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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression August inventions list 08/09

20090216522 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for determing parts-of-speech in chinese: A word sequence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese word sequences and Japanese parts-of-speech of the words in the Japanese word sequences. A part-of-speech correspondence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese parts-of-speech and Chinese parts-of-speech. A translating unit translates an input Chinese word sequence into a Japanese word sequence. A searching unit... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090216523 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input for prioritizing compound language solutions according to quantity of text components: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to prioritize compound language solutions according to... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Llc

20090216524 - Method and system for estimating a sentiment for an entity: A method for estimating a sentiment conveyed by the content of information sources towards an entity is presented. The sentiment is obtained with respect to a query context that may be specified, e.g. by specific terms or expressions, like a product or service name. A sentiment dictionary having a plurality... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090216525 - System and method for treating homonyms in a speech recognition system: A system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system and method are provided. The system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system may be used in a mobile wireless communication devices that are voice operated after their initial activation.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090216526 - System enhancement of speech signals: A system enhances speech by detecting a speaker's utterance through a first microphone positioned a first distance from a source of interference. A second microphone may detect the speaker's utterance at a different position. A monitoring device may estimate the power level of a first microphone signal. A synthesizer may... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216527 - Post filter, decoder, and post filtering method: A post filter and a decoder enabling improvement of the sound quality of a decoded signal even when the sound quality of the decoded signal is different from the bands are disclosed. A frequency converting section determines a decoded spectrum. A power spectrum computing section computes the power spectrum from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090216528 - Method of adapting a neural network of an automatic speech recognition device: A method of adapting a neural network of an automatic speech recognition device, includes the steps of: providing a neural network including an input stage, an intermediate stage and an output stage, the output stage outputting phoneme probabilities; providing a linear stage in the neural network; and training the linear... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090216529 - Electronic devices and methods that adapt filtering of a microphone signal responsive to recognition of a targeted speaker's voice: Electronic devices and methods are disclosed that adaptively filter a microphone signal responsive to recognition of a targeted speaker's voice. An electronic device can include a microphone, a speaker characterization circuit, an adaptive sound filter circuit, and a speaker recognition circuit. The speaker characterization circuit operates in a training mode... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20090216530 - Interference detector: A system improves speech detection or processing by identifying registration signals. The system encodes a limited frequency band by varying the amplitude of a pulse width modulated signal between predefined values. The signal is separated into frequency bins that identify amplitude and phase. The registration signal is measured by comparing... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216532 - Automatic extraction and dissemination of audio impression: A method of creating a voice message is described. A dictated audio input is converted by automatic speech recognition to produce a structured text report that includes report fields with report field data extracted from the dictated audio input. A report message is created for transmission over an electronic communication... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090216531 - Providing text input using speech data and non-speech data: Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the non-speech input for presentation to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090216533 - Stored phrase reutilization when testing speech recognition: A set of audio phrases and corresponding phrase characteristics can be maintained, such as in a database. The phrase characteristics can include a translation of speech in the associated audio phrase. A finite state grammar that includes a set of textual phrases can be received. A software algorithm can execute... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090216534 - Voice-activated emergency medical services communication and documentation system: A method of documenting information as well as a documentation and communication system for documenting information with a wearable computing device of the type that includes a processing unit and a touchscreen display is provided. The method includes displaying at least one screen on the touchscreen display. A field on... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090216535 - Engine for speech recognition: A computerized method for speech recognition in a computer system. Reference word segments are stored in memory. The reference word segments when concatenated form spoken words in a language. Each of the reference word segments is a combination of at least two phonemes, including a vowel sound in the language.... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis, Pc

20090216536 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium: An image processing apparatus comprises an image data input portion that inputs image data and a text data input portion that inputs text data. The text data inputted by the text data input portion is converted into voice data by a voice data converter, and this obtained voice data and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090216537 - Speech synthesis apparatus and method thereof: A speech synthesis apparatus includes a text obtaining device that obtains text data for speech synthesis from the outside, a language processor that carries out morphological analysis/parsing to the text data, a prosodic processor that outputs, to a speech synthesizer, a synthesis unit string based on the prosodic and language... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090216539 - Image capturing device: An image capturing device includes a digital signal processor for processing an image captured by an imaging sensor, a display unit for displaying the image, a storage unit for storing the image and preset voice samples, and a voice processing unit for picking up sound waves and converting the sound... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090216538 - Method for interacting with users of speech recognition systems: A computer implemented method facilitates a user interaction via a speech-based user interface. The method acquires spoken input from a user in a form of a phrase of one or more words. It further determines, using a plurality of different domains) whether the phrase is a query or a command.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090216540 - Open architecture for a voice user interface: A system and method for processing voice requests from a user for accessing information on a computerized network and delivering information from a script server and an audio server in the network in audio format. A voice user interface subsystem includes: a dialog engine that is operable to interpret requests... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090216542 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal are provided. The present invention includes receiving an audio signal including a downmix signal and a spatial information signal, if a header is included in the spatial information signal, extracting configuration information from the header, extracting spatial information included... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090216543 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal are provided. The present invention includes receiving an audio signal including an audio descriptor, recognizing that the audio signal includes a downmix signal and a spatial information signal using the audio descriptor, and converting the downmix signal to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090216541 - 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.

20090216544 - Audio signal encoding or decoding: Further, decoding is provided wherein an encoded audio signal comprising an encoded single channel audio signal and a set of spatial parameters is decoded by decoding the encoded single channel audio channel to obtain a plurality of downsampled subband signals, further subband filtering at least one of the downsampled subband... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090210213 - Selecting a language encoding of a static communication in a virtual universe: A static communication can be presented efficiently in different languages to facilitate propagation of the static communication across language boundaries. A static communication object that represents a static communication can be loaded with different language encodings of the static communication. When a trigger occurs (e.g., an avatar accesses the static... Agent: Delizio Gilliam, PLLC (ibm Svl)

20090210214 - Universal language input: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for universal language input are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes using a first application or operating system component to detect user input to an application interface of a second application. The method also includes, as input... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090210215 - Document image processing device and document image processing program: A document image processing device includes a region dividing unit that divides a document image into sentence regions, a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in each sentence region obtained by the region dividing unit, a classifying unit that classifies the sentence regions into groups based on first character sizes... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090210217 - Gaming apparatus capable of conversation with player and control method thereof: A gaming apparatus of the present invention comprises: a microphone; a speaker; a display; a memory storing effect image data for each language type; and a controller. The controller is programmed to conduct the processing of: (A) recognizing a language type from a sound inputted from said microphone by executing... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090210216 - Storage device that provides efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device: Efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device is provided. NLS file segments are provided in a wrapper in the Virtual NLS file. Segments may be organized by language family. The number of segments that need to be searched is also minimized. At any point, any of the pointers... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090210218 - Deep neural networks and methods for using same: A method and system for labeling a selected word of a sentence using a deep neural network includes, in one exemplary embodiment, determining an index term corresponding to each feature of the word, transforming the index term or terms of the word into a vector, and predicting a label for... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090210219 - Apparatus and method for coding and decoding residual signal: Provided is a residual signal coding/decoding apparatus and method. The residual signal coding apparatus includes a transformer, a band splitter, a pulse searcher, and a pulse quantizer. The transformer transforms time-domain residual signals into a frequency domain to output transform coefficients. The band splitter splits the transform coefficients into bands... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090210220 - Speech analyzer detecting pitch frequency, speech analyzing method, and speech analyzing program: A speech analyzer includes a speech acquiring section, a frequency converting section, an autocorrelation section, and a pitch detection section. The frequency converting section converts the speech signal acquired by the speech acquiring section into a frequency spectrum. The autocorrelation section determines an autocorrelation waveform by shifting the frequency spectrum... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090210221 - Communication system for building speech database for speech synthesis, relay device therefor, and relay method therefor: A relay device 20 duplicates speech data received from a communication terminal that is engaged in voice communication with another communication terminal. The duplicated speech data is transmitted to and is stored at a media processing device 40. Media processing device 40 builds a database for speech synthesis based on... Agent: Ntt Mobile Communications Network I/bhgl

20090210222 - Multi-channel hole-filling for audio compression: Multi-channel hole-filling for audio compression is disclosed. Channel dependency groups (CDGs) are explicitly extracted based on channel transform information. Holes are detected within each CDG for each bark, and a CDG hole is identified as requiring filling as a particular section of frequency bandwidth larger than a predetermined hole bandwidth... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090210223 - Apparatus and method for sound recognition in portable device: Provided are an apparatus and a method capable of recognizing a sound through a reduced burden of computations and a noise-tolerant technique. The sound recognition apparatus in a portable device includes a memory unit that stores at least one base sound and a sound input unit that receives a sound... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090210224 - System, method and program for speech processing: The present invention relates to a system, method and program for speech recognition. In an embodiment of the invention a method for processing a speech signal consists of receiving a power spectrum of a speech signal and generating a log power spectrum signal of the power spectrum. The method further... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090210225 - Supporting electronic task management systems via telephone: The disclosed personal information management (PIM) system supports tasks and reminders via a audio user interface. The user creates a task object via a telephone call to the server. The task object may include an audio recording of the user's voice received during the telephone call. The system may convert... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090210226 - Method and apparatus for voice searching for stored content using uniterm discovery: A method, system and communication device for enabling voice-to-voice searching and ordered content retrieval via audio tags assigned to individual content, which tags generate uniterms that are matched against components of a voice query. The method includes storing content and tagging at least one of the content with an audio... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090210227 - Voice recognition apparatus and method for performing voice recognition: A voice recognition apparatus includes: a voice recognition module that performs a voice recognition for an audio signal during a voice period; a distance measurement module that measures a current distance between the user and an voice input module; a calculation module that calculates a recommended distance range, in which... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210229 - Processing received voice messages: A voice message processing system shortens received voice messages to reduce the time a user must spend in reviewing the user's voice messages. In some embodiments, a data file associated with a caller is created and updated with words and associated audio files that may be used to replace longer... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090210228 - System for dynamic management of customer direction during live interaction: A system for customer interaction includes a telephony-enabled device for receiving voice calls from customers, a voice recognition engine connected to the telephony-enabled device for monitoring the voice channel, and an application server connected to the voice recognition engine for receiving notification when specific keywords phrases or tones are detected.... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20090210230 - Speech recognition on large lists using fragments: A system and method is provided for recognizing a speech input and selecting an entry from a list of entries. The method includes recognizing a speech input. A fragment list of fragmented entries is provided and compared to the recognized speech input to generate a candidate list of best matching... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090210231 - Stuttering treatment methods and apparatus: Stuttering treatment methods and apparatus which utilize removable oral-based appliances having actuators which are attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a dental or oral appliance are described. Such oral appliances may receive the user's voice and process the voice to introduce a time delay and/or a frequency shift.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20090210233 - Cognitive offloading: interface for storing and composing searches on and navigating unconstrained input patterns: One or more commands are configured to cause content to be stored for retrieval. The content to be stored includes one or more entries. The content may include event-triggered content stored for retrieval upon an occurrence of a specified event or other content. The content is retrieved in response to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090210232 - Layered prompting: self-calibrating instructional prompting for verbal interfaces: A plurality of prompting layers configured to provide varying levels of detailed assistance in prompting a user are maintained. A prompt from a current prompting layer is presented to a user. Input is received from the user. A level of detail in prompting the user is adaptively changed based on... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090210234 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding signals: A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090210235 - Encoding device, encoding method, and computer program product including methods thereof: A disclosed encoding device converts an audio signal into frequency spectra, determines allowable error powers with respect to bands divided by the frequency of the audio signal by a predetermined with, detects a tonal frequency spectrum from the frequency spectra, and detects a band containing the frequency spectrum. Using the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090210237 - Frame compensation method and system: A frame compensation method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a length of a lost frame and a length of a correct frame; determining that the length of the correct frame is integral power of 2 times of the length of the lost frame, and then obtaining a data sequence... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090210236 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding stereo audio. In the method for encoding stereo audio, stereo audio is encoded based on at least one of the phase difference between first and second channel audios and information on an angle made by a vector on the intensity of mono-audio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090210239 - Method for encoding and decoding object-based audio signal and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding object-based audio signals. This audio decoding method includes extracting a first audio signal and a first audio parameter in which a music object are encoded on a channel basis and a second audio signal and a second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090210238 - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding object-based audio signals: An audio decoding method and apparatus and an audio encoding method and apparatus which can efficiently process object-based audio signals are provided. The audio decoding method includes receiving a downmix signal, which is obtained by downmixing a plurality of object signals, and object side information, extracting metadata from the object-side... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204385 - E-services translation utilizing machine translation and translation memory: A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090204386 - Method and apparatus for cross-lingual communication: A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both speech recognition and translation, thus providing robust translation output than would otherwise be possible. The interactive techniques for monitoring and correcting... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090204387 - Gaming machine: A message display area 85 of a sub monitor 111 provided in each station 101 displays contents uttered by each player through a microphone 116 provided in each station 101 in an output language of the station 101 in question. The contents displayed on the message display area 85 are... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204388 - Gaming system with interactive feature and control method thereof: In a gaming system, a player's language is specified by a conversation with the player participating in a roulette game at a gaming terminal. Then, when the conversation with the player is conducted by a conversation engine, conversation database corresponding to the player's language is selected. Therefore, the player can... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204389 - Translation on demand: A translation on demand (“TOD”), in one embodiment, receives a search request with a search term from a user in a native language across the Internet. The search term is translated into at least one foreign language using automatic translation software (“ATS”) according to specifications listed with the search request.... Agent: James M. Wu Jw Law Group

20090204390 - Speech processing apparatus and program, and speech processing method: A speech processing apparatus 101 includes a recognition feature extracting unit 12 that extracts recognition feature information which is a characteristic of a speech recognition result 15 obtained by performing a speech recognition process on an inputted speech from the speech recognition result 15; a language feature extracting unit 11... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090204391 - Gaming machine with conversation engine for interactive gaming through dialog with player and playing method thereof: A player inputs a message or a conversation sentence in the form of a sound or characters into an input unit of a gaming machine to request an inquiry of a history of games with the gaming machine in the past or an inquiry of a gaming history of the... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204392 - Communication terminal having speech recognition function, update support device for speech recognition dictionary thereof, and update method: A simple means for expanding a speech recognition dictionary between communication terminals is provided. A speech recognition dictionary update support device (100) is provided with a speech recognition processing unit (102) which performs speech recognition on content of communication between the communication terminals (200) and also detects words included in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090204393 - Systems and methods for adaptive multi-rate protocol enhancement: A method of processing a codec sample is provided. The method includes: removing from a first portion of the codec sample, a first number of first information bits. The first information bits are indicative of frame information associated with the codec sample. The method also includes inserting at the first... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090204394 - Decoding method and device: A decoding method and device are provided. The spectrum parameter of a current bad data frame is determined. Specifically, a number of continuous bad frames that occur currently is determined. A spectrum parameter of a good data frame before the current bad data frame is determined. And a constant mean... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090204395 - Strained-rough-voice conversion device, voice conversion device, voice synthesis device, voice conversion method, voice synthesis method, and program: A strained-rough-voice conversion unit (10) is included in a voice conversion device that can generate a “strained rough” voice produced in a part of a speech when speaking forcefully with excitement, nervousness, anger, or emphasis and thereby richly express vocal expression such as anger, excitement, or an animated or lively... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090204396 - Method and apparatus for implementing speech decoding in speech decoder field of the invention: The present disclosure relates to a decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data frames from the coder; if any erroneous frame appears, calculating a pitch lag parameter of the erroneous frame; decoding the data frames according to the calculated pitch lag parameter of the erroneous frame, and obtaining... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204397 - Linear predictive coding of an audio signal: An apparatus for linear predictive coding of an audio signal comprises a segmentation processor (201) which generates signal segments for the audio signal. An autocorrelation processor (401) for generates a first autocorrelation sequence for each signal segment and a modification processor (403) generates a second autocorrelation sequence for each signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090204398 - Measurement of spoken language training, learning & testing: The fluency of a spoken utterance or passage is measure and presented to the speaker and to others. In one embodiment, a method is described that includes recording a spoken utterance, evaluating the spoken utterance for accuracy, evaluating the spoken utterance for duration, and assigning a score to the spoken... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090204399 - Speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus, speech data summarizing and reproducing method, and speech data summarizing and reproducing program: Necessary portions of stored speech data representing conference content are summarized and reproduced in a predetermined time. Conference speech is summarized and reproduced using a speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus comprising a speech data divider for dividing and structuring conference speech data into several utterance unit data based on... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090204400 - System and method for processing a spoken request from a user: A system and method are described for processing a spoken request from a user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for attempting to recognize a spoken request from a user with a speech recognition engine above a predetermined level of accuracy. If the spoken request is not recognized above... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204404 - Method and apparatus for controlling play of an audio signal: Apparatus and methods conforming to the present invention comprise a method of controlling playback of an audio signal through analysis of a corresponding close caption signal in conjunction with analysis of the corresponding audio signal. Objection text or other specified text in the close caption signal is identified through comparison... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090204402 - Method and apparatus for creating customized podcasts with multiple text-to-speech voices: Method and apparatus for creating customized podcasts with multiple voices, where text content is converted into audio content, and where the voices are selected at least in part on words in the text content suggestive of the type of voice. Types of voice include at least male and female, accent,... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090204403 - Speech generating means for use with signal sensors: An apparatus includes receiving circuitry for receiving a signal; and a speech module for converting the signal into speech.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090204401 - Speech processing system, speech processing method, and speech processing program: Provided is a speech translation system for receiving an input of the original speech in a first language, translating an input content into a second language, and outputting a result of the translating as a speech, including: an input processing part for receiving the input of the original speech, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090204405 - Method, apparatus and program for speech synthesis: Apparatus and method for generating high quality synthesized speech having smooth waveform concatenation. The apparatus includes a pitch frequency calculation section, a pitch synchronization position calculation section, a unit waveform storage, a unit waveform selection section, a unit waveform generation section, and a waveform synthesis section. The unit waveform generation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090204406 - System and methods for detecting deception as to fluency or other ability in a given language: The invention relates to a system and methods for detecting when a user is representing he is not fluent in a language in which he is fluent. The present system and methods are adapted to be used in conjunction with conventional and novel computer systems and methods and provides detection... Agent: Kaplan Gilman & Pergament LLP

20090204407 - System and method for processing a spoken request from a user: A system and method are described for processing a spoken request from a user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for attempting to recognize a spoken request from a user with a speech recognition engine above a predetermined level of accuracy. If the spoken request is not recognized above... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204408 - Method and system of providing personal and business information: A multi-modal system providing for a single point of contact that can allow users to manage their personal contact information and contact lists, and connect to other users and businesses in a personalized, efficient, location-sensitive and organized manner. By accessing the system using any type of telephony-based device, a user... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090204411 - Image processing apparatus, voice assistance method and recording medium: An image processing apparatus comprises: a voice input portion; a memory that stores in itself as voice data, voice of a plurality of users for voice assistance, which is inputted by the voice input portion; a selection portion that selects voice data applied for a login user among the voice... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090204409 - Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluetooth headsets and remote systems: Systems and methods for improving the interaction between a user and a small electronic device such as a Bluetooth headset are described. The use of a voice user interface in electronic devices may be used. In one embodiment, recognition processing limitations of some devices are overcome by employing speech synthesizers... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090204410 - Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluetooth headsets and remote systems: Systems and methods for improving the interaction between a user and a small electronic device such as a Bluetooth headset are described. The use of a voice user interface in electronic devices may be used. In one embodiment, recognition processing limitations of some devices are overcome by employing speech synthesizers... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090204413 - Method and system for asymmetric independent audio rendering: Methods and mobile devices are provided for asymmetric independent processing of audio streams in a system on a chip (SOC). More specifically, independent audio paths are provided for processors performing audio processing on the SOC and mixing of decoded audio samples from the processors is performed digitally on the SOC... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090204412 - Method for limiting adaptive excitation gain in an audio decoder: Decoder for an audio signal coded by a coder including a long-term prediction filter wherein the decoder comprises: a block (211) for detecting transmission frame losses; a module (222) for calculating values of an error indication function representative of the cumulative adaptive excitation error during decoding following said transmission frame... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090204385 - E-services translation utilizing machine translation and translation memory: A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090204386 - Method and apparatus for cross-lingual communication: A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both speech recognition and translation, thus providing robust translation output than would otherwise be possible. The interactive techniques for monitoring and correcting... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090204387 - Gaming machine: A message display area 85 of a sub monitor 111 provided in each station 101 displays contents uttered by each player through a microphone 116 provided in each station 101 in an output language of the station 101 in question. The contents displayed on the message display area 85 are... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204388 - Gaming system with interactive feature and control method thereof: In a gaming system, a player's language is specified by a conversation with the player participating in a roulette game at a gaming terminal. Then, when the conversation with the player is conducted by a conversation engine, conversation database corresponding to the player's language is selected. Therefore, the player can... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204389 - Translation on demand: A translation on demand (“TOD”), in one embodiment, receives a search request with a search term from a user in a native language across the Internet. The search term is translated into at least one foreign language using automatic translation software (“ATS”) according to specifications listed with the search request.... Agent: James M. Wu Jw Law Group

20090204390 - Speech processing apparatus and program, and speech processing method: A speech processing apparatus 101 includes a recognition feature extracting unit 12 that extracts recognition feature information which is a characteristic of a speech recognition result 15 obtained by performing a speech recognition process on an inputted speech from the speech recognition result 15; a language feature extracting unit 11... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090204391 - Gaming machine with conversation engine for interactive gaming through dialog with player and playing method thereof: A player inputs a message or a conversation sentence in the form of a sound or characters into an input unit of a gaming machine to request an inquiry of a history of games with the gaming machine in the past or an inquiry of a gaming history of the... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090204392 - Communication terminal having speech recognition function, update support device for speech recognition dictionary thereof, and update method: A simple means for expanding a speech recognition dictionary between communication terminals is provided. A speech recognition dictionary update support device (100) is provided with a speech recognition processing unit (102) which performs speech recognition on content of communication between the communication terminals (200) and also detects words included in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090204393 - Systems and methods for adaptive multi-rate protocol enhancement: A method of processing a codec sample is provided. The method includes: removing from a first portion of the codec sample, a first number of first information bits. The first information bits are indicative of frame information associated with the codec sample. The method also includes inserting at the first... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090204394 - Decoding method and device: A decoding method and device are provided. The spectrum parameter of a current bad data frame is determined. Specifically, a number of continuous bad frames that occur currently is determined. A spectrum parameter of a good data frame before the current bad data frame is determined. And a constant mean... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090204395 - Strained-rough-voice conversion device, voice conversion device, voice synthesis device, voice conversion method, voice synthesis method, and program: A strained-rough-voice conversion unit (10) is included in a voice conversion device that can generate a “strained rough” voice produced in a part of a speech when speaking forcefully with excitement, nervousness, anger, or emphasis and thereby richly express vocal expression such as anger, excitement, or an animated or lively... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090204396 - Method and apparatus for implementing speech decoding in speech decoder field of the invention: The present disclosure relates to a decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data frames from the coder; if any erroneous frame appears, calculating a pitch lag parameter of the erroneous frame; decoding the data frames according to the calculated pitch lag parameter of the erroneous frame, and obtaining... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204397 - Linear predictive coding of an audio signal: An apparatus for linear predictive coding of an audio signal comprises a segmentation processor (201) which generates signal segments for the audio signal. An autocorrelation processor (401) for generates a first autocorrelation sequence for each signal segment and a modification processor (403) generates a second autocorrelation sequence for each signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090204398 - Measurement of spoken language training, learning & testing: The fluency of a spoken utterance or passage is measure and presented to the speaker and to others. In one embodiment, a method is described that includes recording a spoken utterance, evaluating the spoken utterance for accuracy, evaluating the spoken utterance for duration, and assigning a score to the spoken... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090204399 - Speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus, speech data summarizing and reproducing method, and speech data summarizing and reproducing program: Necessary portions of stored speech data representing conference content are summarized and reproduced in a predetermined time. Conference speech is summarized and reproduced using a speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus comprising a speech data divider for dividing and structuring conference speech data into several utterance unit data based on... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090204400 - System and method for processing a spoken request from a user: A system and method are described for processing a spoken request from a user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for attempting to recognize a spoken request from a user with a speech recognition engine above a predetermined level of accuracy. If the spoken request is not recognized above... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204404 - Method and apparatus for controlling play of an audio signal: Apparatus and methods conforming to the present invention comprise a method of controlling playback of an audio signal through analysis of a corresponding close caption signal in conjunction with analysis of the corresponding audio signal. Objection text or other specified text in the close caption signal is identified through comparison... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090204402 - Method and apparatus for creating customized podcasts with multiple text-to-speech voices: Method and apparatus for creating customized podcasts with multiple voices, where text content is converted into audio content, and where the voices are selected at least in part on words in the text content suggestive of the type of voice. Types of voice include at least male and female, accent,... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090204403 - Speech generating means for use with signal sensors: An apparatus includes receiving circuitry for receiving a signal; and a speech module for converting the signal into speech.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090204401 - Speech processing system, speech processing method, and speech processing program: Provided is a speech translation system for receiving an input of the original speech in a first language, translating an input content into a second language, and outputting a result of the translating as a speech, including: an input processing part for receiving the input of the original speech, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090204405 - Method, apparatus and program for speech synthesis: Apparatus and method for generating high quality synthesized speech having smooth waveform concatenation. The apparatus includes a pitch frequency calculation section, a pitch synchronization position calculation section, a unit waveform storage, a unit waveform selection section, a unit waveform generation section, and a waveform synthesis section. The unit waveform generation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090204406 - System and methods for detecting deception as to fluency or other ability in a given language: The invention relates to a system and methods for detecting when a user is representing he is not fluent in a language in which he is fluent. The present system and methods are adapted to be used in conjunction with conventional and novel computer systems and methods and provides detection... Agent: Kaplan Gilman & Pergament LLP

20090204407 - System and method for processing a spoken request from a user: A system and method are described for processing a spoken request from a user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for attempting to recognize a spoken request from a user with a speech recognition engine above a predetermined level of accuracy. If the spoken request is not recognized above... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204408 - Method and system of providing personal and business information: A multi-modal system providing for a single point of contact that can allow users to manage their personal contact information and contact lists, and connect to other users and businesses in a personalized, efficient, location-sensitive and organized manner. By accessing the system using any type of telephony-based device, a user... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090204411 - Image processing apparatus, voice assistance method and recording medium: An image processing apparatus comprises: a voice input portion; a memory that stores in itself as voice data, voice of a plurality of users for voice assistance, which is inputted by the voice input portion; a selection portion that selects voice data applied for a login user among the voice... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090204409 - Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluetooth headsets and remote systems: Systems and methods for improving the interaction between a user and a small electronic device such as a Bluetooth headset are described. The use of a voice user interface in electronic devices may be used. In one embodiment, recognition processing limitations of some devices are overcome by employing speech synthesizers... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090204410 - Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluetooth headsets and remote systems: Systems and methods for improving the interaction between a user and a small electronic device such as a Bluetooth headset are described. The use of a voice user interface in electronic devices may be used. In one embodiment, recognition processing limitations of some devices are overcome by employing speech synthesizers... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090204413 - Method and system for asymmetric independent audio rendering: Methods and mobile devices are provided for asymmetric independent processing of audio streams in a system on a chip (SOC). More specifically, independent audio paths are provided for processors performing audio processing on the SOC and mixing of decoded audio samples from the processors is performed digitally on the SOC... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090204412 - Method for limiting adaptive excitation gain in an audio decoder: Decoder for an audio signal coded by a coder including a long-term prediction filter wherein the decoder comprises: a block (211) for detecting transmission frame losses; a module (222) for calculating values of an error indication function representative of the cumulative adaptive excitation error during decoding following said transmission frame... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090198486 - Handheld electronic apparatus with translation function and translation method using the same: A handheld electronic apparatus with a translation function comprises an image-capturing device, an image recognition device, a language translator and a display device. The image-capturing device, e.g., a digital camera, is configured to take an image having a text portion of one or more words or sentences, and the image... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090198487 - Community translation on a social network: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for translating text in a social network. In one embodiment translations of text phrases are received from members of the social network. These text phrases include content displayed in a social networking system, such as content from social networking objects. A particular member is... Agent: Facebook/fenwick Silicon Valley Center

20090198488 - System and method for analyzing communications using multi-placement hierarchical structures: A system and method are provided for analyzing communications to disambiguate the meaning of the analyzed communications using placements into a fixed hierarchical structure based on the words, position and grammar of the communications. The disambiguated meaning of the communications can be used in conjunction with other functional programs (e.g.,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090198489 - Method and apparatus for frequency encoding, and method and apparatus for frequency decoding: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding the frequency of a continuation sinusoidal signal and a method and apparatus for decoding the same. In the encoding method, a continuation sinusoidal signal successive to a sinusoidal signal in a previous section is extracted from a current section; a frequency of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198490 - Response time when using a dual factor end of utterance determination technique: The present invention discloses a solution for a speech processing system to determine end-of-utterance (EOU) events. The solution is a modified dual factor technique, where one factor is based upon a number of silence frames received and a second factor is based upon an end-of-path occurrence. The solution permits a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090198491 - Lsp vector quantization apparatus, lsp vector inverse-quantization apparatus, and their methods: Disclosed is an LPC vector quantization device capable of quantizing an LSP vector by using correlation between divided vectors. The device includes: a vector dividing unit (101) for dividing an inputted LSP vector into a first divided vector and a second divided vector; a first quantization unit (102) for quantizing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090198492 - Adaptive noise modeling speech recognition system: An adaptive noise modeling speech recognition system improves speech recognition by modifying an activation of the system's grammar rules or models based on detected noise characteristics. An adaptive noise modeling speech recognition system includes a sensor that receives acoustic data having a speech component and a noise component. A processor... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090198493 - System and method for unsupervised and active learning for automatic speech recognition: A system and method is provided for combining active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition. This process enables a reduction in the amount of human supervision required for training acoustic and language models and an increase in the performance given the transcribed and un-transcribed data.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090198494 - Resource conservative transformation based unsupervised speaker adaptation: The present invention discloses a solution for conserving computing resources when implementing transformation based adaptation techniques. The disclosed solution limits the amount of speech data used by real-time adaptation algorithms to compute a transformation, which results in substantial computational savings. Appreciably, application of a transform is a relatively low memory... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090198495 - Voice situation data creating device, voice situation visualizing device, voice situation data editing device, voice data reproducing device, and voice communication system: A voice situation data creating device for providing the user with data with a good convenience for the user when the user uses voice data collected from sound sources and recorded with time. A direction/talker identifying section (3) of a control unit (1) observes a variation of direction data acquired... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090198496 - Aspect oriented programmable dialogue manager and apparatus operated thereby: A dialogue system enabling a natural language interaction between a user and a machine having a script interpreter capable of executing dialogue specifications formed according to the rules of an aspect oriented programming language. The script interpreter further contains an advice executor which operates in a weaver type fashion using... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090198497 - Method and apparatus for speech synthesis of text message: Provided is a method and apparatus for speech synthesis of a text message. The method includes receiving input of voice parameters for a text message, storing each of the text message and the input voice parameters in a data packet, and transmitting the data packet to a receiving terminal.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090198499 - Method and apparatus for encoding residual signals and method and apparatus for decoding residual signals: Encoding and decoding of residual signals are provided. In a method of encoding a residual signal of an audio signal, the residual signal is divided into a plurality of sections having different sizes, based on a change of the residual signal. Then, section division information representing information about the divided... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198501 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio signal using adaptive lpc coefficient interpolation: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal by adaptively interpolating a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient. In the method and apparatus of encoding or decoding an audio signal, LPC coefficient interpolation is selectively performed depending on whether a transient section is present in a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198498 - Method and apparatus for estimating high-band energy in a bandwidth extension system: A method (100) includes receiving (101) an input digital audio signal comprising a narrow-band signal. The input digital audio signal is processed (102) to generate a processed digital audio signal. A high-band energy level corresponding to the input digital audio signal is estimated (103) based on a transition-band of the... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090198500 - Temporal masking in audio coding based on spectral dynamics in frequency sub-bands: An audio coding technique based on modeling spectral dynamics is disclosed. Frequency decomposition of an input audio signal is performed to obtain multiple frequency sub-bands that closely follow critical bands of human auditory system decomposition. Each sub-band is then frequency transformed and linear prediction is applied. This results in a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated