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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression August inventions list 08/11

20110208508 - Interactive language training system: An interactive language training system allows practice word/phrase lists customized by the user for training. The customized lists may include words/phrases extracted from content sources based upon user selections. Extraction may include analysis of the content sources to determine word/phrase frequency, topic, and/or other parameters. A video sample of a... Agent:

20110208511 - Method and system for analyzing text: An apparatus for providing a control input signal for an industrial process or technical system having one or more controllable elements includes elements for generating a semantic space for a text corpus, and elements for generating a norm from one or more reference words or texts, the or each reference... Agent: Saplo Ab

20110208512 - Method and system for generating derivative words: The present invention provides a method for generating derivative words including the steps of: creating a number of derivative grammar arrays; matching the inputting character information with the derivative grammar arrays and obtaining the match derivative grammar arrays; obtaining match words from the language database according to the condition arrays... Agent:

20110208507 - Speech correction for typed input: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for correcting one or more typed words on an electronic device. The method can include receiving one or more typed words from a text input device and generating one or more candidate words for the one or more typed words. The... Agent: Google Inc.

20110208510 - System and method for converting graphical call flows into finite state machines: A method, system and module for automatically converting a call flow into a state-based representation are disclosed. The method comprises walking a call flow and converting each page of the call flow into a rule of a higher level representation of the call flow, augmenting the higher level representation with... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

20110208509 - System and method for the transformation and canonicalization of semantically structured data: A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific... Agent: Aol Inc.

20110208513 - Splitting a character string into keyword strings: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the word splitting and reliability score for an entered character string. A list of keywords may be extracted from the character string entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a dictionary... Agent: The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20110208514 - Data embedding device and data extraction device: A data embedding device for embedding data in a speech code obtained by encoding a speech in accordance with a speech encoding method based on a voice generation process of a human being, includes an embedding judgment unit, every speech code, judging whether or not data should be embedded in... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110208515 - Systems and methods for gathering research data: Methods and systems are provided for gathering research data that includes information pertaining to audio signals received on a portable device, such as a cell phone. Frequency domain data is received or produced, a signature is extracted from the frequency domain data and an ancillary code is read from the... Agent: Arbitron, Inc.

20110208516 - Information processing apparatus and operation method thereof: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first sound recorded from a first recording apparatus and a second sound recorded from a second recording apparatus that is different from the first recording apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a frequency band representing a voice... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20110208517 - Time-warping of audio signals for packet loss concealment: Packet loss concealment (PLC) systems and methods are described that use time-warping to merge a concealment signal generated to replace one or more bad frames of an audio signal with a received signal representing one or more subsequent good frames of the audio signal in a manner that avoids signal... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20110208518 - Method of editing a noise-database and computer device: The present invention relates to a method as well as to a computing device (20) for editing a noise-database (13) containing noise information, said noise information being derived from noise signals within an audio stream (19). In order to enhance possibilities to create and utilize context information which emerge from... Agent:

20110208519 - Real-time data pattern analysis system and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a real-time data-pattern analysis system includes: providing a memory module, a computational unit, and an integrated data transfer module arranged within an integrated circuit die; storing a data pattern within the memory module; transferring the data pattern from the memory module to the computational unit... Agent:

20110208521 - Hidden markov model for speech processing with training method: A method, system and apparatus are shown for identifying non-language speech sounds in a speech or audio signal. An audio signal is segmented and feature vectors are extracted from the segments of the audio signal. The segment is classified using a hidden Markov model (HMM) that has been trained on... Agent: 21ct, Inc.

20110208520 - Voice activity detection based on plural voice activity detectors: A voice activity detection (VAD) system includes a first voice activity detector, a second voice activity detector and control logic. The first voice activity detector is included in a device and produces a first VAD signal. The second voice activity detector is located externally to the device and produces a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110208522 - Method and apparatus for detection of sentiment in automated transcriptions: The method and apparatus train and use models for classifying context units as containing sentiment or not, the models generated upon tagging data for indicating whether the context units indeed contain sentiment, and the sentiment polarity and intensity within the context unit. A further, upper level model is generated for... Agent: Nice Systems Ltd.

20110208523 - Voice-to-dactylology conversion method and system: A voice-to-dactylology conversion method and system include primarily a transmitting communication device operating in collaboration with a receiving communication device. An ordinary user can use the transmitting communication device to send a voice message to the receiving communication device. At this time, the receiving communication device converts the voice message... Agent:

20110208524 - User profiling for voice input processing: This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to receiving a voice input and identifying the user providing the voice input. The voice input can be processed using a subset of words from a library used to identify the words or... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110208525 - Voice recognizing apparatus: A voice recognizing apparatus includes a voice start instructing section 3 for instructing to start voice recognition; a voice input section 1 for receiving uttered voice and converting to a voice signal; a voice recognizing section 2 for recognizing the voice on the basis of the voice signal; an utterance... Agent:

20110208526 - Method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding: A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such as high-cost errors and low-cost errors and trade, if necessary,... Agent:

20110208527 - Voice activatable system for providing the correct spelling of a spoken word: A voice activatable system for providing the correct spelling of a spoken word is disposed in an elongated body of a writing instrument such as a ball point pen. The system includes a microphone the output of which is fed to an amplifier analog to a digital converter and from... Agent:

20110208528 - Signal clipping protection using pre-existing audio gain metadata: The application describes a method and an apparatus to prevent clipping of an audio signal when protection against signal clipping by received audio metadata is not guaranteed. The method may be used to prevent clipping for the case of downmixing a multichannel signal to a stereo audio signal. According to... Agent: Dolby International Ab

20110202330 - Compound splitting: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for decompounding compound words are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a token that includes a sequence of characters, identifying two or more candidate sub-words that are constituents of the token, and one or more... Agent: Google Inc.

20110202331 - Method and software for extracting chemical data: Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and software for processing text documents and extracting chemical data therein. Preferred method embodiments comprise: (a) identifying and tagging one or more chemical compounds within a text document; (b) identifying and tagging physical properties related to one or more of those compounds;... Agent: Mdl Information Systems, Gmbh

20110202332 - Knowledge system method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems.... Agent: Meaningful Machines, LLC

20110202333 - Knowledge system method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems.... Agent: Meaningful Machines, LLC

20110202334 - Knowledge system method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems.... Agent: Meaningful Machines, LLC

20110202335 - Handheld electronic device providing a learning function to facilitate correction of erroneous text entry and associated method: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20110202336 - Fixed codebook searching apparatus and fixed codebook searching method: A fixed codebook searching apparatus, includes a convolution operator, implemented by at least one processor, that convolves an impulse response of a perceptually weighted synthesis filter with an impulse response vector that has values at negative times, to generate a second impulse response vector that has values at negative times.... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110202337 - Method and discriminator for classifying different segments of a signal: For classifying different segments of a signal which has segments of at least a first type and second type, e.g. audio and speech segments, the signal is short-term classified on the basis of the at least one short-term feature extracted from the signal and a short-term classification result is delivered.... Agent:

20110202339 - Speech sound detection apparatus: A speech sound detection apparatus receives an input audio signal (as a sound reception unit), and computes input power that indicates a magnitude of the sound represented by the audio signal (as an input power computation unit). The apparatus estimates a correction function that is a continuous function defining a... Agent:

20110202338 - System and method for recognition of alphanumeric patterns including license plate numbers: Voice recognition technology is combined with external information sources and/or contextual information to enhance the quality of voice recognition results specifically for the use case of reading out or speaking an alphanumeric identifier. The alphanumeric identifier may be associated with a good, service, person, account, or other entity. For example,... Agent:

20110202340 - Speaker verification: A speaker verification method is proposed that first builds a general model of user utterances using a set of general training speech data. The user also trains the system by providing a training utterance, such as a passphrase or other spoken utterance. Then in a test phase, the user provides... Agent:

20110202341 - Grammar weighting voice recognition information: A device receives a voice recognition statistic from a voice recognition application and applies a grammar improvement rule based on the voice recognition statistic. The device also automatically adjusts a weight of the voice recognition statistic based on the grammar improvement rule, and outputs the weight adjusted voice recognition statistic... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110202342 - Multi-modal web interaction over wireless network: A system, apparatus, and method is disclosed for receiving user input at a client device, interpreting the user input to identify a selection of at least one of a plurality of web interaction modes, producing a corresponding client request based in part on the user input and the web interaction... Agent:

20110202343 - Concise dynamic grammars using n-best selection: A method and apparatus derive a dynamic grammar composed of a subset of a plurality of data elements that are each associated with one of a plurality of reference identifiers. The present invention generates a set of selection identifiers on the basis of a user-provided first input identifier and determines... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110202347 - Communication converter for converting audio information/textual information to corresponding textual information/audio information: A communication converter is described for converting among speech signals and textual information, permitting communication between telephone users and textual instant communications users.... Agent: Verizon Business Global LLC

20110202345 - Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress: Techniques for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress. In one aspect, a speech-enabled application generates a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output, and inputs the text input to a speech synthesis system. The synthesis system generates an audio speech output corresponding to at least a... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20110202346 - Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress: Techniques for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress. In one aspect, a speech-enabled application generates a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output, and inputs the text input to a speech synthesis system. The synthesis system generates an audio speech output corresponding to at least a... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20110202344 - Method and apparatus for providing speech output for speech-enabled applications: Techniques for providing speech output for speech-enabled applications. A synthesis system receives from a speech-enabled application a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output. The synthesis system selects one or more audio recordings corresponding to one or more portions of the text input. In one aspect,... Agent: Nuance Communications Inc.

20110202349 - Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application: Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application, including associating one or more vocal demeanors with a sponsor of a multimodal application and presenting a speech portion of the multimodal application for the sponsor using at least one of the vocal demeanors associated with the sponsor.... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20110202348 - Rhythm processing and frequency tracking in gradient frequency nonlinear oscillator networks: wherein ω represents the response frequency, r is the amplitude of the oscillator and φ is the phase of the oscillator. Generating at least one frequency output from said network useful for describing said varying structure.... Agent: Florida Atlantic University Research Corporation

20110202350 - Remote control of a web browser: A system for remotely and interactively controlling visual and multimedia content displayed on and rendered by a web browser using a telephony device. In particular, the system relates to receiving a voice input (e.g., dual tone multi-frequency DTMF input, spoken input, etc.) from a telephony device (e.g., a landline, a... Agent:

20110202351 - Audio system and method for coordinating tasks: A system includes a hands free mobile communication device. Software stored on a machine readable storage device is executed to cause the hands free mobile communication device to communicate audibly with a field operator performing field operations. The operator receives instructions regarding operations to be performed. Oral communications are received... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110202353 - Apparatus and a method for decoding an encoded audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal having first and second portions encoded in accordance with first and second encoding algorithms, respectively, BWE parameters for the first and second portions and a coding mode information indicating a first or a second decoding algorithm, includes first and second decoders, a... Agent:

20110202352 - Apparatus and a method for generating bandwidth extension output data: An apparatus for generating bandwidth extension output data for an audio signal has a noise floor measurer, a signal energy characterizer and a processor. The audio signal has components in a first frequency band and components in a second frequency band, the bandwidth extension output data are adapted to control... Agent:

20110202355 - Audio encoding/decoding scheme having a switchable bypass: An apparatus for encoding includes a first domain converter, a switchable bypass, a second domain converter, a first processor and a second processor to obtain an encoded audio signal having different signal portions represented by coded data in different domains, which have been coded by different coding algorithms. Corresponding decoding... Agent:

20110202354 - Low bitrate audio encoding/decoding scheme having cascaded switches: An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first encoding branch and the second encoding branch, wherein the... Agent:

20110202356 - 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: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110202357 - 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: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110202358 - Apparatus and a method for calculating a number of spectral envelopes: An apparatus calculates a number of spectral envelopes to be derived by a spectral band replication (SBR) encoder, wherein the SBR encoder is adapted to encode an audio signal using a plurality of sample values within a predetermined number of subsequent time portions in an SBR frame extending from an... Agent:

20110196665 - Automated interpretation of clinical encounters with cultural cues: A method, system and a computer program product for an automated interpretation and translation are disclosed. An automated interpretation occurs by receiving language-based content from a user. The received language-based content is processed to interpret the received language-based content into a target language. Also, a presence of a cultural sensitivity... Agent:

20110196667 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a selection control unit which is configured to allow a user to input an operation for selecting one language from among a plurality of languages, a display control unit which is configured to display a specific character string corresponding to the... Agent: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20110196666 - Systems, methods and automated technologies for translating words into music and creating music pieces: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for translating a natural language into music. Through systematic parsing, music compositions can be created. These compositions can be created by one or more persons who do not speak the same natural language.... Agent: Little Wing World LLC

20110196671 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and 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: Research In Motion Limited

20110196670 - Indexing content at semantic level: Systems and methods are disclosed that perform automated semantic tagging. Automated semantic tagging produces semantically linked tags for a given text content. Embodiments provide ontology mapping algorithms and concept weighting algorithms that create accurate semantic tags that can be used to improve enterprise content management, and search for better knowledge... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110196669 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquiring unit acquiring a title of content; an analyzing unit dividing the title into tokens; a calculating unit calculating, for each token, an evaluation value based on a token length and weighted according to the token's position in the title; a... Agent:

20110196668 - Integrated language model, related systems and methods: An integrated language model includes an upper-level language model component and a lower-level language model component, with the upper-level language model component including a non-terminal and the lower-level language model component being applied to the non-terminal. The upper-level and lower-level language model components can be of the same or different... Agent: Adacel Systems, Inc.

20110196672 - Voice recognition device: A voice recognition device is provided with a sentence selecting unit 22 for selecting sentences each having a predetermined number or less of acoustic units as sentences to be recognized from candidates for the sentences to be recognized.... Agent:

20110196673 - Concealing lost packets in a sub-band coding decoder: An electronic device for reconstructing a lost packet in a Sub-Band Coding (SBC) decoder is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device detects a lost packet, obtains a zero-input response of a synthesis filter bank and obtains a coarse pitch estimate. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110196674 - Spectrum coding apparatus, spectrum decoding apparatus, acoustic signal transmission apparatus, acoustic signal reception apparatus and methods thereof: A spectrum coding apparatus capable of performing coding at a low bit rate and with high quality is disclosed. This apparatus is provided with a section that performs the frequency transformation of a first signal and calculates a first spectrum, a section that converts the frequency of a second signal... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110196675 - Operating method for voice activity detection/silence suppression system: A VAD/SS system is connected to a channel of a transmission pipe. The channel provides a pathway for the transmission of energy. A method for operating a VAD/SS system includes detecting the energy on the channel, and activating or suppressing activation of the VAD/SS system depending upon the nature of... Agent: At&t Corporation

20110196676 - Adaptive voice print for conversational biometric engine: A computer-implemented method, system and/or program product update voice prints over time. A receiving computer receives an initial voice print. A determining period of time is calculated for that initial voice print. This determining period of time is a length of time during which an expected degree of change in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110196677 - Analysis of the temporal evolution of emotions in an audio interaction in a service delivery environment: According to one illustrative embodiment, a method is provided for analyzing an audio interaction. At least one change in an emotion of a speaker in an audio interaction and at least one aspect of the audio interaction are identified. The at least one change in an emotion is analyzed in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110196678 - Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method: A distance calculation unit (16) obtains the acoustic distance between the feature amount of input speech and each phonetic model. A word search unit (17) performs a word search based on the acoustic distance and a language model including the phoneme and prosodic label of a word, and outputs a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110196679 - Systems and methods for machine to operator communications: Systems and methods for machine to operator communications are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system includes a concentrator having a memory; a radio transmitter; and a processor in communication with the memory and the radio transmitter, the processor configured to: request information associated with a status of a machine; receive... Agent: Essex Incorporated

20110196680 - Speech synthesis system: When a system (100) is used for synthesizing speech having prosody serving as a reference, the system stores speech element information representing a speech element capable of synthesizing speech having a degree of naturalness indicating a degree of similarity to speech uttered by a human higher than a predetermined reference... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110196682 - Common scene based conference system: Conference bridge (1) for managing an audio scene comprising two or more participants, the conference bridge comprising a mixer (2) and several user channels (3a, 3b, 3N). The conference bridge is arranged to continuously create a 3D positional audio environment signal for each participant as a listening participant, by rendering... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20110196681 - Transmission system: The present invention provide a transmission system comprising a transmission apparatus for transmitting audio data of multi channels and auxiliary data required for playback of the audio data, and a receiving apparatus for receiving the audio data and the auxiliary data which are transmitted by the transmission apparatus. A multiplexer... Agent:

20110196683 - System, method and computer program product for adding voice activation and voice control to a media player: A media player system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, an utterance is received. A command for a media player is then generated based on the utterance. Such command is utilized for providing wireless control of the media player.... Agent: Stragent, LLC

20110196684 - Bitstream syntax for multi-process audio decoding: An audio decoder provides a combination of decoding components including components implementing base band decoding, spectral peak decoding, frequency extension decoding and channel extension decoding techniques. The audio decoder decodes a compressed bitstream structured by a bitstream syntax scheme to permit the various decoding components to extract the appropriate parameters... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110196687 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein... Agent: Lg Electronics, Inc.

20110196685 - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding object-based audio signals: Provided are an audio encoding method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus in which audio signals can be encoded or decoded so that sound images can be localized at any desired position for each object audio signal. The audio decoding method generating a third downmix signal by... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20110196686 - Spectrum coding apparatus, spectrum decoding apparatus, acoustic signal transmission apparatus, acoustic signal reception apparatus and methods thereof: A spectrum coding apparatus capable of performing coding at a low bit rate and with high quality is disclosed. This apparatus is provided with a section that performs the frequency transformation of a first signal and calculates a first spectrum, a section that converts the frequency of a second signal... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110196688 - Method and apparatus for delivery of aligned multi-channel audio: There is provided a method of encoding audio and including said encoded audio into a digital transport stream, comprising receiving at an encoder input a plurality of temporally co-located audio signals, assigning identical time stamps per unit time to all of the plurality of temporally co-located audio signals and incorporating... Agent:

20110191096 - Game based method for translation data acquisition and evaluation: A method of generating a statistical machine translation database through a game in which a monolingual structure is provided to a plurality of players. A first translation attempt is received from each of the plurality of players. The first translation attempt from each of the plurality of players is compared.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110191098 - Phrase-based document clustering with automatic phrase extraction: Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to... Agent: Stratify, Inc.

20110191099 - System and methods for improving accuracy of speech recognition: The invention provides a system and method for improving speech recognition. A computer software system is provided for implementing the system and method. A user of the computer software system may speak to the system directly and the system may respond, in spoken language, with an appropriate response. Grammar rules... Agent: Inago Corporation

20110191097 - Systems and methods for word offensiveness processing using aggregated offensive word filters: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying language that would be considered obscene or otherwise offensive to a user or proprietor of a system. A first plurality of offensive words are received, and a second plurality of offensive words are received. A string of words are received, where one... Agent:

20110191100 - Language model score look-ahead value imparting device, language model score look-ahead value imparting method, and program storage medium: A speech recognition apparatus that performs frame synchronous beam search by using a language model score look-ahead value prevents the pruning of a correct answer hypothesis while suppressing an increase in the number of hypotheses. A language model score look-ahead value imparting device 108 is provided with a word dictionary... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110191101 - Apparatus and method for processing an audio signal for speech enhancement using a feature extraction: An apparatus for processing an audio signal to obtain control information for a speech enhancement filter has a feature extractor for extracting at least one feature per frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands of a short-time spectral representation of a plurality of short-time spectral representations, where the at... Agent:

20110191102 - Systems and methods for speech extraction: In some embodiments, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive an input signal having a first component and a second component. An estimate of the first component of the input signal is calculated based on an estimate of a pitch of the first component... Agent: University Of Maryland, College Park

20110191103 - Portable terminal to adjust sound output of wireless headset: A portable terminal and method for adjusting transmitted sound output to a wireless headset. A portable terminal includes a wireless connection setting unit to establish a connection with a wireless headset and a loopback control unit. The loopback control unit may transmit a test signal within a voice band to... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20110191104 - System and method for measuring speech characteristics: A method for measuring a disparity between two speech samples is disclosed that may include determining upon a speech granularity level at which to compare the rhythm of a student speech sample and a reference speech sample; determining a duration disparity between a first speech unit and a second, non-adjacent... Agent: Rosetta Stone, Ltd.

20110191105 - Systems and methods for word offensiveness detection and processing using weighted dictionaries and normalization: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying language that would be considered obscene or otherwise offensive to a user or proprietor of a system. A plurality of offensive words are received, where each offensive word is associated with a severity score identifying the offensiveness of that word. A string... Agent:

20110191106 - Word recognition system and method for customer and employee assessment: One-to-many comparisons of callers' words and/or voice prints with known words and/or voice prints to identify any substantial matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service center, the system makes a recording of the real-time call including both the customer's and agent's... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20110191107 - Structure for grammar and dictionary representation in voice recognition and method for simplifying link and node-generated grammars: A speech recognition engine is provided with an acoustic model and a layered grammar and dictionary library. The layered grammar and dictionary library includes a language and non-grammar layer that supplies types of rules a grammar definition layer can use and defines non-grammar the speech recognition engine should ignore. The... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20110191108 - Remote controller with position actuatated voice transmission: A method of operation of a remote controller consistent with certain implementations involves determining a spatial orientation of the remote controller based upon an output signal from a position detector; and setting a voice mode of operation of the remote controller as active or inactive based upon the spatial orientation... Agent:

20110191109 - Method of controlling a system and signal processing system: A method of controlling a system which includes the steps of obtaining at least one signal representative of information communicated by a user via an input device in an environment of the user, wherein a signal from a first source is available in a perceptible form in the environment; estimating... Agent:

20110191111 - Audio packet loss concealment by transform interpolation: In audio processing for an audio or video conference, a terminal receives audio packets having transform coefficients for reconstructing an audio signal that has undergone transform coding. When receiving the packets, the terminal determines whether there are any missing packets and interpolates transform coefficients from the preceding and following good... Agent: Polycom, Inc.

20110191112 - Encoder: An encoder for encoding an audio signal comprising at least two channels, the encoder configured to determine a first indicator dependent on the relative energies of a first and a second of the at least two channels for a first time period, determine at least two second indicators dependent on... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110191113 - Method and apparatus for canonical nonlinear analysis of audio signals: The present invention is directed to systems and methods designed to ascertain the structure of acoustic signals. The approach involves an alternative transform of an acoustic input signal, utilizing a network of nonlinear oscillators in which each oscillator is tuned to a distinct frequency. Each oscillator receives input and interacts... Agent: Florida Atlantic University Research Corporation

20110191110 - Multi-parameter physical audio signal decoding system: A multi-parameter physical audio signal decoding system includes an audio capturing device, a signal pre-processor, a signal decoder, a data modulator and a display device. The audio capturing device receives audio signals, and transforms them into digital signals in real time. The digital signals are transmitted to the signal pre-processor.... Agent: Tatung Company