Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 07/08

20080183459 - Method of managing error risk in language translation: Methods for analyzing, evaluating, and controlling risk of errors in language translation of medical device labeling are disclosed. The disclosed methods include identifying the risk level of the device; identifying the safety function(s) of the content that is translated; evaluating risks associated with the translation process; and analyzing this risk... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080183460 - Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for chinese character selection and output: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus includes a keyboard including keys, a plurality of the keys each being associated with a polysemous symbol relating to a concept represented by a Chinese radical; and a processor, to determine whether or not... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080183461 - Method and system for automatic language negotiation on voice (over ip) calls: A method for negotiating a common language on a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, the method comprising: allowing a plurality of users to connect to the VoIP network, each of the plurality of users having at least one of a plurality of VoIP compatible transmitting/receiving devices; configuring each of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080183463 - Cooccurrence and constructions: A method and system for performing automatic text analysis is described. A local ranking for one or more contexts with respect to a word and a global ranking for one or more contexts are generated. The rankings are based on the frequency with which the contexts appear in a corpus.... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080183462 - Method and apparatus for intention based communications for mobile communication devices: A method and apparatus for intention based communications in a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input from a user of the mobile communication device, converting speech portions in the user's input into linguistic representations, generating a phoneme lattice based on the linguistic representations, scoring... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080183464 - Received voice playback apparatus: A disclosed received voice playback apparatus includes a characteristic acquiring unit configured to acquire first frequency characteristic values obtained by resolving digital vocal signals that are based on received vocal signals into predetermined frequency bands, wherein each first frequency characteristic value corresponds to one of the predetermined frequency bands; a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080183465 - Methods and apparatus to quantize and dequantize linear predictive coding coefficient: A method and apparatus to convert a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient into a coefficient having order characteristics, such as a line spectrum frequency (LSF), and to vector quantize the coefficient having the order characteristics when a speech signal is encoded. The method and apparatus split the vector of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080183466 - Transient noise removal system using wavelets: A transient noise removal system removes or dampens undesired transients from speech. When the transient noise removal system receives a speech frame, the system performs a wavelet transform analysis. The speech frame may be represented by one or more wavelet coefficients across one or more wavelet levels. For a given... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080183468 - Augmentation and calibration of output from non-deterministic text generators by modeling its characteristics in specific environments: Outputs of an automatic probabilistic event detection system, such as a fact extraction system, a speech-to-text engine or an automatic character recognition system, are matched with comparable results produced manually or by a different system. This comparison allows statistical modeling of the run-time behavior of the event detection system. This... Agent: Nathan S. Huynh

20080183467 - Methods and apparatuses for recording an audio conference: In one embodiment, the systems and methods detect audio content shared during a collaboration session; detect a participant associated with originating the audio content; store or record audio content; and automatically associate the audio content with the participant.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080183469 - Web-based speech recognition with scripting and semantic objects: The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that requires interpretation of speech in conjunction with a speech recognition (SR) system, such as,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080183470 - Method and apparatus for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog system: A method for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog systems. A user is allowed to correct errors in values captured by the spoken dialog system, such that the interaction necessary for error correction between the system and the user is reduced. When the spoken dialog system collects a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080183471 - System and method of pattern recognition in very high dimensional space: A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting them into n-dimensional space, where n is a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080183472 - Speech recognition system and program thereof: Speech recognition is performed by matching between a characteristic quantity of an inputted speech and a composite HMM obtained by synthesizing a speech HMM (hidden Markov model) and a noise HMM for each speech frame of the inputted speech by use of the composite HMM.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080183473 - Technique of generating high quality synthetic speech: A synthetic speech system includes a phoneme segment storage section for storing multiple phoneme segment data pieces; a synthesis section for generating voice data from text by reading phoneme segment data pieces representing the pronunciation of an inputted text from the phoneme segment storage section and connecting the phoneme segment... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080183474 - Process for creating and administrating tests made from zero or more picture files, sound bites on handheld device: Process to record or create sound bites or sound files into test format on a handheld device A preferred embodiment includes a process that can change text to sound bites or files to play back sound file in the form of a test, This includes having one Question and two... Agent: Damion A. Bethune

20080183475 - Image diagnosing apparatus and image diagnosing method: With the object of enabling a subject to be imaged at an appropriate timing of shooting, an image diagnosing apparatus for shooting an image of the subject in an imaging space has a voice guidance unit which reproduces and outputs to the subject a prescribed voice guidance and a voice... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080183476 - Method and system for enhanced audio communications in an interactive environment: Enhanced audio communications is provided in an interactive environment, such as a gaming environment, having multiple participants. An input audio signal, such as a speech signal, that is originated by one of the multiple participants is received. In addition, one or more instructions that correspond to the input audio signal... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080183477 - Update technique for speech recognition applications with uninterrupted (24x7) operation: A method of updating an application in a processing system, the aforesaid method comprising the steps of: (a) starting operation of a first version of an application in the aforesaid processing system; (b) starting operation of a second version of the aforesaid application in the aforesaid processing system; and (c)... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080177528 - Method of enabling any-directional translation of selected languages: A method of utilizing multiple Machine Translation “Language Pairs” to create a “Community of Language Pairs” (The Community) that consists of one “Language Pair” for every possible combination of every two languages and/or language dialects included in The Community. The present invention greatly enhances the utility of the art of... Agent: William Drewes

20080177529 - Voice-over device and method of use: In combination with a global positioning system receiver including a speech generating portion, the improvement comprising a voice-over device including a computerized data system, a storage mechanism for storing different voices, a selecting mechanism, a conversion mechanism, and a voice transmitting mechanism.... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080177530 - Synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application: Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler; identifying, by the global application update handler, an additional processing function in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080177531 - Language processing apparatus, language processing method, and computer program: This invention provides a language processing apparatus analyzing a dependency structure of an input sentence, including: a segment unit model parameter estimating part estimating a segment unit model parameter as a parameter of a probability model to analyze the dependency structure by using a feature in a unit of segment;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080177532 - Apparatus and methods for enhancement of speech: A method for improving the intelligibility of an incoming telephone signal, including boosting loudness of at least one band of poorly heard frequencies of the signal within at least one band of intensities of the signal, the band lying below a predetermined intensity level at which telephone standard conformance testing... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080177533 - Audio encoding apparatus and spectrum modifying method: A spectrum modifying method and the like wherein the efficiencies of the signal estimation and prediction can be improved and the spectrum can be more efficiently encoded. According to this method, the pitch period is calculated from an original signal, which serves as a reference signal, and then a basic... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080177534 - Assessing gateway quality using audio systems: Described is automatically testing the quality of an audio channel between a caller and a callee that includes a device under test, such as a VoIP or other gateway. An analyzer receives timestamps from a caller and callee during a calling session, including timestamps for when the callee initially provides... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080177535 - Information retrieving method and apparatus: A speaker of encoded speech data recorded in a semiconductor storage device in an IC recorder is to be retrieved easily. An information receiving unit 10 in a speaker retrieval apparatus 1 reads out the encoded speech data recorded in a semiconductor storage device 107 in an IC recorder 100.... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080177536 - A/v content editing: A/V content creation, editing and publishing is disclosed. Speech recognition can be performed on the A/V content to identify words therein and form a transcript of the words. The transcript can be aligned with the associated A/V content and displayed to allow selective editing of the transcript and associated A/V... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080177538 - Generation of domain models from noisy transcriptions: A method of building a domain specific model from transcriptions is disclosed. The method starts by applying text clustering to the transcriptions to form text clusters. The text clustering is applied at a plurality of different granularities, and groups topically similar phrases in the transcriptions. The relationship between text clusters... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080177537 - Multi-modal entry for electronic clinical documentation: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for populating an electronic clinical document capable of receiving multiple types of data are provided. In one embodiment, dictation audio input is embedded directly into one or more sections of an electronic clinical document along with other data types, such as structured user input, free-text... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080177539 - Method of processing voice signals: A method of processing voice signals suitable for enhancing the speech discrimination ability of a hearing impaired person is disclosed. First, a voice signal is received, and the received voice signal is divided into a plurality of voice frames. A frequency spectrum analysis is conducted on one of the voice... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080177540 - Method and apparatus for recognizing and reacting to user personality in accordance with speech recognition system: Techniques are disclosed for recognizing user personality in accordance with a speech recognition system. For example, a technique for recognizing a personality trait associated with a user interacting with a speech recognition system includes the following steps/operations. One or more decoded spoken utterances of the user are obtained. The one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080177541 - Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program: A voice recognition device, a voice recognition method, and a voice recognition program capable of recognizing a user's speech accurately even if the user's speech is ambiguous. The voice recognition device determines a control content of a control object on the basis of a recognition result of an input voice.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080177543 - Stochastic syllable accent recognition: Training wording data indicating the wording of each of the words in training text, training speech data indicating characteristics of speech of each of the words, and training boundary data indicating whether each word in training speech is a boundary of a prosodic phrase are stored. After inputting candidates for... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080177542 - Voice recognition program: A voice recognition program according to claim 1 makes a computer execute a start determining word recognizing step for checking whether a start determining word for a sentence recognition is inputted by voice or not, an end determining word recognizing step for checking whether an end determining word for the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080177544 - Method and system for automatic detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices: The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detecting morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080177545 - Automatic reading tutoring with parallel polarized language modeling: A novel system for automatic reading tutoring provides effective error detection and reduced false alarms combined with low processing time burdens and response times short enough to maintain a natural, engaging flow of interaction. According to one illustrative embodiment, an automatic reading tutoring method includes displaying a text output and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080177546 - Hidden trajectory modeling with differential cepstra for speech recognition: A novel system for speech recognition uses differential cepstra over time frames as acoustic features, together with the traditional static cepstral features, for hidden trajectory modeling, and provides greater accuracy and performance in automatic speech recognition. According to one illustrative embodiment, an automatic speech recognition method includes receiving a speech... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080177547 - Integrated speech recognition and semantic classification: A novel system integrates speech recognition and semantic classification, so that acoustic scores in a speech recognizer that accepts spoken utterances may be taken into account when training both language models and semantic classification models. For example, a joint association score may be defined that is indicative of a correspondence... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080177548 - Speech synthesis method and apparatus: A speech synthesis method includes selecting a segment, determining whether to conduct prosodic modification on the selected segment, calculating a target value of prosodic modification of a segment on which prosodic modification has been determined to be conducted based on a result of the determination, conducting prosodic modification such that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080177549 - Responding to recipient rated wirelessly broadcast electronic works: A method, system, and program for responding to recipient ratings of wirelessly broadcast electronic works are provided. A secondary player receives a wireless broadcast of an electronic work from a primary player. Next, responsive to a playback of the electronic work from the secondary player, the secondary player requires a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080177550 - Process and arrangement for generating a signed text and/or image document: The invention refers to a process and an arrangement for the generation of a signed text and/or image document, in particular a digital document for electronic sending and/or for electronic storage. The invention is characterised by the fact that the name and/or an image and/or any other representation of a... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080177551 - Systems and methods for off-board voice-automated vehicle navigation: A method of providing navigational information includes processing destination information spoken by a mobile processing system user. The processed voice information is transmitted to a remote center wirelessly. The processed voice information is voice recognition analyzed to recognize components of die destination information spoken. The remote center generates a list... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.a.

20080177553 - Signal compressing apparatus: An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital recording disc. The formatting-resultant signal includes segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080177552 - System for live audio presentations: In a live audio presentation system, a stage rack and a front of house rack are interconnected by a transmission medium that transmits digital audio data and control information between them. Packets of digital audio data and control information are sent at the audio sampling rate. The packets of data... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel Avid Technology, Inc.

20080172218 - Web page translation device and web page translation method: A WEB page translation method includes a description language identification means 33 for discriminating whether the translation target portion of the WEB page accessed by a user via a terminal device 1 is described in HTML, a first translation means 35 for translating the character string displayed on the WEB... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080172219 - Foreign language translator in a document editor: Apparatus and methods allow users of document editors to real-time translate language of text from a first to a second language. During use, users indicate a selection for translation in a typing area of the document editor. The document editor seeks translation from a remote language translation service, especially by... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080172220 - Incorrect hyperlink detecting apparatus and method: An incorrect hyperlink detecting apparatus which can detect a semantic inconsistency of a hyperlink with high accuracy is provided. An incorrect hyperlink detecting apparatus 10 includes a link source text extracting unit 12 for extracting a text from an HTML file 26 of a link source, a link destination text... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080172222 - Very low bit rate speech transmission system: A very low bit rate communication system. In preferred embodiments, an off-the-shelf module is adapted to convert a speaker's voice to text. A processor is provided to separate the text into individual words. The processor is programmed with a dictionary which provides pre-assigned specific 14-bit numeric values to each word... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080172221 - Voice command of audio emitting device: A method of extracting a voice command produced in an enclosed or partially enclosed environment, includes providing an impulse response signal of the enclosed or partially enclosed environment; recording the voice command and ambient sounds; and using the impulse response signal to extract the recorded voice command.... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080172223 - Method, apparatus, and medium for bandwidth extension encoding and decoding: Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for encoding/decoding a high frequency band signal by using a low frequency band signal corresponding to an audio signal or a speech signal. Accordingly, since the high frequency band signal is encoded and decoded by using the low frequency band signal, encoding and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172224 - Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identification: A representation of a speech signal is received and is decoded to identify a sequence of position-dependent phonetic tokens wherein each token comprises a phone and a position indicator that indicates the position of the phone within a syllable.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080172225 - Apparatus and method for pre-processing speech signal: An apparatus for pre-processing a speech signal capable of improving the performance of speech signal processing by extracting the characteristics of noise that are distinguished from those of speech, and a method for extracting a speech end-point for the apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes a noise/speech determination unit for... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080172227 - Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon simultaneous speech: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080172226 - Voice output device and voice output program: A voice output device, includes: a compound word voice data storage unit that stores voice data in association with each of compound words which is formed of a plurality of words; a text display unit that displays text containing a plurality of words; a word designation unit that designates any... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080172228 - Methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system: Techniques are disclosed for overcoming errors in speech recognition systems. For example, a technique for processing acoustic data in accordance with a speech recognition system comprises the following steps/operations. Acoustic data is obtained in association with the speech recognition system. The acoustic data is recorded using a combination of a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080172229 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus through which voice communication between a user and a communication partner is performed, including: a voice input device to which a user voice that is a voice of the user is inputted; a voice output device from which a partner voice that is a voice of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080172230 - Voice authentication system: A text-dependent voice authentication system that performs authentication by urging a user to input a keyword by voice includes: an input part (11) that receives a voice input of a keyword divided into a plurality of portions with an utterable unit being a minimum unit over a plurality of times... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172231 - Method of processing sound signals for a communication terminal and communication terminal using that method: The present invention relates to a method of processing voice signals (320, 322, 324) for a communication terminal (300) using voice recognition means comparing those voice signals to data stored in a database (304) in order to identify the data corresponding to those signals, that identified data being transmitted to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080172232 - Voice triggered emergency alert: A voice recognition emergency system and method. The system includes a microphone, a speaker, and a voice recognition emergency device. The device includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor analyzes sound received from the microphone, detects when an emergency phrase has been spoken, and conveys an alert condition to... Agent: Rory D. Rankin Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080172233 - System and method for recognizing speech securely: A system and method recognizes speech securely. The system includes a client and a server, The client is configured to provide securely speech in a form of an observation sequence of symbols, and the server is configured to provide securely a multiple trained hidden Markov models (HMMs), each trained HMM... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080172234 - System and method for dynamically selecting among tts systems: Systems and methods for dynamically selecting among text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods include identifying text for converting into a speech waveform, synthesizing said text by three TTS systems, generating a candidate waveform from each of the three systems, generating a score from each of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080172235 - Voice output device and method for spoken text generation: Embodiments are described for a voice output device having a first memory unit configured to store a plurality of audio files, a computation unit configured to associate one or more of the audio files stored in the first memory unit with one or more outputtable data records in the correct... Agent: Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc.

20080167857 - Instance-based sentence boundary determination by optimization: A method for instance-based sentence boundary determination optimizes a set of criteria based on examples in a corpus, and provides a general domain-independent framework for the task by balancing a comprehensive set of sentence complexity and quality constraints. The characteristics and style of naturally occurring sentences are simulated through the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080167856 - Method, apparatus, and program for transliteration of documents in various indian languages: A transliteration mechanism is provided that allows a user to view a text in one Indian language, to highlight a word or phrase, and to easily transliterate the selected word or phrase into a target language or script. The mechanism may be an application, an applet, or a plug-in to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080167855 - Working method for treatment of abstract objects ( the thought-substances) of the system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an android for the pointer-oriented object acquisition method for abstract treatment of information of this system based on: The working method for treatment of abstract objects (the thought-substances) of the system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android for the pointer-oriented object acquisition method for abstract treatment of information of this system based on a natural language, in which an abstract object (an thought-substance) is compared... Agent: Mr. Boris Kaplan

20080167859 - Definitional method to increase precision and clarity of information (dmtipci): The “Definitional Method To Increase Precision And Clarity of Information (DMTIPCI)” solves the problem of knowing precisely and clearly what predicate terms mean using the following processes: 1. The process of repeatedly defining the predicate terms' meanings in definitions until the primary words of original predicates are found. 2. The... Agent: Stuart Allen Garrie

20080167858 - Method and system for providing word recommendations for text input: Word recommendations are provided in response to text input. For a particular text input, possible word recommendations are identified based on the characters of the input and corresponding neighbor characters on a keyboard layout. The possible word recommendations are scored based on how closely they match the input word on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080167860 - System and method for modifying and updating a speech recognition program: An embodiment provides a system and method for updating a speech recognition program. The system provides a speech recognition program, an update website for updating a speech recognition program, and a database for storing data that may be used to update a speech recognition program. A user may utilize an... Agent: Michael Goller

20080167861 - Information processing terminal and communication system: There is provided a mobile phone that detects bio-information on the user and makes information communications reflecting the detected bio-information. The mobile phone (1) includes sensors (18) that detect bio-information data. The bio-information data detected by the sensors (18) are sent to a sensor data analyzer (19) in which psychology... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080167862 - Pitch dependent speech recognition engine: A method for employing pitch in a speech recognition engine. The process begins by building training models of selected speech samples, a process which begins by analyzing each sample as a sequential series of frames, each frame having a selected duration and overlap with adjacent frames. A pitch estimate of... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080167863 - Apparatus and method of improving intelligibility of voice signal: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of improving intelligibility of a voice signal. A method of improving intelligibility of a voice signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes analyzing a background noise signal on a call receiving side, classifying a received voice signal into... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080167864 - Dialogue enhancement techniques: A plural-channel audio signal (e.g., a stereo audio) is processed to modify a gain (e.g., a volume or loudness) of a speech component signal (e.g., dialogue spoken by actors in a movie) relative to an ambient component signal (e.g., reflected or reverberated sound) or other component signals. In one aspect,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080167865 - Communication device, signal encoding/decoding method: There is provided a communication device for effectively encoding an audio/music signal while maintaining a predetermined quality by controlling the transmission bit rate of the transmission side considering the use environment of the reception side. In this device, a transmission mode decision unit (101) detects an environment noise contained in... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080167866 - Spectro-temporal varying approach for speech enhancement: The present system proposes a technique called the spectro-temporal varying technique, to compute the suppression gain. This method is motivated by the perceptual properties of human auditory system; specifically, that the human ear has higher frequency resolution in the lower frequencies band and less frequency resolution in the higher frequencies,... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080167867 - System and method for altering settings on electronic devices based upon sensing stimuli: Disclosed is a method and system for altering settings on portable electronic devices based upon the surrounding sounds. The system and method create a series of improvements in electronic devices that enable a person to have a greater possibility to hear their name being called, important signals or emergency vehicles... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080167870 - Noise reduction with integrated tonal noise reduction: The system provides a technique for suppressing or eliminating tonal noise in and input signal. The system operates on the input signal at a plurality of frequency bins and uses information generated at a prior bin to assist in calculating values at subsequent bins. The system first identifies peaks in... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080167869 - Speech recognition apparatus: A voice recognition system (10) for improving the toughness of voice recognition for a voice input for which a deteriorated feature amount cannot be completely identified. The system comprises at least two sound detecting means (16a, 16b) for detecting a sound signal, a sound source localizing unit (21) for determining... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080167868 - Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones for speech recognition applications: Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones in speech processing applications, which allows the capturing, recording and preprocessing of speech data in the captured audio in a way that optimizes speech decoding accuracy.... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080167871 - Method and apparatus for speech recognition using device usage pattern of user: A method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice recognition in a mobile device are provided. The method of recognizing a voice includes: monitoring the usage pattern of a user of a device for inputting a voice; selecting predetermined words from among words stored in the device based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080167872 - Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, and program: A speech recognition device that is capable of presenting, to a user in an easy-to-understand manner, whether or not the user's utterance is a word unregistered in a speech recognition dictionary and whether or not the utterance should be repeated due to a recognition error includes: a speech recognition vocabulary... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080167873 - Orientation pronunciation: A method for pronunciation of English alphas according to the indications at different orientations of the alpha, comprises the steps of: dividing an area around an alpha into six sections, indicating short sounds, long sounds and strong sounds by points, lines and slashes; that put a small piece of line... Agent: Wei-chou Su

20080167874 - Methods and apparatus for masking latency in text-to-speech systems: A technique for masking latency in an automatic dialog system is provided. A communication is received from a user at the automatic dialog system. The communication is processed in the automatic dialog system to provide a response. At least one transitional message is provided to the user from the automatic... Agent: Robert W. Griffith Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080167875 - System for tuning synthesized speech: An embodiment of the invention is a software tool used to convert text, speech synthesis markup language (SSML), and or extended SSML to synthesized audio. Provisions are provided to create, view, play, and edit the synthesized speech including editing pitch and duration targets, speaking type, paralinguistic events, and prosody. Prosody... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080167876 - Methods and computer program products for providing paraphrasing in a text-to-speech system: A method and computer program product for providing paraphrasing in a text-to-speech (TTS) system is provided. The method includes receiving an input text, parsing the input text, and determining a paraphrase of the input text. The method also includes synthesizing the paraphrase into synthesized speech. The method further includes selecting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080167877 - Application of speech and speaker recognition tools to fault detection in electrical circuits: A method and apparatus detect and localize electric faults in electrical power grids and circuit. High impedance faults are detected by analyzing data from remote sensor units deployed over the network using the algorithms of speech and speaker analysis software. This is accomplished by converting the voltage and/or current waveform... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson P.C. Suite 340

20080167878 - Conversation outcome enhancement method and apparatus: A system [100] is provided that includes a first set of sensors [140] to sense a set of conditions of at least one participant in a conversation and generate raw data corresponding to the sensed set of conditions. A first aggregation engine [160] aggregates the raw data and outputs a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080167879 - Speech delimiting processing system and method: A speech delimiting processing system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080167880 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal using virtual source location information: Provided is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a multi-channel audio signal. The apparatus for encoding a multi-channel audio signal includes a frame converter for converting the multi-channel audio signal into a framed audio signal; means for downmixing the framed audio signal; means for encoding the downmixed audio signal; a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080167881 - Method for two-channel coding of a message: A method for encoding a message including the steps of performing two-channel encoding of the message into a robust string and a fragile string; transmitting the robust string through a fragile channel; and transmitting the fragile string though a robust channel (FIG. 6). Before the step of performing two-channel encoding... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080167882 - Waveform compressing apparatus, waveform decompressing apparatus, and method of producing compressed data: In a waveform compressing apparatus, a trial mode selecting portion selects a trial mode having the highest compression rate from a plurality of candidate modes which have not been selected before as a trial mode for generating a residue code. A waveform data compressing portion compresses a given data amount... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080162109 - Creating and managing a policy continuum: A method and system for managing a policy includes a memory adapted to store at least one policy, residing at a first abstraction level, where each policy includes a plurality of language elements in a first vocabulary set and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and adapted to perform... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080162110 - Network-based systems and methods for providing access to remote language services assets: Systems and methods for providing access to remote language services assets. Deployed first responders access an electronic communications hub using a portable communication device. The communication hub provides the first responder with an interface through which language services assistance may be requested. A data processing facility communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080162111 - Sequence classification for machine translation: Classification of sequences, such as the translation of natural language sentences, is carried out using an independence assumption. The independence assumption is an assumption that the probability of a correct translation of a source sentence word into a particular target sentence word is independent of the translation of other words... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080162112 - System and method for translation processing: System and method for tracking and processing of text translations for online use. The adding or editing of a text element for a primary language site or a primary language promotional email automatically generates a potential translation task. Potential translation tasks are reviewed and either deleted if no translation is... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080162113 - Method and apparatus for for predicting text: A method for text prediction for cell phone text messaging or for other applications. The preferred embodiment for predictive text involves the use of weighted positional digrams and a partial word dataset as well as optional elements involving three different types of voice recognition. Alternative embodiments involve the use of... Agent: Michael L. Leetzow, Esq. Michael L. Leetzow, P.a.

20080162115 - Computer program, apparatus, and method for searching translation memory and displaying search result: A translation memory system enabling the user to not only narrow down the view range of search result, but also view a surrounding context of a retrieved text. Stored parallel texts include sentence-class and segment-class parallel texts. Parallel texts relevant to a given input text are retrieved and subjected to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080162114 - Translation processing using a translation memory: System and method for tracking and processing of text translations for online use. Translation tasks are submitted along with language and schedule information for translation of primary language text into other languages for use on other language versions of the primary language site or emails. In performing translations, the translator... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080162116 - Component localization: In an implementation of component localization, control components are maintained that each define a localization format, such as a display format for a section of a display. A locale designation is received and a control component is obtained that corresponds to a locale. Display data is generated that includes the... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080162117 - Discriminative training of models for sequence classification: Classification of sequences, such as the translation of natural language sentences, is carried out using an independence assumption. The independence assumption is an assumption that the probability of a correct translation of a source sentence word into a particular target sentence word is independent of the translation of other words... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080162118 - Technique for searching out new words that should be registered in dictionary for speech processing: To search out a new word that should be newly registered in a dictionary contained in a segmentation device for segmenting a text into words. This system inputs a training text into the segmentation device to cause the segmentation device to segment the training text into words, and thereby generates... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080162119 - Discourse non-speech sound identification and elimination: An acoustic signal is subjected to filtration whereby low frequency sounds such as respiration are removed. Intense acoustic sounds such as coughing are also removed, and ultrasonic carrier modulation and demodulation is also performed to increase the saliency of speech sounds. By removing non-speech sounds from an acoustic signal comprising... Agent: Hunton & Williams/new York Intellectual Property Dept.

20080162120 - Method and apparatus for providing feedback of vocal quality to a user: Embodiments of the invention relate to a feedback mechanism that informs a user of a communication device to adjust the volume, pitch, tone or other characteristic of his voice so as to compensate for noise in the surrounding environment. The feedback mechanism includes feedback circuitry that analyzes audio signals from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080162121 - Method, medium, and apparatus to classify for audio signal, and method, medium and apparatus to encode and/or decode for audio signal using the same: Provided are a classifying method and apparatus for an audio signal, and an encoding/decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the classifying method and apparatus. In the classification method, an audio signal is classified by adaptively adjusting a classification threshold for a frame of the audio signal that... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080162122 - Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition: Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A weighing function was then applied to the power spectrum. The harmonics weighted power spectrum underwent mel-scaled band-pass filtering, and the log-energy of the filter's output... Agent: Berliner & Associates

20080162123 - Two stage frequency subband decomposition: A method for multifunctional processing of signals in frequency subbands performs subband decomposition and signal processing in two stages. A fullband signal is first splitted, with downsampling, into wide frequency subband (WFS) signals. Processing algorithms not requiring a high frequency resolution but benefiting from downsampling (such as subband acoustic echo... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080162124 - Transmitter and receiver for speech coding and decoding by using additional bit allocation method: The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver for speech coding and decoding by using an additional bit allocation method. The transmitter and the receiver according to the present invention realize a voice communication service of high quality by using additional bits permitted in system requirements while using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080162125 - Method and apparatus for language independent voice indexing and searching: A method and apparatus for language independent voice searching in a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a search query from a user of the mobile communication device, converting speech parts in the search query into linguistic representations which covers at least one languages, generating a... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080162126 - Systems, methods, and aparatus for dynamic normalization to reduce loss in precision for low-level signals: A normalization factor for a current frame of a signal may be determined. The normalization factor may depend on an amplitude of the current frame of the signal. The normalization factor may also depend on non-linear values of states after one or more operations were performed on a previous frame... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080162127 - Network entity, method and computer program product for mixing signals during a conference session: A network entity, method and computer program product are provided for effectuating a conference session. The method may include receiving a plurality of signals representative of voice communication of the participants. In this regard, the signals may be received from a plurality of terminals of a respective plurality of participants... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080162128 - Method and apparatus pertaining to the processing of sampled audio content using a fast speech recognition search process: One provides (101) a plurality of frames of sampled audio content and then processes (102) that plurality of frames using a speech recognition search process that comprises, at least in part, determining whether to search each subword boundary contained within each frame on a frame-by-frame basis. These teachings will also... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080162129 - Method and apparatus pertaining to the processing of sampled audio content using a multi-resolution speech recognition search process: One provides (101) a plurality of frames of sampled audio content and then processes (102) that plurality of frames using a speech recognition search process that comprises, at least in part, searching for at least two of state boundaries, subword boundaries, and word boundaries using different search resolutions.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080162130 - Asynchronous receipt of information from a user: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for asynchronous receipt of information from a user. Embodiments include receiving in a library management system a media file containing a speech response recorded on a hand held device in response to the playing of a media file containing one or more... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080162131 - Blogcasting using speech recorded on a handheld recording device: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for blogcasting. Embodiments include receiving, by a blog management system, a blog entry, the blog entry comprising speech recorded on a handheld recording device in a media file; converting the recorded blog entry to text; identifying, in dependence upon the text, blog... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080162132 - 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

20080162133 - Audio detection using distributed mobile computing: A method of identifying incidents using mobile devices can include receiving a communication from each of a plurality of mobile devices. Each communication can specify information about a detected sound. Spatial and temporal information can be identified from each communication as well as an indication of a sound signature matching... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080162134 - Apparatus and methods for vocal tract analysis of speech signals: The present invention provides for speech processing apparatus arranged for the input or output of a speech data signal and including a function generating means arranged for producing a representation of a vocal-tract potential function representative of a speech source and as an example, a speaker identification process can comprise... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080162135 - Analyzing network traffic: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring data traffic on a network is disclosed. In an embodiment, this includes obtaining intrinsic data from at least a portion of the traffic, obtaining extrinsic data from at least a portion of the traffic, associating the intrinsic data with the extrinsic... Agent: Theodore A. Chen Emc Corporation

20080162136 - Automatic speech recognition with a selection list: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for automatic speech recognition (‘ASR’) that include accepting by the multimodal application speech input and visual input for selecting or deselecting items in a selection list, the speech input enabled by a speech recognition grammar; providing, from the multimodal application to the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080162137 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: At least one recognized keyword is presented to a user, and the keyword is corrected appropriately upon receipt of a correction for the presented result. A standby-word dictionary used for recognition of uttered speech is generated according to a result of the correction to recognize the uttered speech. Therefore, even... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080162138 - Enhanced application of spoken input: Enhanced application of spoken input, in which a single, natural language voice command is accessed. Using a repository that associates multiple operations with natural language voice commands, multiple selected operations that correspond to the received single, natural language voice command are determined and applied to a user interface.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162139 - Apparatus and method for outputting voice: Provided is an apparatus and method for output voice, which receives an information item suitable to a user's taste among information items existing on a network such as the Internet in a text format, converts the information item into voice, and then outputs the voice. The apparatus to output voice... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080162140 - Dynamic grammars for reusable dialogue components: A system and method for authoring a voice application is provided. The voice recognition process uses a dynamic grammar which obtains data from a backend data source based upon an input in order to create expected results that a speech engine can recognize. The process can retrieve data from at... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162141 - Voice interface to nfc applications: A method for combining speech recognition with near field communication (NFC) to enable a user to enter, store, and use web addresses on portable devices. A user of a portable device having a NFC reader, a voice input interface, a speech recognition system, and memory enables the NFC reader of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080162142 - Emotion abreaction device and using method of emotion abreaction device: An emotion abreaction device including a body, a control unit, a man machine interacting module and an emotion abreaction unit is provided. The control unit, the man machine interacting module and the emotion abreaction unit are disposed in the body. The man machine interacting module is electrically connected to the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080162147 - Command interface: The personalized content system of the system combines a summary music identification value creation and identification algorithm that represents a mathematical summary music identification of a song, an audio file, or other relational music criteria and data (e.g title, artist, genre, style, beats per minute, etc.) or any combination thereof.... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080162146 - Method and device for classifying spoken language in speech dialog systems: A method and device are provided for classifying at least two languages in an automatic dialogue system, which processes digitized speech input. At least one speech recognition method and at least one language identification method are used on the digitized speech input in order, by logical evaluation of the results... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080162144 - System and method of voice communication with machines: A system and method of voice communication with a machine are provided. The system includes a guide for containing at least one input element disposed in an arrangement, the arrangement having a coordinate system for locating the input element, and a processor for processing a user selection of the input... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080162143 - System and methods for prompting user speech in multimodal devices: A method for prompting user input for a multimodal interface including the steps of providing a multimodal interface to a user, where the interface includes a visual interface having a plurality of input regions, each having at least one input field; selecting an input region and processing a multi-token speech... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080162145 - User speech interfaces for interactive media guidance applications: A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080162149 - Audio encoding and decoding apparatus and method thereof: Provided are audio encoding and decoding apparatuses capable of recovering a high-quality audio signal at a low bit rate. The audio encoding method includes: detecting at least one sinusoidal wave from an input audio signal; calculating components of additional basis vectors based on residual audio signals and the additional basis... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080162148 - Scalable encoding apparatus and scalable encoding method: A scalable encoding apparatus wherein the degradation of sound quality of a decoded signal can be prevented, while the encoding rate and the circuit scale can be reduced. In this apparatus, an L-channel signal processing part (105-1) uses L-channel space information to generate an L-channel signal (L1) to produce a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080162150 - System and method for a high performance audio codec: A system for a high performance audio codec provides higher voice quality and higher recognition accuracy from an ASR engine at an increased data rate and computational power and embodiments include those having a CELP-based codec, an ASR engine, a text comparator, an encoder, a decoder, an LPC Computation and... Agent: Stoll Keenon Ogden Pllc

20080162151 - Method and apparatus to vary audio playback speed: An audio playback speed control method and apparatus to control an audio playback speed using an optimal frame length with a small amount of calculation. The audio playback method includes extracting an audio sampling frequency and audio playback speed information from an audio signal which is reproduced, determining a length... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP