice control of electrically powered devices: A method and system for controlling electrically powered devices, such as a light or a television, using a spoken command. The method and system of this invention desirably assists physically disabled persons with daily living, such as within an office or residence, allowing the person to operate lights, appliances, and... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080091434 - Building a dictionary based on speech signals that are compressed: Systems and methods for training voice activation control of electronic equipment are disclosed. One example method includes receiving a selection corresponding to at least one command used to control the electronic equipment. The method further includes instructing a user to speak, and responsive to the instruction, receiving a digitized speech... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080091433 - Control system: A system has a speech control interface operable to provide a speech sequence to which a user response is required before system functionality is operational. A user response can be provided via a spoken command. The system is operable, in response to interruption of the speech sequence to permit a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080091435 - Business listing search: A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes selecting a subset of speech recognition language models from a larger set of speech recognition language models based on a type of business provided by a user, identifying weight values for the selected language models, and recognizing an identifier... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091436 - Audio channel conversion: A device (1) for converting a first number (M) of input audio channels into a second, larger number (N) of output audio channels comprises: decorrelation units (3) for decomposing the input audio channels into a set of decorrelated auxiliary channels, at least one upmix unit (4) for combining the decorrelated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080091438 - Audio signal decoder and resource access control method: The audio signal decoder of the present invention includes a first decoding unit which decodes a first encoded audio signal, a second decoding unit which decodes a second encoded audio signal, a memory which stores data under decoding as well as data decoded by the first and second decoding units,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080091437 - Control mechanism for audio rate adjustment: A system and method for controlling rate adjustment of audio data to prevent underflow or overflow. In a dual audio/video system, a device can receive two input transport streams. To prevent underflow or overflow of audio data when audio data from a first transport stream is displayed in accordance with... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20080091439 - Hybrid multi-channel/cue coding/decoding of audio signals: Part of the spectrum of two or more input signals is encoded using conventional coding techniques, while encoding the rest of the spectrum using binaural cue coding (BCC). In BCC coding, spectral components of the input signals are downmixed and BCC parameters (e.g., inter-channel level and/or time differences) are generated.... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080091440 - Sound encoder and sound encoding method: A sound encoder having an improved quantization performance while suppressing an increase of the bit rate to a lowest level. In a second layer encoding unit (40), a standard deviation calculating section (408) calculates the standard deviation &sgr;c of a first layer decoding spectrum after decoding scale factor ratio multiplication... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080086297 - Abbreviation expansion based on learned weights: A method and system for identifying expansions of abbreviations using learned weights is provided. An abbreviation system generates features for various expansions of an abbreviation and generates a score indicating the likelihood that an expansion is a correct expansion of the abbreviation. A expansion with the same number of words... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080086298 - Method and system for translating sentences between langauges: A method and computer system for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation is provided. On the basis of comprehensive understanding about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are used to analyze sentences, to build syntactic structures and language independent semantic structures and representations, and to synthesize... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080086299 - Method and system for translating sentences between languages: A method and computer system for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation is provided. On the basis of comprehensive understanding about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are used to analyze sentences, to build syntactic structures and language independent semantic structures and representations, and to synthesize... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080086300 - Method and system for translating sentences between languages: A method and computer system for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation is provided. On the basis of comprehensive understanding about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are used to analyze sentences, to build syntactic structures and language independent semantic structures and representations, and to synthesize... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080086301 - Audio communication apparatus, audio communication system, audio communication control method, and audio communication control program: An audio communication apparatus performs communication for at least voice communication. The apparatus includes a voice input portion for inputting voice; a voice correction processor portion for performing, by necessity, a voice correction process of the voice input from the voice input portion; a communication portion for performing communication with... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080086302 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for frame erasure recovery: In one configuration, erasure of a significant frame of a sustained voiced segment is detected. An adaptive codebook gain value for the erased frame is calculated based on the preceding frame. If the calculated value is less than (alternatively, not greater than) a threshold value, a higher adaptive codebook gain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080086303 - Aural skimming and scrolling: Computer-based skimming and scrolling of aurally presented information is described. Different levels of skimming are achieved in aural presentations with allowing a user to navigate an aural presentation according to significant points identified within an information source. The significant points are identified using various indicia that suggest logical arrangements for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080086304 - Gathering research data: Methods and systems are provided for gathering research data. Frequency domain data is received or produced, a signature is extracted from the frequency domain data and an ancillary code is read from the frequency domain data.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c.

20080086305 - Digital dictation workflow system and method: A digital dictation workflow system and method employing a plurality of client devices and at least one server. Certain client devices are operable to record audio information dictated by a user for storing as a digital audio file in a file store, and others are operable to receive and reproduce... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080086306 - Speech processing apparatus and control method thereof: An speech processing apparatus comprises a setting unit that sets an association between a speech recognition target vocabulary and the shortcut data for transitioning to a state to which a transition is made, when a user makes a transition to a state among the plurality of states using an operation... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080086307 - Digital contents version management system: Preparation of Braille books and audio books by man has a problem that a great deal of costs including the work cost for recitation or translation (printing) of Braille, composition, examination and the like and the distribution cost are required as compared with general books. Further, there is a problem... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080086308 - Audio conversation apparatus: An audio conversation apparatus (1) comprises: an assignment section (15) for individually assigning units of spatial information which are different from each other, either to parties-to-talk-with each belonging to one of a plurality of predetermined groups, respectively, or to the plurality of predetermined groups, respectively; and a localization section (16)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080086309 - Method for operating a hearing aid, and hearing aid: A “speech” operating mode is established by a signal processor of a hearing aid for tracking and selecting an acoustic speech source in an ambient sound. The electric acoustic signals are generated by the hearing aid from the ambient sound that has been picked up, from which signals an electric... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080086310 - Automated contextually specific audio file generator: A system to generate a contextually specific custom audio file targeted to the user. The user can be a traveler who has particular travel data and the system can generate content tailored to the user's travel data. The content in the audio file can be chosen based on relevancy to... Agent: Muskin & Cusick Llc

20080086312 - Audio decoding device: An audio decoding device comprises an audio decoding section for decoding first stream data and second stream data to generate two pieces of audio data and a data processing parameter, an external setting section in which a parameter corresponding to the data processing parameter is set, and an audio data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080086313 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and computer program: A signal processing apparatus may include a decoder that decodes a compressed audio stream encoded by a predetermined codec, a signal processing unit that applies predetermined signal processing to an audio stream obtained by decoding the compressed audio stream with the decoder, a first acquisition unit that acquires at least... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080086311 - Speech recognition, and related systems: In one arrangement, information useful in understanding the content of user speech (e.g., phonemes identified by a speech recognition algorithm, data indicating the gender of the speaker, etc.) is determined at an apparatus (e.g., a cell phone), and accompanies speech data sent from that apparatus. (Steganographic encoding of the speech... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080082315 - Translation evaluation apparatus, translation evaluation method and computer program: A translation evaluation apparatus is includes: a parallel translation corpus data base (310) that stores, in an associated manner, base original texts and respective model translated texts of the base original texts, a parallel translation linking unit (225) that links the model translated texts to create a linked model translated... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080082317 - Displaying original text in a user interface with translated text: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for user interaction with machine translation. A user interface for receiving requests to translate text and/or documents from a first language text to a second language text. The translated text and/or document is displayed such that the first language text corresponding to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080082316 - Method and system for generating, rating, and storing a pronunciation corpus: A method and system of generating, rating, and storing a pronunciation corpus is provided. The system (“Dico”) is an interactive system resident on a data network such as the Internet or intranet. Dico provides a platform for maintaining and serving the corpus in such a way that the corpus can... Agent: Chi Shing Kwan

20080082318 - Semantic retrieval method and computer product: A dictionary server includes a retrieval-display processing unit. Upon receipt of a request for retrieval of semantic information related to a term from a client PC, the retrieval-display processing unit acquires the semantic information, header information, and link information related to the semantic information from knowledge reference data, dictionary content... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080082319 - Apparatus, system and method for buffering audio data to allow low power states in a processing system during audio playback: An audio data stream from a processing system may be buffered to allow low power states in the processing system during audio playback. An audio buffer may be provided external to the processing system and between the processing system and an audio codec. The audio buffer may also shift to... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20080082320 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for advanced voice conversion: An apparatus is provided that includes a converter for training a voice conversion model for converting source encoding parameters characterizing a source speech signal associated with a source voice into corresponding target encoding parameters characterizing a target speech signal associated with a target voice. To reduce the affect of noise... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080082321 - Audio encoding device, audio decoding device, audio encoding method, and audio decoding method: In an encoding process, a CPU transforms an audio signal from the real-time domain to the frequency domain, and transforms the signal into spectra consisting of MDCT coefficients. The CPU separates the audio signal into several frequency bands, and performs bit shifting in each band such that the MDCT coefficients... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080082322 - Joint estimation of formant trajectories via bayesian techniques and adaptive segmentation: The invention relates to the field of automated processing of speech signals and particularly to a method for tracking the formant frequencies in a speech signal, comprising the steps of: obtaining an auditory image of the speech signal; sequentially estimating formant locations; segmenting the frequency range into sub-regions; smoothing the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080082323 - Intelligent classification system of sound signals and method thereof: A system that integrates various intelligent classification techniques and preprocessing algorithms is provided. A feature extracting unit receives audio signals and extracts audio features for identification by using various descriptors; a preprocessing unit normalized the data for data consistency; a classification unit classifying audio signals into several categories according to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080082324 - Method and apparatus for rate reduction of coded voice traffic: A conversion entity and method for converting higher-rate speech parameters into lower-rate parameters including dimmed excitation parameters. The conversion entity comprises a first decoder configured to produce a target excitation from the higher-rate parameters, based on a first fixed contribution and a first adaptive contribution. The conversion entity also comprises... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080082325 - Sound signal encoding method and apparatus, sound signal decoding method and apparatus, program, and recording medium: A sound signal encoder for high efficiency encoding of sound signals from a plurality of channels is provided which includes a to-be-correlated object setter (52), to-be-correlated object selector (56) and a variable-length encoder (58). The to-be-correlated object setter (52) sets, on the basis of left-channel frequency information held in a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080082326 - Method and apparatus for active noise cancellation: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for active noise cancellation. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech in an audio signal received by a media system (where the audio signal includes user speech and ambient audio output produced by the media system and/or... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20080082328 - Method for estimating priori sap based on statistical model: A priori speech absence probability refers to a probability that a speech is not present with respect to a frame and a frequency bin resulting from an input signal. The priori speech absence probability has been regarded as a constant (generally, 0.5) because it is difficult to estimate. However, attempts... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080082327 - Sound processing apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sound processing apparatus which can allow a user to hear a sound with improved intelligibility even if the sound is hard to hear. The analyzing means 15 is adapted to analyze the input signal from the A/D converter 12,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080082329 - Multi-pass speech analytics: Included are embodiments for multi-pass analytics. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving audio data associated with a communication, performing first tier speech to text analytics on the received audio data, and performing second tier speech to text analytics on the received audio.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082330 - Systems and methods for analyzing audio components of communications: Systems and methods for analyzing audio components of communications are provided. In this regard, a representative system incorporates an audio analyzer operative to: receive information corresponding to an audio component of a communication session; generate text from the information; and integrate the text with additional information corresponding to the communication... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082331 - Method and apparatus for enrollment and evaluation of speaker authentification: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enrollment and evaluation of speaker authentication. The method for enrollment of speaker authentication, comprising: generating a plurality of acoustic feature vector sequences respectively based on a plurality of utterances of the same content spoken by a speaker; generating a reference template... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082332 - Method and system for sharing portable voice profiles: An embodiment of the present invention provides a speech recognition engine that utilizes portable voice profiles for converting recorded speech to text. Each portable voice profile includes speaker-dependent data, and is configured to be accessible to a plurality of speech recognition engines through a common interface. A voice profile manager... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080082333 - Prosody conversion: A contour for a syllable (or other speech segment) in a voice undergoing conversion is transformed. The transform of that contour is then used to identify one or more source syllable transforms in a codebook. Information regarding the context and/or linguistic features of the contour being converted can also be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080082334 - Multi-pass speech analytics: Included are embodiments for multi-pass analytics. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving audio data associated with first communications desired to be analyzed for an event, performing a phonetics analytics process on the audio data associated with the first communications to determine second communications associated with the event,... Agent: M. Paul Qualey, Jr. Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20080082335 - Conversion of alphabetic words into a plurality of independent spellings: A method and a system for automatically converting alphabetic words into a plurality of independent spellings. The method can include parsing textual input to identify at least one word and converting the word into a first word object having a first spelling including letter objects. The method also can include... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080082336 - Speech analysis using statistical learning: Included are embodiments for providing speech analysis. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving audio data associated with a communication and providing the at least one phoneme in a phonetic transcript, the phonetic transcript including at least one character from a phonetic alphabet.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082337 - Using child directed speech to bootstrap a model based speech segmentation and recognition system: A method and system for obtaining a pool of speech syllable models. The model pool is generated by first detecting a training segment using unsupervised speech segmentation or speech unit spotting. If the model pool is empty, a first speech syllable model is trained and added to the model pool.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080082342 - Apparatus and method for providing content-information service using voice interaction: An apparatus for providing a content-information service comprises: a user-content interface for receiving content-provision request information collected by several user I/O interfaces which includes a voice recognition interface, and providing content data corresponding to the provision request information to users; a content-provision relay for requesting the content data using content-associated... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080082341 - Automated utterance search: A speech analyzer is integrated or otherwise coupled to an audio player. The speech analyzer is used to identify recorded communication sessions in accordance with a search criterion. A search criterion may be spoken or otherwise communicated to the speech analyzer. Results generated by the speech analyzer are converted into... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080082339 - System and method for secure voice identification in a medical device: There is provided a system and method for secure voice identification in a medical device. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving an audio signal, identifying one or more frequency components of the received audio signal, determining a permission level associated with the one or... Agent: CovidienIPCounsel - Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions

20080082340 - Systems and methods for analyzing communication sessions: Systems and methods for analyzing communication sessions are provided. A representative method includes: recording the communication session; identifying those portions of the communication session not containing speech of at least one of the agent and the customer; and performing post-recording processing on the recording of the communication session based, at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080082338 - Systems and methods for secure voice identification and medical device interface: There is provided a system and method for secure voice identification and medical device interface. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a medical device comprising an audio recognition system configured to receive an unlock keyword for the medical device and to unlock the medical device to voice commands... Agent: CovidienIPCounsel - Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions

20080082343 - Apparatus and method for processing signal, recording medium, and program: A signal processing apparatus includes a decoding unit, an analyzing unit, a synthesizing unit, and a selecting unit. The decoding unit decodes an input encoded audio signal and outputs a playback audio signal. When loss of the encoded audio signal occurs, the analyzing unit analyzes the playback audio signal output... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP