Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 10/09

20090248391 - Automated many-sorted theorem prover: The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence (P1) and at least one second sentence (Q1), wherein each of the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090248392 - Facilitating language learning during instant messaging sessions through simultaneous presentation of an original instant message and a translated version: An instant messaging (IM) interface, system, and method, where the interface includes a dialog region and a communication entry region. The interface can optionally be an interface of a social networking Web site or application. The dialog region is configured to present a running IM dialog that includes content exchanged... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a. - Ibm Cam

20090248393 - User translated sites after provisioning: The display language of a site may be changed to another alternate language by users of a site at any time. For example, a first user may access the same site in its default language (i.e. English) and a second user may access the site using their preferred language (i.e.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090248394 - Machine translation in continuous space: A system and method for training a statistical machine translation model and decoding or translating using the same is disclosed. A source word versus target word co-occurrence matrix is created to define word pairs. Dimensionality of the matrix may be reduced. Word pairs are mapped as vectors into continuous space... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090248395 - Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-natie words derived from non-native pronunciatons: Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native (foreign) words which are automatically derived from non-native phonetic transcriptions of the non-native words.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090248396 - Method for automating an internationalization test in a multilingual web application: A method and system for automatically executing an internationalization test of web applications by recording and utilizing HTTP transmitted and received data in the internationalization test in a multilingual web application. By processing and storing recorded HTTP transmitted and received data in a base language to prepare an HTTP request... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090248400 - Rule based apparatus for modifying word annotations: A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base is described. The apparatus includes an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations. An annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations, and a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090248397 - Service initiation techniques: Service initiation techniques are described. In at least one implementation, a computing device receives a selection of text that is displayed in a user interface by an application. Selection is detected of one of a plurality of services that are displayed in the user interface. Responsive to the detection, the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248399 - System and method for analyzing text using emotional intelligence factors: A system, method and computer program products for facilitating the automated reading, disambiguation, analysis, indexing, retrieval and scoring of text by utilizing emotional intelligence-based factors. Text quality is scored based upon character development, rhythm, per-page quality, gaps, and climaxes, among other factors. The scores may be standardized by subtracting the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090248398 - Vocal alert unit having automatic situation awareness: A system and method for instructing dynamic nodes in a dynamically changing mobile network how to maneuver. A receiver receives situation data indicative of a respective situation of each dynamic node in space and a situation unit coupled to the receiver determines the respective situation of each dynamic node. An... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248401 - System and methods for using short-hand interpretation dictionaries in collaboration environments: A method for creating and using a short-hand interpretation dictionary in a collaboration environment includes creating or editing a document in a collaboration environment, said document comprising at least one short-hand notation; and replacing the at least one short-hand notation with an interpretation from at least one short-hand dictionary.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090248402 - Voice mixing method and multipoint conference server and program using the same method: The voice mixing method includes a first step for selecting voice information from a plurality of voice information, a second step for adding up all the selected voice information, a third step for obtaining a voice signal totaling the voice signals other than one voice signal, of the selected voice... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090248403 - Dereverberation apparatus, dereverberation method, dereverberation program, and recording medium: A model application unit calculates linear prediction coefficients of a multi-step linear prediction model by using discrete acoustic signals. Then, a late reverberation predictor calculates linear prediction values obtained by substituting the linear prediction coefficients and the discrete acoustic signals into linear prediction term of the multi-step linear prediction model,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248404 - Lost frame compensating method, audio encoding apparatus and audio decoding apparatus: A frame loss compensating method wherein even when audio codec, which utilizes past sound source information of adaptive codebook or the like, is used as a main layer, the degradation in quality of the decoded audio of a lost frame and following frames is small. In this method, it is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090248405 - Packet loss concealment for a sub-band predictive coder based on extrapolation of excitation waveform: Systems and methods are described for performing packet loss concealment using an extrapolation of an excitation waveform in a sub-band predictive speech coder, such as an ITU-T Recommendation G.722 wideband speech coder. The systems and methods are useful for concealing the quality-degrading effects of packet loss in a sub-band predictive... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090248406 - Coding method, encoder, and computer readable medium: A coding method is adapted to select different codebook search algorithms according to varied types of input signals. An encoder using the coding method is also provided. As appropriate search algorithms may be selected according to all possible structural features of the input signals, certain types of signals for which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090248409 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus for adjusting a received voice signal in accordance with an ambient noise, the communication apparatus includes: a microphone for receiving an ambient noise and input voice and outputting a voice input signal corresponding to a level of the input voice and the ambient noise; a receiver for... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090248407 - Sound encoder, sound decoder, and their methods: A sound encoder enabling prevention of deterioration of the sound quality of a reproduced signal even if the harmonic structure is broken in a part of the sound signal. The filter state position determining section (111) of the sound encoder judges the noise characteristic of the first-layer decoding spectrum and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090248408 - Voice emitting and collecting device: A voice emitting and collecting device that is capable of picking up/outputting a voice emitted from a talker at a high S/N ratio by eliminating the influence of a diffracting voice despite a simple configuration is provided. A signal differencing circuit 191 outputs difference signals MS1 to MS4 between voice... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090248410 - Lighted text display for motor vehicles: A system and method are disclosed enabling drivers of a vehicle to enter, edit and post messages on a graphical display attached to the interior or exterior of a vehicle. Voice recognition software allows the driver of the vehicle to input, and the system to display, a message without the... Agent: Andrew G. Dinovo Dinovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy LLP

20090248411 - Front-end noise reduction for speech recognition engine: VoIP phones according to the present invention include a microphone, which may be internal or external, and allow the user to communicate unobtrusively, check voice mail and conduct other activities in an environment which can be noisy in general and extremely noisy sometimes. Speech recognition functionally may also be used... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c.

20090248412 - Association apparatus, association method, and recording medium: There is provided an association apparatus for associating a plurality of voice data converted from voices produced by speakers, comprising: a word/phrase similarity deriving section which derives an appearance ratio of a common word/phrase that is common among the voice data based on a result of speech recognition processing on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090248413 - Devices and systems for remote control: Remote controllers and systems thereof are disclosed. The remote controller remotely operates a receiving host, in which the receiving host provides voice input and voice recognition functions. The remote controller comprises a first input unit and a second input unit for generating a voice input request and a voice recognition... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090248414 - Personal name assignment apparatus and method: An apparatus includes unit acquiring speaker information including a first duration of a speaker and a name specified by name specifying information used to indicate a name, and acquiring the first duration as a first period, unit acquiring a second period including an utterance, unit extracting, if the second period... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090248415 - Use of metadata to post process speech recognition output: A method of utilizing metadata stored in a computer-readable medium to assist in the conversion of an audio stream to a text stream. The method compares personally identifiable data, such as a user's electronic address book and/or Caller/Recipient ID information (in the case of processing voice mail to text), to... Agent: Tillman Wright, Pllc

20090248416 - System and method of spoken language understanding using word confusion networks: Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient phrases by calculating an intersection of the modified word... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090248417 - Speech processing apparatus, method, and computer program product: A method to generate a pitch contour for speech synthesis is proposed. The method is based on finding the pitch contour that maximizes a total likelihood function created by the combination of all the statistical models of the pitch contour segments of an utterance, at one or multiple linguistic levels.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248420 - Multi-participant, mixed-initiative voice interaction system: A voice interaction system includes one or more independent, concurrent state charts, which are used to model the behavior of each of a plurality of participants. The model simplifies the notation and provide a clear description of the interactions between multiple participants. These state charts capture the flow of voice... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20090248419 - Speech recognition adjustment based on manual interaction: A method of operating a speech recognition system on a vehicle having a visual display and manually-operated input device that includes initiating a speech recognition system, controlling menu selections on a visual display using a manually-operated input device, receiving a notification from the manually-operated input device indicating that the user... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090248418 - Speech recognition and statistics-based call route determination: A method of call route determination based upon a statistics-based business intelligence engine (BEI) queried by an IVR subsystem with caller parameters descriptive of the caller to determine a next best route for a received call, when the default or best route for the call exceeds a threshold time. A... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090248421 - Arrangement for creating and using a phonetic-alphabet representation of a name of a party to a call: A first party creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of its name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to a second party as “caller-identification” information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the name is displayed to the second party, converted to speech, and/or... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20090248422 - Intra-language statistical machine translation: Training data may be provided, the training data including pairs of source phrases and target phrases. The pairs may be used to train an intra-language statistical machine translation model, where the intra-language statistical machine translation model, when given an input phrase of text in the human language, can compute probabilities... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248423 - Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal: An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix signal from an input bitstream, generating a down-mix signal with 3D effects removed therefrom by performing a 3D rendering operation on the extracted 3D down-mix signal, and generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090248425 - Audio wave field encoding: An encoder/decoder for multi-channel audio data, and in particular for audio reproduction through wave field synthesis. The encoder comprises a two-dimensional filter-bank to the multi-channel signal, in which the channel index is treated as an independent variable as well as time, and and the resulting spectral coefficient are quantized according... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090248424 - Lossless and near lossless scalable audio codec: A scalable audio codec encodes an input audio signal as a base layer at a high compression ratio and one or more residual signals as an enhancement layer of a compressed bitstream, which permits a lossless or near lossless reconstruction of the input audio signal at decoding. The scalable audio... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP