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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression May archived by USPTO category 05/09

20090138256 - Character processing device, character distinction method and computer program: Provided herein is a character processing device that converts an input character formed of an input alphanumeric or symbol to an extended Latin character similar to the input character including: a display unit displaying as an editing character the input character with a cursor attached thereto; a conversion target distinction... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090138255 - Customer facing device having language translation capabilities: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for providing a customer facing device (CFD) with language translation capabilities. The method may include receiving a card swipe from a presentation instrument for a financial transaction at the CFD. The method may further extract location information from the presentation instrument (or other... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090138257 - Document analysis, commenting, and reporting system: A document analysis, commenting, and reporting system provides tools that automate quality assurance analysis tailored to specific document types. As one example, the specific document type may be a requirements specification and the system may tag different parts of requirements, including actors, entities, modes, and a remainder. However, the flexibility... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090138258 - Natural language enhanced user interface in a business rule management system: Some embodiments of a natural language enhanced user interface in a business rule management system have been presented. In one embodiment, one or more rule templates in a natural language are generated from one or more prefabricated sentences. Then a user interface is created using the one or more rule... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090138259 - Method and apparatus for introducing information into a data stream and method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal: An inventive method for introducing information into a data stream including data about spectral values representing a short-term spectrum of an audio signal first performs a processing of the data stream to obtain the spectral values of the short-term spectrum of the audio signal. Apart from that, the information to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090138260 - Voice judging system, voice judging method and program for voice judgment: A voice judging system including feature value extraction means that analyzes a sound signal input from a sound signal input device, and extracts a time series of the feature values, sub-word boundary score calculating means that calculates a time series of sub-word boundary scores, by having reference to sound models... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090138261 - Speech coder using an orthogonal search and an orthogonal search method: Speech is coded using an orthogonal search by calculating a search reference value. An adaptive codevector representing a pitch component is generated. A random codevector representing a random component is also generated. The orthogonal search further includes generating a synthetic speech signal by a synthesis filter being excited by the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090138262 - Systems and methods to index and search voice sites: A method comprises crawling and indexing voice sites and storing results in an index; receiving a search request in voice from a user via a telephone; performing speech recognition on the voice search request and converting the request from voice to text; parsing the query; and performing a search on... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090138263 - Data process unit and data process unit control program: A data process unit 1 comprises a data classification section 1a, data storing section 1b, pattern model generating section 1c, data control section 1d, mathematical distance calculating section 1e, pattern model converting section 1f, pattern model display section 1g, region dividing section 1h, division changing section 1i, region selecting section... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090138265 - Joint discriminative training of multiple speech recognizers: Adjusting model parameters is described for a speech recognition system that combines recognition outputs from multiple speech recognition processes. Discriminative adjustments are made to model parameters of at least one acoustic model based on a joint discriminative criterion over multiple complementary acoustic models to lower recognition word error rate in... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090138264 - Speech to dtmf generation: A method of speech to DTMF generation involving ASR-enabled and DTMF-controlled communications systems. The ASR-enabled system is used to recognize speech received from the DTMF-controlled telecommunications system using sampling rate independent speech recognition. It then identifies a speech segment contained in the speech received from the DTMF-controlled system that corresponds... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090138266 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for recognizing speech: A contiguous word recognizing unit recognizes speech as a morpheme string, based on an acoustic model and a language model. A sentence obtaining unit obtains an exemplary sentence related to the speech out of a correct sentence storage unit. Based on the degree of matching, a sentence correspondence bringing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138267 - Audio coding system using temporal shape of a decoded signal to adapt synthesized spectral components: A receiver in an audio coding system receives a signal conveying frequency subband signals representing an audio signal. The subband signals are examined to assess one or more characteristics of the audio signal including temporal shape. Spectral components are synthesized having the one or more assessed characteristics, integrated with the... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090138268 - Data processing device and computer-readable storage medium storing set of program instructions excutable on data processing device: A data processing device includes a displaying unit, a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a controlling unit. The displaying unit displaying one of a first operation screen and a second operation screen. Input data is inputted into the receiving unit by a user. The determining unit determines, based on... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090138269 - System and method for enabling voice driven interactions among multiple ivr's, constituting a voice workflow: A method for enabling voice driven interactions among multiple interactive voice response (IVR) systems begins by receiving a telephone call from a user of a first IVR system to begin a transaction; and, automatically contacting, by the first IVR system, at least one additional IVR system. Specifically, the contacting of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090138270 - Providing speech therapy by quantifying pronunciation accuracy of speech signals: The provision of speech therapy to a learner (76) entails receiving a speech signal (156) from the learner (76) at a computing system (24). The speech signal (156) corresponds to an utterance (116) made by the learner (76). A set of parameters (166) is ascertained from the speech signal (156).... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20090138271 - Parametric audio coding comprising amplitude envelops: An audio encoder comprising a sinusoidal type encoder and an amplitude modulation encoder that both receive an audio input signal. The amplitude modulation encoder generates a set of sinusoidal components each having assigned individual parameter(s) relating to a time-varying amplitude envelope. The sinusoidal type encoder may be a conventional constant... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090138272 - Wideband audio signal coding/decoding device and method:

20090132229 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program storage medium which enable clustering to be performed such that the number of clusters and a representative of a cluster are determined so as to conform to a human cognition model. The notion of “typical examples”... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090132232 - Methods and apparatus for implementing multilingual software applications: The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a multilingual rules-based user interface including a reference tracker (executing on a digital data processor) that identifies translatable elements—by way of example, static text, enumerated variable text, images and icons—referenced by one or more user interface rules in a rules... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090132230 - Multi-hop natural language translation: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and apparatus, in the form of a data processing system, and a computer program product for optimizing a natural language translation. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a request from a requester, wherein the request comprises source language data,... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090132231 - Using input of rhyming characters for computer text entry of chinese characters: As either regular entry or as an assist to the user of existing computer text entry systems, the invention makes possible an alternative method of Chinese character entry by entering a Chinese character assumed by the user to be a rhyme of the character the user desires to enter. Entry... Agent: Robert B. O'dell

20090132234 - Creating and displaying bodies of parallel segmented text: Computer program products and arrangements of creating and displaying bodies of parallel segmented text are discussed. The bodies of parallel text may be divided into matching segments. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to display in separate areas one or more segments of text from each body... Agent: Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090132233 - Use of lexical translations for facilitating searches: A translation graph is created using a plurality of reference sources that include translations between a plurality of different languages. Each entry in a source is used to create a wordsense entry, and each new word in a source is used to create a wordnode entry. A pair of wordnode... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090132235 - Translation device, computer readable medium, computer data signal, and information processing method: A translation device includes: a memory that stores character strings forming an example sentence pattern under which example sentences are classified based on character strings that form sentences, and character strings forming a translated example sentence pattern translated from the example sentence pattern, the character strings forming the example sentence... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090132236 - Selection or reliable key words from unreliable sources in a system and method for conducting a search: The invention provides for a system to select data including a reception component that receives at least one data entry from at least one data source, a processor component to determine the entropy of a word extracted from the at least one data entry, a filtering component to select reliable... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132237 - Orthogonal classification of words in multichannel speech recognizers: A computerized method for distribution among a multiple dictionaries of a target vocabulary. The vocabulary includes words for use in a speech recognition application installed in a computer system. Each word of the target vocabulary is found in only one of the dictionaries. The words are first categorized based on... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090132239 - Audio signal de-identification: Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identifying information. De-identification of a spoken audio signal may be performed by automatically generating a report based on the spoken... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20090132238 - Efficient method for reusing scale factors to improve the efficiency of an audio encoder: An audio encoding system that accepts an audio signal as an input to the system. The system includes a filter bank that splits the audio signal into a plurality of frames, and a bit allocation unit that assigns a number of bits for a current frame of the plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090132240 - Method and apparatus for managing speech decoders: A method and apparatus that manages speech decoders in a communication device is disclosed. The method may include detecting a change in transmission rate from a higher rate to a lower rate, decoding and shifting a first, second and third received first decoder set of frame parameters, generating a first... Agent: Prass LLP

20090132241 - Method and system for reducing a voice signal noise: A method is provided whereby, before being subjected to a low rate voice coding, an incoming digital voice signal is chronologically segmented into blocks, the blocks are broken down respectively, in chronological order, into frequency components by a transformation in the frequency range and the frequency components are multiplied by... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090132243 - Conversion device: A plurality of pairs of segments to be weighted/added are selected non-linearly with respect to a time axis of audio data. A speed conversion is achieved by performing the weighting/addition on the selected pairs of segments. The non-linear selection is performed by (a) obtaining all possible pairs of segments constituting... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20090132242 - Portable audio recording and playback system: A portable audio recording and playback system is provided. The portable audio recording and playback system can synchronously display the corresponding lyrics or character contents, and it also can selectively record user's voice or the mixed signal of the user's voice and a background music including music and a human... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090132245 - Denoising acoustic signals using constrained non-negative matrix factorization: A method and system denoises a mixed signal. A constrained non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is applied to the mixed signal. The NMF is constrained by a denoising model, in which the denoising model includes training basis matrices of a training acoustic signal and a training noise signal and statistics of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090132244 - Method and apparatus for controlling a voice over internet protocol (voip) decoder with an adaptive jitter buffer: A method and apparatus that controls a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) decoder in a communication device is disclosed. The method may include determining if a packet has been received, and if a packet has been received, determining if a receive error has occurred, and if a receive error has... Agent: Prass LLP

20090132246 - Method and apparatus for generating fill frames for voice over internet protocol (voip) applications: A method and apparatus that generates fill frames for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications in a communication device is disclosed. The method may include determining if there is a lost frame in a received communication, wherein if it is determined that there is a lost frame, setting a frame... Agent: Prass LLP

20090132247 - Speech coder and speech decoder: A target vector is coded by multi-stage vector quantization. A first stage of the coding of the target vector uses a first code vector stored in a first codebook. A scalar associated with a code of each first code vector is stored. A third code vector is determined by multiplying... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090132248 - Time-domain receive-side dynamic control: A system improves the speech intelligibility and the speech quality of a speech segment. The system includes a dynamic controller that detects a background noise from an input by modeling a signal. A variable gain amplifier adjusts the variable gain of the amplifier in response to an output of dynamic... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090132249 - Modifying method for speech model and modifying module thereof: A modifying method for a speech model and a modifying module thereof are provided. The modifying method is as follows. First, a correct sequence of a speech is generated according to a correct sequence generating method and the speech model. Next, a candidate sequence generating method is selected from a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090132250 - Robot apparatus with vocal interactive function and method therefor: The present invention provides a robot apparatus with a vocal interactive function. The robot apparatus 1 receives a vocal input from the ambient environment, such as a user, and the vocal input is a conversation voice or an evaluation voice. The robot apparatus 1 receives a conversation voice from the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090132251 - Spoken document retrieval system: The present invention provides a spoken document retrieval system capable of high-speed and high-accuracy retrieval of where a user-specified keyword is uttered from spoken documents, even if the spoken documents are large in amount. Candidate periods are narrowed down in advance on the basis of a sequence of subwords generated... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090132253 - Context-aware unit selection: Methods and apparatuses to perform context-aware unit selection for natural language processing are described. Streams of information associated with input units are received. The streams of information are analyzed in a context associated with first candidate units to determine a first set of weights of the streams of information. A... Agent: James C. Scheller, Jr. Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132252 - Unsupervised topic segmentation of acoustic speech signal: Disclosed methods and apparatus segment a signal, such as an acoustic speech signal, into coherent segments, such as coherent topics. In the case of an acoustic speech signal, the segmentation relies on only raw acoustic information and may be performed without requiring access to, or generation of, a transcript of... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090132254 - Diagnostic report based on quality of user's report dictation: A system and method are provided for automatically routing a diagnostic interpretation from diagnostic data received from a diagnostic source. The diagnostic interpretation is produced automatically using a voice recognition system. Along with the transcription of the interpretation, the voice recognition system returns a level of confidence of the voice... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090132256 - Command and control of devices and applications by voice using a communication base system: A first communication path for receiving a communication is established. The communication includes speech, which is processed. A speech pattern is identified as including a voice-command. A portion of the speech pattern is determined as including the voice-command. That portion of the speech pattern is separated from the speech pattern... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132255 - Systems and methods of performing speech recognition with barge-in for use in a bluetooth system: Embodiments of the present invention improve methods of performing speech recognition with barge-in. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a speech recognition method comprising starting a synthesis of recorded speech, receiving a user speech input signal providing information regarding a user choice, detecting an initial portion of the user... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group PC

20090132257 - System and method for inputting edited translation words or sentence: A system and a method for inputting edited translation words or sentence are provided to solve the problem that editing translation words or sentence and inputting the edited translation words or sentence cannot be performed by successive actions. In this system and method, the input words or sentence input into... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090132258 - Apparatus, server, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing and recognizing a sound signal: An apparatus, a server, a method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing and recognizing a sound signal are provided. The apparatus is configured to sense the sound signal of the environment and to dynamically derive and to transmit a feature signal and a sound feature message of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090132260 - Method and apparatus for improving the quality of speech signals: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to extend the bandwidth of a speech communication to yield a perceived higher quality speech communication for an enhanced user experience. In one aspect of the invention, for example, methods and apparatus can be used to extend the bandwidth of a speech communication beyond a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090132261 - Methods for improving high frequency reconstruction: The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises a detection mechanism on the encoder side to assess what parts of the spectrum will not be correctly reproduced by the HFR method in the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090132259 - Systems and methods of remotely enabling sound enhancement techniques: A system and method of remotely enabling sound enhancement techniques is disclosed. In an embodiment, a watermark is embedded in an encoded multi-channel audio stream to remotely enable an enhancement decoder portion of a multi-channel audio decoder.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090125295 - Voice auto-translation of multi-lingual telephone calls: The present invention discloses the system design, module requirements, specifications and methods that comprise the core technology required to enable the development of a viable Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System. During a conversation utilizing said Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System, each participant speaks only one language for the duration of the conversation,... Agent: William Drewes

20090125297 - Automatic generation of distractors for special-purpose speech recognition grammars: A computer-implemented method for dynamically generating a speech recognition grammar is provided. The method includes determining a target entry, and accessing a plurality of potential distractors. The method also includes selecting one or more distractors from the plurality of potential distractors. More particularly, each potential distractor selected is selected based... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090125296 - Methods and systems for using domain specific rules to identify words: Text entry systems are described that incorporate information from a specific domain to reduce the allowable words that can be spelled by ambiguous user input. The text entry systems can receive an indication identifying a key pressed by a user. The key may represent multiple characters such that the character... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090125298 - Vibrato detection modules in a system for automatic transcription of sung or hummed melodies: The technology disclosed relates to audio signal processing. It includes a series of modules that individually are useful to solve audio signal processing problems. Among the problems addressed are buzz removal, selecting a pitch candidate among pitch candidates based on local continuity of pitch and regional octave consistency, making small... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090125299 - Speech recognition system: A speech recognition system comprises at least a speech recognition engine and a display device that contains a signal status interface and a textual interface. The signal status interface is used to show a recording status, a speech processing status, or a complete speech recognition status based on waveforms display.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090125300 - Scalable encoding apparatus, scalable decoding apparatus, and methods thereof: A scalable encoding apparatus capable of reducing the bit rates of encoded parameters and also capable of efficiently encoding even audio signals in which a plurality of harmonic structures are coexistent. In the apparatus, an MDCT analyzing part (111) MDCT analyzes an audio signal (S15) for converting/encoding processes. A pitch... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090125301 - Voicing detection modules in a system for automatic transcription of sung or hummed melodies: The technology disclosed relates to audio signal processing. It includes a series of modules that individually are useful to solve audio signal processing problems. Among the problems addressed are buzz removal, selecting a pitch candidate among pitch candidates based on local continuity of pitch and regional octave consistency, making small... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090125302 - Stabilization and glitch minimization for ccitt recommendation g.726 speech codec during packet loss scenarios by regressor control and internal state updates of the decoding process: This invention decoded encoded speech using alternative parameters upon detection of a lost packet. Upon detection of a first good packet following packet loss, this invention uses second alternative parameters intermediate between the default parameters and the alternative parameters for a predetermined interval. Thereafter the invention reverts to the default... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090125303 - Audio signal processing apparatus, audio signal processing method, and communication terminal: An audio signal processing apparatus, includes an environmental ambient noise level detection unit for detecting an environmental ambient noise level contained in an audio signal inputted through sound collection means for collecting a transmission sound at the time of a voice call, a signal level adjustment unit which has a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090125305 - Method and apparatus for detecting voice activity: A robust method and apparatus to detect voice activity based on the power level of an audio frame. The method may include performing primary active/non-active voice period determination of an input audio frame according to a power level of the audio frame, extracting a noise power prediction value and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090125304 - Method and apparatus to detect voice activity: A method and apparatus to detect voice activity by using a zero-crossing rate includes removing noise included in an audio signal, adding a random signal having energy of a predetermined size to the audio signal from which noise is removed, extracting predetermined voice detection parameters from the audio signal to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090125306 - Method, system and computer program for enhanced speech recognition of digits input strings: The present invention proposes a method, system and computer program for speech recognition. According to one embodiment, a method is provided wherein, for an expected input string divided into a plurality of expected string segments, a speech segment is received for each expected string segment. Speech recognition is then performed... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090125307 - System and a method for providing each user at multiple devices with speaker-dependent speech recognition engines via networks: A system and a method for providing each user at multiple devices with speaker-dependent speech recognition engines via networks according to the pre-stored speech sounds and characteristics of devices, by which each user can use speaker-dependent speech recognition engines in different devices without the need of repeating the same procedure... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090125308 - Platform for enabling voice commands to resolve phoneme based domain name registrations: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing machine representations of phonemes to generate and manage domain names, and/or messaging addresses. A user of a computing device may provide an audio input signal such as obtained from human language sounds. The audio input signal is received at a phoneme... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20090125309 - Methods, systems, and products for synthesizing speech: Methods, Systems, and Products are disclosed for synthesizing speech. Text is received for translation to speech. The text is correlated to phrases, and each phrase is converted into a corresponding string of phonemes. A phoneme identifier is retrieved that uniquely represents each phoneme in the string of phonemes. Each phoneme... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090125310 - Apparatus and method for inserting/extracting capturing resistant audio watermark based on discrete wavelet transform, audio rights protection system using the same: An apparatus and method for embedding and extracting a capturing-resistant audio watermark based on discrete wavelet transform, and a copyright management system using the same are provided. The apparatus for embedding a wavelet based audio watermark includes: a framing unit for dividing an input audio signal into small signals with... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090125311 - Vehicular voice control system: A vehicular voice control system includes a first and a second microphone located on a vehicle external to a vehicle cabin. The microphones receive audio signals from an audio source external to the vehicle and generate microphone output signals. A signal processor processes the microphone output signals, generates a processed... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090125312 - Method and system for providing news information by using three dimensional character for use in wireless communication network: Disclosed is a method for providing by a news information-providing server news information using a 3D character to a wireless communication terminal having accessed the news information-providing server through a wireless communication network, the method including the steps of: (a) generating voice information by converting news information received in real-time... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090125314 - Audio coding using downmix: An audio decoder for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having an audio signal of a first type and an audio signal of a second type encoded therein is described, the multi-audio-object signal having a downmix signal and side information, the side information having level information of the audio signals of the... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmermann , Stockeler & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090125313 - Audio coding using upmix: with “1” denoting—depending on the number of channels of d—a scalar, or an identity matrix, and D−1 being a matrix uniquely determined by a downmix prescription according to which the audio signals of the first and second types are downmixed into the downmix signal, and which is also included by... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmermann , Stockeler & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090125315 - Transcoder using encoder generated side information: An audio encoder encodes side information into a compressed audio bitstream containing encoding parameters used by the encoder for one or more encoding techniques, such as a noise-mask-ratio curve used for rate control. A transcoder uses the encoder generated side information to transcode the audio from the original compressed bitstream... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090119090 - Principled approach to paraphrasing: A principled approach to paraphrasing analyzes input text and paraphrases at atomic linguistic level, instead of analyzing the input text and paraphrases as a whole set at one time. The principled approach extracts atomic linguistic elements from the input text and identifies matching atomic paraphrasing elements to form candidate atomic... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090119091 - Automated pattern based human assisted computerized translation network systems: A system and method for automated languages translation comprising a database containing pre-translated patterns that were translated by human translators, generating a transparent and seamless translation service. Whenever a user issues a translation request, the system offers suitable translated sentences from the aforementioned database. The system does so by separating... Agent: Eitan Chaim Sarig

20090119092 - Ensuring product correctness in a multilingual environment: A language package system that prevents undesirable behaviors resulting from an incompatibility between a core package of a software product and its language packages is provided. The language package system executes when a user starts the execution of the core package on a computing device. The language package system retrieves... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090119094 - Apparatus and method for linguistic scoring: In embodiments of the invention, a system receives selections from a user based on a list of pre-defined monitoring categories and/or optionally receives custom category definitions from the user. The option for custom category definitions may be advantageous due to the flexibility provided to a system administrator or other user.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090119095 - Machine learning systems and methods for improved natural language processing: Disclosed is a method to generate at least one new set of concepts to be used to perform natural language processing (NLP) on data. The method includes receiving one or more sources of input data, and determining, based on the one or more sources of input data and on at... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090119093 - Method and system to parse addresses using a processing system: A method and system for parsing an address is disclosed. The method and system comprise separating the address into a plurality of tokens and providing one or more token meaning discovery passes based upon region specific configuration information to determine the meaning of each token in the address. In so... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090119096 - Partial speech reconstruction: A system enhances the quality of a digital speech signal that may include noise. The system identifies vocal expressions that correspond to the digital speech signal. A signal-to-noise ratio of the digital speech signal is measured before a portion of the digital speech signal is synthesized. The selected portion of... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090119097 - Pitch selection modules in a system for automatic transcription of sung or hummed melodies: The technology disclosed relates to audio signal processing. It includes a series of modules that individually are useful to solve audio signal processing problems. Among the problems addressed are buzz removal, selecting a pitch candidate among pitch candidates based on local continuity of pitch and regional octave consistency, making small... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090119098 - Signal processing method, processing apparatus and voice decoder: The present invention discloses a signal processing method adapted to process a synthesized signal in packet loss concealment. The method includes the following steps: receiving a good frame following a lost frame, obtaining an energy ratio of energy of a signal in the signal of the good frame signal to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090119099 - System and method for automobile noise suppression: A system and a method for automobile noise suppression in an automobile are provided. The system comprises a processor and a noise suppression device. The noise suppression device is configured for receiving a voice signal, which includes a speech signal and a noise signal. The processor is configured for determining... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090119100 - Associating annotation recording with a cell phone number: A method, system and computer program product for creating voice annotations during a mobile phone call. During the phone call a user engages a trigger on the communication device prompting the phone to first mute the device of the user, and then record an audible message. The audible message, or... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090119101 - Transcript alignment: An approach to alignment of transcripts with recorded audio is tolerant of moderate transcript inaccuracies, untranscribed speech, and significant non-speech noise. In one aspect, a number of search terms are formed from the transcript such that each search term is associated with a location within the transcript. Possible locations of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090119102 - System and method of exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework: Disclosed are a system and method for exploiting information in an utterance for dialog act tagging. An exemplary method includes receiving a user utterance, computing at periodic intervals at least one parameter in the user utterance, quantizing the at least one parameter at each periodic interval, approximating conditional probabilities using... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090119103 - Speaker recognition system: A method automatically recognizes speech received through an input. The method accesses one or more speaker-independent speaker models. The method detects whether the received speech input matches a speaker model according to an adaptable predetermined criterion. The method creates a speaker model assigned to a speaker model set when no... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090119105 - Acoustic model adaptation methods based on pronunciation variability analysis for enhancing the recognition of voice of non-native speaker and apparatus thereof: The example embodiment of the present invention provides an acoustic model adaptation method for enhancing recognition performance for a non-native speaker's speech. In order to adapt acoustic models, first, pronunciation variations are examined by analyzing a non-native speaker's speech. Thereafter, based on variation pronunciation of a non-native speaker's speech, acoustic... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090119104 - Switching functionality to control real-time switching of modules of a dialog system: Systems and methods are described that automatically control modules of dialog systems. The systems and methods include a dialog module that receives and processes utterances from a speaker and outputs data used to generate synthetic speech outputs as responses to the utterances. A controller is coupled to the dialog module,... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090119106 - Building whitelists comprising voiceprints not associated with fraud and screening calls using a combination of a whitelist and blacklist: According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a method, comprising collecting voiceprints of callers; identifying which of the collected voiceprints are associated with fraud; and generating a whitelist comprising voiceprints corresponding to the collected voiceprints not identified as associated with fraud.... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090119107 - Speech recognition based on symbolic representation of a target sentence: Systems and methods for processing a user speech input to determine whether the user has correctly read a target sentence string are provided. One disclosed method may include receiving a sentence array including component words of the target sentence string and processing the sentence array to generate a symbolic representation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090119108 - Audio-book playback method and apparatus: An audio-book playback method includes buffering text data that is to be played back by speech, converting the buffered text data to speech data, performing speech-playback by using the speech data, and buffering next text data for continuous playback. The provided audio-book playback method and an apparatus enable a user... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090119109 - System and method of training a dysarthric speaker: The invention describes a computer-based system that asks (101) a patient to pronounce a word displayed on a monitor, automatically assesses (104, 105) the speech quality, and uses suitable means to feed back (106) any improvement or deterioration of speech quality.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090119110 - Method of encoding and decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which compatibility with a player of a general mono or stereo audio signal can be provided in coding an audio signal and by which spatial information for a multi-channel audio signal can be stored or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090119111 - Stereo encoding device, and stereo signal predicting method: A prediction performance between the individual channels of a stereo signal is improved to improve the sound quality of a decoded signal. An LPF (101-1) interrupts the high-range component of an S1, and outputs an S1′ (a low-range component). An LPF (101-2) interrupts the high-range component of an S2, and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C