Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 01/09

20090030669 - Efficient review of data: A server may provide information to a processing device for displaying a parser user interface. The displayed parser user interface may include an input portal for inputting text input. The parser user interface may further include controls for selecting a level of compression. Upon selection of one of the controls,... Agent: Capitol Ip

20090030672 - Automatic natural language translation during information transfer: Information elements such as text, tables, graphics, and hyperlinks, are intercepted during their transfer from a computer source to a computer destination, such as during a cut-and-paste operation. It is determined if each intercepted information element is expressed in a natural language which matches a user-specified natural language intended for... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090030671 - Machine translation method for pdf file: Disclosed is a machine translation method for a PDF file. A machine translation device extracts source language text and non-text from the input source language PDF file through image transformation, corrects the extracted source language text by using the source language text extracted from text information, restores a part that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090030670 - Real-time multi-lingual adaptation of manufacturing instructions in a manufacturing management system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for real-time multi-lingual adaptation of manufacturing instructions in a manufacturing management system. In one embodiment of the invention, a manufacturing language adaptation method can be provided. The method can include identifying an operator receiving manufacturing instruction, determining... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090030673 - Automatically identifying unique language independent keys correlated with appropriate text strings of various locales by key search: A method, system and computer program product for automatically identifying unique language independent keys. A “key search” is performed which searches for various language independent keys in a properties file associated with a value or text string entered in a first locale. A second locale is suggested to narrow the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.c.

20090030674 - Automatically identifying unique language independent keys correlated with appropriate text strings of various locales by value and key searches: A method, system and computer program product for automatically identifying unique language independent keys. A “value search” is performed which provides a listing of values for a locale. Upon the user selecting a value in the listing, a “key search” is performed to search for various language independent keys associated... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.c.

20090030675 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving the audio signal having a plurality of random access units. The random access unit includes one or more frames and at least one of the frames is a random access frame. The random access frame is a frame encoded such that previous frames... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030676 - Method of deriving a compressed acoustic model for speech recognition: A method of deriving a compressed acoustic model for speech recognition is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the method comprises transforming an acoustic model into an eigenspace at step 20, determining eigenvectors of the eigenspace and their eigenvalues, and selectively encoding dimensions of the eigenvectors based on values of... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20090030677 - Scalable encoding apparatus, scalable decoding apparatus, and methods of them: A scalable encoding apparatus capable of suppressing the quality degradation of a decoded signal without increasing the bit rate. In this apparatus, a core layer encoding part (101) and an extended layer encoding part (102) encode an input signal for each of audio frames. When a replacement determining part (103)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090030678 - Method for binary coding of quantization indices of a signal envelope, method for decoding a signal envelope and corresponding coding and decoding modules: A module (402) for binary coding of a signal envelope, comprising coding module (502) for coding a variable length first mode. The coding module for coding the first mode incorporates an envelope saturation detector and said coding module (402) further includes a second coding module (503) for coding a second... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090030679 - Ambient noise injection for use in speech recognition: A method of ambient noise injection for use with speech recognition in a production vehicle. The method includes the steps of monitoring audio including user speech, receiving an utterance from the user speech, retrieving vehicle-specific ambient noise, and prepending the vehicle-specific ambient noise to the utterance before pre-processing and decoding... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090030681 - Controlling a set-top box via remote speech recognition: A device may receive over a network a digitized speech signal from a remote control that accepts speech. In addition, the device may convert the digitized speech signal into text, use the text to obtain command information applicable to a set-top box, and send the command information to the set-top... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090030680 - Method and system of indexing speech data: A method and system of indexing speech data. The method includes indexing word transcripts including a timestamp for a word occurrence; and indexing sub-word transcripts including a timestamp for a sub-word occurrence. A timestamp in the index indicates the time and duration of occurrence of the word or sub-word in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090030682 - System and method for publishing media files: A method for publishing a digital media file. The method includes the steps of receiving the digital media file containing speech, converting the speech to text, identifying a keyword in the text, retrieving, for the keyword, a corresponding URL from a database, inserting into the text a hyperlink linking the... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20090030683 - System and method for tracking dialogue states using particle filters: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for tracking dialog states in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises casting a plurality of dialog states, or particles, as a network describing the probability relationships between each of a plurality of variables, sampling a subset of the plurality of dialog states,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090030684 - Using speech recognition results based on an unstructured language model in a mobile communication facility application: A method and system for entering information into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility is provided. The method and system may include recording speech presented by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility, transmitting the recording through a wireless communication facility to a speech... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030685 - Using speech recognition results based on an unstructured language model with a navigation system: Speech recorded by an audio capture facility of a navigation facility is processed by a speech recognition facility to generate results that are provided to the navigation facility. When information related to a navigation application running on the navigation facility are provided to the speech recognition facility, the results generated... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030686 - Method and system for computing or determining confidence scores for parse trees at all levels: In a confidence computing method and system, a processor may interpret speech signals as a text string or directly receive a text string as input, generate a syntactical parse tree representing the interpreted string and including a plurality of sub-trees which each represents a corresponding section of the interpreted text... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090030687 - Adapting an unstructured language model speech recognition system based on usage: A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility is transmitted through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. The speech recognition facility generates results... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030688 - Tagging speech recognition results based on an unstructured language model for use in a mobile communication facility application: Entering information into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility comprises recording speech presented by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility, transmitting the recording through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility, transmitting information relating to the software application to the speech... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030689 - Mobile voice recognition data collection and processing: Voice recognition methods, systems and interfaces are used to collect data and produce databases that are then searched and used to produce reports or electronic filings. The databases are developed using a hierarchically designed command structure and a hierarchy of relational databases for the entry and recognition of voice commands.... Agent: Attn: Vincent Perrin Accutrak Inventory Specialists, Llc

20090030690 - Speech analysis apparatus, speech analysis method and computer program: A speech analysis apparatus analyzing prosodic characteristics of speech information and outputting a prosodic discrimination result includes an input unit inputting speech information, an acoustic analysis unit calculating relative pitch variation and a discrimination unit performing speech discrimination processing, in which the acoustic analysis unit calculates a current template relative... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090030691 - Using an unstructured language model associated with an application of a mobile communication facility: A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility. A speech recognition facility generates results of the recorded speech using an unstructured language model based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030692 - Natural language system and method based on unisolated performance metric: A natural language business system and method is developed to understand the underlying meaning of a person's speech, such as during a transaction with the business system. The system includes a speech recognition engine, and action classification engine, and a control module. The control module causes the system to execute... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20090030693 - Automated near-end distortion detection for voice communication systems: In one embodiment, a method for providing voice quality assurance is provided. The method determines voice information for an end point in a voice communication system. The voice information may be from an ingress microphone. The method determines if the voice quality is considered degraded based on an analysis of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20090030694 - Stored value gift card with voice recording and playback: A gift card is provided which integrally combines a voice storage/playback unit with a stored value card and on two separate portions of a base substrate, with the two portions separated by a releasable connection portion. Upon purchasing the gift card, a gift giver records a personal voice message and... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20090030695 - System and method for hazard mitigation in voice-driven control applications: A speech recognition and control system including a sound card for receiving speech and converting the speech into digital data, the sound card removably connected to an input of a computer, recognizer software executing on the computer for interpreting at least a portion of the digital data, event detection software... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20090030697 - Using contextual information for delivering results generated from a speech recognition facility using an unstructured language model: A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility. A speech recognition facility generates results of the recorded speech using an unstructured language model based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030696 - Using results of unstructured language model based speech recognition to control a system-level function of a mobile communications facility: A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility. A speech recognition facility generates results of the recorded speech using an unstructured language model based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030698 - Using speech recognition results based on an unstructured language model with a music system: Speech recorded by an audio capture facility of a music facility is processed by a speech recognition facility to generate results that are provided to the music facility. When information related to a music application running on the music facility are provided to the speech recognition facility, the results generated... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090030700 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least first and second channels. The first and second channels are synchronously subdivided into blocks such that the lengths of the blocks into which the second channel is subdivided correspond to the lengths of the blocks into... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030701 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least first and second channels. The first and second channels are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. The first and second channels are decoded, and the subdivided... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030702 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least one channel. The channel is subdivided into a plurality of blocks, and at least two of the blocks are capable of having different lengths. The embodiment further includes obtaining indicator information indicating whether determining of a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030703 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data is provided jointly if the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030699 - Providing a codebook for bandwidth extension of an acoustic signal: A codebook spectral envelope may be used to extend the bandwidth of a bandwidth limited signal. A system includes codebooks that list codebook spectral envelopes. A codebook spectral envelope may be selected based on a characteristic of the spectral envelope of the bandwidth limited signal. Modifications of selected codebook spectral... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090030704 - Acoustic signal encoding device, and acoustic signal decoding device: An acoustic signal encoding device for down-mixing at different ratios to encode a multichannel signal with a small number of channels, and an acoustic signal decoding device for decoding the signal encoded by the acoustic signal encoding device. In these devices, weighting means (103) in the acoustic signal encoding device... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090024382 - Language information system: The invention discloses a language information system, which includes an original first text of an original first language in electronic format; a second text of a second language in electronic format; first linking means for providing linkages of words of the first text to equivalent words in the second text;... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20090024383 - Technology for selecting texts suitable as processing objects: There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090024384 - Data processing method and system, program for realizing the method, and computer readable storage medium storing the program: A database access management unit manages accesses to databases managed by a plurality of data processing servers each provided for each data kind. A request analysis unit analyzes a request from an application containing a process request for each data kind. A process server selection unit selects the data processing... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20090024385 - Semantic parser: A method and an apparatus for semantic parsing of electronic text documents. The electronic text documents can comprise a plurality of sentences with several language components. The method comprises analyzing at least one sentence of the electronic text document and dynamically generating a graph from the analyzed sentence of the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090024386 - Multi-mode speech encoding system: A method comprises analyzing each frame of a plurality of frames of the speech signal to determine one or more speech parameters for the speech signal; deciding, for each frame of the plurality of frames of the speech signal, based on the one or more speech parameters of the speech... Agent: Farshad Farjami, Esq. Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090024387 - Communication system noise cancellation power signal calculation techniques: In order to enhance the quality of a communication signal derived from speech and noise, a filter divides the communication signal into a plurality of frequency band signals. A calculator generates a plurality of power band signals each having a power band value and corresponding to one of the frequency... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20090024388 - Method and apparatus for searching a music database:

20090024389 - Text oriented, user-friendly editing of a voicemail message: A system in one embodiment includes a server associated with a unified messaging system (UMS). The server records speech of a user as an audio data file, translates the audio data file into a text data file, and maps each word within the text data file to a corresponding segment... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090024390 - Multi-class constrained maximum likelihood linear regression: A method of speech recognition converts an unknown speech input into a stream of representative features. The feature stream is transformed based on speaker dependent adaptation of multi-class feature models. Then automatic speech recognition is used to compare the transformed feature stream to multi-class speaker independent acoustic models to generate... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090024392 - Speech recognition dictionary compilation assisting system, speech recognition dictionary compilation assisting method and speech recognition dictionary compilation assisting program: A speech recognition dictionary making supporting system for efficiently making/updating a speech recognition dictionary/language model with reduced speech recognition errors by using text data available at low cost. The speech recognition dictionary making supporting system comprises a recognition dictionary storage section (105), a language model storage section (106), and a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090024391 - Speech recognition system and method: According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090024393 - Speech synthesizer and speech synthesis system: A speech synthesizer conducts a dialogue among a plurality of synthesized speakers, including a self speaker and one or more partner speakers, by use of a voice profile table describing emotional characteristics of synthesized voices, a speaker database storing feature data for different types of speakers and/or different speaking tones,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090024394 - Audio guidance system: A CPU of a speech ECU acquires vehicle position information. If it is determined from the position information and map data stored in a memory that the vehicle has moved between areas where different languages are spoken as dialects or official languages, the CPU determines a language corresponding to the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090024398 - Apparatus and method for low complexity combinatorial coding of signals: The invention utilizes low complexity estimates of complex functions to perform combinatorial coding of signal vectors. The invention disregards the accuracy of such functions as long as certain sufficient properties are maintained. The invention in turn may reduce computational complexity of certain coding and decoding operations by two orders of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090024396 - Audio signal encoding method and apparatus: An audio signal encoding method and apparatus for efficiently encoding an audio signal in an interval having many birth sinusoids and enabling tracking of sinusoidal signals in the next interval, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the audio signal encoding method are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090024395 - Audio signal encoding method, audio signal decoding method, transmitter, receiver, and wireless microphone system: It is an object of the present invention to provide an audio signal encoding method, an audio signal decoding method, a transmitter, a receiver, and a wireless microphone system which can compress an audio signal at a relatively high compression ratio at a relatively high quality with a relatively low... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090024399 - Method and arrangements for audio signal encoding: To form an audio signal, frequency components of the audio signal which are allotted to a first subband are formed by means of a subband decoder using supplied fundamental period values which respectively indicate a fundamental period for the audio signal. Frequency components of the audio signal which are allotted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090024400 - Multiplexed audio data decoding apparatus and receiver apparatus: A multiplexed audio data decoder apparatus is provided in which integration of an audio decoder is easy, and has a high flexibility when the number of the formats to be processed is increased or when the specification is changed. In an external ROM 60 there are accumulated a plurality of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20090024397 - Unified filter bank for performing signal conversions: A unified filter bank for performing signal conversions may include an interface that receives signal conversion commands in relation to multiple types of compressed audio bitstreams. The unified filter bank may also include a reconfigurable transform component that performs a transform as part of signal conversion for the multiple types... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090018816 - Method and communication network for providing announcements in preferred language while roaming: Communication network and method for providing communication facilities for a plurality of users. The communication network comprises an announcement generating element (14) for sending network related messages to any of the users. A further network element is connected to the announcement generating element, the further network element being arranged for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090018815 - Operating system for a vehicle: An operator control system for a vehicle is provided, including an input unit, an output unit, and a speller application with which information can be input character-by-character into the operator control system. The speller application may include a plurality of language-dependent character sets from which a character set can be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090018820 - Character string anonymizing apparatus, character string anonymizing method, and character string anonymizing program: A character string anonymizing apparatus classifies each of a plurality of pieces of text data, each including a character string, into a plurality of kinds of data in accordance with a classification condition, extracts a plurality of words included in each of the plurality of pieces of text data (hereinafter,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090018821 - Language processing device, language processing method, and language processing program: A language processing device includes first analysis unit 21 that subjects a natural language sentence containing a polysemic word and other words to a predetermined analysis and outputs a plurality of analysis results for the natural language sentence according to a plurality of meanings of the polysemic word, second analysis... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090018817 - Method and system for connecting characters, words and signs to a telecommunication number: This invention relates to the field of wireless data and instant communication technologies and describes a method and a system for connecting words, phrases, or symbols of any languages or multimedia expressions, within the content of transmitted data, to telecommunication codes. The presented method of the invention selects a group... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090018818 - Operating device for natural language input: An operating device for natural language input is disclosed. A user can express its own request to the operating device by inputting natural language, then a processor determines format of natural language, if the natural language is voice format, a voice identification cell transforms it into word data and transmits... Agent: Aibelive Co., Ltd.

20090018819 - Tracking changes in stratified data-streams: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for detecting and coordinating changes in stratified data streams. The method embodiment comprises receiving one or more data streams, each data stream comprising at least one lexical item and having at least one metavalue, detecting a change in a frequency of the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090018822 - Methods and apparatus for business rules authoring and operation employing a customizable vocabulary: In one embodiment, a method comprises creating at least one individualized language resource, creating at least one individualized language rule referencing at least one of said individualized language resource, and transforming said at least one individualized language rule into computer executable format.... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20090018823 - Speech coding: A method of encoding a speech signal for transmission in a communications network involves transforming the signal into a sequence of frames, each frame including a plurality of coefficients; dividing the frame into a set of sub-bands each containing a sub-set of the plurality of coefficients; applying an optimization function... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090018824 - Audio encoding device, audio decoding device, audio encoding system, audio encoding method, and audio decoding method: Provided is an audio encoding device for modeling a spectrum waveform and accurately restoring the spectrum waveform. The audio encoding device includes: an FFT unit (104) for subjecting a spectrum amplitude of a drive sound source signal to an FFT process to obtain an FFT transform coefficient; a second spectrum... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090018825 - Low-complexity, non-intrusive speech quality assessment: A non-intrusive signal quality assessment apparatus includes a feature vector calculator that determines parameters representing frames of a signal and extracts a collection of per-frame feature vectors (φ;(n)) representing structural information of the signal from the parameters. A frame selector preferably selects only frames (Ω\with a feature vector (φ;(n)) lying... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090018826 - Methods, systems and devices for speech transduction: Methods, systems, and devices for speech transduction are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a computer receives far-field acoustic data acquired by one or more microphones. The far-field acoustic data are analyzed. The far-field acoustic data are modified to reduce characteristics of the far-field... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20090018827 - Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method: Media monitoring and measurement systems and methods are disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a media measurement system and method that utilizes audience data to enhance content identifications. Some embodiments analyze media player log data to enhance content identification. Other embodiments of the present invention analyze sample sequence... Agent: Mauriel Kapouytian & Treffert LLP

20090018828 - Automatic speech recognition system: An automatic speech recognition system includes: a sound source localization module for localizing a sound direction of a speaker based on the acoustic signals detected by the plurality of microphones; a sound source separation module for separating a speech signal of the speaker from the acoustic signals according to the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090018830 - Speech control of computing devices: The invention relates to techniques of controlling a computing device via speech. A method realization of the proposed techniques comprises the steps of transforming speech input into a text string comprising one or more input words; performing a context-related mapping of the input words to one or more functions for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090018829 - Speech recognition dialog management: Described is a speech recognition dialog management system that allows more open-ended conversations between virtual agents and people than are possible using just agent-directed dialogs. The system uses both novel dialog context switching and learning algorithms based on spoken interactions with people. The context switching is performed through processing multiple... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090018831 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method: Voices are prevented from being recognized with poor accuracy when a speaker is not close to a sound pickup device. A speech recognition apparatus (10) includes a sound pickup device (16) picking up sounds, a photographing device (18) photographing images of a speaker making voices into the sound pickup device... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090018832 - Information communication terminal, information communication system, information communication method, information communication program, and recording medium recording thereof: An information communication terminal (100) that includes: a speech recognition module (6) for recognizing speech information to identify a plurality of words in the recognized speech information; a storage medium (20) for storing keyword extraction condition setting data (24) in which a condition for extracting a keyword is set; a... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090018833 - Model weighting, selection and hypotheses combination for automatic speech recognition and machine translation: A translation method and system include a recognition engine having a plurality of models each being employed to decode a same utterance to provide an output. A model combiner is configured to assign probabilities to each model output and configured to assign weights to the outputs of the plurality of... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090018834 - Personal virtual assistant: A computer-based virtual assistant includes a virtual assistant application running on a computer capable of receiving human voice communications from a user of a remote user interface and transmitting a vocalization to the remote user interface, the virtual assistant application enabling the user to access email and voicemail messages of... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20090018835 - Personal virtual assistant: A computer-based virtual assistant includes a virtual assistant application running on a computer capable of receiving human voice communications from a user of a remote user interface and transmitting a vocalization to the remote user interface, the virtual assistant application enabling the user to access email and voicemail messages of... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20090018838 - Media interface: Provided are a user interface for processing digital data, a method for processing a media interface, and a recording medium thereof. The user interface is used for converting a selected script into voice to generate digital data having a form of a voice file corresponding to the script, or for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090018839 - Personal virtual assistant: A computer-based virtual assistant includes a virtual assistant application running on a computer capable of receiving human voice communications from a user of a remote user interface and transmitting a vocalization to the remote user interface, the virtual assistant application enabling the user to access email and voicemail messages of... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20090018837 - Speech processing apparatus and method: A speech processing apparatus which can playback a sentence using recorded-speech-playback or text-to-speech is provided. It is determined whether each of a plurality of words or phrases constituting a sentence is a word or phrase to be played back by recorded-speech-playback or a word or phrase to be played back... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090018836 - Speech synthesis system and speech synthesis method: In a speech synthesis, a selecting unit selects one string from first speech unit strings corresponding to a first segment sequence obtained by dividing a phoneme string corresponding to target speech into segments. The selecting unit performs repeatedly generating, based on maximum W second speech unit strings corresponding to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090018840 - Automated speech recognition (asr) tiling: Techniques are described related to tiles of automatic speech recognition data. In an implementation, automated speech recognition (ASR) data is obtained. The ASR data is divided into a plurality of tiles based on an approximate amount of data to be included in each tile. Each of the tiles is a... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20090018841 - Method and apparatus for remote playback of personalized and non-personalized audio messages: A method and apparatus allow for remotely playing back recorded personalized and non-personalized audio messages to a listener. A first recorded message, which has been personalized for an intended listener, is stored in a first memory of an audio player. A second recorded message, which has not been personalized for... Agent: Brinkley, Morgan, Solomon, Tatum, Stanley, Lunny & Crosby, LLP

20090018842 - Automated speech recognition (asr) context: Techniques are described to create a context for use in automated speech recognition. In an implementation, a determination is made as to which data received by a position-determining device is selectable to initiate one or more functions of the position-determining device, wherein at least one of the functions relates to... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20090018843 - Speech processor and communication terminal device: In a speech processor incorporated into a communication terminal device, an extractor extracts speech characteristics data (e.g. voiceprint data) from speech signals input thereto; then, a speech signal processing module processes input speech signals in accordance with signal processing parameters, which are stored in a memory in relation to preset... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090012775 - Method for transliterating and suggesting arabic replacement for a given user input: A method for suggesting transliteration for user inputs, comprising: receiving an original user input composed of alpha-numeric characters; identifying the possibility of transliterating the input; determining at least one potential transliteration by performing at least one of the following (1) replacing a sequence of characters in the original input to... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090012776 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for machine translation: A concept obtaining unit obtains, for each example set stored in an example storage unit, a first concept of a phrase included in an example in the first language and a second concept of a phrase included in an example in the second language from a concept storage unit. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090012778 - Apparatus and method for expanding natural language query requirement: The present invention provides an apparatus for expanding a query requirement, comprising: a query requirement understanding device which generates an explicit query requirement according to a user query request; and a query requirement expanding device which generates an implicit query requirement associated with the explicit query requirement. The query requirement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090012777 - Token stream differencing with moved-block detection: Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for differencing token streams and detecting moved blocks of tokens. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: obtaining a first token stream and a second token stream, comparing the first and second token streams to identify a group of tokens that are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090012779 - Sound source separation apparatus and sound source separation method: A sound source separation apparatus includes: an SIMO-ICA process unit, separating and generating an SIMO signal by the BSS method based on the ICA method; a sound source direction estimation unit, estimating a sound source direction based on a separating matrix, computed by a learning calculation of the BSS method... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090012780 - Speech signal decoding method and apparatus: In a speech signal decoding method, information containing at least a sound source signal, gain, and filter coefficients is decoded from a received bit stream. Voiced speech and unvoiced speech of a speech signal are identified using the decoded information. Smoothing processing based on the decoded information is performed for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090012781 - Speech coder and speech decoder: A speech coder includes a seed storage that stores a plurality of seeds used as an initial state of oscillation. An oscillator generates different vector sequences in accordance with values of the seeds stored in the seed storage and outputs the vector sequences as excitation vectors. A linear predictive coding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090012782 - Method and arrangements for coding audio signals: According to the invention, an excitation signal is generated as a result of sampled excitation values in order to excite an audio synthesis filter, the generated sampled excitation values being continuously stored in an adaptive codebook. A noise generator is provided which continuously generates random sampled values. A sequence of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090012783 - System and method for adaptive intelligent noise suppression: Systems and methods for adaptive intelligent noise suppression are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a primary acoustic signal is received. A speech distortion estimate is then determined based on the primary acoustic signal. The speech distortion estimate is used to derive control signals which adjust an enhancement filter. The enhancement filter... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090012784 - Speech transcoding in gsm networks: There is provided a method of transcoding an Enhance Full Rate (EFR) 12.2 Kbps encoded frame into an Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) 12.2 Kbps encoded frame, where the method comprises receiving the EFR 12.2 Kbps encoded frame from a first codec; determining if the EFR 12.2 Kbps encoded frame is a... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090012785 - Sampling rate independent speech recognition: A sampling-rate-independent method of automated speech recognition (ASR). Speech energies of a plurality of codebooks generated from training data created at an ASR sampling rate are compared to speech energies in a current frame of acoustic data generated from received audio created at an audio sampling rate below the ASR... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090012786 - Adaptive noise cancellation: Speech-free noise estimation by cancellation of speech content from an audio input where the speech content is estimated by noise suppression. Adaptive noise cancellation with primary and noise-reference inputs and an adaptive noise cancellation filter from estimating primary noise from noise-reference input. Speech Suppressor (Noise Estimation) applied to noise-reference input... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090012787 - Dialog processing system, dialog processing method and computer program: A dialog processing system which includes a target expression data extraction unit for extracting a plurality of target expression data each including a pattern matching portion which matches an utterance pattern, which are inputted by an utterance pattern input unit and is an utterance structure derived from contents of field-independent... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090012788 - Sign language translation system: The translation system of a preferred embodiment includes an input element that receives an input language as audio information, an output element that displays an output language as visual information, and a remote server coupled to the input element and the output element, the remote server including a database of... Agent: Schox PLC

20090012789 - Method and process for performing category-based analysis, evaluation, and prescriptive practice creation upon stenographically written and voice-written text files: System and method for electronically identifying and analyzing the type and frequency of errors and mismatches in a stenographically or voice written text against a stored master file and dynamically creating personalized user feedback, drills, and practice based on identified errors and mismatches from within the context of the stored... Agent: Teresa Ruth Gaudet

20090012791 - Reference pattern adaptation apparatus, reference pattern adaptation method and reference pattern adaptation program: A method and apparatus for carrying out adaptation using input speech data information even at a low reference pattern recognition performance. A reference pattern adaptation device 2 includes a speech recognition section 18, an adaptation data calculating section 19 and a reference pattern adaptation section 20. The speech recognition section... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090012790 - Speech recognition apparatus and control method thereof: A speech recognition apparatus which improves the sound quality of speech output as a speech recognition result is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a recognition unit, which recognizes speech based on a recognition dictionary, and a registration unit, which registers a dictionary entry of a new recognition word in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090012792 - Speech recognition system: A speech recognition system is provided for selecting, via a speech input, an item from a list of items. The speech recognition system detects a first speech input, recognizes the first speech input, compares the recognized first speech input with the list of items and generates a first candidate list... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090012793 - Text-to-speech assist for portable communication devices: The present invention provides a text-to-speech assist for portable communication devices. A method for communicating text data using a portable communication device in accordance with the present invention includes: displaying text data on a display of the portable communication device while communicating with a party; selecting at least a portion... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090012794 - System for giving intelligibility feedback to a speaker: System for giving intelligibility feedback to a speaker (1), speaking for an audience (2), comprising a first microphone (3) at the speaker's side and a second microphone (4) at the audience's side. Both microphones are connected to processing means (5) which are arranged to compute an intelligibility value based on... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090012795 - Method and system for dynamic conditional interaction in a voicexml run-time simulation environment: A method and system for testing voice applications, such as VoiceXML applications, is provided. The system provides a run-time simulation environment for voice applications that simulates and automates user interaction. A user simulation script is provided in a customized mark-up language. The voice application is processed to derive a nominal... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090012796 - Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal: An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a compatible down-mix signal optimized for a first multi-channel decoder from the input bitstream, converting the compatible down-mix signal to be optimized for a second multi-channel signal by performing a compatibility processing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090012797 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal using adaptively switched temporal resolution in the spectral domain: Perceptual audio codecs make use of filter banks and MDCT in order to achieve a compact representation of the audio signal, by removing redundancy and irrelevancy from the original audio signal. During quasi-stationary parts of the audio signal a high frequency resolution of the filter bank is advantageous in order... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090006075 - Phonetic search using normalized string: A method and system for generating a normalized string and performing a phonetic search are provided. To normalize a string, a native string is obtained. Upon obtaining a native string, native-character sets within the native string are identified. Each native-character set is associated with a phonetically corresponding normalized character-set. A... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090006076 - Language translation during a voice call: Communication networks, communication devices, and associated methods are disclosed for translating voice communications for calls from one language to another. When a call is placed from a first party to a second party, the communication network receives voice communications for the call from the first party that are in a... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090006080 - Computer-readable medium having sentence dividing program stored thereon, sentence dividing apparatus, and sentence dividing method: A typical sentence having a specific typical characteristic in the sentence is divided. A division target typical sentence is divided on the basis of a small clause definition. The sentence is divided where positions suitable for dividing the typical sentence based on the structure are expressed by a user. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090006078 - Method and system for natural language dictionary generation: A method and computer system for analyzing a text corpus in a natural language is provided. An initial morphological description having word inflection rules for various groups of words in the natural language is created by a linguist. A plurality of text corpuses are analyzed to obtain information on the... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090006079 - Regular expression word verification: The present disclosure is directed to a method of verifying a compound word. The method includes receiving an input signal indicative of a textual input and accessing a rule and a lexical data structure from data stores. The rule is applied to the textual input to determine whether the textual... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090006077 - Spatially indexed grammar and methods of use: Improved systems and methods are described which simplify the individual's interaction with speech recognition software, expand the database of spoken point names that can be recognized, and increase the quality and therefore likelihood of success of speech recognition applications. The present systems and methods apply to various uses, such as... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090006081 - Method, medium and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal or a speech signal. In the encoding method, encoding is performed by performing domain transformation on a received signal in units of frequency bands by applying a psychoacoustic model, encoding the transformation result with respect to predetermined... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090006082 - Activity-ware for non-textual objects: Providing for summarization and analysis of audio content is described herein. By way of example, an oral conversation can be analyzed, such that points of interest within the oral conversation can be identified and file locations related to such points of interest can be marked. Points of interest can be... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006083 - Systems and methods for spoken information: A communication system, according to various aspects of the present invention, communicates via a network with a person who operates a voice input/output device. The communication system provides collecting and reporting services for journals and surveys all via spoken information. The communication system includes a meta-data database, a constructing engine,... Agent: Bachand Law Office

20090006084 - Low-complexity frame erasure concealment: A system is described that performs frame erasure concealment (FEC) to generate frames of an output speech signal corresponding to erased frames of encoded bit-stream in a manner that conceals the quality-degrading effects of such erased frames. An embodiment of the invention advantageously does not introduce additional delay, has lower... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090006085 - Automated call classification and prioritization: An automated voice message or caller prioritization system that extracts words, prosody, and/or metadata from a voice input. The data extracted is classified with a statistical classifier into groups of interest. These groups could indicate the likelihood that a call is urgent versus nonurgent, from someone the user knows well... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006086 - Signal decoding apparatus: A signal decoding apparatus that can suppress any large unusual sounds to provide decoded signals of improved audibility even when the number of hierarchical layers to be used in the decoding process varies due to a packet loss or the like in communication utilizing a scalable encoding/decoding technique. In the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090006087 - Synchronization of an input text of a speech with a recording of the speech: A method and system for synchronizing words in an input text of a speech with a continuous recording of the speech. A received input text includes previously recorded content of the speech to be reproduced. A synthetic speech corresponding to the received input text is generated. Ratio data including a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090006088 - System and method of performing speech recognition based on a user identifier: Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, application information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input modes to keyboard text entry. Word recognition lattices are generated for each data field of an application and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090006090 - Image communication apparatus and control method of the same: An image communication apparatus includes: an image pickup unit which picks up a user image of a user and processes the user image into a user image signal; an audio input unit which receives a user audio signal of the user; an encoder which encodes the user image signal processed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090006089 - Method and apparatus for storing real time information on a mobile communication device: A method and apparatus that stores information on a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first signal from a user, initiating a recording of information spoken by at least one of the user, a voice mail recording, a recorded message, and a party engaged in... Agent: Prass LLP

20090006091 - Apparatuses and methods for handling recorded voice strings: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating the identification and manipulation of recorded voice strings is provided. The apparatus includes a processor for receiving a voice string that has been recorded. The processor automatically assigns the recorded voice string a name that is indicative of the content of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090006092 - Speech recognition language model making system, method, and program, and speech recognition system: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A speech recognition language model making system (1) comprises a probability estimating device (11), a language model learning corpus storage device (14), and a learning corpus emphasizing device (12). The learning corpus emphasizing device (12) emphasizes a prescribed part of the learning corpus to create an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090006094 - Optimization of detection systems using a detection error tradeoff analysis criterion: In detection systems, such as speaker verification systems, for a given operating point range, with an associated detection “cost”, the detection cost is preferably reduced by essentially trading off the system error in the area of interest with areas essentially “outside” that interest. Among the advantages achieved thereby are higher... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090006093 - Speaker recognition via voice sample based on multiple nearest neighbor classifiers: A speaker recognition system generates a codebook store with codebooks representing voice samples of speaker, referred to as trainers. The speaker recognition system may use multiple classifiers and generate a codebook store for each classifier. Each classifier uses a different set of features of a voice sample as its features.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090006095 - Learning to reorder alternates based on a user's personalized vocabulary: Learning to reorder alternates based on a user's personalized vocabulary may be provided. An alternate list provided to a user for replacing words input by the user via a character recognition application may be reordered based on data previously viewed or input by the user (personal data). The alternate list... Agent: Devon K. Grant Merchant & Gould P.C.

20090006097 - Pronunciation correction of text-to-speech systems between different spoken languages: Pronunciation correction for text-to-speech (TTS) systems and speech recognition (SR) systems between different languages is provided. If a word requiring pronunciation by a target language TTS or SR is from a same language as the target language, but is not found in a lexicon of words from the target language,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006098 - Text-to-speech apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus for converting text data into sound signal, comprises: a phoneme determiner for determining phoneme data corresponding to a plurality of phonemes and pause data corresponding to a plurality of pauses to be inserted among a series of phonemes in the text... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090006096 - Voice persona service for embedding text-to-speech features into software programs: Described is a voice persona service by which users convert text into speech waveforms, based on user-provided parameters and voice data from a service data store. The service may be remotely accessed, such as via the Internet. The user may provide text tagged with parameters, with the text sent to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006099 - Depicting a speech user interface via graphical elements: Depiction of a speech user interface via graphical elements is provided. One or more bits of a graphical user interface bitmask are re-designated as speech bits. When a software application processes the re-designated speech bits, a window manager responsible for generating and rendering a graphical user interface for the application... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006100 - Identification and selection of a software application via speech: An audible indication of a user's position within a given speech grammar framework is provided for a speech-enabled software application, and recognition of speech grammars are limited to use only when a software application that has requested a given set of speech grammars is in focus by a user of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006101 - Method to detect and assist user intentions with real time visual feedback based on interaction language constraints and pattern recognition of sensory features: A language model back-off system can be used with a user interface employing one or more language models to constrain navigation of selectable user interface input components. A user input interpretation module receives user input and interprets the user input to determine if a selection is made of one or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090006103 - Bitstream syntax for multi-process audio decoding: An audio decoder provides a combination of decoding components including components implementing base band decoding, spectral peak decoding, frequency extension decoding and channel extension decoding techniques. The audio decoder decodes a compressed bitstream structured by a bitstream syntax scheme to permit the various decoding components to extract the appropriate parameters... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090006102 - Effective audio segmentation and classification: A method (400) and system (200) for classifying a audio signal are described. The method (400) operates by first receiving a sequence of audio frame feature data, each of the frame feature data characterising an audio frame along the audio segment. In response to receipt of each of the audio... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090006106 - Method and apparatus for decoding a signal: An apparatus for decoding a signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the audio signal can be controlled in a manner of changing/giving spatial characteristics (e.g., listener's virtual position, virtual position of a specific source) of the audio signal. The present invention includes receiving an object parameter; extracting object... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090006105 - Method for generating encoded audio signal and method for processing audio signal: A method for generating an encoded audio signal, and a method for processing the same during the multi-channel audio coding are disclosed. The present invention provides the method for generating an encoded audio signal comprising: generating basic spatial information including basic configuration information requisite for a multi-channel audio coding process... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090006104 - Method of configuring codec and codec using the same: Provided is a codec that may be configured to adaptively optimize to various service environments by obtaining information on a current operating environment of the codec and configuring the codec in view of quality of service (QoS) parameters based on the obtained information.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP