Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 07/09

20090192781 - System and method of providing machine translation from a source language to a target language: A machine translation method, system for using the method, and computer readable media are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a source language sentence, selecting a set of target language n-grams using a lexical classifier and based on the source language sentence. When selecting the set of target... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090192782 - Method for increasing the accuracy of statistical machine translation (smt): A method to significantly improve the accuracy of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) translation output, while increasing the effectively of the required ongoing human translation effort by correlating said ongoing professional human translation effort directly to the translation errors made by the system. Once said translation errors have been corrected by... Agent: William Drewes

20090192783 - Method and system for providing translated dynamic web page content: A method, system and computer-readable storage medium are provided for generating translated dynamic Web page content comprising a phrasebook storing source phrases and translated phrases, a Web server, and an application server that generates dynamic Web page content in response to Web page requests and includes a translation engine that... Agent: Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P.

20090192787 - Grammer checker: A method for parsing a computerized text, the method including preparing a set of logical rules, using logical grammatical links, for parsing a text, using the logical rules to identify a part of speech of each word of text and all links between the words in the text, and labeling... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20090192785 - System and method for optimizing natural language descriptions of objects in a virtual environment: A system and method for constructing a natural language description of one or more objects in a virtual environment includes determining a plurality of properties of an object and an environment given a current viewpoint in a virtual environment. An object description is created using the plurality of properties where... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090192784 - Systems and methods for analyzing electronic documents to discover noncompliance with established norms: A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents to discover noncompliance with an established norm is provided. The method can include receiving one or more terms indicating possible noncompliance with a pre-established norm, and, based upon the at least one term, constructing at least one grammatical unit. The grammatical unit can specify... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090192786 - Text input device and method: The present invention relates to a text input device and a method for inputting text, and a computer program for performing the method. A text input device (200) is provided that comprises: a text prediction component for predicting candidate words in accordance with a current text context; a display screen... Agent: Jonathan D. Feuchtwang

20090192789 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio signals: Provided are a method and apparatus for effectively encoding/decoding remaining difference signals excluding sinusoidal components, from input audio signals. In the method and apparatus for encoding audio signals, sinusoidal analysis is performed on low frequency signals of less than a predetermined critical frequency in order to extract sinusoidal signals and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090192788 - Sound processing device and program: In a sound processing device, a modulation spectrum specifier specifies a modulation spectrum of an input sound for each of a plurality of unit intervals. An index calculator calculates an index value corresponding to a magnitude of components of modulation frequencies belonging to a predetermined range of the modulation spectrum.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20090192792 - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding audio signal: Provided are methods and apparatuses for more efficiently encoding and decoding a high frequency band signal which is from an audio signal and which is greater than a predetermined threshold frequency. The method and apparatus for encoding the audio signal encodes a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient and gain information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090192791 - Systems, methods and apparatus for context descriptor transmission: Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090192790 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for context suppression using receivers: Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090192793 - Method for instantaneous peak level management and speech clarity enhancement: A method for raising the soft and mid-level amplitude of sounds for greater clarity and perceptual benefit, while simultaneously removing the high level amplitude peaks without delay and providing protection for the auditory sense organ. The method does not require a feedback mechanism for the accomplishment of this treatment and... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20090192794 - Digital filtering method, digital filtering equipment,digital filtering program, and recording medium and recorded device which are readable on computer: Included in the digital filtering equipment for extracting a feature quantity from a speech signal in order to execute a speech recognition based on an inputted speech signal are: a) an waveform determining section for obtaining an inputted speech signal and quantizing the speech signal waveform; b) a division value... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090192796 - Filtering of beamformed speech signals: The invention relates to speech signal processing that detects a speech signal from more than one microphone and obtains microphone signals that are processed by a beamformer to obtain a beamformed signal that is post-filtered signal with a filter that employs adaptable filter weights to obtain an enhanced beamformed signal... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090192795 - System and method for receiving audible input in a vehicle: A steering wheel system for a vehicle. The steering wheel system includes a first microphone mounted in a steering wheel and a second microphone mounted in the vehicle. The first and second microphones are each configured to receive an audible input. The audible input includes an oral command component and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090192797 - Talk text: The patent that I am requesting is for an existing product on the market. It is for voice transponding or activated texting. Rather than typing a text message, the user can simply speak into their cell phone and the message will be typed into the text message.... Agent: Joseph Bambola

20090192799 - Breathing apparatus speech enhancement: Speech enhancement in a breathing apparatus is provided using a primary sensor mounted near a breathing mask user's mouth, at least one reference sensor mounted near a noise source, and a processor that combines the signals from these sensors to produce an output signal with an enhanced speech component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192798 - Method and system for capabilities learning: A method for task execution improvement, the method includes: generating a baseline model for executing a task; recording a user executing a task; comparing the baseline model to the user's execution of the task; and providing feedback to the user based on the differences in the user's execution and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20090192800 - Medical ontology based data & voice command processing system: A computerized integrated order entry and clinical documentation and voice recognition system enables voice responsive user entry of orders. The system includes a voice recognition unit for detecting spoken words and converting detected spoken words to data representing commands. A data processor, coupled to the voice recognition unit, processes the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090192801 - System and method for controlling an electronic device with voice commands using a mobile phone: A method for controlling an electronic device with voice commands using a mobile phone (1) includes: storing voice characteristics of voice command settings of a user and corresponding remote control signals of the voice command settings in a memory (12); recording voice command input of the user through a microphone... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090192802 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for context processing using multi resolution analysis: Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090192803 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for context replacement by audio level: Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090192806 - Broadband frequency translation for high frequency regeneration: An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending parameter derived from a measure of the signal's noise-like quality. The signal is reconstructed by translating spectral components of the baseband signal to frequencies outside the... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090192804 - Method and apparatus for time scaling of a signal: A decoder receives (501) a bitstream comprising an encoded mono signal and stereo data. A time scale processor (503) generates a time scaled mono signal. A time-to frequency processor generates frequency sample blocks of the time scaled signal, the block length being fixed and independent of the time scaling. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090192805 - Methods and apparatus for performing variable black length watermarking of media: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed in which auxiliary information is added to or removed from an audio signal. In one example, the information may be added to the audio signal using at least two frequencies that are dictated by two different frequency transformation block sizes, such that... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090187397 - Adjusting left-to-right graphics to a right-to-left orientation or vice versa using transformations with adjustments for line width and pixel orientation: The present invention discloses a solution for adjusting a horizontal orientation of a graphic. The solution can include a step of identifying a graphic object having a first horizontal orientation, which is to be changed to an opposite horizontal orientation. A determination as to whether the graphic object has an... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090187398 - Script selection based on sip language preference: The “Accept-language” header field of a first Session Initiative Protocol (SIP) message identifies the preferred language of a first party to a communication, a database correlates languages with writing scripts, and the correlation is used to populate the “P-Asserted-Identity”, “From”, or “Contact” header field of a second SIP message with... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20090187400 - System, method and multipoint control unit for providing multi-language conference: A system for providing multi-language conference is provided. The system includes conference terminals and a multipoint control unit. The conference terminals are adapted to process a speech of a conference site, transmitting the processed speech to the multipoint control unit, process an audio data received from the multipoint control unit... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090187399 - Using homophones and near-homophones to improve methods of computer text entry for chinese characters: The invention allows phonetic text input without any knowledge of phonetics. As an assist to the user of 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 homophone of the character the... Agent: Robert B. O'dell

20090187401 - Handheld electronic device and associated method for obtaining new language objects for a temporary dictionary used by a disambiguation routine on the device: A method of obtaining data for use on a handheld electronic device having a text disambiguation function which employs a dictionary including a number of first language objects that is usable by the text disambiguation function. The method includes receiving a block of information, displaying a representation of at least... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090187402 - Performance prediction for an interactive speech recognition system: The present invention provides an interactive speech recognition system and a corresponding method for determining a performance level of a speech recognition procedure on the basis of recorded background noise. The inventive system effectively exploits speech pauses that occur before the user enters speech that becomes subject to speech recognition.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090187403 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing program and recording medium: A copyright managing information processing apparatus includes a storage module for storing copyrighted content including audio data; a first topic module for recognizing audio data in content opened to the public by a to-be-opened information processing apparatus, converting the audio data into text data, extracting keywords from the text data,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090187405 - Arrangements for using voice biometrics in internet based activities: In one embodiment, a method for identifying a user of a virtual universe utilizing audio biometrics is disclosed. The method can include prompting a client application with a request for an utterance, processing the reply to the request and creating a voice profile of the user/speaker. The voice profile can... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090187404 - Biometric control system and method: A large-scale attendance, productivity, activity and availability biometric control method using the telephone network, for individuals client users at their work places, with speaker verification technology based on limited enrolling data and short verification sentences, and the equipment associated to this method. Through the biometric control method by means of... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt LLC

20090187406 - Voice recognition system: A voice recognition system is provided that outputs a talk-back voice in a manner such that a user can distinguish the accuracy of a voice-recognized character string more easily. A voice recognition unit performs voice recognition on a user's articulation in which a character string such as the telephone number... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090187408 - Speech information processing apparatus and method: A temporary child set is generated. An elastic ratio of an elastic section of a model pattern is calculated. A temporary typical pattern of the set is generated by combining the pattern belonging to the set with the model pattern having the elastic pattern expanded or contracted. A distortion between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090187407 - System and methods for reporting: The present invention relates to a system and methods for preparing reports, such as medical reports. The system and methods advantageously can verbalize information, using speech synthesis (text-to-speech), to support a dialogue between a user and the reporting system during the course of the preparation of the report in order... Agent: Valauskas & Pine LLC

20090187409 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signals: Techniques for efficiently encoding an input signal are described. In one design, a generalized encoder encodes the input signal (e.g., an audio signal) based on at least one detector and multiple encoders. The at least one detector may include a signal activity detector, a noise-like signal detector, a sparseness detector,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090187410 - System and method of providing speech processing in user interface: Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for enabling speech processing in a user interface of a device. The method includes receiving an indication of a field and a user interface of a device, the indication also signaling that speech will follow, receiving the speech from the user at the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090187411 - Method for encoding a source audio signal, corresponding encoding device, decoding method, signal, data carrier and computer program product: A method is provided for coding a source audio signal, involving the transformation of an amplitude/time space into a multi-component amplitude/phase/time space, including the sinusoidal modeling of the audio signal and the delivery of the sinusoidal components that change over time. The method includes the following steps in which: the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090182547 - Adaptive web mining of bilingual lexicon for query translation: Mining of translation pairs for cross-language translation uses a collective extraction model to exploit the similarity among the translation pairs and adaptively learn extraction patterns for each bilingual webpage. The process queries a web search engine by an initial term translation list to retrieve bilingual webpages containing translations, and crawls... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090182548 - Handheld dictionary and translation apparatus: Provided herein is a dictionary and/or translation device that is handheld and, thus, portable. The device may be incorporated in or with a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a pager, a handheld computer, or the like. A page of text (or a portion thereof may be photographed as... Agent: Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.

20090182549 - Deep model statistics method for machine translation: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for machine translation of a source document in an input language to a target document in an output language, comprising generating translation options corresponding to at least portions of each sentence in the input language; and selecting a translation option for the... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090182551 - Methods & apparatus for searching with awareness of geography and languages: A system that automatically discerning the best combinations of a user query's geographical origin and language, retrieving and displaying search results accordingly. A record on the system are associated with a geographic location and a language. A record could be composed of two or more records, each of which associates... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090182550 - Multi-lingual word hyphenation using inductive machine learning on training data: Tools and techniques are described for providing multi-lingual word hyphenation using inductive machine learning on training data. Methods provided by these techniques may receive training data that includes hyphenated words, and may inductively generate hyphenation patterns that represent substrings of these words. The hyphenation patterns may include the substrings and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182553 - Method and apparatus for generating a language independent document abstract: A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for each word in the sequence based on the length of the word. The score for each... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090182552 - Method and handheld electronic device employing a touch screen for ambiguous word review or correction: A method of ambiguous word review or correction for a handheld electronic device includes receiving a plurality of actuations of input members in which each of a number of these members has a plurality of assigned characters, rendering a plurality of words responsive to the actuations, displaying a plurality of... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090182554 - Text analysis method: A list of reference terms can be provided. Text and the list of reference terms can be broken down into tokens. At least one candidate can be generated in the text for mapping to at least one of the reference terms. Characters of the candidate can be compared to characters... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-ibm Svl

20090182555 - Speech enhancement device and method for the same: A speech enhancement device and a method for the same are included. The device includes a down-converter, a speech enhancement processor, and an up-converter. The method includes steps of down-converting audio signals to generate down-converted audio signals; performing speech enhancement on the down-converted audio signals to generate speech-enhanced audio signals;... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090182556 - Pitch estimation and marking of a signal representing speech: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, a method of processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a frame of the signal representing speech, classifying the frame as a voiced frame, and parsing the voiced frame into one or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090182557 - Sound/voice processing apparatus, sound/voice processing method, and sound/voice processing program: If a delay occurs in execution of sound/voice processing application software, and, as a result, MIC data is stored in a plurality of buffers, then a CPU identifies, based on a buffer list, a buffer in which newest MIC data is stored. The CPU reads the newest MIC data from... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090182558 - Selection of scalar quantixation (sq) and vector quantization (vq) for speech coding: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090182559 - Context sensitive multi-stage speech recognition: A system enables devices to recognize and process speech. The system includes a database that retains one or more lexical lists. A speech input detects a verbal utterance and generates a speech signal corresponding to the detected verbal utterance. A processor generates a phonetic representation of the speech signal that... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090182560 - Using a physical phenomenon detector to control operation of a speech recognition engine: A transmission device such as a cell phone or other mobile communication device includes a physical phenomenon detection device to perform a “push to talk” function by detecting the occurrence of a particular physical phenomenon and using such detection to start and stop recording an utterance for subsequent analysis by... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090182561 - Speech recognition device and method thereof: A speech recognition device and a method thereof are adapted to recognize a Chinese word. The speech recognition device includes a lexicon model, a language model, a speech recognition module, and a parsing module. The lexicon model keeps a plurality of words. The speech recognition module performs a speech recognition... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090182562 - Dynamic user interface for automated speech recognition: Techniques are described for generating a dynamic user interface for a position-determining device that may account for a variety of input modes. In one example, a position-determining device is initiated in a first input mode (e.g., a touch screen mode) and a graphical user interface (GUI) of the device is... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20090182564 - Apparatus and method for visualization of multichannel audio signals: Provided are an apparatus and method for visualizing multichannel audio signals. The apparatus includes a spatial audio decoding unit for receiving a downmix signal of a time domain, converting the downmix signal into a signal of a frequency domain to output a frequency domain downmix signal, and synthesizing a multichannel... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090182563 - System and a method of processing audio data, a program element and a computer-readable medium: A system (100) of processing audio data, comprising a decoding unit (102) and a determining unit (102, 106) having first determining means (102) and second determining means (106). The decoding unit (102) is adapted to decode encoded audio data to generate decoded audio data. The first determining means (102) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090177460 - Methods for using manual phrase alignment data to generate translation models for statistical machine translation: The present invention adopts the fundamental architecture of a statistical machine translation system which utilizes statistical models learned from the training data and does not require expert knowledge for rule-based machine translation systems. Out of the training parallel data, a certain amount of sentence pairs are selected for manual alignment.... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090177461 - Mobile speech-to-speech interpretation system: Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090177462 - Wireless terminals, language translation servers, and methods for translating speech between languages: Wireless terminals, language translation servers, and methods for translating speech between languages are disclosed. A wireless communication terminal can include a speaker, a wireless transceiver, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to operate differently in a language translation mode than when operating in a non-language translation mode.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090177463 - Media content assessment and control systems: Computer implemented methods, computing devices, and computing systems, wherein relationships of words or phrases within a textual corpus are assessed via frequencies of occurrence of particular words or phrases and via frequencies of co-occurrence of particular pairs of words or phrases within defined tracts of text from within the textual... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C.

20090177464 - Speech gain quantization strategy: A speech encoder that analyzes and classifies each frame of speech as being periodic-like speech or non-periodic like speech where the speech encoder performs a different gain quantization process depending if the speech is periodic or not. If the speech is periodic, the improved speech encoder obtains the pitch gains... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090177465 - Method and arrangement for speech coding in wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to speech coding in wireless and wireline communication systems. The present invention provides a method of saving bandwidth by a controlled dropping of speech frames at an encoder in a sending communication device. The dropping is controlled in a manner to minimize the effects on the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090177466 - Detection of speech spectral peaks and speech recognition method and system: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting speech spectral peaks and a speech recognition method and system. The method for detecting speech spectral peaks comprises detecting speech spectral peak candidates from power spectrum of the speech, and removing noise peaks from the speech spectral peak candidates according... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090177467 - Detector for use in voice communications systems: One or more methods and systems of detecting or identifying one or more types of algorithms used in the encoding of a voice or speech waveform is presented. The system and method may be used as a testing tool to identify whether a voice data stream is encoded using a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090177468 - Speech recognition with non-linear noise reduction on mel-frequency ceptra: In an automatic speech recognition system, a feature extractor extracts features from a speech signal, and speech is recognized by the automatic speech recognition system based on the extracted features. Noise reduction as part of the feature extractor is provided by feature enhancement in which feature-domain noise reduction in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177470 - Distributed dictation/transcription system: A distributed dictation/transcription system is provided. The system provides a client station, dictation manager, and dictation server networked such that the dictation manager can select a dictation server to transcribe audio from the client station. The dictation manager selects one of a plurality of dictation servers based on conventional load... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090177469 - System for recording and analysing meetings: A system for producing a transcript of a meeting having n attendees, the attendees being identified as ID1 to IDn and channel 1 to channel n. A speech discriminator includes a channel monitor which generates a speech output from one or more of channels 1 to n at any one... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177471 - Model development authoring, generation and execution based on data and processor dependencies: A recognition (e.g., speech, handwriting, etc.) model build process that is declarative and data-dependence-based. Process steps are defined in a declarative language as individual processors having input/output data relationships and data dependencies of predecessors and subsequent process steps. A compiler is utilized to generate the model building sequence. The compiler... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177472 - Apparatus, method, and program for clustering phonemic models: A node initializing unit generates a root node including inputted phonemic models. A candidate generating unit generates candidates of a pair of child sets by partitioning a set of phonemic models included in a node having no child node into two. A candidate deleting unit deletes candidates each including only... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090177473 - Applying vocal characteristics from a target speaker to a source speaker for synthetic speech: A computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for synthesizing speech. A computer implemented method for synthesizing speech includes providing a database of speech of a source speaker, and providing a prosody model of speech of a target speaker different from the source speaker. Text input to be... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090177474 - Speech processing apparatus and program: A speech synthesizer includes a periodic component fusing unit and an aperiodic component fusing unit, and fuses periodic components and aperiodic components of a plurality of speech units for each segment, which are selected by a unit selector, by a periodic component fusing unit and an aperiodic component fusing unit,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090177475 - Speech synthesis device, method, and program: Even when a pitch cycle has a large fluctuation and the pitch cycle string changes abruptly, it possible to suppress the affect of the pitch cycle fluctuation and generate high-quality synthesized speech. A speech synthesis device generates a synthesized speech corresponding to an input text sentence according to an original... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090177476 - Method, system and mobile device for registering voice data with calendar events: A system, method and apparatus for registering voice data with a calendar event are provided. Voice data is recorded during the calendar event with a mobile device. The voice data is associated with the calendar event using the mobile device.... Agent: Sim & Mcburney

20090177477 - Voice-controlled clinical information dashboard: A method provides a display area of a computer system for displaying a set of data. The data includes clinical data for one or more medical patients. The method provides multiple controls for performing multiple functions. The method provides an audio interface for controlling at least one of the controls... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090177478 - Method and apparatus for lossless encoding of a source signal, using a lossy encoded data steam and a lossless extension data stream: In lossy based lossless coding a PCM audio signal passes through a lossy encoder to a lossy decoder. The lossy encoder provides a lossy bit stream. The lossy decoder also provides side information that is used to control the coefficients of a prediction filter that de-correlates the difference signal between... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090177479 - Method for encoding and decoding object-based audio signal and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an object-based audio signal are provided. The method of decoding an object-based audio signal includes extracting a down-mix signal and object-based parameter information from an input audio signal, generating an object-audio signal using the down-mix signal and the object-based parameter information, and generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090171653 - System and method for distributing multilingual documents: A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating and distributing multilingual documents. The multilingual documents are comprised of primary information consisting of human-readable text and secondary information consisting of machine-readable data such that a translation of the text is accomplished by converting the human-readable text into a second language through... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090171654 - Systems and methods for rendering multilingual information on an output device: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for rendering multilingual information encoded in human-readable and machine-readable format on an output device. A typical system according to the present invention can include a system data store (SDS) and a system processor in communication with the SDS. A search term... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090171655 - Runtime data language selection in object instance: A method of handling different languages in an object, such as a business object includes receiving a language selection indication within a business object instance interface. Data within the business object is displayed for at least one data field in the selected language. Edited data for at least one data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090171656 - Method and apparatus for performing packet loss or frame erasure concealment: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder that does not have a built-in or standard FEC process. A receiver with a decoder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. A lost frame detector... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090171657 - Hybrid approach in voice conversion: A hybrid approach is described for combining frequency warping and Gaussian Mixture Modeling (GMM) to achieve better speaker identity and speech quality. To train the voice conversion GMM model, line spectral frequency and other features are extracted from a set of source sounds to generate a source feature vector and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090171658 - Selection of speech encoding scheme in wireless communication terminals: A method for communication includes receiving modulated signals, which convey encoded speech. A measure of information entropy associated with the received signals is estimated. A speech encoding scheme is selected responsively to the estimated measure of the information entropy. A request to encode subsequent speech using the selected speech encoding... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090171659 - Methods and apparatus for implementing distributed multi-modal applications: Embodiments include methods and apparatus for synchronizing data and focus between visual and voice views associated with distributed multi-modal applications. An embodiment includes a client device adapted to render a visual display that includes at least one multi-modal display element for which input data is receivable though a visual modality... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (mot)

20090171660 - Method and apparatus for verification of speaker authentification and system for speaker authentication: A method for verification of speaker authentication comprises inputting a test utterance containing a password that is spoken by a speaker, extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from the inputted test utterance, obtaining a matching path between the extracted acoustic feature vector sequence and a speaker template enrolled by an... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090171661 - Method for assessing pronunciation abilities: Techniques for assessing pronunciation abilities of a user are provided. The techniques include recording a sentence spoken by a user, performing a classification of the spoken sentence, wherein the classification is performed with respect to at least one N-ordered class, and wherein the spoken sentence is represented by a set... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090171662 - Robust information extraction from utterances: The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090171663 - Reducing a size of a compiled speech recognition grammar: The present invention discloses creating and using speech recognition grammars of reduced size. The reduced speech recognition grammars can include a set of entries, each entry having a unique identifier and a phonetic representation that is used when matching speech input against the entries. Each entry can lack a textual... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090171664 - Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance: Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090171665 - Method and apparatus for creating and modifying navigation voice syntax: Techniques are described for enabling flexible and dynamic creation and/or modification of voice data for a position-determining device. In some embodiments, a voice package is provided that includes a language database and a plurality of audio files. The language database specifies appropriate syntax and vocabulary for information that is intended... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20090171666 - Interpolation device, audio reproduction device, interpolation method, and interpolation program: An interpolation device (4) includes a band extraction high-pass filter (11) for extracting a frequency component of a predetermined lower limit frequency or above from reproduction data obtained by digitizing an audio waveform signal; a multiplier (13) for frequency-shifting the frequency component extracted by the band extraction high-pass filter (11);... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090171669 - Methods and apparatus for implementing distributed multi-modal applications: Embodiments of a system include a client device (102), a voice server (106), and an application server (104). The voice server is distinct from the application server. The client device renders (316) a visual display that includes at least one display element for which input data is receivable though a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090171668 - Recursive adaptive interaction management system: A management system for guiding an agent in a media-specific dialogue has a conversion engine for instantiating ongoing dialogue as machine-readable text, if the dialogue is in voice media, a context analysis engine for determining facts from the text, a rules engine for asserting rules based on fact input, and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090171667 - Systems and methods for language assisted patient intake: A method for assisting in the communication of a medical care provider and a patient is disclosed. The method may include displaying a first display section, the first display section including a plurality of anatomical features, each anatomical feature associated with an indicia indicating the location of the anatomical feature,... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090171670 - Systems and methods for altering speech during cellular phone use: The present invention includes systems and methods for altering a cellular phone user's speech so that the speech can be less bothersome to third parties in the surrounding area and so that the user has more privacy. Sound cancellation can be used to cancel, reduce, or modify the user's voice... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090171671 - Apparatus for estimating sound quality of audio codec in multi-channel and method therefor: There is an apparatus for evaluating the audio quality of a multi-channel audio codec, including: a preprocessing unit for synthesizing binaural signals based on multi-channel audio signals transmitted through a multi-channel of a multi-channel audio reproduction system; an output variable calculator for calculating an interaural cross-correlation coefficient distortion (IACCDist) and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090171675 - Decoding reproduction apparatus and method and receiver: A decoding reproduction apparatus has an input memory buffer to which audio data asynchronously transmitted is input, a decoding circuit which is configured to read out and decode encoded data stored in the input memory buffer, an output memory buffer which is configured to store an output from the decoding... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171673 - Encoding apparatus and encoding method: It is possible to provide an encoding device and an encoding method capable of realizing encoding with a very small information amount and a very small calculation amount when encoding higher-band spectrum data according to lower-band spectrum data in a wide-band signal. The device and the method can obtain a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090171676 - Method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal: A method of decoding for an audio signal comprises the step of receiving a downmix of an audio signal, an object information, and a mix information, the object information including an object level information, an object correlation information, and an object gain information, generating a downmix processing information using the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090171672 - Method and device for the hierarchical coding of a source audio signal and corresponding decoding method and device, programs and signals: At least one frame of at least one enhancement level (208, 209, 210, 211) has a duration less than the duration of at least one frame of said base level (207), and at least one indication representative of an order used for a set of frames corresponding to the duration... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090171674 - Playback device systems and methods: A playback device configured to play back audio in response to an instruction. Prior to the instruction, decoded audio data corresponding to a header (e.g., frame number 1 to N) of compressed audio data may be stored in audio cache memory. After the instruction, the decoded audio data may be... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090171677 - Audio subsystem sharing in a virtualized environment: A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the device includes a first virtual machine to directly access a physical audio codec. The device also includes a virtual audio codec that is managed by the first virtual machine. The virtual audio codec can provide a custom interface to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global