Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 06/08

20080154577 - Chunk-based statistical machine translation system: Traditional statistical machine translation systems learn all information from a sentence aligned parallel text and are known to have problems translating between structurally diverse languages. To overcome this limitation, the present invention introduces two-level training, which incorporates syntactic chunking into statistical translation. A chunk-alignment step is inserted between the sentence-level... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20080154576 - Processing of reduced-set user input text with selected one of multiple vocabularies and resolution modalities: A computer-driven system includes different modes interpreting user entered text according to different corresponding vocabularies. Each mode may additionally include a different modality for ultimately resolving and completing the input. Each mode presents the user with a different interpretation of user entered text, according to the associated vocabulary. Displayed output... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080154578 - Method and system for learning ontological relations from documents: Embodiments of an ontological determination method for use in natural language processing applications are described. In one embodiment, shallow lexico-syntactic patterns are applied to identify relations by extracting term features to distinguish relation terms from non-relation terms, identifying coordinate relations for every adjacent terms; identifying short-distance ontological (e.g., hypernym or... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080154581 - Dynamic natural language understanding: Methods and systems for dynamic natural language understanding. A hierarchical structure of semantic categories is exploited to assist in the natural language understanding. Optionally, the natural language to be understood includes a request.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080154580 - Generating chinese language banners: Embodiments are disclosed for automatically generating a banner given a first scroll sentence and a second scroll sentence of a Chinese couplet. The first and/or second scroll sentence can be generated by an automatic computer system or by a human (e.g., manually generated and then provided as input to an... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080154579 - Method of analyzing conversational transcripts: Analyzing transcripts of conversation between at least two users by receiving input information from a first user via a voice call, creating conversational transcripts from the information received from the first user, selecting at least one defined situation from a list of defined situations, identifying the selected situation in the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080154582 - Retrieving and providing contextual information: An electronic dictionary may be created by receiving a data request action for a word appearing in an electronic document, accessing information regarding the context of the word derived from within the electronic document in which the word appears, storing the definition of the word along with the context information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080154583 - Stereo signal generating apparatus and stereo signal generating method: A stereo signal generating apparatus capable of obtaining stereo signals that exhibit a low bit rate and an excellent reproducibility. In this stereo signal generating apparatus (90), an FT part (901) converts a monaural signal (M′t) of time domain to a monaural signal (M′) of frequency domain. A power spectrum... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080154584 - Method for concatenating frames in communication system: A method for concatenating a first frame of samples and a subsequent second frame of samples, the method comprising applying a phase filter adapted to minimizing a discontinuity at a boundary between the first and second frames of samples.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080154585 - Sound signal processing apparatus and program: In a sound signal processing apparatus, a frame information generation section generates frame information of each frame of a sound signal. A storage stores the frame information generated by the frame information generation section. A first interval determination section determines a first utterance interval in the sound signal. A second... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080154586 - Dual-pulse excited linear prediction for speech coding: The invention proposed a Dual-Pulse Excitation Model; wherein two pulses of each pair of pulses are always adjacent each other. Only one position index for each pair of pulses needs to be sent to the decoder, which saves bits to code all pulse positions. The magnitudes of each pair of... Agent: Yang Gao

20080154587 - Gain quantization system for speech coding to improve packet loss concealment: In order to recover the excitation energy quickly and keep the adaptive excitation contribution percentage in the entire excitation after bit-stream packet loss, the two excitation gains (Gp 305 and Gc 306) can be first transformed into the two other special parameters: one is the entire excitation energy and another... Agent: Yang Gao

20080154588 - Speech coding system to improve packet loss concealment: A method of significantly reducing error propagation due to voice packet loss, while still greatly profiting from long-term pitch prediction, is achieved by adaptively limiting the maximum value of the pitch gain for the first pitch cycle within one frame. A speech coding system for encoding a speech signal, wherein... Agent: Yang Gao

20080154589 - Apparatus and method for encoding audio signals: To alleviate degradation of sound quality which may be caused by pre-echoes and bit starvation. An acoustic analyzer analyzes an audio signal to calculate perceptual entropy indicating how many bits are required for quantization. A coded bit count monitor monitors the number of coded bits produced from the audio signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080154591 - Audio recognition system for generating response audio by using audio data extracted: Provided are a voice recognition system for making a response based on an input of a voice uttered by a user including: an audio input unit for converting the uttered voice into voice data; a voice recognizing unit for recognizing a combination of terms constituting the voice data and calculating... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080154590 - Automated speech recognition application testing: The present application relates to speech recognition programs and, more particularly, automated speech recognition application testing. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software that analyze voice applications and automatically generate test applications to test the voice applications.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080154592 - Signal removal method, signal removal system, and signal removal program: System and device for receiving spatially mixed signals by a plurality of sensors and accurately removing a signal from a particular direction. The system includes a beamformer 1 for removing a signal coming from a particular direction by steering a null to the particular direction, a coefficient calculation unit 3... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080154593 - Adding real-time dictation capabilities for speech processing operations handled by a networked speech processing system: The present invention can include a speech processing method for providing dictation capabilities to a voice server. The method can include a step of establishing a real-time voice communication session involving a voice interface. Speech for the communication session can be streamed to a remotely located voice server. A real-time... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080154594 - Method for segmenting utterances by using partner's response: An apparatus, method and program for dividing a conversational dialog into utterance. The apparatus includes: a computer processor; a word database for storing spellings and pronunciations of words; a grammar database for storing syntactic rules on words; a pause detecting section which detects a pause location in a channel making... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080154595 - System for classification of voice signals: A system and method for classifying a voice signal to one of a set of predefined categories, based upon a statistical analysis of features extracted from the voice signal. The system includes an acoustic processor and a classifier. The acoustic processor extracts features that are characteristic of the voice signal... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080154596 - Solution that integrates voice enrollment with other types of recognition operations performed by a speech recognition engine using a layered grammar stack: The present invention can include a speech enrollment system including an ordered stack of grammars and a recognition engine. The ordered stack of grammars can include an application grammars layer, a confusable grammar layer, a personal grammar layer, a phrase enrolled grammar layer, and an enrollment grammar layer. The recognition... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080154597 - Voice processing apparatus and program: A voice processing apparatus has a storage device that stores registration information containing a characteristic parameter of a given voice. The voice processing apparatus is further provided with a judgment unit, a management unit and a notification unit. The judgment unit judges whether an input voice is appropriate or not... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080154598 - Voice recognition system for use in health care management system: A computer-implemented method is provided for use in a health care management system that includes a voice recognition system having a first queue, a transcription service node having a second queue, at least one portable user interface device, and a memory. A voice file is created using a portable user... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080154599 - Spoken free-form passwords for light-weight speaker verification using standard speech recognition engines: The present invention discloses a system and a method for authenticating a user based upon a spoken password processed though a standard speech recognition engine lacking specialized speaker identification and verification (SIV) capabilities. It should be noted that the standard speech recognition grammar can be capable of acoustically generating speech... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080154603 - Call system and method: A system and method for operating a voice domain name network for use over a telephone network including the steps of a computer taking a call in which a user speaks a name. The system recognizes the spoken name. Then the system checks that the name is on a voice... Agent: Mark Manley

20080154601 - Method and system for providing menu and other services for an information processing system using a telephone or other audio interface: A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of available keywords and rotating house advertisements which... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080154602 - Speech generating means for use with signal sensors: An apparatus includes receiving circuitry for receiving a signal; and a speech module for converting the signal into speech.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080154600 - System, method, apparatus and computer program product for providing dynamic vocabulary prediction for speech recognition: An apparatus for providing dynamic vocabulary prediction for setting up a speech recognition network of resource constrained portable devices may include a recognition network element. The recognition network element may be configured to determine a confidence measure for each candidate recognized word for a current word to be recognized. The... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080154604 - System and method for providing context-based dynamic speech grammar generation for use in search applications: A system and method for using a context-based dynamic speech recognition grammar generation system that is suitable for multimodal input when applied to context-based search scenarios. Dynamic context-based grammar is generated for a media stream during a post-processing period. The media stream is fed to an external automatic speech recognizer... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080154605 - Adaptive quality adjustments for speech synthesis in a real-time speech processing system based upon load: The present invention discloses a solution that dynamically adapts quality settings of a real-time speech synthesis system based upon load, which results in a proportional change in consumed resources. For example, when quantity of available CPU cycles is low, a quality of speech can be automatically lowered. When a quantity... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080154607 - Audio instruction system and method: A device and method for assisting a human user in performing processes includes a speaker that provides audible instructions to the user corresponding to multiple tasks associated with performing the process. A storage device stores data corresponding to the audible instructions. A processor converts the stored data to the audible... Agent: General Mills, Inc.

20080154606 - Automotive mobile electronic apparatus and operation method thereof: The present invention discloses an automotive mobile electronic apparatus and its operation method installed and applied in an automobile, and a big button is operated with a voice reminder to assure the safety and efficiency of the driving. The automotive mobile electronic apparatus includes a database module, a display module,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080154608 - On a mobile device tracking use of search results delivered to the mobile device: A method implemented on a mobile device that includes speech recognition functionality involves: receiving an utterance that includes a search request from a user of the device; recognizing that the utterance includes a search request; sending a representation of the search request to a remote server over a wireless data... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080154609 - Method and apparatus for fraud detection: A fraud detection method for generating a first fraud or fraud attempt probability, within an at least one captured or recorded interaction, is provided. The method comprises a scoring step for scoring an at least one voice belonging to an at least one tested speaker in the at least one... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20080154611 - Integrated voice search commands for mobile communication devices: A method implemented on a mobile device that includes speech recognition functionality involves presenting to a user of the mobile device a voice-control interface that supports two types of commands at a common level of the interface, the two types of commands including a first type and a second type,... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080154612 - Local storage and use of search results for voice-enabled mobile communications devices: A method implemented on a mobile device that includes speech recognition functionality involves: receiving an utterance from a user of the mobile device, the utterance including a spoken search request; recognizing that the utterance includes a spoken search request; sending a representation of the spoken search request to a remote... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080154610 - Method and apparatus for remote control of devices through a wireless headset using voice activation: Methods and systems for remotely controlling a device through a wireless headset of a cellular phone are provided. In one implementation, the method includes storing a lookup table in a memory, in which the lookup table includes a digitized voice input and a corresponding control signal for the device. The... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080154613 - Voice command processing system in a vehicle environment: A voice processing system for a vehicle environment is provided for detecting a sound signal in the vehicle environment and identifying a voice command that originates from a vehicle user outside the vehicle. The voice processing system, in the detected the sound signal, takes into account position information relating to... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080154614 - Estimation of speech model parameters: Methods for estimating speech model parameters are disclosed. For pulsed parameter estimation, a speech signal is divided into multiple frequency bands or channels using bandpass filters. Channel processing reduces sensitivity to pole magnitudes and frequencies and reduces impulse response time duration to improve pulse location and strength estimation performance. These... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080154615 - Scalable encoding/decoding of audio signals: An audio signal is encoded by a first waveform encoder (103) to generate a first waveform based bit-stream component. A second encoder (105) encodes the audio signal to generate a second bit-stream component comprising first enhancement data and a third encoder (107) encodes the audio signal to generate a third... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080147377 - Method and apparatus for supporting input of translated text, and computer product: An apparatus supports input of a translation text that corresponds to an original text, using a database in which original words in a first language and translation words respectively corresponding to the original words in a second language are associated. The apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a retrieving unit, a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080147378 - Online computer-aided translation: A source text in a source language is received. The source text is segmented into a plurality of segments. A first translation input, in a target language and associated with a first one of the segments, is received from a user. The first translation input is stored in a textual... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080147379 - Method and apparatus for improving call quality in portable terminal: A method and an apparatus for improving a call quality in a portable terminal. The method includes selecting one of a plurality of languages by a user when a received language setup menu is selected during a communication of a user with a caller; checking a volume of the selected... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080147381 - Compound word splitting for directory assistance services: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for improving the accuracy of a directory assistance system. The method includes constructing a prefix tree based on a collection of alphabetically organized words. The prefix tree is utilized as a basis for generating splitting rules for a compound word included in an index associated... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080147380 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing flexible text based language identification: An apparatus for providing flexible text based language identification includes an alphabet scoring element, an n-gram frequency element and a processing element. The alphabet scoring element may be configured to receive an entry in a computer readable text format and to calculate an alphabet score of the entry for each... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080147382 - Method, system and software arrangement for reconstructing formal descriptive models of processes from functional/modal data using suitable ontology: A method, system and software arrangement in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention are provided to extract descriptive narrative from numerical experimental data augmented with ontological controlled vocabulary. One exemplary application of such system, method and software arrangement is in organizing gene-expression time course data in terms... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080147383 - Method and apparatus for estimating spectral information of audio signal: An apparatus and method for estimating audio signal spectrum information. The method including the steps of performing a morphological operation on a received audio signal, extracting peaks by using various peak extraction methods and extracting a remainder signal region from the extracted peaks, selecting a high-order peaks spectrum from the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080147384 - Pitch determination for speech processing: There is provided a method of selecting a pitch lag value for a portion of a speech signal, the method comprising: computing a weighted correlation function of the portion of the speech signal for a range of delay times, wherein the weighting of the correlation function depends on both the... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080147385 - Memory-efficient method for high-quality codebook based voice conversion: An improved system method for enabling and implementing codebook-based voice conversion that both significantly reduces the memory footprint and improves the continuity of the output. In various embodiments, the paired source-target codebook is implemented as a multi-stage vector quantizer. During the conversion, N best candidates in a tree search are... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080147387 - Audio signal processing device and noise suppression processing method in automatic gain control device: An audio signal processing device includes a gain control portion (11, 12) that controls a gain of an input audio signal (S1), a noise suppression quantity calculating portion (13) that calculates noise suppression quantity (SL) with respect to the audio signal, a correcting portion (14) that corrects the noise suppression... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080147386 - System and method for improving message delivery in voice systems utilizing microphone and target signal-to-noise ratio: A method for delivering a message to a recipient in an environment with ambient noise includes the steps of recording the ambient noise in the environment at a certain time interval, analyzing the recorded ambient noise to obtain an average power Pnoise or a RMS amplitude Anoise of the ambient... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080147388 - Methods and systems for changing a communication quality of a communication session based on a meaning of speech data: Methods and systems are described for changing a communication quality of a communication session based on a meaning of speech data. Speech data exchanged between clients participating in a communication session is parsed. A meaning of the parsed speech data is determined for identifying a service quality indicator for the... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080147389 - Method and apparatus for robust speech activity detection: A method and apparatus for robust speech activity detection is disclosed. The method may include calculating autocorrelations by filtering input signals using order statistic filtering, averaging the autocorrelations over a time period, obtaining a voiced speech feature from the averaged autocorrelations, classifying the input signal as one of speech and... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080147390 - Relative delta computations for determining the meaning of language inputs: A method for processing language input can include the step of determining at least two possible meanings for a language input. For each possible meaning, a probability that the possible meaning is a correct interpretation of the language input can be determined. At least one relative data computation can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080147391 - Method of and apparatus for transforming speech feature vector: Provided is a method and apparatus for transforming a speech feature vector. The method includes extracting a feature vector required for speech recognition from a speech signal and transforming the extracted feature vector using an auto-associative neural network (AANN).... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080147393 - Internet communication device and method for controlling noise thereof: The invention provides an Internet communication device. The Internet communication device plays a remote audio signal received via a network and transmits an audio signal back to the remote party to complete the communication. The Internet communication device comprises a line-in speech detection module and a line-in channel control module.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080147392 - Push-to-talk system with enhanced noise reduction: Methods and apparatus for reducing the effect of surrounding noise in a push-to-talk (PTT) system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first media stream using a microphone when a PTT functionality of a PTT communications system is in a first state, and identifying a first set... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080147394 - System and method for improving an interactive experience with a speech-enabled system through the use of artificially generated white noise: A speech processing system for improving a user's experience with a speech-enabled system using artificially generated white noise. The system can include an audible environment that includes at least one microphone and at least one speaker, a white noise generator, a white noise removal engine, and a speech processing system.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147395 - Using an automated speech application environment to automatically provide text exchange services: The present solution includes an automated response method. The method can receive user interactions entered through a real-time text exchange interface. These user interactions with the speech application can be dynamically and automatically converted as necessary into a format consumable by a voice server. A text input API of a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147397 - Speech dialog control based on signal pre-processing: A speech dialog system interfaces a user to a computer. The system includes a signal pre-processor that processes a speech input to generate an enhanced signal and an analysis signal. A speech recognition unit may generate a recognition result based on the enhanced signal. A control unit may manage an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080147396 - Speech recognition method and system with intelligent speaker identification and adaptation: A speech recognition method is provided. The speech recognition method includes the steps of (a) receiving a speech from a user; (b) recognizing the speech to generate a recognition result with a score; and (c) according to the score of the recognition result, performing one of the following steps, (c1)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080147398 - System for controlling a diagnosis and/or therapy system: A system for controlling a diagnosis and/or therapy system is provided. The system may include a portable unit that includes at least one voice signal detection device and a transmission device for wireless transmission of data to a receiver unit of the diagnosis and/or therapy system. The portable unit includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080147400 - Adapting a language model to accommodate inputs not found in a directory assistance listing: A statistical language model is trained for use in a directory assistance system using the data in a directory assistance listing corpus. Calculations are made to determine how important words in the corpus are in distinguishing a listing from other listings, and how likely words are to be omitted or... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080147402 - Automatic pattern recognition using category dependent feature selection: Disclosed are apparatus and methods that employ a modified version of a computational model of the human peripheral and central auditory system, and that provide for automatic pattern recognition using category dependent feature selection. The validity of the output of the model is examined by deriving feature vectors from the... Agent: The Law Offices Of Kenneth W. Float

20080147401 - Real-time display of system instructions: A system and method for reviewing inputted voice instructions in a vehicle-based telematics control unit. The system includes a microphone, a speech recognition processor, and an output device. The microphone receives voice instructions from a user. Coupled to the microphone is the speech recognition processor that generates a voice signal... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080147399 - Voice based keyword search algorithm: A search algorithm utilizing confidence levels of keywords spoken by a caller to identify keyword indexed search items which best match the spoken keywords. In response to receiving a spoken search request from a caller, keywords are identified in the spoken search request. A list of candidates is created comprising... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080147403 - Multiple sound fragments processing and load balancing: A method, system and article of manufacture of recognizing a voice command. One embodiment of the invention comprises: receiving a voice input; using the number of sound fragments, determining a number of sound fragments to be processed in a first set of sound fragments; determining whether the first set of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP / Ibm-aus

20080147404 - System and methods for accent classification and adaptation: Speech is processed that may be colored by speech accent. A method for recognizing speech includes maintaining a model of speech accent that is established based on training speech data, wherein the training speech data includes at least a first set of training speech data, and wherein establishing the model... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080147405 - Chinese prosodic words forming method and apparatus: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of forming Chinese prosodic words, which method comprises the steps of inputting Chinese text; performing process of word segmentation and part of speech annotation for the input Chinese text to generate an initial prosodic word sequence; inserting grids representing prosodic word boundaries... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080147407 - Inferring switching conditions for switching between modalities in a speech application environment extended for interactive text exchanges: The disclosed solution includes a method for dynamically switching modalities based upon inferred conditions in a dialogue session involving a speech application. The method establishes a dialogue session between a user and the speech application. During the dialogue session, the user interacts using an original modality and a second modality.... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147406 - Switching between modalities in a speech application environment extended for interactive text exchanges: The present solution includes a method for dynamically switching modalities in a dialogue session involving a voice server. In the method, a dialogue session can be established between a user and a speech application. During the dialogue session, the user can interact using an original modality, which is either a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147410 - Comprehensive multiple feature telematics system: A comprehensive system and method for telematics including the following features individually or in sub-combinations: vehicle user interfaces, telecommunications, speech recognition, digital commerce and vehicle parking, digital signal processing, wireless transmission of digitized voice input, navigational assistance for motorists, data communication to vehicles, mobile client-server communication, extending coverage and bandwidth... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080147408 - Dialect translator for a speech application environment extended for interactive text exchanges: The present solution includes a real-time automated communication method. In the method, a real-time communication session can be established between a text exchange client and a speech application. A translation table can be identified that includes multiple entries, each entry including a text exchange item and a corresponding conversational translation... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147409 - System, apparatus and method for providing global communications: A system, apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving messages over a wireless communications network, the communicating device including a computer platform having storage for one or more programs, a user interface that includes a visual display for displaying at least alphanumeric characters and a microphone for inputting speech of... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.a.

20080147411 - Adaptation of a speech processing system from external input that is not directly related to sounds in an operational acoustic environment: A speech processing system that performs adaptations based upon non-sound external input, such as weather input. In the system, an acoustic environment can include a microphone and speaker. The microphone/speaker can receive/produce speech input/output to/from a speech processing system. An external input processor can receive non-sound input relating to the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080147412 - Computer voice recognition apparatus and method for sales and e-mail applications field: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for computer voice-recognition and in particular, computer voice recognition for user voice feedback systems for sales and E-mail applications.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080147413 - Speech affect editing systems: This invention generally relates to system, methods and computer program code for editing or modifying speech affect. A speech affect processing system to enable a user to edit an affect content of a speech signal, the system comprising: input to receive speech analysis data from a speech processing system said... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.l.p.

20080147414 - Method and apparatus to determine encoding mode of audio signal and method and apparatus to encode and/or decode audio signal using the encoding mode determination method and apparatus: A method and apparatus to determine an encoding mode of an audio signal, and a method and apparatus to encode an audio signal according to the encoding mode. In the encoding mode determination method, a mode determination threshold for the current frame that is subject to encoding mode determination is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080147415 - 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

20080140382 - Attraction multilanguage audio device and method: A multi-language attraction communication device is provided wherein a guest selects a particular language file corresponding to an audio file coordinated with at least one entertainment activity. The communication device includes a memory for storing multiple language files for at least one entertainment activity and a processor. The processor is... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080140383 - Multilingual translation system using character set: A system of communicating over cellular telephones using symbols in place of language parts. The symbols are downloaded as part of the lookup table. A user can enter a message in text, and that message is converted into the symbols. The symbols can then be sent to a different interactive... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080140386 - Computational linguistic statements for providing an autonomic computing environment: A method for autonomic computing using a relational grammar represented in a mark-up language. In response to a system input change, the autonomic relational grammar and the autonomic system input is parsed to form an autonomic derivation tree representing autonomic system tokens, categories, attributes and relationships. An action is taken... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080140388 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product: An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit for registering a property of document data, a document language identification unit for identifying a language used in the document data, a property language identification unit for identifying a language used in a property value entered with respect to the document data,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080140389 - Language understanding apparatus, language understanding method, and computer program: This language understanding apparatus includes a storage section, a phrase interpreter, and a bidding section. The bidding section reads information on a slot of a semantic frame corresponding to a concept indicated by an information read by the phrase interpreter and information on a concept corresponding to the slot by... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080140387 - Method and system for machine understanding, knowledge, and conversation: A system for storing knowledge in a speakable, formal class of languages and allowing querying and retrieving of that knowledge is provided. The system further allows the users to input data, instructions, questions, and queries without structure or rules over and above the actual grammar of the class of languages.... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20080140384 - Natural-language text interpreter for freeform data entry of multiple event dates and times: The n.e. Thing natural language processor is a natural-language text interpreter for freeform data entry of multiple event dates and times. This invention allows a person to submit to a computer, in informal written English, complete information about the dates and times on which an event occurs or recurs, and... Agent: George Landau

20080140385 - Using automated content analysis for audio/video content consumption: Audio/video (A/V) content is analyzed using speech and language analysis components. Metadata is automatically generated based upon the analysis. The metadata is used in generating user interface interaction components which allow a user to view subject matter in various segments of the A/V content and to interact with the A/V... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080140390 - Solution for sharing speech processing resources in a multitasking environment: A system for sharing computing resources including a multi-tasking environment within which a multiple of speech-enabled applications concurrently execute. The system can include a speech resource manager configured to receive speech based requests from the applications, to associate these requests with the requesting application, to use a set of speech... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080140391 - Method for varying speech speed: A method for varying speech speed is provided. The method includes the following steps: receive an original speech signal; calculate a pitch period of the original speech signal; define search ranges according to the pitch period; find a maximum within each of the search ranges of the original speech signal;... Agent: Apex Juris, Pllc Tracy M Heims

20080140392 - Codec mode decoding method and apparatus for adaptive multi-rate system: A codec mode decoding apparatus and method for an AMR communication system for enhancing decoding speed and optimizing memory utilization. The codec mode decoding method includes receiving data encoded using an adaptive multi-rate scheme; extracting a bit value from an informative region of the data by through a channel decoding... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080140393 - Speech coding apparatus and method: Provided is a speech coding apparatus and method. A band divider divides an input signal into a high-band signal and a low-band signal, a narrowband encoder encodes the low-band signal using a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP)-based narrowband speech codec, a frequency characteristic collector converts the high-band signal to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080140394 - Method and system for low bit rate voice encoding and decoding applicable for any reduced bandwidth requirements including wireless: An implementation of the present invention comprises a voice encoder and decoder method and system that uses voice excitation, eliminating the voice/unvoiced pitch tracking, and the first formant up to 2400 Hertz for synchronous and up to 1600 Hertz for asynchronous, does not use pulse code modulation encoding, but uses... Agent: Rg & Associates

20080140395 - Background noise reduction in sinusoidal based speech coding systems: A method and apparatus to reduce background noise in speech signals in order to improve the quality and intelligibility of processed speech. In mobile communications environment, speech signals are degraded by additive random noise. A randomness of the noise, which is often described in terms of its first and second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080140396 - Model-based signal enhancement system: A signal processing system enhances a speech input signal. A signal reconstruction circuit receives the speech input signal and extracts a spectral envelope. The signal reconstruction circuit generates an excitation signal based on the input signal, and generates a reconstructed speech signal based on the extracted spectral envelope and an... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080140397 - Sequencing for location determination: Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for providing feedback to a user based on audio input associated with a user reading a passage from a physical text are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080140398 - System and a method for representing unrecognized words in speech to text conversions as syllables: The present invention is a novel system and method for overcoming the shortcomings of existing speech-to-text systems which relates to the processing of unrecognized words. On encountering words which are not decipherable by it the preferred embodiment of the present invention analyzes the syllables which make up these words and... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080140399 - Method and system for high-speed speech recognition: Provided is a method and system for high-speed speech recognition. On the basis of a continuous density hidden Markov model (CDHMM) using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for an observation probability, the method and system add only K Gaussian components highly contributing to a state-specific observation probability for an input... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080140400 - Voice recognition interactive system: A system and method for voice recognition interaction is provided. The system can have a processor for receiving a voice signal and determining a command based on the voice signal. The system can also have a confirmation interface operably connected to the processor, where the confirmation interface is capable of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080140402 - Digital representation of audio waveforms using peak shifting to provide increased dynamic range: A system allows greater dynamic range in fixed-width sample representations of waveforms. Known properties of the waveform are used to determine an unlikely, or impossible, data condition to be used as an exception condition. In a preferred embodiment that is directed to processing of audio waveforms, a first large value... Agent: Charles J. Kulas

20080140401 - Method and apparatus for reading education: The present invention is a method and apparatus for reading education. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing an utterance spoken by a reader, includes receiving text to be read by the reader, generating a grammar for speech recognition, in accordance with the text, receiving the utterance, interpreting the utterance... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20080140404 - Method and apparatus for determining inputs to a finite state system: A method of equalization used to estimate a transmitted signal given a received output is presented herein. The equalization method involves modeling a transmission channel as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The HMM channel is evaluated as a finite state machine. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique of sampling and... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080140403 - Signal analysis method: Improvement in the reliability of segmentation of a signal, such as an ECG signal, is disclosed through the use of duration constraints. The signal is analysed using a hidden Markov model. The duration constraints specify minimum allowed durations for specific states of the model. The duration constraints can be incorporated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080140405 - Audio coding system using characteristics of a decoded signal to adapt synthesized spectral components: A receiver in an audio coding system receives a signal conveying frequency subband signals representing an audio signal. The subband signals are examined to assess one or more characteristics of the audio signal. Spectral components are synthesized having the assessed characteristics. The synthesized spectral components are integrated with the subband... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080140406 - Data-processing device and method for informing a user about a category of a media content item: The invention relates to a method of informing a user about a category (152) of a media content item. The method comprises the steps of: identifying the category of the media content item, and enabling a user to obtain an audible signal (156) having an audio parameter (153) in accordance... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080140407 - Speech synthesis: A method of controlling production of an aural advertisement including: enabling user adaptation of audio features that are associated with advertising copy text in a display; and creating a speech synthesizer command dependent upon a textual content of the advertising copy text and the adapted audio features that controls a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080140408 - Vehicle communication system with news subscription service: A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. The invention also provides remote access to information such as existing news sources (i.e. existing RSS feeds) and supported websites. This also includes subscription to value-added services including: weather, custom alerts (i.e. stock price... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20080140409 - Method and apparatus for performing packet loss or frame erasure concealment: A method for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. The method determines whether an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, synthesizes properly received frames, and decides on an overlap-add... Agent: Henry T. Brendzel

20080140410 - Enabling grammars in web page frame: Enabling grammars in web page frames, including receiving, in a multimodal application on a multimodal device, a frameset document, where the frameset document includes markup defining web page frames; obtaining by the multimodal application content documents for display in each of the web page frames, where the content documents include... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080140412 - Interactive tutoring: Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for providing feedback to a user based on audio input associated with a user reading a passage from a physical text are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080140414 - Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works: An embodiment of the present invention is a method for testing an audience member's comprehension rate and presenting material in a media work at a rate determined from the comprehension rate, the method including: (a) determining a comprehension rate for materials to be presented in a media work; (b) storing... Agent: Michael B. Einschlag, Esq.

20080140411 - Reading: Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for providing feedback to a user based on audio input associated with a user reading a passage from a physical text are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080140413 - Synchronization of audio to reading: Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for providing feedback to a user based on audio input associated with a user reading a passage from a physical text are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080140417 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: When registering speech onto an object, an information processing apparatus selects identification information from an identification information database and stores information including the object, speech for registration, and the selected identification information in a registration database. When a user performs a speech call, the information processing apparatus outputs identification information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080140418 - Method and device to distinguish between voice conversation and automated speech recognition: A method and device for performing some preprocessing on voice transmissions depending upon the intended destination of the transmission. The device includes a receiving component configured to receive a voice signal from a source over a network. The device also includes a processing component configured to determine a destination address... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080140419 - System and method for transmitting voice input from a remote location over a wireless data channel: A system and method for improving voice recognition processing at a server system that receives voice input from a remotely located user system. The user system includes a microphone, a processor that performs front-end voice recognition processing of the received user voice input, and a communication component configured to send... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080140415 - Voice-controlled communications system and method having an access device: A communication system has a control computer, one or more concentrators and one or more computing device communicates wirelessly with the one or more concentrators is provided. The computing device is an access device to the communications system that permits the user to interact with the communication system in order... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080140416 - Voice-controlled communications system and method using a badge application: A communication system has a control computer, one or more concentrators and one or more access device each having a badge application that communicates wirelessly with the one or more concentrators. The access device with the badge application provides the user with a communications device that permits the user to... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080140420 - Remote payment system: The present invention provides a remote payment system and a method for the same. The remote payment system includes a radio piece, a controller and an input & password verification piece. The controller is electrically connected to the radio piece for recording a credit, and the input & password verification... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP,

20080140423 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus performs a process in accordance with a command. The information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to refer to a storage unit that stores a plurality of recognition commands for inputting the command by speech, recognize input speech and select a command based on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080140421 - Speaker tracking-based automated action method and apparatus: At least some speakers engaged in an oral discourse are identified (101) and their oral contributions during that oral discourse tracked (102). At least one visual indicator provided (103) during the oral discourse serves to provide data regarding these tracked contributions (such as, but not limited to, an aggregate length... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080140422 - Speech dialog control module: A speech dialog control module enhances user operation of a speech dialog system by translating an input signal unrecognizable by a speech dialog system into a recognizable language. A speech dialog control module includes an input device that receives a speech signal in a first language. A controller receives the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080140424 - Method and apparatus for auto-recording image data: A auto-recording method is disclosed for auto-recording further to user request, via generating user image and voice data, extracting feature points from the image data according to pre-defined user recognition and following by considering the user as an object of following according to extracted feature points, determining whether the image... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080140425 - Audio encoding device, audio encoding method, and audio encoding program: By using a high-range sub-band signal, a correction coefficient corresponding to importance of auditory sense is calculated to correct a noise level and generate additional signal information, thereby accurately reflecting the noise level of the sub-band important in the auditory sense. Thus, it is possible to calculate additional signal information... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080140427 - 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

20080140428 - Method and apparatus to encode and/or decode by applying adaptive window size: An apparatus to process an audio signal includes an encoder to determine a variable window size of sub bands of a frame of an audio signal, to transform the sub bands according to the variable window size from a first domain to a second domain, to quantize the transformed sub... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080140426 - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding object-based audio signals: Provided are an audio encoding method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus in which audio signals can be encoded or decoded so that sound images can be localized at any desired position for each object audio signal. The audio decoding method generating a third downmix signal by... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080133215 - Method and system of interpreting and presenting web content using a voice browser: A highly distributed, scalable, and efficient voice browser system provides the ability to seamlessly integrate a variety of audio into the system in a unified manner. The audio rendered to the user comes from various sources, such as, for example, audio advertisements recorded by sponsors, audio data collected by broadcast... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080133216 - Foreign language translation tool: Embodiments of the present invention provide a foreign language translation tool that assists in the localization of an application. In particular, the foreign language translation tool enables translation in the context of a running application. In addition, the tool provides an editing mechanism so that the user may modify or... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080133218 - Example based machine translation system: The present invention performs machine translation by matching fragments of a source language sentence to be translated to source language portions of an example in example base. When all relevant examples have been identified in the example base, the examples are subjected to phrase alignment in which fragments of the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080133217 - Method and apparatus for learning english vocabulary and computer accessible storage medium to store program thereof: A method and an apparatus for learning the English vocabulary are provided. First a vocabulary database is provided in the present invention. A word is selected from the database to be taken apart into other alphabet strings. Then, the alphabet strings taken apart from the selected word are searched for... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080133219 - 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

20080133220 - Leveraging back-off grammars for authoring context-free grammars: A system and method of refining context-free grammars (CFGs). The method includes deriving back-off grammar (BOG) rules from an initially developed CFG and utilizing the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to recognize user utterances. Based on a response of the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080133222 - Spell checker for input of reduced keypad devices: The present invention discloses a system and a method for spell checking of an input text inserted by a user through a multiple-typing reduced numeric keypad device. The correction may be based on comparison to at least one given reference database vocabulary containing words and associated representation sequences, where the... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080133221 - Threat assessment based on written communication: A method for assessing risk of a harmful outcome includes obtaining at least one writing containing a threat directed to a target by an author of the writing. The method includes the further steps of identifying at least one outcome-predictive language use strategy, at least one outcome-predictive document feature, and... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20080133223 - Method and apparatus to extract important frequency component of audio signal and method and apparatus to encode and/or decode audio signal using the same: A method and apparatus to extract an important frequency component of an audio signal and a method and apparatus to encode and/or decode an audio signal by using the same. The method of extracting an important frequency component of an audio signal includes converting an audio signal of a time... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080133224 - Method and system for utilizing rate conversion filters to reduce mixing complexity during multipath multi-rate audio processing: Methods and systems for processing multipath, multi-rate digital audio signals are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise up-sampling a number of digital audio signals and converting the up-sampled digital audio signals to a common data rate prior to mixing. The digital audio signals sampling rates may be converted... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080133225 - Voice processing apparatus, voice processing method and voice processing program: Disclosed herein is a voice processing apparatus for recognizing an input voice on the basis of a prosody characteristic of said voice, said voice processing apparatus including: voice acquisition means for acquiring said input voice; acoustic analysis means for finding a relative pitch change on the basis of a frequency-direction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080133226 - Methods and apparatus for voice activity detection: Methods and apparatus for voice activity detection are disclosed.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080133227 - Method and system for handling the processing of bluetooth data during multi-path multi-rate audio processing: An audio codec in a baseband processor may be utilized for mixing audio signals received at a plurality of data sampling rates. The mixed audio signals may be up sampled to a very large sampling rate, and then down sampled to a specified sampling rate that is compatible with a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080133228 - Multimodal speech recognition system: The disclosure describes an overall system/method for text-input using a multimodal interface with speech recognition. Specifically, pluralities of modes interact with the main speech mode to provide the speech-recognition system with partial knowledge of the text corresponding to the spoken utterance forming the input to the speech recognition system. The... Agent: Whitaker Law Group

20080133229 - Display device, mobile terminal, and operation control method thereof: A mobile terminal and method of eliminating a call sound noise thereof are disclosed, by which a user can have a call of a clear sound quality by removing a frame including a white noise from a voice frame received from an originator terminal. The present invention includes a communicating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080133231 - 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

20080133232 - 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

20080133233 - Medical assistance device: A medical assistance device comprises: a voice dictionary used for transforming voice into characters; a storage configured to store cipher information indicating correspondence of terms included in the voice dictionary and the terms for ciphering; a voice entering part configured to enter voice; a transformer configured to transform the entered... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080133230 - Transmission of text messages by navigation systems: A vehicle navigation system may send and receive communications, such as text messages. Speech recognition may generate a text message without affecting a driver's control of the vehicle. A user may audibly control the navigation system and generate a text message through a speech recognition element. A microphone may record... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080133234 - Voice detection apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for adjusting a window size dynamically: A dividing module divides a voice signal into voice frames. A likelihood value generation module compares each of the voice frames with a first voice model and a second voice model to generate first likelihood values and second likelihood values. A decision module decides a windows size according to the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080133235 - Method to train the language model of a speech recognition system to convert and index voicemails on a search engine: A method and a related system to index voicemail documents by training a language model for a speaker or group of speakers by using existing emails and contact information on available repositories.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080133236 - Method of accessing a dial-up service: A method of accessing a dial-up service is disclosed. An example method of providing access to a service includes receiving a first speech signal from a user to form a first utterance; recognizing the first utterance using speaker independent speaker recognition; requesting the user to enter a personal identification number;... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080133238 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Some embodiments of the present invention include an information processing apparatus comprising a setting unit configured to set first retrieval criteria including a plurality of items; a storage unit configured to store a designated word in relation to the first retrieval criteria set by the setting unit, into a memory;... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080133237 - Speech recognition system, speech recognition method and speech recognition program: An acoustic lookahead unit 121 receives distance values from a plurality of distance value buffers 144 to 142, calculates lookahead values which are relative priorities of respective recognition units, and writes them into the lookahead value buffer 142. A word string matching unit 131 receives information from a plurality of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080133239 - Method and apparatus for recognizing continuous speech using search space restriction based on phoneme recognition: Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing continuous speech using search space restriction based on phoneme recognition. In the apparatus and method, a search space can be primarily reduced by restricting connection words to be shifted at a boundary between words based on the phoneme recognition result. In addition,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080133240 - Spoken dialog system, terminal device, speech information management device and recording medium with program recorded thereon: A spoken dialog system includes: a communication processing section capable of communicating with a terminal device that stores user data; and at least one of a speech synthesis section that generates synthesized speech and a speech recognition section that recognizes input speech. The communication processing section acquires from the terminal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080133241 - Phonetic decoding and concatentive speech synthesis: A speech processing system includes a multiplexer that receives speech data input as part of a conversation turn in a conversation session between two or more users where one user is a speaker and each of the other users is a listener in each conversation turn. A speech recognizing engine... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080133242 - Frame error concealment method and apparatus and error concealment scheme construction method and apparatus: Provided are a frame error concealment method and apparatus and an error concealment scheme construction method and apparatus. The frame error concealment method includes generating a new signal by synthesizing a plurality of previous signals that are similar to a signal of an error frame and reconstructing the signal of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080133243 - Portable device using speech recognition for searching festivals and the method thereof: A portable device using speech recognition for searching festivals includes a speech receiving module, a speech recognition module, a storage module and a display module. The speech receiving module receives a speech signal. The speech recognition module is electrically connected to the speech receiving module. The speech recognition module recognizes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080133244 - Automatically providing a user with substitutes for potentially ambiguous user-defined speech commands: A method for alleviating ambiguity issues of new user defined speech commands. An original command for a user-defined speech command can be received. It can then be determined if the original command is likely to be confused with a set of existing speech commands. When confusion is unlikely, the original... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080133245 - Methods for speech-to-speech translation: The present invention disclose modular speech-to-speech translation systems and methods that provide adaptable platforms to enable verbal communication between speakers of different languages within the context of specific domains. The components of the preferred embodiments of the present invention includes: (1) speech recognition; (2) machine translation; (3) N-best merging module;... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20080133246 - Audio coding based on block grouping: Blocks of audio information are arranged in groups that share encoding control parameters to reduce the amount of side information needed to convey the control parameters in an encoded signal. The configuration of groups that reduces the distortion of the encoded audio information may be determined by any of several... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080133249 - Audio data transmitting device and audio data receiving device: When an unreceivable audio sampling frequency is transmitted from an audio data transmitting device or received at an audio data receiving device, frequency changing processing is executed inside an HDMI LSI of the transmitter side or the receiver side to change the unreceivable audio sampling frequency to a frequency that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080133248 - Method and apparatus for matching sound quality measurement sections of variable bandwidth multi-codec: Provided is a transmission apparatus for matching sound quality measurement sections of a variable bandwidth multi-codec. The apparatus includes a measurement section setting unit setting a measurement section, which is to be measured for sound quality, in units of time; a first conversion unit converting the measurement section into a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080133250 - Method and related device for improving the processing of mp3 decoding and encoding: A method for improving the processing of MP3 decoding includes decoding Huffman encoded data into audio samples according to side information, determining a first group of audio samples having a predefined audio characteristic outside a range running from a first predetermined value to a second predetermined value inclusive, determining a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080133247 - Speech coding arrangement for communication networks: Disclosed is a method in a network element of a communication network, which communication network is capable of transparently transferring coded data at least in some part of the communication network. The method includes detecting a need to change codec rate to a second codec rate in a downlink connection... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080133251 - Energy-based nonuniform time-scale modification of audio signals: A method for energy based, non-uniform time-scale compression of audio signals includes receiving a frame of data corresponding to an input audio signal and segmenting the data into a plurality of segments. The method further includes estimating a value related to energy of the frame of data, determining a peak... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080133252 - Energy-based nonuniform time-scale modification of audio signals: A method for energy based, non-uniform time-scale compression of audio signals includes receiving a frame of data corresponding to an input audio signal and segmenting the data into a plurality of segments. The method further includes estimating a value related to energy of the frame of data, determining a peak... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman