Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 05/08

20080126073 - Directional input system with automatic correction: A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The circular keyboard is manipulated via a hardware joystick or... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080126074 - Method for matching of bilingual texts and increasing accuracy in translation systems: A method is disclosed for translation of an input sentence in a source language to an output sentence in a target language using a store comprising a plurality of example sentences in the source language each paired with its translation in the target language. The method provides for improved matching... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080126075 - Input prediction: A communication device may include an input device configured to receive input from a user and a display. The communication device may also include logic configured to identify an application being executed by the communication device and identify a candidate word corresponding to the input based on the identified application.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080126076 - Identifying parallel bilingual data over a network: A set of candidate documents, each of which may be part of a bilingual, parallel set of documents, are identified. The set of documents illustratively includes textual material in a source language. It is then determined whether parallel text can be identified. For each document in the set of documents,... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080126077 - Dynamic modification of a messaging language: A method for dynamically modifying an outgoing message language includes receiving a message from a sender. A language associated with tie received message is identified and an outgoing message language is automatically set to the identified language associated with the received message.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080126078 - A system and process for grammatical interference: A grammatical inference system for inferring a grammar from a plurality of example sentences. The system selects sentences having a common suffix or prefix component; identifies the other of said suffix or prefix component of each selected sentence; generating rules for generating the example sentences and the other components; reduces... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP US Bank Center

20080126080 - Creation of structured data from plain text: A method and system for converting plain text into structured data. Parse trees for the plain text are generated based on the grammar of a natural language, the parse trees are mapped on to instance trees generated based on an application-specific model. The best map is chosen, and the instance... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080126079 - Handheld electronic device with automatic text generation: A method of generating text on a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a number of language objects stored therein. The method comprises detecting a delimited input comprising a sequence of characters, determining at least a first property of at least the... Agent: Richard J. Coldren Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080126081 - Method and device for the artificial extension of the bandwidth of speech signals: m

20080126082 - Scalable decoding apparatus and scalable encoding apparatus: A scalable decoding apparatus capable of providing decoded audio signals of high quality having less degradation of a high frequency spectrum even when decoding audio signals by generating the high frequency spectrum by use of a low frequency spectrum. In the apparatus, an amplitude adjusting part (1211) uses different adjustment... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080126084 - Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding broadband voice signal: A method, apparatus, and system for encoding or decoding a broadband voice signal are provided. The method includes extracting a linear prediction coefficient (LPC) from the broadband voice signal; outputting a linear prediction (LP) residual signal; pitch-searching a spectrum of the LP residual signal; extracting spectral magnitudes and phases of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126083 - Method, apparatus, program and recording medium for long-term prediction coding and long-term prediction decoding: A method and apparatus multiplies a past sample a time lag τ older than a current sample by a quantized multiplier ρ′ on a frame by frame basis, subtracts the multiplication result from the current sample, codes the subtraction result, and codes the time lag using a fixed-length coder if... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126085 - Vector transformation apparatus and vector transformation method: There is provided a vector conversion device for converting a reference vector used for quantization of an input vector so as to improve a signal quality including audio. In this vector conversion device, a vector quantization unit (902) acquires a number corresponding to a decoded LPC parameter of a narrow... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080126086 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for gain coding: A wideband speech encoder according to one embodiment includes a lowband encoder and a highband encoder. The lowband encoder is configured to encode a lowband portion of a wideband speech signal as a set of filter parameters and an encoded excitation signal. The highband encoder is configured to calculate values... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080126087 - Method and systems for information retrieval during communication: Methods and systems for information retrieval during communication for use in a device having telecommunication capability. The device performs a communication. An instruction is received during the communication. Information is retrieved according to the instruction. The information is converted to speech using a text-to-speech technology, and the speech is provided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080126088 - Device, method and system for detecting unwanted conversational media session: Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a system for detecting unwanted conversational media session data. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of detecting unwanted conversation media session data according to some embodiments of the invention may include calculating two or more progressive... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080126089 - Efficient empirical determination, computation, and use of acoustic confusability measures: Efficient empirical determination, computation, and use of an acoustic confusability measure comprises: (1) an empirically derived acoustic confusability measure, comprising a means for determining the acoustic confusability between any two textual phrases in a given language, where the measure of acoustic confusability is empirically derived from examples of the application... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080126090 - Method for speech recognition from a partitioned vocabulary: A is recognized using a predefinable vocabulary that is partitioned in sections of phonetically similar words. In a recognition process, first oral input is associated with one of the sections, then the oral input is determined from the vocabulary of the associated section.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080126092 - Dictionary data generation apparatus and electronic apparatus: It is possible to realize a reliable audio recognition in use of dictionary data for audio recognition while reducing the data amount of the dictionary data. An information recording and reproducing apparatus RP acquires text data indicating each program title from EPG data, sets up a keyword within a range... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126091 - Voice dialing using a rejection reference: A voice dialing method includes the steps of receiving an utterance from a user, decoding the utterance to identify a recognition result for the utterance, and communicating to the user the recognition result. If an indication is received from the user that the communicated recognition result is incorrect, then it... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080126093 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a language based interactive multimedia system: An apparatus for providing a language based interactive multimedia system includes a selection element, a comparison element and a processing element. The selection element may be configured to select a phoneme graph based on a type of speech processing associated with an input sequence of phonemes. The comparison element may... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080126094 - Data modelling of class independent recognition models: A method, system, and computer program for generating a recognition model set. A technique is described to take advantage of the logarithm likelihood of real data for cross entropy to measure the mismatch between a training data and a training data derived model, and compare such type of mismatches between... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080126095 - System and method for adding functionality to a user interface playback environment: A method and system may provide an interface (e.g., “API”), client side software module or other process that may accept client input defining a playback environment, such as a speech output interface, accept client input selecting preprogrammed functionality for operating the speech playback environment, accept client input tailoring the preprogrammed... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080126096 - Error concealment method and apparatus for audio signal and decoding method and apparatus for audio signal using the same: An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080126098 - Value added service network, ivr server and method for analyzing flow track in real time: A value added service network is disclosed in the present invention. The value added service network includes an IVR server and a flow track analyzing system. The present invention also disclosed an IVR server, a flow track analyzing system and methods for analyzing a value added service flow track. According... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080126097 - Voice confirmation authentication for domain name transactions: A method with an information processing system manages a user transaction request associated with a domain name based on an authentication status of a user. The method comprises receiving a request from a user for a transaction associated with a domain name. A voice confirmation user interface is presented to... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080126099 - Method of representing information: A method of representing information to a person comprising displaying an image viewable by a person, the image comprising visual markers representative of portions of a human body minimally necessary to communicate with the person, the visual markers, when viewed by the person, causing the person to extrapolate the human... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (u. De Sherbrooke)

20080126100 - Correcting substitution errors during automatic speech recognition: A speech recognition method includes the steps of receiving input speech containing vocabulary, processing the input speech with a grammar to obtain N-best hypotheses and associated parameter values, and determining whether a first-best hypothesis of the N-best hypotheses is confusable with any vocabulary within the grammar. The first-best hypothesis is... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080126102 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: A decoding apparatus decodes a first encoded data that is encoded from a low-frequency component of an audio signal, and a second encoded data that is used when creating a high-frequency component of an audio signal from a low-frequency component and encoded in accordance with a certain bandwidth, into the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080126101 - Information processing apparatus: In an information processing apparatus such as digital cellular phone with a camera, a frame extracting portion extracts audio data in frames in accordance with a codec scheme. A packet creating portion creates an RTP packets based on the audio data in frames. A post-packetizing buffer holds the created RTP... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080126103 - Recording and reproducing apparatus for use with optical recording medium having real-time, losslessly encoded data: A lossless encoding and/or decoding apparatus which encodes audio data on a real-time basis includes a lossless compression unit which losslessly compression encodes the audio data stored in an input buffer in units of predetermined data and outputs the encoded data in sequence, and an output buffer which stores the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080126104 - Multichannel decorrelation in spatial audio coding: Each of N audio signals are filtered with a unique decorrelating filter (38) characteristic, the characteristic being a causal linear time-invariant characteristic in the time domain or the equivalent thereof in the frequency domain, and, for each decorrelating filter characteristic, combining (40, 44, 46), in a time and frequency varying... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080120089 - Methods and systems for local, computer-aided translation incorporating translator revisions to remotely-generated translation predictions: A method for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions includes the step of determining that a translation stored in a remote translation memory is useful in translating a first portion of a local document. A local machine receives the translation of the first portion of the document. The local... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080120088 - Methods and systems for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions: A method for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions includes the step of receiving, by a remote translation memory, at least one portion of a document in a source language for translation into a target language. The remote translation memory determines, prior to receiving a request from a translator... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080120090 - Methods and systems for using and updating remotely-generated translation predictions during local, computer-aided translation: A method for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions includes the step of determining that a translation stored in a remote translation memory is useful in translating a first portion of a local document. A local machine receives the translation. Prior to receiving a request form a translator for... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080120091 - Simultaneous translation of open domain lectures and speeches: A real-time open domain speech translation system for simultaneous translation of a spoken presentation that is a spoken monologue comprising one of a lecture, a speech, a presentation, a colloquium, and a seminar. The system includes an automatic speech recognition unit configured for accepting sound comprising the spoken presentation in... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.c.

20080120087 - Translation information segment: A method and apparatus for using translation information segment to provide seamless translation of a communication in a network environment. The communication contains a readable translation information segment that includes global translation parameters to obtain translation of the communication from a first language to a target language. The translation information... Agent: Robert Ryan Morishita Morishita Law Firm, Llc

20080120092 - Phrase pair extraction for statistical machine translation: In a machine translation system, possible phrase pairs are extracted from a word-aligned corpus for inclusion in a phrase translation table. Feature values associated with the phrase pairs are calculated and translation model parameters for use in a decoder are trained. The translation model parameters are then used to re-extract... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080120093 - System for creating dictionary for speech synthesis, semiconductor integrated circuit device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device: A system for creating a dictionary for speech synthesis is provided. The system has a first dictionary for speech synthesis composed of an aggregation of dictionary data necessary for creating synthesized speech corresponding to an utterance target sentence, and creates, from the first dictionary for speech synthesis, a second dictionary... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080120094 - Seamless automatic speech recognition transfer: Provided are apparatuses and methods for efficiently transferring automatic speech recognition sessions from one engine to another. The user of a mobile device may initiate a speech recognition session on a first speech recognition engine and automatically transfer the session to a second speech recognition engine for seamless completion of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080120095 - Method and apparatus to encode and/or decode audio and/or speech signal: A method and apparatus to encode and/or decode a speech signal and/or an audio signal. The apparatus includes a first domain transforming unit, a frequency domain encoding unit, and a multiplexing unit to encode the speech signal and/or an audio signal. The apparatus includes a demultiplexing unit, a frequency domain... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080120096 - Method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech: A method, medium, and system scalably encoding/decoding audio/speech. The method includes splitting an input signal into a low frequency band signal that is lower than a predetermined frequency and a high frequency band signal that is higher than the predetermined frequency, scalably encoding the split low frequency band signal into... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080120097 - Apparatus and method for digital coding of sound: The present invention discloses a method and a system for converting vocal sounds into digital data format. This technique will significantly decrease the amount of memory needed to store the digital data of the recorded voice. The system is comprised of a microphone converting the vocal sound signals into electrical... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080120098 - Complexity adjustment for a signal encoder: The present invention provides, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for tuning and adjusting the computational complexity of algorithm that is executed by a signal encoder. The signal encoder may comprise a speech encoder. When a resource shortage on a computer platform is detected, a degree of the resource shortage and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080120099 - Audio filtration for content processing systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, a method includes providing an audio output signal to an output device for broadcast to a user, receiving audio input, the audio input including user voice input provided by the user and audio content broadcast by the output device in response to receiving the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080120100 - Method for detecting target sound, method for detecting delay time in signal input, and sound signal processor: A sound signal processor includes first and second framing sections, first and second frequency analyzing sections, and a cross-spectrum calculating sections, for detecting the phase of a cross-spectrum between the sound signals input to first and second microphones, a phase extracting sections, a phase unwrap processing sections, a frequency band... Agent: Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080120101 - Conference question and answer management: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface and a queue generator. The interface obtains a plurality of submissions associated with a conference call. The submissions include at least one text-based submission and at least one audio-based submission. The queue generator manages a queue that has representations of at least... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080120102 - Predictive speech-to-text input: This disclosure describes a practical system/method for predicting spoken text (a spoken word or a spoken sentence/phrase) given that text's partial spelling (example, initial characters forming the spelling of a word/sentence). The partial spelling may be given using “Speech” or may be inputted using the keyboard/keypad or may be obtained... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20080120103 - Management and assistance system for the deaf: A computer-aided communication and assistance system that uses signal processing and other algorithms, in a processor in wireless communication with a microphone system to aid a deaf person. An instrumented communication module receives information from one or more microphones and provides textual and, optionally, stimulatory information to the deaf person.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080120104 - Method of transmitting end-of-speech marks in a speech recognition system: A method of transmitting end-of-speech marks in a distributed speech recognition system operating in a discontinuous transmission mode, in which system speech segments (30, 40) are transmitted, followed by periods (34) of silence, each speech segment (30, 40) terminating with an end-of-speech mark (31, 41). The end-of-speech mark (31) is... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080120105 - Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with voice commands: Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with voice commands are described herein. An example method to identify audience members based on voice, includes: obtaining an audio input signal including a program audio signal and a human voice signal; receiving an audio line signal from an audio output... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080120106 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: A semiconductor integrated circuit device including: a storage section which temporarily stores a command and text data input from the outside; a speech synthesis section which synthesizes a speech signal corresponding to the text data based on the command and the text data stored in the storage section, and outputs... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080120107 - Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method and recording medium having speech recognition software program recorded thereon: When the degree of similarity of the recognition candidates is greater than the second threshold value, the speech verification unit outputs the recognition candidates as a recognition result, and when the degree of similarity of the recognition candidates is smaller than the second threshold value, it outputs the recognition candidates... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080120108 - Multi-space distribution for pattern recognition based on mixed continuous and discrete observations: Performing speech recognition on a tonal language is done using a plurality of tonal models. Each tonal model has a multi-space distribution and corresponds to a known syllable in a language. A first data stream indicative of an observation of an utterance is received. The observation has both a discrete... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080120109 - Speech recognition device, method, and computer readable medium for adjusting speech models with selected speech data: A device, method, and computer readable medium for adjusting speech models with selected speech data are provided. The first determination module determines whether the keyword is valid. If so, the first computing module computes the adjustment weight according to the keyword, while the second computing module computes temporary models according... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080120110 - Handheld voice activated spelling device: A handheld voice activated spelling device includes a housing and a cover secured to the housing. A power source and microphone are mounted within the housing and control switches are operable from the front surface of the housing. A first memory has a plurality of words stored therein. A second... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080120112 - Global speech user interface: A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the progress of his spoken requests, a set of visual cues on the television screen to help the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080120113 - Interactive character system: A system and method for controlling a synthetic character using a control system displays the character engaged in an activity, receiving a first input from a user, determines whether the input is relevant to the activity, if the input is relevant to the activity, and shows the character react to... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080120111 - Speech recognition application grammar modeling: The subject mater herein relates to voice applications and, more particularly, speech recognition application grammar modeling. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to present one or more user interfaces through which to receive input to define and manipulate properties of a graphical listen element, wherein the properties identify one... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080120114 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for performing stereo adaptation for audio editing: An apparatus for performing stereo adaptation for audio editing includes a stereo decorrelator configured to receive a stereo audio frame in a compressed domain. The stereo audio frame includes a first channel and a second channel. The stereo decorrelator includes a bandwidth limitation element configured to receive a user input... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080120115 - Methods and apparatuses for dynamically adjusting an audio signal based on a parameter: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an original audio signal;detect a sound model wherein the sound model includes a sound parameter; transform the original audio signal based on the parameter whereby forming a transformed audio signal; and compare the transformed audio signal with the original audio signal.... Agent: Valley Oak Law

20080120116 - Encoding an information signal: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080120118 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high frequency signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency signal by using a low frequency signal. The high frequency signal can be encoded by extracting a coefficient by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and encoding the coefficient, generating a signal by using the extracted coefficient... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080120117 - Method, medium, and apparatus with bandwidth extension encoding and/or decoding: A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding audio signals. By encoding and/or decoding a high-frequency signal using an excitation signal extracted from a low-frequency signal, coding efficiency can be maximized because sound quality of a signal corresponding to a high-frequency region does not deteriorate when audio signals are encoded... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080114585 - Handheld electronic device having multiple-axis input device and selectable input mode indicator, and associated method: A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device comprises outputting an input mode indicator comprising a representation of an operative input method language as a first characteristic of a current input mode and further comprising a representation of a second characteristic of the current input mode, detecting an... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080114584 - Handheld electronic device having multiple-axis input device and selectable language indicator for language selection, and associated method: A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device comprises detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, employing an operative input method language to output a number of objects that are selectable and that each comprise at least a portion of a language... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080114583 - Named entity translation: Translating named entities from a source language to a target language. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating potential translations of a named entity from a source language to a target language using a pronunciation-based and spelling-based transliteration model, searching a monolingual resource in the target language for... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080114587 - Handheld electronic device having multiple-axis input device, selectable language indicator, and menus for language selection, and associated method: A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device comprises detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, employing an operative input method language to output a number of objects that are selectable and that each comprise at least a portion of a language... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080114586 - Handheld electronic device having selectable input mode indicator and method therefor: A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes outputting an input mode indicator that indicates which one of... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080114588 - Handheld electronic device having selectable language indicator for language selection and method therefor: A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080114589 - Method for the flexible decentralized provision of multilingual dialogues: A method for providing language-based services in a telecommunication system is provided. According to the method, the definitions of the respective services are globally defined exclusively in a central service controller and are then converted into regional formats in regional media servers in accordance with predefined transformation rules. In addition,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080114590 - Method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device based on linguistic source and associated apparatus: A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source.... Agent: Robert A. Diaz Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Llc

20080114591 - Method and apparatus for efficiently text messaging using a wireless mobile device: The illustrative embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for writing a shortened text message using a wireless mobile device. An editor receives longhand text written through a user interface for the wireless mobile device. The editor then matches the longhand text with at least one shortened equivalent. A user... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080114592 - Low complexity no delay reconstruction of missing packets for lpc decoder: Lost frame reconstruction is described. A previous good or reconstructed frame may be analyzed to determine a category for the lost frame. A percentage Pi may be associated with the determined category of the lost frame. A top Pi percent magnitude samples may be zeroed out in an excitation of... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080114593 - Noise suppressor for speech recognition: A noise suppressor for altering a speech signal is trained based on a speech recognition system. An objective function can be utilized to adjust parameters of the noise suppressor. The noise suppressor can be used to alter speech signals for the speech recognition system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080114594 - Conversation data accuracy confirmation: The present invention generally relates to a method and system for providing VoIP clients with the ability to confirm accuracy in conversation data over a digital communication channel. More specifically, a method and system is provided for verifying, via a visual representation whether a receiving client captures accurate information from... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080114595 - Automatic speech recognition system and method: An automatic speech recognition method for identifying words from an input speech signal includes providing at least one hypothesis recognition based on the input speech signal, the hypothesis recognition being an individual hypothesis word or a sequence of individual hypothesis words, and computing a confidence measure for the hypothesis recognition,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080114596 - Discriminative training for speech recognition: Parameters for a feature extractor and acoustic model of a speech recognition module are trained. An objective function is utilized to determine values for the feature extractor parameters and the acoustic model parameters.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080114597 - Method and apparatus: Several modes for improving dictation are provided when entering information into an information processing apparatus. Instead of using a conventional, state-of-the-art, approach where a user typically only dictate full sentences and later correct the errors made during the speech recognition, the invention provides several alternative modes regarding how to process... Agent: Perman & Green

20080114598 - Motor vehicle with a speech interface: A motor vehicle has a speech interface for an acoustic input of commands for operating the motor vehicle or a module of the motor vehicle. The speech interface includes a speech recognition database in which a substantial portion of commands or command components, which can be input, are stored in... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.a.

20080114599 - Method of displaying web pages to enable user access to text information that the user has difficulty reading: Web pages and other text documents displayed on a computer are reformatted to allow a user who has difficulty reading to navigate between and among such documents and to have such documents, or portions of them, read aloud by the computer using a text-to-speech engine in their original or translated... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080114600 - Controlling playback of recorded media in a push-to-talk communication environment: In one embodiment a method is provided which comprises recording a push-to-talk communication session comprising media segments, each media segment being associated with an endpoint device from which the media segment originated. A playback request for playback of at least one recorded media segment at an adjusted playback speed may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080114601 - System and method for inserting a description of images into audio recordings: There is disclosed a system and method for interpreting and describing graphic images. In an embodiment, the method of inserting a description of an image into an audio recording includes: interpreting an image and producing a word description of the image including at least one image keyword; parsing an audio... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080114602 - Noritek, voice type: e

20080114603 - Confirmation system for command or speech recognition using activation means: A system and method for confirming command or speech recognition results returned by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine from a command issued by an operator of a vehicle or platform, such as an aircraft or unmanned air-vehicle (UAV). The operator transmits a command signal to the ASR engine, initiated... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080114604 - Method and system for a user interface using higher order commands: A Higher Order Command Dialog System (HOCS) 250 for enabling voice control to a user interface is provided. The HOCS can record (302) a sequence of action steps a user performs while navigating a menu system to perform a task, prompt (304) a user to create an HOC for the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080114605 - Method and system for performing sample rate conversion: A method and system for performing sample rate conversion is provided. The method may include configuring a system to convert a sample rate of a first audio channel of a plurality of audio channels to produce a first audio stream of samples. The system may be dynamically reconfigured to convert... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080114606 - Time scaling of multi-channel audio signals: A method and related apparatus comprising: buffering an encoded audio input signal comprising at least one combined signal of a plurality of audio channels and one or more corresponding sets of side information parameters describing a multi-channel sound image; changing the length of at least one audio frame of said... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080109207 - Group foreign language teaching system and method: A method and system for teaching a foreign language to a user who has knowledge of a base language is disclosed. The method and system may include delivering a video presentation simultaneously to a plurality of users. The method and system may also include simultaneously delivering a plurality of mixed... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080109208 - Interactive conversational speech communicator method and system: The compact and portable interactive system allows person-to-person communication in a typed language format between individuals experiencing language barriers such as the hearing impaired and the language impaired. The communication system includes a custom configuration having a display screen and a keyboard, a data translation module for translating the original... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080109209 - Semi-supervised training for statistical word alignment: A system and method for aligning words in parallel segments is provided. A first probability distribution of word alignments within a first corpus comprising unaligned word-level parallel segments according to a model estimate is calculated. The model estimate is modified according to the first probability distribution. One or more sub-models... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080109211 - Game of defending statements with persuasive arguments: A game of defending statements with persuasive arguments consisting of a tossing bag, a “frequency” block, two equivalent “equation” blocks; three “verb” blocks and ten “noun” blocks, a number of which are shook inside the bag, then tossed onto a table top by a so-called author who then must form... Agent: John J. Welch, Jr., Esq.

20080109213 - Pointer-oriented object acquisition method for abstract treatment of information of al of al of a cyborg or an android based on a natural language: The pointer-oriented object acquisition method for abstract treatment of information of the computer system of Al of a cyborg or an android based on a natural language, in which three pointers are created in the computer main memory (in RAM) of the computer system of Al of a cyborg or... Agent: Mr. Boris Kaplan

20080109210 - Removing bias from features containing overlapping embedded grammars in a natural language understanding system: A method of removing bias from an action classifier within a natural language understanding system can include identifying a sentence having a target embedded grammar that overlaps with at least one other embedded grammar and selecting a group of overlapping embedded grammars including the target embedded grammar and at least... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080109212 - Semantics-based method and apparatus for document analysis: A system and method for producing semantically-rich representations of texts to amplify and sharpen the interpretations of texts. The method relies on the fact that there is a substantial amount of semantic content associated with most text strings that is not explicit in those strings, or in the mere statistical... Agent: Moster Wynne, P.c.

20080109214 - System and method for computerized psychological content analysis of computer and media generated communications to produce communications management support, indications and warnings of dangerous behavior, assessment of media images, and personnel select: At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The categories of information are processed with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of information in each category. A first output communication is... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080109215 - High frequency reconstruction by linear extrapolation: High frequency components of audio signals are reconstructed from the aspects of envelope and fine detail. The envelopes of the high frequency components are found through linear extrapolation of signals with frequencies lower than a cutoff frequency point. One method of reconstructing high frequency components is based on the linear... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080109216 - Application and communication network for filtering vocal information: The invention concerns an application for filtering vocal information transmitted in a communication network between transmitters and receivers, said application comprising a system for marking of a transmitter by a receiver, said system being adapted to enable the receiver to associate a filtering mark with said transmitter, said marking system... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080109217 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling voicing in processed speech: An apparatus for providing control of voicing in processed speech includes a spectra approximation element and a comparing element. The spectra approximation element may be configured to compute a voiced contribution and an unvoiced contribution for each of a reference speech sample and a processed speech sample. The comparing element... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080109218 - System and method for modeling speech spectra: A system and method for modeling speech in such a way that both voiced and unvoiced contributions can co-exist at certain frequencies. In various embodiments, three spectral bands (or bands of up to three different types) are used. In one embodiment, the lowest band or group of bands is completely... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080109219 - Adpcm encoding and decoding method and system with improved step size adaptation thereof: An ADPCM method and system comprise dividing a voice signal into a plurality of frames, pre-coding for each of the frames for determining a suitable step size modulation function and maximum step size that will induce better SNR for the frame it is corresponding to, and encoding for each of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080109220 - Input method and device: Input of dictated information in an information processing apparatus is controlled. Utterances of speech are detected and interpreted as words. Word by word confirmation of the interpreted words is detected, the confirmation being associated with an adjustable timeout period. The timeout period may be adjusted according to a number of... Agent: Perman & Green

20080109221 - 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

20080109222 - Advertising using extracted context sensitive information and data of interest from voice/audio transmissions and recordings: Method and apparatus that use voice/audio recognition and analysis technologies to deliver assigned context sensitive information and data of interest (keywords, phrases, mood, etc.). Context sensitive information and data of interest can be extracted from any voice/audio transmissions and voice/audio recordings (or any transmission or recording that includes voice/audio) for... Agent: Edward Liu

20080109223 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus whereby advice having appropriate content can be given at an appropriate timing with regard to a method of user utterance, thereby making it possible to reduce the probability of misrecognition due to the method of utterance. An execution unit executes processing that conforms to the result... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080109224 - Automatically providing an indication to a speaker when that speaker's rate of speech is likely to be greater than a rate that a listener is able to comprehend: The present invention discloses a solution that automatically informs a speaker to decrease his or her speaking rate, when that rate likely exceeds a rate that a listener can understand. This can be accomplished by determining a speaking rate for the speaker, which is compared against a speaking rate threshold.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080109225 - Speech synthesis device, speech synthesis method, and program: A speech piece editing section (5) retrieves speech piece data on a speech piece the read of which matches that of a speech piece in a fixed message from a speech piece database (7) and converts the speech piece so as to match the speed specified by utterance speed data.... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080109226 - Web integrated interactive voice response: One embodiment of a representative system for web integrated interactive voice response includes an interactive voice response system adapted to provide a plurality of voice menus to a user over a telephone and a graphical user interface system adapted to provide a plurality of menus in a graphical format to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080109227 - Voice control system and method for controlling computers: The voice control system includes a KVM switch and an audio device. The audio device receives a voice command, transforms the voice command into a command signal and outputs the command signal to the KVM switch for controlling the KVM to manage computers. A method for managing the computers by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080109228 - Automatic translation method and system based on corresponding sentence pattern: Provided are an automatic speech translation system and a method for obtaining accurate translation performance with a simple structure. Because input and output sentences are written in different languages, automatic speech translation requires techniques for processing different languages. Repetition of text processing like morpheme analysis or sentence parsing in conventional... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080109230 - Multi-pass variable bitrate media encoding: An encoder uses multi-pass VBR control strategies to provide constant or relatively constant quality for VBR output while guaranteeing (within tolerance) either compressed file size or, equivalently, overall average bitrate. The control strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or independently. For example, in a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080109229 - Sound data processing apparatus: A sound data processing apparatus includes a digital signal processor capable of decoding sound data, a buffer memory functioning as a ring buffer for successively storing the decoded sound data, a data reading controller configured to read sound data from the buffer memory, a DAC-FIFO buffer or a DIT-FIFO buffer... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080103756 - Method and apparatus for providing a contextual description of an object: A method for providing a contextual description of an object includes receiving a first object associated with a user. The first object has a first object type representing one of a place, an event, and a person and includes a first attribute associated with the respective place, event, or person.... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080103758 - Apparatus and method for language translation of toolkit menu: A method for language translation of a toolkit menu is provided, which includes receiving, by a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) toolkit module, the toolkit menu from a SIM card module, determining, by the SIM toolkit module, whether a language of the toolkit menu matches a user-defined language, and translating, by... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080103757 - Technique for improving accuracy of machine translation: A system for translating messages is provided. The system includes a parsing unit that parses a first message and a second message in which the same content is respectively described in a first language and a second language that are different from each other so as to generate a first... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080103759 - Interface and methods for collecting aligned editorial corrections into a database: A method for providing aligned editorial corrections to a database is discussed. The method includes receiving a first text in a language and organizing the first text into one or more sentences. The method further includes editing a copy of the first text to create a second text. The second... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080103760 - Identifying semantic positions of portions of a text: A computer executable method includes determining semantic positions in a semantic space of portions of a text. Once the semantic positions of portions of the text have been determined, an action is performed with respect to the text based on the determined semantic positions.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103762 - Providing a position-based dictionary: A computer executable method includes receiving word senses associated with respective definitions, and providing a position-based dictionary that assigns the word senses to respective semantic positions in a semantic space.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103761 - Method and apparatus for automatically determining speaker characteristics for speech-directed advertising or other enhancement of speech-controlled devices or services: In addition to conveying primary information, human speech also conveys information concerning the speaker's gender, age, socioeconomic status, accent, language spoken, emotional state, or other personal characteristics, which is referred to as secondary information. Disclosed herein are both the means of automatic discovery and use of such secondary information to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080103763 - Audio processing method and audio processing apparatus: Samples of a component having a frequency less than a predetermined frequency in an input audio signal that is a digital signal having a predetermined sampling frequency are written in a memory. A harmonic-overtone signal having a frequency N times a frequency of the input audio signal is generated by... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080103764 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: When a sound presence/absence detector (12) detects a sound absence interval, a non-modulated carrier signal is outputted in an area used to transmit speech data that are included in transmission data having a frame structure and that correspond to the sound absence interval. That is, an FSK modulator (14) causes... Agent: Handley Law Firm, PLLC Roger N. Chauza, PC

20080103765 - Encoder delay adjustment: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for adjusting an algorithmic time delay of a signal encoder. An input signal is sampled at a predetermined sampling rate. When look-ahead operation is initiated, the algorithmic time delay is increased by the look-ahead time duration. When look-ahead operation is terminated, the algorithmic... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080103766 - Audience response detection interactive presentation tool: The invention is directed to an audience response detection interactive presentation tool. An interactive method for controlling a presentation in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: presenting a slide to an audience during a presentation; activating a noise level measuring system; measuring audience noise as a pointer... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080103767 - Methods and systems for parasitic sensing: Methods and systems of parasitic sensing are shown and described. The method includes, measuring, at a first time using one or more electrical elements native to a domain, a parameter of a circuit within the domain and measuring, at a second time using the one or more electrical elements native... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080103768 - System and method of acoustic detection and location of fire sprinkler water discharge: A system and method to detect acoustic signals from fire sprinkler heads discharging water and to locate such devices in a public building, airport, sports stadium or other structure which can include a system to measure speech intelligibility. Time and frequency domain analysis are carried out to establish the presence... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080103769 - Methods and apparatuses for myoelectric-based speech processing: A method for myoelectric-based processing of speech. The method includes capturing a myoelectric signal from a user using at least one electrode, wherein the electrode converts an ionic current generated by muscle contraction into an electric current. The method also includes amplifying the electric current, filtering the amplified electric current,... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20080103770 - Method and apparatus for identifying conversing pairs over a two-way speech medium: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for identifying a conversing pair of users of a two-way speech medium includes receiving a plurality of binary voice activity streams, where the plurality of voice activity streams includes a first voice activity stream associated with a first user, and pairing the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20080103771 - Method for the distributed construction of a voice recognition model, and device, server and computer programs used to implement same: A method for the distributed construction of a voice recognition model that is intended to be used by a device comprising a model base and a reference base in which the modeling elements are stored. The method includes the steps of obtaining the entity to be modeled, transmitting data representative... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080103772 - Character prediction system: When characters are provided, probabilities for each character are multiplied by the most heavily weighted word that could possibly be derived from the characters provided. The products are compared, and the greatest product is predicted to show the path to the word that the user presumably is entering. Second, third,... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080103773 - Providing a topic list: A computer executable method includes receiving word senses represented as semantic positions in a semantic space. The word senses are grouped into clusters based on semantic positions of the word senses in the semantic space. Labels for the respective clusters are provided that correspond to topics of the topic list.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103774 - Heuristic for voice result determination: A method of and a system for processing speech. A spoken utterance of a plurality of characters can be received. A plurality of known character sequences that potentially correspond to the spoken utterance can be selected. Each selected known character sequence can be scored based on, at least in part,... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080103775 - Voice recognition method comprising a temporal marker insertion step and corresponding system: This voice recognition method comprises a decoding stage during which an enunciated word is identified on the basis of voice signal models described with the aid of voice units, each voice signal model representing a word belonging to a predefined vocabulary, and also comprises organizing voice signal models into an... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080103776 - Real time monitoring & control for audio devices: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the real-time monitoring and control for audio devices. An apparatus may include a peripheral audio device configured to operate in an operational mode or a debug mode, the peripheral audio device including an audio enhancement logic configured to include at least one tunable parameter.... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080103777 - Voice user interface with personality: The present invention provides a voice user interface with personality. In one embodiment, a method includes executing a voice user interface, and controlling the voice user interface to provide the voice user interface with a personality. The method includes selecting a prompt based on various context situations, such as a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080103778 - Mobile terminal having function for reporting credit card loss and method using same: Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a function for automatically conducting a credit card loss report. When a user selects a lost credit card from a credit card loss report menu, the mobile terminal accesses an Automated Response System (ARS) of the related credit card company and automatically conducts the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080103780 - Speech recognition for internet video search and navigation: Speech representing a desired video site or video subject is detected and digitized at a TV remote, and then sent to a TV. The TV or in some embodiments an Internet server communicating with the TV use speech recognition principles to recognize the speech, enter a database using the recognized... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080103779 - Voice recognition updates via remote broadcast signal: A method is provided for remotely and dynamically updating voice recognition commands available for controlling a device in a vehicle comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a broadcast signal comprising voice recognition data; (b) filtering the received broadcast signal by separating the voice recognition data from a remainder of the... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080103781 - Automatically adapting user guidance in automated speech recognition: A speech recognition method includes receiving input speech from a user, processing the input speech to obtain at least one parameter value, and determining an experience level of the user using the parameter value(s). The method can also include prompting the user based upon the determined experience level of the... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080103782 - Communication device with a function of audio modulation and method for audio modulation: A method for audio modulation is provided. The method including: obtaining the digital audio signals of the caller in the process of communications; analyzing the digital audio signals and obtain a voice frequency of the caller; reading a voice frequency of the user from a memory, and calculate the rate... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080103783 - Apparatus and method for measuring quality of sound encoded with a variable band multi-codec: Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring sound quality in a variable band multi-codec. The sound quality measurement apparatus includes: a recording file receiving/generating unit receiving a first recording file in which a natural sound is recorded, and a second recording file obtained by converting the natural sound into... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP