Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 10/08

20080262828 - Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262826 - Method for building parallel corpora: A method for identifying documents for enriching a statistical translation tool includes retrieving a source document which is responsive to a source language query that may be specific to a selected domain. A set of text segments is extracted from the retrieved source document and translated into corresponding target language... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080262827 - Real-time translation of text, voice and ideograms: A system and method translate a statement in real time. Artificial intelligence translates text, speech or ideograms from a first language to a second language. The translated statement may be edited by a person at the source of the message and/or a person receiving the statement. Edits are used to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080262829 - Method and apparatus for generating a translation and machine translation: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for generating a translation and machine translation. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for generating a translation, wherein a sentence of a first language to be translated is split into a plurality of fragments,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080262830 - Bidirectional network language support: A method and apparatus for displaying bi-directional text using a browser program on a computer (20) coupled to drive a display (22) and having an operating system such that the computer normally writes text to the display in a default language in a first, default direction. The computer opens a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080262831 - Method for the natural language recognition of numbers: A method for the natural language recognition of numbers, in particular, for use in a voice recognition system. The recognition method is as the follows: a spoken numeral is detected and digitized, the numeral is broken down into number-related word components, the mutual position of the word components is determined... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080262833 - Document processing device and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon the document processing apparatus 100 acquiring a document described in a markup language, an annotation detection unit 72 of an annotation unit 70 acquires a file that stores the position at which an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262832 - Document processing device, and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus 100 acquires a first definition file that specifies a processing method for elements included in the document, and a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262834 - Sound separating device, sound separating method, sound separating program, and computer-readable recording medium: A sound separating apparatus includes a converting unit that respectively converts signals of two channels into frequency domains by a time unit, the signals representing sounds from sound sources. The apparatus also includes a localization-information calculating unit that calculates localization information regarding the frequency domains and a cluster analyzing unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080262835 - Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof: There is disclosed an encoding device capable of improving similarity between the high frequency band spectrum of the original signal and a new spectrum to be generated while realizing a low bit rate when encoding a wide-band signal spectrum. The encoding device has sub-band amplitude calculation units (122, 128) for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080262836 - Pitch estimation apparatus, pitch estimation method, and program: In a pitch estimation apparatus, a function estimation part estimates a fundamental frequency probability density function of an audio signal by repeating a weight calculation process and an estimated shape specification process. The weight calculation process calculates a weight of each tone model of each fundamental frequency based on an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080262837 - Method and system of dynamically adjusting a speech output rate to match a speech input rate: A method (10) and system of adjusting a speech output rate to match a speech input rate can include the steps of receiving (12) speech input, computing (14) a speech input rate, and dynamically adjusting (18 or 26) a speech output rate to match the speech input rate. If the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080262838 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing voice conversion using temporal dynamic features: An apparatus for providing voice conversion using temporal dynamic features includes a feature extractor and a transformation element. The feature extractor may be configured to extract dynamic feature vectors from source speech. The transformation element may be in communication with the feature extractor and configured to apply a first conversion... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080262840 - Method of verifying accuracy of a speech: A method for verifying the accuracy of speech is provided. The speech is pre-loaded into a dialog system. A medium is provided to verify the accuracy of the pre-loaded speech in the dialog system by comparing the test content with a predetermined speech script.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080262839 - Processing control device, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium containing the program: A processor 300 of a navigation device 200 operates a response voice analyzer of a process status setting unit to acquire a destination-responding voice collected by a microphone 230. Then, the processor 300 operates the state setting controller of the process state setting unit to identify a user of a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080262841 - Apparatus and method for rendering contents, containing sound data, moving image data and static image data, harmless: A method of rendering multimedia contents harmless is described. The method includes: reading out a predetermined word and the contents from a recording apparatus; replacing the predetermined word in transcript data with a different word, and setting the transcript data including the different word, and the predetermined word, respectively, as... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080262842 - Portable computer with speech recognition function and method for processing speech command thereof: A portable computer with a speech recognition function and the method for processing a speech command thereof is disclosed. In the method of a speech command, the speech command has Y command character strings, wherein Y is a positive integer and which is greater than or equal to one. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262843 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for recognizing paraphrases of uttered phrases, such as place names. At least one keyword contained in a speech utterance is recognized. Then, the keyword(s) contained in the speech utterance are re-recognized using a phrase including the keyword(s). Based on both recognition results, it is determined whether... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080262844 - Method and system for analyzing separated voice data of a telephonic communication to determine the gender of the communicant: A method and system for determining the gender of a communicant in a communication is provided. According to the method, at least one aural segment corresponding to at least one word spoken by a communicant is identified. The aural segment is then analyzed by applying a gender detection model to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080262845 - Method to translate, cache and transmit text-based information contained in an audio signal: A method, system and computer-readable medium for generating, caching and transmitting textual equivalents of information contained in an audio signal are presented. The method includes generating a textual equivalent of at least a portion of a speech-based audio signal in one device into a textual equivalent, storing a portion of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080262846 - Wireless server based text to speech email: An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media player, thus eliminating the need for a unified messaging system. Email messages are received... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080262848 - Applications server and method: A speech applications server is arranged to provide a user driven service in accordance with an application program in response to user commands for selecting service options. The user is prompted by audio prompts to issue the user commands. The application program comprises a state machine operable to determine a... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080262847 - User positionable audio anchors for directional audio playback from voice-enabled interfaces: The present invention discloses a concept and a use of audio anchors within voice-enabled interfaces. Audio anchors can be user configurable points from which audio playback occurs. In the invention, a user can identify an interface position at which an audio anchor is to be established. The computing device can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080262849 - Voice control system: A voice control system allows a user to control a device through voice commands. The voice control system includes a speech recognition unit that receives a control signal from a mobile device and a speech signal from a user. The speech recognition unit configures speech recognition settings in response to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080262850 - Adaptive bit allocation for multi-channel audio encoding: The invention provides a highly efficient technique for encoding a multi-channel audio signal. The invention relies on the basic principle of encoding a first signal representation of one or more of the multiple channels in a first encoder (130) and encoding a second signal representation of one or more of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080262855 - Entropy coding by adapting coding between level and run length/level modes: An audio encoder performs adaptive entropy encoding of audio data. For example, an audio encoder switches between variable dimension vector Huffman coding of direct levels of quantized audio data and run-level coding of run lengths and levels of quantized audio data. The encoder can use, for example, context-based arithmetic coding... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080262851 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a number of data corresponding to a pilot reference value and if a number... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262852 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a difference value and index information and entropy-decoding the index information and identifying an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262853 - Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. In the encoding method, spatial information is calculated based on a multi-channel audio signal and a down-mix signal, and a compensation parameter that compensates for the down-mix signal is calculated based on the multi-channel audio signal and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262854 - Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. In the encoding method, spatial information that is calculated based on a multi-channel audio signal and a downmix signal is encoded, and additional configuration information is generated based on information that is selected from the encoded spatial... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262856 - Method and system for enabling audio speed conversion: The present invention provides a method and system for processing an audio signal. According to an exemplary method, an audio signal such as a digital voice signal is received and divided into one or more individual unit cycles. An audio speed conversion operation is enabled by repeating or removing one... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080262828 - Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262826 - Method for building parallel corpora: A method for identifying documents for enriching a statistical translation tool includes retrieving a source document which is responsive to a source language query that may be specific to a selected domain. A set of text segments is extracted from the retrieved source document and translated into corresponding target language... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080262827 - Real-time translation of text, voice and ideograms: A system and method translate a statement in real time. Artificial intelligence translates text, speech or ideograms from a first language to a second language. The translated statement may be edited by a person at the source of the message and/or a person receiving the statement. Edits are used to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080262829 - Method and apparatus for generating a translation and machine translation: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for generating a translation and machine translation. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for generating a translation, wherein a sentence of a first language to be translated is split into a plurality of fragments,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080262830 - Bidirectional network language support: A method and apparatus for displaying bi-directional text using a browser program on a computer (20) coupled to drive a display (22) and having an operating system such that the computer normally writes text to the display in a default language in a first, default direction. The computer opens a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080262831 - Method for the natural language recognition of numbers: A method for the natural language recognition of numbers, in particular, for use in a voice recognition system. The recognition method is as the follows: a spoken numeral is detected and digitized, the numeral is broken down into number-related word components, the mutual position of the word components is determined... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20080262833 - Document processing device and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon the document processing apparatus 100 acquiring a document described in a markup language, an annotation detection unit 72 of an annotation unit 70 acquires a file that stores the position at which an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262832 - Document processing device, and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus 100 acquires a first definition file that specifies a processing method for elements included in the document, and a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262834 - Sound separating device, sound separating method, sound separating program, and computer-readable recording medium: A sound separating apparatus includes a converting unit that respectively converts signals of two channels into frequency domains by a time unit, the signals representing sounds from sound sources. The apparatus also includes a localization-information calculating unit that calculates localization information regarding the frequency domains and a cluster analyzing unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080262835 - Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof: There is disclosed an encoding device capable of improving similarity between the high frequency band spectrum of the original signal and a new spectrum to be generated while realizing a low bit rate when encoding a wide-band signal spectrum. The encoding device has sub-band amplitude calculation units (122, 128) for... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080262836 - Pitch estimation apparatus, pitch estimation method, and program: In a pitch estimation apparatus, a function estimation part estimates a fundamental frequency probability density function of an audio signal by repeating a weight calculation process and an estimated shape specification process. The weight calculation process calculates a weight of each tone model of each fundamental frequency based on an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080262837 - Method and system of dynamically adjusting a speech output rate to match a speech input rate: A method (10) and system of adjusting a speech output rate to match a speech input rate can include the steps of receiving (12) speech input, computing (14) a speech input rate, and dynamically adjusting (18 or 26) a speech output rate to match the speech input rate. If the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080262838 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing voice conversion using temporal dynamic features: An apparatus for providing voice conversion using temporal dynamic features includes a feature extractor and a transformation element. The feature extractor may be configured to extract dynamic feature vectors from source speech. The transformation element may be in communication with the feature extractor and configured to apply a first conversion... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080262840 - Method of verifying accuracy of a speech: A method for verifying the accuracy of speech is provided. The speech is pre-loaded into a dialog system. A medium is provided to verify the accuracy of the pre-loaded speech in the dialog system by comparing the test content with a predetermined speech script.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080262839 - Processing control device, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium containing the program: A processor 300 of a navigation device 200 operates a response voice analyzer of a process status setting unit to acquire a destination-responding voice collected by a microphone 230. Then, the processor 300 operates the state setting controller of the process state setting unit to identify a user of a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080262841 - Apparatus and method for rendering contents, containing sound data, moving image data and static image data, harmless: A method of rendering multimedia contents harmless is described. The method includes: reading out a predetermined word and the contents from a recording apparatus; replacing the predetermined word in transcript data with a different word, and setting the transcript data including the different word, and the predetermined word, respectively, as... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080262842 - Portable computer with speech recognition function and method for processing speech command thereof: A portable computer with a speech recognition function and the method for processing a speech command thereof is disclosed. In the method of a speech command, the speech command has Y command character strings, wherein Y is a positive integer and which is greater than or equal to one. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262843 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for recognizing paraphrases of uttered phrases, such as place names. At least one keyword contained in a speech utterance is recognized. Then, the keyword(s) contained in the speech utterance are re-recognized using a phrase including the keyword(s). Based on both recognition results, it is determined whether... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080262844 - Method and system for analyzing separated voice data of a telephonic communication to determine the gender of the communicant: A method and system for determining the gender of a communicant in a communication is provided. According to the method, at least one aural segment corresponding to at least one word spoken by a communicant is identified. The aural segment is then analyzed by applying a gender detection model to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080262845 - Method to translate, cache and transmit text-based information contained in an audio signal: A method, system and computer-readable medium for generating, caching and transmitting textual equivalents of information contained in an audio signal are presented. The method includes generating a textual equivalent of at least a portion of a speech-based audio signal in one device into a textual equivalent, storing a portion of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080262846 - Wireless server based text to speech email: An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media player, thus eliminating the need for a unified messaging system. Email messages are received... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080262848 - Applications server and method: A speech applications server is arranged to provide a user driven service in accordance with an application program in response to user commands for selecting service options. The user is prompted by audio prompts to issue the user commands. The application program comprises a state machine operable to determine a... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080262847 - User positionable audio anchors for directional audio playback from voice-enabled interfaces: The present invention discloses a concept and a use of audio anchors within voice-enabled interfaces. Audio anchors can be user configurable points from which audio playback occurs. In the invention, a user can identify an interface position at which an audio anchor is to be established. The computing device can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080262849 - Voice control system: A voice control system allows a user to control a device through voice commands. The voice control system includes a speech recognition unit that receives a control signal from a mobile device and a speech signal from a user. The speech recognition unit configures speech recognition settings in response to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080262850 - Adaptive bit allocation for multi-channel audio encoding: The invention provides a highly efficient technique for encoding a multi-channel audio signal. The invention relies on the basic principle of encoding a first signal representation of one or more of the multiple channels in a first encoder (130) and encoding a second signal representation of one or more of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080262855 - Entropy coding by adapting coding between level and run length/level modes: An audio encoder performs adaptive entropy encoding of audio data. For example, an audio encoder switches between variable dimension vector Huffman coding of direct levels of quantized audio data and run-level coding of run lengths and levels of quantized audio data. The encoder can use, for example, context-based arithmetic coding... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080262851 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a number of data corresponding to a pilot reference value and if a number... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262852 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a difference value and index information and entropy-decoding the index information and identifying an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262853 - Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. In the encoding method, spatial information is calculated based on a multi-channel audio signal and a down-mix signal, and a compensation parameter that compensates for the down-mix signal is calculated based on the multi-channel audio signal and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262854 - Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. In the encoding method, spatial information that is calculated based on a multi-channel audio signal and a downmix signal is encoded, and additional configuration information is generated based on information that is selected from the encoded spatial... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262856 - Method and system for enabling audio speed conversion: The present invention provides a method and system for processing an audio signal. According to an exemplary method, an audio signal such as a digital voice signal is received and divided into one or more individual unit cycles. An audio speed conversion operation is enabled by repeating or removing one... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080255824 - Translation apparatus: A translation apparatus includes a punctuation symbol detection unit for detecting whether a predetermined punctuation symbol exists or not in text information of a first language which is obtained by a voice recognition unit. When the punctuation symbol is detected by the punctuation symbol detection unit, the text information of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080255825 - Providing translations encoded within embedded digital information: A method of providing a translation within a voice stream can include receiving a speech signal in a first language, determining text from the speech signal, translating the text to a second and different language, and encoding the translated text within the speech signal.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080255826 - Dictionary data generating apparatus, character input apparatus, dictionary data generating method, and character input method: A dictionary data generating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an acquiring part configured to acquire a current issue keyword from inputted information including a current issue keyword; and a generating part configured to generate current issue dictionary data for prediction conversion based on the current issue keyword acquired by... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080255828 - Data communication via a voice channel of a wireless communication network using discontinuities: A system and method for data communication over a cellular communications network that allows the transmission of digital data over a voice channel using a vocoder that operates in different modes depending upon characteristics of the inputted signal it receives. To prepare the digital data for transmission, one or more... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080255829 - Method and test signal for measuring speech intelligibility: A method and apparatus for estimating speech intelligibility in a mobile communications network component handling two-way communication between two ends of a signal path. Test signals adapted for speech intelligibility measurements are inserted into the signal path to simulate two-way communication. Double-talk is detected during the communication, and speech intelligibility... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080255827 - Voice conversion training and data collection: It may be desirable to provide a way to collect high quality speech training data without undue burden to the user. Speech training data may be collected during normal usage of a device. In this way, the collection of speech training data may be effectively transparent to the user, without... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080255830 - Method and device for modifying an audio signal: A method of modifying acoustic characteristics of an original audio signal as a function of modification instructions relating at least to the fundamental frequency and the spectral envelope of the original signal. The method comprises a first modification operation applied to the original signal to deliver an intermediate audio signal,... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080255831 - Speech band extension device: A speech band extension device (100), which generates an audio signal capable of realizing natural audibility after speech band extension, includes a band-extended audio generator which generates a band-extended audio signal from an original audio signal, the band-extended audio signal including components lying within a frequency band that is not... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080255832 - Scalable encoding apparatus and scalable encoding method: A scalable encoding apparatus wherein stereo audio signals can be scalable encoded by use of a CELP encoding to improve the encoding efficiency. In the apparatus, an adder and a multiplier obtain an average of first and second channel signals as a monophonic signal. A CELP encoding part performs a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080255833 - Scalable encoding device, scalable decoding device, and method thereof: A scalable encoding device for realizing scalable encoding by CELP encoding of a stereo sound signal and improving the encoding efficiency. In this device, an adder and a multiplier obtain an average of a first channel signal CH1 and a second channel signal CH2 as a monaural signal M. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080255834 - Method and device for evaluating the efficiency of a noise reducing function for audio signals: A method of evaluating the efficiency of a noise-reducing function adapted to be applied to audio signals and comprising a preliminary step of obtaining a predefined test audio signal X[m] containing a noise-free wanted signal, a noisy signal Xb[m] obtained by adding a predefined noise signal to the test signal... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080255836 - Method and system for a recognition system having a verification recognition system: A method and system for performing computer implemented recognition is disclosed. In one method embodiment, the present invention first accesses user input stored in a memory of a mobile device. On the mobile device, the present invention performs a coarse recognition process on the user input to generate a coarse... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080255835 - User directed adaptation of spoken language grammer: A method and system for interacting with a speech recognition system. A lattice of candidate words is displayed. The lattice of candidate words may include the output of a speech recognizer. Candidate words representing temporally serial utterances may be directly joined in the lattice. A path through the lattice represents... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080255838 - Audible presentation and verbal interaction of html-like form constructs: A method of synchronizing an audio and visual presentation in a multi-modal browser. A form is transmitted over a network having at least one field requiring user supplied information to a multi-modal browser. Blank fields within the form are filled in by user who provides either verbal or tactile interaction,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080255837 - Method for locating an audio segment within an audio file: A method for locating an audio segment within an audio file comprising (i) providing a first transcribed text file associated with the audio file; (ii) providing a second transcribed text file associated with the audio file; (iii) receiving a user input defining a text segment corresponding to the audio segment... Agent: Loeb & Loeb, LLP

20080255839 - Speech recognition circuit and method: A speech recognition circuit comprising a circuit for providing state identifiers which identify states corresponding to nodes or groups of adjacent nodes in a lexical tree, and for providing scores corresponding to said state identifiers, the lexical tree comprising a model of words; a memory structure for receiving and storing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080255842 - Personalized voice activity detection: A method of transferring a real-time audio signal transmission, including: registering voice patterns (or other characteristics) of on more users to be used to identify the voices of the users, accepting an audio signal as it is created as a sequence of segments, analyzing each segment of the accepted audio... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080255840 - Video nametags: Video nametags allow automatic identification of people speaking in a video. A video nametag is associated with a person who is participating in a video, such as a video conference scenario or recorded meeting. The video nametag includes one or more sensors that detect when the person is speaking. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080255841 - Voice search device: A text data search using a voice is conventionally a full-text search using a word as an index word for a part recognized as a word in an input voice. Therefore, if any of the parts recognized as the words is falsely recognized, a search precision is lowered. In the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080255843 - Voice recognition system and method: The invention provides a method of voice recognition, and the method includes the steps of: obtaining a current position information, obtaining a current voice model according to the current position information; and performing voice recognition according to the current voice model. Particularly, the current position information can be obtained according... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080255844 - Minimizing empirical error training and adaptation of statistical language models and context free grammar in automatic speech recognition: Architecture for minimizing an empirical error rate by discriminative adaptation of a statistical language model in a dictation and/or dialog application. The architecture allows assignment of an improved weighting value to each term or phrase to reduce empirical error. Empirical errors are minimized whether a user provides correction results or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080255845 - Speech based query system using semantic decoding: An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identifying the meaning of the utterance, the system selects a single... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080255846 - Method of providing language objects by indentifying an occupation of a user of a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same: The disclosed and claimed concept relates generally to handheld electronic devices and, more particularly, to a method of providing language objects by identifying an occupation of a user of a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same. A method and apparatus of providing language objects by... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080255847 - Meeting visualization system: Voice of plural participants during a meeting is obtained and dialogue situations of the participants that change every second are displayed in real time, so that it is possible to provide a meeting visualization system for triggering more positive discussions. Voice data collected from plural voice collecting units associated with... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080255848 - Speech recognition method and system and speech recognition server: A speech recognition method, system and server includes receiving speech information from at least one User Equipment; analyzing and recognizing the speech information and searching for a speech feature matching the speech information; and obtaining an instruction in accordance with the speech feature and executing the instruction. With the various... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080255852 - Apparatuses and methods for voice command processing: An apparatus for voice command processing comprising a mobile agent execution platform is provided. The mobile agent execution platform comprises a native platform, at least one agent, a mobile agent execution context, and a mobile agent management unit. The mobile agent execution context provides an application interface, enabling the agent... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080255850 - Providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application, the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080255851 - Speech-enabled content navigation and control of a distributed multimodal browser: Speech-enabled content navigation and control of a distributed multimodal browser is disclosed, the browser providing an execution environment for a multimodal application, the browser including a graphical user agent (‘GUA’) and a voice user agent (‘VUA’), the GUA operating on a multimodal device, the VUA operating on a voice server,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080255849 - Voice activated mammography information systems: A mammography information system (“MIS”) including voice command and audio feedback capabilities. A radiologist using the MIS can navigate a MIS application using voice command, thus enabling a “heads-up” and “hands free” environment for the radiologist and minimizing the amount of time required for reading mammograms. The MIS can include... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080255853 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: Disclosed is a recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: an apparatus main body; and a remote controller to perform remote control of the apparatus main body, wherein the remote controller comprises: a key operating section to receive a key operation by a user; a sound information inputting section to input sound... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080255854 - System and method using blind change detection for audio segmentation: A system, method and computer program product for performing blind change detection audio segmentation that combines hypothesized boundaries from several segmentation algorithms to achieve the final segmentation of the audio stream. Automatic segmentation of the audio streams according to the system and method of the invention may be used for... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080255856 - Audio encoding and decoding: An audio encoder (109) has a hierarchical encoding structure and generates a data stream comprising one or more audio channels as well as parametric audio encoding data. The encoder (109) comprises an encoding structure processor (305) which inserts decoder tree structure data into the data stream. The decoder tree structure... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080255855 - Method and apparatus for coding and decoding amplitude of partial: Provided are a method and apparatus for coding and decoding an amplitude of partials, in which a step phenomenon can be prevented in the result of coding the amplitude of continuation partial partials in a parametric codec, thereby improving reproduced sound quality. The method of coding the amplitude of partials... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080255857 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080255858 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a reference value corresponding to a plurality of data and a difference value corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080255859 - Method for encoding and decoding multi-channel audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. In the decoding method, a down-mix signal is generated based on an input signal, and spatial information is generated based on the down-mix signal through estimation. Then, a multi-channel audio signal is generated based on the down-mix... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080255860 - Audio decoding apparatus and decoding method: A signal characteristic is detected from a block shape indicating a time/frequency conversion block length by a signal characteristic discrimination unit to discriminate whether the prediction precision in the time domain is high or the prediction precision in the frequency domain is high and, on the basis of a result... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080249760 - Customizable machine translation service: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing a translation service. The method comprises providing a translation interface accessible via a network. The translation interface receives specialized data associated with a domain from a member. A text string written in a source language is received from... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080249761 - System and method for the automatic generation of grammatically correct electronic medical records: A system and method for automatically generating grammatically correct electronic medical records is disclosed. The system of an example embodiment includes an input component to receive an input from a user, to map the input to a corresponding sentence fragment, and to retrieve a sentence identifier corresponding to the input.... Agent: James H. Salter

20080249762 - Categorization of documents using part-of-speech smoothing: A method and system is provided for classifying documents based on the subjectivity of the content of the documents using a part-of-speech analysis to help account for unseen words. A classification system trains a classifier using the parts of speech of training documents so that the classifier can classify unseen... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080249764 - Smart sentiment classifier for product reviews: A sentiment classifier is described. In one implementation, a system applies both full text and complex feature analyses to sentences of a product review. Each analysis is weighted prior to linear combination into a final sentiment prediction. A full text model and a complex features model can be trained separately... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080249763 - User-tailorable romanized chinese text input systems and methods: Methods and systems for romanizing Chinese ideograms allow a user to create a personalized spelling dictionary that converts a user's desired roman-alphabet spelling to an equivalent Chinese character. A phonetic combination from a standard Chinese dialect is selected. The user defines a roman alphabet equivalent of the selected phonetic combination... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080249765 - Audio signal decoding using complex-valued data: A decoder particularly, but not exclusively, for MPEG-1 layer III data signals, in which recovered spectral coefficients are transformed into time domain signal components, the time domain signal components then being transformed, using a forward transform which is orthogonally modulated with respect to the forward transform that was used at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080249766 - Scalable decoder and expanded layer disappearance hiding method: A scalable decoder which does not frequently switch the band of the decoded signal even if the signal in an expanded layer in band scalable encoding disappear and does not give any strangeness or discomfort to the subjective quality. If frame disappearance does not occur, the signal is a signal... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080249767 - Method and system for reducing frame erasure related error propagation in predictive speech parameter coding: Predictive encoding methods, predictive encoders, and digital systems are provided that encode input frames by computing quantized predictive frame parameters for an input frame, recomputing the quantized predictive frame parameters wherein a previous frame is assumed to be erased and frame erasure concealment is used, and encoding the input frame... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080249768 - Method and system for speech compression: Methods, encoders, and digital systems are provided for predictive encoding of speech parameters in which an input frame is encoded by quantizing a parameter vector of the input frame with a strongly-predictive codebook and a weakly-predictive codebook to obtain a strongly-predictive distortion and a weakly-predictive distortion, adjusting a correlation indicator... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080249769 - Method and apparatus for determining audio spatial quality: Techniques for evaluating the audio quality of an audio test signal are disclosed. These techniques provide a quality analysis that takes into account spatial audio distortions between the audio test signal and a reference audio signal. These techniques involve, for example, determining a plurality of audio spatial cues for an... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080249770 - Method and apparatus for searching for music based on speech recognition: Provided is a method and apparatus for searching music based on speech recognition. By calculating search scores with respect to a speech input using an acoustic model, calculating preferences in music using a user preference model, reflecting the preferences in the search scores, and extracting a music list according to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080249772 - Apparatus and method for enhancing speech intelligibility in a mobile terminal: An apparatus and a method for enhancing speech intelligibility in a mobile terminal. A complex spectrum calculator calculates complex spectra of one input frame of an input speech signal by Fourier transform, a speech level calculator calculates its instant levels, an average speech level calculator calculates an average speech level... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080249771 - System and method of voice activity detection in noisy environments: An efficient voice activity detection method and system suitable for real-time operation in low SNR (signal-to-noise) environments corrupted by non-Gaussian non-stationary background noise. The method utilizes rank order statistics to generate a binary voice detection output based on deviations between a short-term energy magnitude signal and a short-term noise reference... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080249773 - Method and system for the automatic generation of speech features for scoring high entropy speech: A method and system for automatically generating a scoring model for scoring a speech sample are disclosed. One or more training speech samples are received in response to a prompt. One or more speech features are determined for each of the training speech samples. A scoring model is then generated... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080249774 - Method and apparatus for speech speaker recognition: Disclosed is a method for speech speaker recognition of a speech speaker recognition apparatus, the method including detecting effective speech data from input speech; extracting an acoustic feature from the speech data; generating an acoustic feature transformation matrix from the speech data according to each of Principal Component Analysis (PCA)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080249775 - Information exchange system and method: A method receives a request for information regarding a product or service from a user. The received request is provided to a speech processing system which attempts to generate an automated response to the received request. If the speech processing system generates a response to the received request, that response... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20080249776 - Methods and arrangements for enhancing machine processable text information: The invention relates to methods and arrangements for enhancing machine processable text information which is provided by at least machine processable text data. On the basis of synthetic speech, i.e. speech generated by a machine, prosody-related information and/or text-related information is determined and added to given text information.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080249778 - Communications using different modalities: Communications between users of different modalities are enabled by a single integrated platform that allows both the input of voice (from a telephone, for example) to be realized as text (such as an interactive text message) and allows the input of text (from the interactive text messaging application, for example)... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080249777 - Method and system for control of an application: The invention describes a dialog management system and method for control of an application (A1, A2, . . . , An). The dialog management system (1) for controlling an application (A1, A2 . . . , An) comprises a mobile pointing device comprising a camera for generating an image (22,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080249779 - Speech dialog system: A speech dialog system includes a signal input unit that receives an acoustic input signal. A voice activity detector compares a portion of the received signal to a noise estimate to determine if the signal includes voice activity. A speech recognizer processes signals containing voice activity to determine if the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080249780 - Voice guidance system for vehicle: A voice guidance system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a tuner, a touch sensor, a smart ECU, a D-seat speaker, and a P-seat speaker, which are all mounted in a vehicle. It is used for an in-vehicle system, such as a smart entry system, which performs intercommunication with a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080249781 - Voice business client: The subject mater herein relates to computer software and client-server based applications and, more particularly, to a voice business client. Some embodiments include one or more device-agnostic application interaction models and one or more device specific transformation services. Some such embodiments provide one or more of systems, methods, and software... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080249782 - Web service support for a multimodal client processing a multimodal application: Web service support for a multimodal client processing a multimodal application, the multimodal client providing an execution environment for the application and operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the application stored on an application server,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080249783 - Layered code-excited linear prediction speech encoder and decoder having plural codebook contributions in enhancement layers thereof and methods of layered celp encoding and decoding: A layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) encoder, an Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and methods of CELP encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, the encoder includes: (1) a core layer subencoder and (2) at least one enhancement layer subencoder having an adaptive-gain multiplier configured to apply a gain for an... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080249784 - Layered code-excited linear prediction speech encoder and decoder in which closed-loop pitch estimation is performed with linear prediction excitation corresponding to optimal gains and methods of layered celp encoding and decoding: A layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) encoder, an Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and methods of CELP encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, the encoder includes: (1) a core layer subencoder and (2) at least one enhancement layer subencoder, at least one of the core layer subencoder and the enhancement... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080243472 - Accurate instant message translation in real time: The invention relates to a system and method for accurately translating instant messages in real time. The system includes a source computing device used to compose an instant message in a first language. Furthermore, the system includes a server connected to the source device through a network, the translation server... Agent: Fountain Law Group, Inc.

20080243473 - Language translation of visual and audio input: The present translation system translates visual input and/or audio input from one language into another language. Some implementations incorporate a context-based translation that uses information obtained from visual input or audio input to aid in the translation of the other input. Other implementations combine the visual and audio translation. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243474 - Speech translation apparatus, method and program: Speech translation apparatus includes first generation unit generating first text representing speech recognition result, and first prosody information, second generation unit generating first para-language information, first association unit associating each first portion of first text with corresponding first portion of first para-language information, translation unit translating first text into second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080243476 - Voice prompts for use in speech-to-speech translation system: Techniques for employing improved prompts in a speech-to-speech translation system are disclosed. By way of example, a technique for use in indicating a dialogue turn in an automated speech-to-speech translation system comprises the following steps/operations. One or more text-based scripts are obtained. The one or more text-based scripts are synthesizable... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080243475 - Web content translation system, method, and software: A translation system and method for translating web content are disclosed. The system and method utilize an interconnection of a desired content source and a web-based translator to provide an on-the-fly translation of the web content of the desired content source. Specifically, the translation system comprises a web-based translator adapted... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080243477 - Multi-staged language classification: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for determining languages of documents, including text messages and text fragments, generally sent via wireless communication devices. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080243478 - Efficient implementation of morphology for agglutinative languages: A method for constructing an automaton for automated analysis of agglutinative languages, the method including constructing an affix automaton for each of a plurality of affix types of an agglutinative language, where each of the affix types is associated with one or more affixes associated with a morphological concept, combining... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080243481 - Large language models in machine translation: Systems, methods, and computer program products for machine translation are provided. In some implementations a system is provided. The system includes a language model including a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram having a corresponding relative frequency in the corpus and an order n corresponding to a number... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243482 - Method for performing effective drill-down operations in text corpus visualization and exploration using language model approaches for key phrase weighting: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for performing a drill-down operation on a text corpus comprising documents, using language models for key phrase weighting, said method comprising the steps of weighting key phrases occurring both in a foreground language model, which contains a selected document cluster of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243479 - Open information extraction from the web: To implement open information extraction, a new extraction paradigm has been developed in which a system makes a single data-driven pass over a corpus of text, extracting a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. Using training data, a Self-Supervised Learner employs a parser and heuristics to... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080243480 - System and method for determining semantically related terms: Systems and methods for determining semantically related terms are disclosed. Generally, a semantically related term tool receives a seed set and identifies a plurality of terms that constitute the seed set. For each term of the seed set, the semantically related term tool identifies concept terms associated with terms of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243484 - Systems and methods for generating weighted finite-state automata representing grammars: A context-free grammar can be represented by a weighted finite-state transducer. This representation can be used to efficiently compile that grammar into a weighted finite-state automaton that accepts the strings allowed by the grammar with the corresponding weights. The rules of a context-free grammar are input. A finite-state automaton is... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080243483 - Utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language: The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which grammar structures are delimited within and defined by a set of tags. The markup language format also provides grammar switch tags... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080243486 - Apparatus and method for identifying unknown word based on a definition: An apparatus and method of identifying an unknown word based on a known meaning, or word identification system. The word identification system allows a user that knows the meaning of a word but cannot recall the word that corresponds to the known meaning to identify the word through a series... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20080243488 - Automated glossary creation: A method and device for creating a glossary includes a processor operable for executing computer instructions for identifying, in at least one information source, at least one glossary item identifying a part or a component, determining at least one glossary item form as a canonical form, defining, by using the... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080243487 - Hybrid text segmentation using n-grams and lexical information: A hybrid n-gram/lexical analysis tokenization system including a lexicon and a hybrid tokenizer operative to perform both N-gram tokenization of a text and lexical analysis tokenization of a text using the lexican, and to construct either of an index and a classifier from the results of both of the N-gram... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080243485 - Method, apparatus, system, user interface and computer program product for use with managing content: A method for adding content to a dictionary for use with a communication terminal, including: parsing a media content for one or more expressions; extracting the expressions from the media content; and providing the expressions to the dictionary for subsequent retrieval.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243491 - Modulation device, modulation method, demodulation device, and demodulation method: A modulation device including: a modulation unit for modulating a carrier in an audible sound range by an encoded transmission signal to generate a modulated signal; a masker sound generation unit for generating a masker signal outputted as a masker sound for making the modulated signal harder to hear when... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080243490 - Multi-language text fragment transcoding and featurization: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for transcoding received text fragments and documents. A featurization configuration is produced to create token components for evaluating the content of the text fragment. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080243489 - Multiple stream decoder: A method is provided for decoding data streams in a voice communication system. The method includes: receiving two or more data streams having voice data encoded therein; decoding each data stream into a set of speech coding parameters; forming a set of combined speech coding parameters by combining the sets... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080243492 - Voice-scrambling-signal creation method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium therefor: Original voice uttered in a first space is acquired via a microphone and a series of digital waveform data of the acquired original voice are obtained. The waveform data are sequentially segmented into plural frames and the waveform data of the individual frames are written into a memory. In parallel... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080243493 - Method for restoring partials of a sound signal: A method for restoring a partial between a peak Pi and a peak Pi+N whose frequency and phase are known. The method (1) comprises the steps of estimating (2) the frequency {circumflex over (ω)} of each of the missing peaks Pi+1 to Pi+N−1 of this partial, calculating (3) the phase... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080243495 - Adaptive voice playout in vop: Packetized CELP-encoded speech playout with frame truncation during silence and frame expansion method dependent upon voicing classification with voiced frame expansion maintaining phasealignment.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080243494 - Dialog detecting apparatus, dialog detecting method, and computer program product: A speech receiving unit receives a user ID, a speech obtained at a terminal, and an utterance duration, from the terminal. A proximity determining unit calculates a correlation value expressing a correlation between speeches received from plural terminals, compares the correlation value with a first threshold value, and determines that... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080243496 - Band division noise suppressor and band division noise suppressing method: A band division noise suppressor suppressing noise sufficiently with a small amount of processing and a little voice distortion. In the band division noise suppressor, a band dividing section (101) divides an input voice signal into a low band voice signal and a high band voice signal. The low band... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080243497 - Stationary-tones interference cancellation: An “Interference Canceller” provides a computationally efficient real-time technique for removing stationary-tone interference from signals. Typical sources of stationary tone contamination of signals include noise from power wiring (i.e., 50/60 Hz or 400 Hz and their harmonics), frame or line frequencies from electronic devices, and noise from computer fans, hard... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080243498 - Method and system for providing interactive speech recognition using speaker data: An interactive speech recognition process and system is disclosed. A user is prompted for selection of one of a number designated phrases represented in a grammar database. Speech recognition processing is applied to an uttered response from the user to match data in the grammar database, thereby identifying the selected... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243499 - System and method of speech recognition training based on confirmed speaker utterances: An interactive speech recognition training process and system is disclosed. A speech recognition process is applied to a received speaker utterance. Utterance data are matched by the system with data in a grammar database and the speaker is requested to confirm a determined match. If the system determines from the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243500 - Automatic editing using probabilistic word substitution models: An input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is transformed into output structured document text. A probabilistic word substitution model is provided which establishes association probabilities indicative of target structured document text correlating with source unstructured speech recognition text. The input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is looked up... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080243501 - Location-based responses to telephone requests: A method for receiving processed information at a remote device is described. The method includes transmitting from the remote device a verbal request to a first information provider and receiving a digital message from the first information provider in response to the transmitted verbal request. The digital message includes a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243502 - Partially filling mixed-initiative forms from utterances having sub-threshold confidence scores based upon word-level confidence data: The invention discloses prompting for a spoken response that provides input for multiple elements. A single spoken utterance including content for multiple elements can be received, where each element is mapped to a data field. The spoken utterance can be speech-to-text converted to derive values for each of the multiple... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080243503 - Minimum divergence based discriminative training for pattern recognition: A method of providing discriminative training of a speech recognition unit is discussed. The method includes receiving an acoustic indication of an utterance having a hypothesis space and comparing the hypothesis space against a reference. The method measures the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) between the reference and the hypothesis space to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080243504 - System and method of speech recognition training based on confirmed speaker utterances: An interactive speech recognition training process and system is disclosed. A speech recognition process is applied to a received speaker utterance. Utterance data are matched by the system with data in a grammar database and the speaker is requested to confirm a determined match. If the system determines from the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243505 - Method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding: A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such as high-cost errors and low-cost errors and trade, if necessary,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080243506 - Speech recognition apparatus and method and program therefor: A speech recognition apparatus includes a generating unit generating a speech-feature vector expressing a feature for each of frames obtained by dividing an input speech, a storage unit storing a first acoustic model obtained by modeling a feature of each word by using a state transition model, a storage unit... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080243507 - Natural error handling in speech recognition: A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural way, essentially by repeating the information that was incorrectly recognized previously. Such a mechanism closely approximates what human-to-human dialogue... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080243508 - Prosody-pattern generating apparatus, speech synthesizing apparatus, and computer program product and method thereof: Normalization parameters are generated at a normalization-parameter generating unit by calculating the mean values and the standard deviations of an initial prosody pattern and a prosody pattern of a training sentence of a speech corpus. Then, the variance range or variance width of the initial prosody pattern is normalized at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080243509 - Speech module: A speech module (13) comprises an independent self-contained connector module or unit which is adapted to be releasably connected in series with the input to, or output from, a signal sensing apparatus (1). The module is provided with plugs and/or sockets (14a,14b,20) compatible with those of the apparatus (1) so... Agent: William A. Drucker

20080243510 - Overlapping screen reading of non-sequential text: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to screen reading non-sequential text and provide a method, system and computer program product for overlapping screen reading of non-sequential text, such as a tag cloud or Web page header. In an embodiment of the invention, an overlapping... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080243511 - Speech synthesizer: The present invention is a speech synthesizer that generates speech data of text including a fixed part and a variable part, in combination with recorded speech and rule-based synthetic speech. The speech synthesizer is a high-quality one in which recorded speech and synthetic speech are concatenated with the discontinuity of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080243513 - Apparatus and method for controlling output format of information: An apparatus for controlling the output format of information is provided. The apparatus includes a communications unit configured to receive information intended for at least one recipient. The apparatus also includes a selection unit, which is configured to automatically detect, based on the at least one recipient, an externally-specified indication... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243512 - Method of and system for classification of an audio signal: The invention describes a method of classifying an audio input signal (1), said method comprising the steps of extracting a number of features (2) of the audio input signal (1), deriving a feature vector (3) for the input audio signal (1) based on these features (2), and determining the probability... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243514 - Natural error handling in speech recognition: A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural way, essentially by repeating the information that was incorrectly recognized previously. Such a mechanism closely approximates what human-to-human dialogue... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080243515 - System and method for providing an automated call center inline architecture: A system and method for providing an automated call center inline architecture is provided. A plurality of grammar references and prompts are maintained on a script engine. A call is received through a telephony interface. Audio data is collected using the prompts from the script engine, which are transmitted to... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080243516 - Daily reminder key station: A daily reminder key station is provided and equipped with a voice memo recording and playback device integrated therein. The daily reminder key station is configured to provide an audible playback of personalized reminders for the day whenever keys or a key ring is removed from a key hook on... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20080243517 - Speech bookmarks in a voice user interface using a speech recognition engine and acoustically generated baseforms: A system and method for navigating a dialog hierarchy from a voice user interface (VUI) using speech bookmarks. The method can detect a user spoken command for bookmarking a location within a dialog hierarchy of a voice response system. A user spoken bookmark can be received, which is added to... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080243520 - Audio coding: A method of encoding a multi-channel audio signal including at least a first signal component (LF), a second signal component (LR) and a third signal component (RF). The method comprises the steps of encoding the first and second signal components by a first parametric encoder (202) resulting in a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243519 - Method for decoding an audio signal: The invention relates to a method for decoding an audio signal, to allow an audio signal to be compressed and transferred more efficiently. The inventive method comprises steps of receiving an audio signal with spatial information signal, obtaining location information using the number of time slot and parameter of audio... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243518 - System and method for compressing and reconstructing audio files: A system and method for the improved compression of audio signals and the restoration and enhancement of audio recordings missing high frequency content. In the preferred embodiment the different context models are applied to increase the compression ratio of spectral information, quantization coefficients and other information. Context models and arithmetic... Agent: Daryl W Schnurr Miller Thomson LLP