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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression April category listing, related patent applications 04/12

20120101803 - Formalization of a natural language: It is disclosed a method for formalization of a natural language allowing creation of an unambiguous model of a natural language text. It is determined the basic notions for entities that are named by a natural language and for each basic notion it is attached an unique number or name... Agent:

20120101804 - Machine translation using overlapping biphrase alignments and sampling: A system and method for machine translation are disclosed. Source sentences are received. For each source sentence, a target sentence comprising target words is generated. A plurality of translation neighbors of the target sentence is generated. Phrase alignments are computed between the source sentence and the translation neighbor. Translation neighbors... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20120101805 - Method and apparatus for detecting a sentiment of short messages: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for detecting a sentiment for a short message are disclosed. For example, the method receives the short message, and obtains an abstraction of the short message. The method then determines the sentiment of the short message based upon the abstraction.... Agent:

20120101807 - Question type and domain identifying apparatus and method: A question type and domain identifying apparatus includes: a question type identifier for recognizing the number of words of a user's question to identify whether the user's question is a query for performing information searching or a question for performing a question and answer (Q&A); a question domain distributor for... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120101806 - Semantically generating personalized recommendations based on social feeds to a user in real-time and display methods thereof: Systems and methods of selecting recommendations for a user in an online environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of performing semantic analysis on a content item associated with the user, online interactions of the user,... Agent:

20120101808 - Sentiment analysis from social media content: Methods and systems for extracting and analyzing user-generated content (UGC) in order to provide opinion-bearing information concerning different categories of a product. Harvested Web pages are examined for keywords to identify categories to which they pertain. Opinion-bearing information regarding those categories is then extracted and analyzed to determine its orientation... Agent:

20120101809 - System and method for dynamically generating a recognition grammar in an integrated voice navigation services environment: The system and method described herein may dynamically generate a recognition grammar associated with a conversational voice user interface in an integrated voice navigation services environment. In particular, in response to receiving a natural language utterance that relates to a navigation context at the voice user interface, a conversational language... Agent: Voicebox Technologies, Inc.

20120101810 - System and method for providing a natural language voice user interface in an integrated voice navigation services environment: A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact with the user in a cooperative, conversational dialogue to resolve the requests. Through... Agent: Voicebox Technologies, Inc.

20120101811 - Predictive text dictionary population: A method and system for populating a predictive text dictionary is provided. A connection between a handheld electronic device and a network is detected. The handheld electronic device is operable to allow a user to enter text. The handheld electronic device has a predictive text dictionary that is operable to... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120101812 - Methods and apparatus for generating, updating and distributing speech recognition models: Techniques for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models are described. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications... Agent: Google Inc.

20120101813 - Coding generic audio signals at low bitrates and low delay: A mixed time-domain/frequency-domain coding device and method for coding an input sound signal, wherein a time-domain excitation contribution is calculated in response to the input sound signal. A cut-off frequency for the time-domain excitation contribution is also calculated in response to the input sound signal, and a frequency extent of... Agent: Voiceage Corporation

20120101814 - Artifact reduction in packet loss concealment: Various techniques are disclosed for improving packet loss concealment to reduce artifacts by using audio character measures of the audio signal. These techniques include attenuation to a noise fill instead of attenuation to silence, varying how long to wait before attenuating the extrapolation, varying the rate of attenuation of the... Agent: Polycom, Inc.

20120101815 - Query by humming for ringtone search and download: Described is a technology by which a user hums, sings or otherwise plays a user-provided rendition of a ringtone (or ringback tone) through a mobile telephone to a ringtone search service (e.g., a WAP, interactive voice response or SMS-based search platform). The service matches features of the user's rendition against... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120101816 - Enhancing the intelligibility of received speech in a noisy environment: A level of ambient noise at a local device is determined. A dynamic range compression (DRC) gain is computed based on the level of ambient noise at the local device. An additional gain factor is computed. A total gain is computed based on an adding of the DRC gain and... Agent:

20120101818 - Device and method for creating data records in a data-store based on messages: Updating a data-store associated with an electronic communications device includes wirelessly communicating an electronic message. A location identifier representative of a physical location is identified within the electronic message. The physical location of the electronic communications device is measured or estimated as needed, after which validating the location identifier occurs... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120101817 - System and method for generating models for use in automatic speech recognition: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating a model for use with automatic speech recognition. These principles can be implemented as part of a streamlined tool for automatic training and tuning of speech, or other, models with a fast turnaround and with limited human involvement.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120101819 - System and a method for providing sound signals: A sound system, the sound system including: (i) a processor, configured to: (a) receive a requested sound signal and an ambient sound input signal; and (b) generate a modified requested signal by processing, in response to a desired level of ambient sound that is defined by a user, the requested... Agent: Bonetone Communications Ltd.

20120101820 - Multi-state barge-in models for spoken dialog systems: A method is disclosed for applying a multi-state barge-in acoustic model in a spoken dialogue system. The method includes receiving an audio speech input from the user during the presentation of a prompt, accumulating the audio speech input from the user, applying a non-speech component having at least two one-state... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120101821 - Speech recognition apparatus: A speech recognition apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus converts a speech signal into a digitalized speech data, and performs speech recognition based on the speech data. The apparatus makes a comparison between the speech data inputted the last time and the speech data inputted the time before the last time... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120101822 - Biometric speaker identification: A biometric speaker-identification apparatus is disclosed that generates ordered speaker-identity candidates for a probe based on prototypes. Probe match scores are clustered, and templates that correspond to clusters having top M probe match scores are compared with the prototypes to obtain template-prototype match scores. The probe is also compared with... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation

20120101823 - System and method for recognizing proper names in dialog systems: Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes contextual information to perform recognition of proper names are described. Unlike present name recognition methods on large name lists that generally focus strictly on the static aspect of the names, embodiments of the present system take into account of the temporal, recency and... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120101826 - Decomposition of music signals using basis functions with time-evolution information: Decomposition of a multi-source signal using a basis function inventory and a sparse recovery technique is disclosed.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120101825 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio data with scalability: Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio data with scalability are provided. The method includes slicing audio data to correspond to a plurality of layers, obtaining scale band information and coding band information corresponding to each of the plurality of layers, coding additional information containing scale factor information and coding model... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120101827 - Methods and apparatus to extract data encoded in media content: Methods and apparatus to extract data encoded in media content are disclosed. An example method includes sampling a media content signal to generate digital samples, determining a frequency domain representation of the digital samples, determining a first rank of a first frequency in the frequency domain representation, determining a second... Agent:

20120101824 - Pitch-based pre-filtering and post-filtering for compression of audio signals: Systems and methods for enhancing the quality of an audio signal produced by an audio codec are described herein. In accordance with the systems and methods, a pitch-based pre-filter adaptively filters an input audio signal to produce a filtered audio signal. An audio encoder encodes the filtered audio signal to... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120095747 - In-context exact (ice) matching: Methods, systems and program product are disclosed for determining a matching level of a text lookup segment with a plurality of source texts in a translation memory in terms of context. In particular, the invention determines any exact matches for the lookup segment in the plurality of source texts, and... Agent:

20120095748 - Language identification in multilingual text: Methods, systems, and media are provided for identifying languages in multilingual text. A document is decoded into a universal representative coding for easier tag manipulation, then broken into plain-text content sections. The sections are identified and assigned a weight, wherein more informative sections are given a higher weight and less... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120095749 - Multi-functional audio distribution system and method for movie theaters and other public and private venues: Audiovisual presentation methods, systems and apparatus for improving and enhancing the listening experience of attendees of audiovisual presentations. An exemplary audiovisual presentation system includes an audio processing and distribution unit (APDU) configured to generate and broadcast a wireless audio service containing audio of an audiovisual presentation (e.g., soundtrack and dialogue... Agent:

20120095752 - Leveraging back-off grammars for authoring context-free grammars: A system and method of refining context-free grammars (CFGs). The method includes deriving back-off grammar (BOG) rules from an initially developed CFG and utilizing the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to recognize user utterances. Based on a response of the initial CFG and the derived BOG rules to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120095750 - Parsing observable collections: Parsing technology is applied to observable collections. More specifically, a parser, such as combinator parser, can be employed to perform syntactic analysis over one or more observable collections. Further, multiple observable collections can be combined into a single collection and time can be captured by annotating collection items or generating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120095751 - Text segmentation and label assignment with user interaction by means of topic specific language models and topic-specific label statistics: The invention relates to a method, a computer program product, a segmentation system and a user interface for structuring an unstructured text by making use of statistical models trained on annotated training data. The method performs text segmentation into text sections and assigns labels to text sections as section headings.... Agent: Nuance Communications Austria Gmbh

20120095753 - Noise power estimation system, noise power estimating method, speech recognition system and speech recognizing method: A noise power estimation system for estimating noise power of each frequency spectral component includes a cumulative histogram generating section for generating a cumulative histogram for each frequency spectral component of a time series signal, in which the horizontal axis indicates index of power level and the vertical axis indicates... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20120095754 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signal using layered sinusoidal pulse coding: Provided are a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. A method for encoding an audio signal includes receiving a transformed audio signal, dividing the transformed audio signal into a plurality of subbands, performing a first sinusoidal pulse coding operation on the subbands, determining a performance... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120095755 - Audio signal processing system and audio signal processing method: An audio signal processing system including a time-frequency conversion unit which converts an audio signal in time domain into frequency domain in frame units so as to calculate a frequency spectrum of the audio signal, a spectral change calculation unit which calculates an amount of change between a frequency spectrum... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120095756 - Apparatus and method for determining weighting function having low complexity for linear predictive coding (lpc) coefficients quantization: Proposed is a method and apparatus for determining a weighting function for quantizing a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient and having a low complexity. The weighting function determination apparatus may convert an LPC coefficient of a mid-subframe of an input signal to one of a immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120095757 - Audio signal bandwidth extension in celp-based speech coder: A method for decoding an audio signal having a bandwidth that extends beyond a bandwidth of a CELP excitation signal in an audio decoder including a CELP-based decoder element. The method includes obtaining a second excitation signal having an audio bandwidth extending beyond the audio bandwidth of the CELP excitation... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120095758 - Audio signal bandwidth extension in celp-based speech coder: A method for decoding an audio signal in a decoder having a CELP-based decoder element including a fixed codebook component, at least one pitch period value, and a first decoder output, wherein a bandwidth of the audio signal extends beyond a bandwidth of the CELP-based decoder element. The method includes... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20120095759 - System for improving speech intelligibility through high frequency compression: A speech enhancement system that improves the intelligibility and the perceived quality of processed speech includes a frequency transformer and a spectral compressor. The frequency transformer converts speech signals from the time domain to the frequency domain. The spectral compressor compresses a pre-selected portion of the high frequency band and... Agent: Qnx Software Systems Co.

20120095760 - Apparatus, a method and a computer program for coding: The apparatus is coupled with a network element (alternatively referred to as an intermediate element or the like). The network element is coupled with apparatuses. The apparatuses can also be terminal devices such as mobile phone, computer or the like. The apparatuses may act as receivers etc. The apparatus comprises... Agent:

20120095761 - Speech recognition system and speech recognizing method: A speech recognition system and a speech recognizing method for high-accuracy speech recognition in the environment with ego noise are provided. A speech recognition system according to the present invention includes a sound source separating and speech enhancing section; an ego noise predicting section; and a missing feature mask generating... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20120095762 - Front-end processor for speech recognition, and speech recognizing apparatus and method using the same: A method of recognizing speech is provided. The method includes the operations of (a) dividing first speech that is input to a speech recognizing apparatus into frames; (b) converting the frames of the first speech into frames of second speech by applying conversion rules to the divided frames, respectively; and... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120095763 - Digital method and arrangement for authenticating a person: Digital method for authentication of a person by comparing a current voice profile with a previously stored initial voice profile, wherein to determine the relevant voice profile the person speaks at least one speech sample into the system, this speech sample is conveyed to a voice-profile calculation unit and thereby,... Agent: Voice.trust Ag

20120095764 - Methods for creating and searching a database of speakers: A method of performing a search of a database of speakers, includes: receiving a query speech sample spoken by a query speaker; deriving a query utterance from the query speech sample; extracting query utterance statistics from the query utterance; performing Kernelized Locality-Sensitive Hashing (KLSH) using a kernel function, the KLSH... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20120095765 - Automatically providing a user with substitutes for potentially ambiguous user-defined speech commands: A method for alleviating ambiguity issues of new user-defined speech commands. An original command for a user-defined speech command can be received. It can then be determined if the original command is likely to be confused with a set of existing speech commands. When confusion is unlikely, the original command... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20120095766 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: A speech recognition apparatus is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes a primary speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on input speech and thus to generate word lattice information, a word string generation unit configured to generate one or more word strings based on the word lattice information,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120095767 - Voice quality conversion device, method of manufacturing the voice quality conversion device, vowel information generation device, and voice quality conversion system: A device includes: an input speech separation unit which separates an input speech into vocal tract information and voicing source information; a mouth opening degree calculation unit which calculates a mouth opening degree from the vocal tract information; a target vowel database storage unit which stores pieces of vowel information... Agent:

20120095768 - Lips blockers, headsets and systems: Systems and methods for inhibiting access to the lips of speaking person including a sound receiving device for receiving speech of a person speaking, the person having lips that move when the person speaks, a blocker connected to the device for blocking the lips of the person speaking while the... Agent:

20120095769 - Audio decoding method and audio decoder: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an audio decoding method, including: determining that bitstreams to be decoded are monophony coding layer and first stereo enhancement layer bitstreams; decoding the monophony coding layer to obtain a monophony decoded frequency-domain signal; reconstructing left and right channel frequency-domain signals in a first sub-band... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120089387 - General purpose correction of grammatical and word usage errors: Architecture that detects and corrects writing errors in a human language based on the utilization of three different stages: error detection, correction candidate generation, and correction candidate ranking. The architecture is a generic framework for generating fluent alternatives to non-grammatical word sequences in a written sample. Error detection is addressed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120089388 - Segmenting words using scaled probabilities: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for segmenting words using scaled probabilities. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a probability of a n-gram identifying a word, determining a number of atomic units in the corresponding n-gram, identifying a scaling weight depending on the... Agent: Google Inc.

20120089389 - Flexible and scalable combined innovation codebook for use in celp coder and decoder: In a CELP coder, a combined innovation codebook coding device comprises a pre-quantizer of a first, adaptive-codebook excitation residual, and a CELP innovation-codebook search module responsive to a second excitation residual produced from the first, adaptive-codebook excitation residual. In a CELP decoder, a combined innovation codebook comprises a de-quantizer of... Agent:

20120089391 - Estimation of speech model parameters: Methods for estimating speech model parameters are disclosed. For pulsed parameter estimation, a speech signal is divided into multiple frequency bands or channels using bandpass filters. Channel processing reduces sensitivity to pole magnitudes and frequencies and reduces impulse response time duration to improve pulse location and strength estimation performance. These... Agent: Digital Voice Systems, Inc.

20120089390 - Pitch corrected vocal capture for telephony targets: Vocal musical performances may be captured and pitch corrected and supplied to telephony targets such as conventional voice terminal equipment (telephone handsets, answering machines, etc.), wireless telephony devices and information services wherein particular device or subscriber targets are identifiable using telephone numbers or alphanumeric IDs (e.g., mobile phones with or... Agent: Smule, Inc.

20120089393 - Acoustic signal processing device and method: A highlight section including an exciting scene is appropriately extracted with smaller amount of processing. A reflection coefficient calculating unit (12) calculates a parameter (reflection coefficient) representing a slope of spectrum distribution of the input audio signal for each frame. A reflection coefficient comparison unit (13) calculates an amount of... Agent:

20120089392 - Speech recognition user interface: Speech recognition techniques are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a novice mode is available such that when the user is unfamiliar with the speech recognition system, a voice user interface (VUI) may be provided to guide them. The VUI may display one or more speech commands that are presently available.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120089395 - System and method for near real-time identification and definition query: A method of operating a communication system includes generating a transcript of at least a portion of a conversation between a plurality of users. The transcript includes a plurality of subsets of characters. The method further includes displaying the transcript on a plurality of communication devices, identifying an occurrence of... Agent: Avaya, Inc.

20120089394 - Visual display of semantic information: Techniques involving visual display of information related to matching user utterances against graph patterns are described. In one or more implementations, an utterance of a user is obtained that has been indicated as corresponding to a graph pattern through linguistic analysis. The utterance is displayed in a user interface as... Agent: Virtuoz Sa

20120089396 - Apparatus and method for speech analysis: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an interface for receiving an utterance of speech and converting the utterance into a speech signal, such as digital representation including a waveform and/or spectrum; and a processor for dividing the speech signal into segments and detecting... Agent: University Of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

20120089397 - Language model generating device, method thereof, and recording medium storing program thereof: A text in a corpus including a set of world wide web (web) pages is analyzed. At least one word appropriate for a document type set according to a voice recognition target is extracted based on an analysis result. A word set is generated from the extracted at least one... Agent: Nec Informatec Systems, Ltd.

20120089398 - Methods and systems for improving text segmentation: Methods and systems for improving text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first segmented result and a second segmented result are determined from a string of characters, a first frequency of occurrence for the first segmented result and a second frequency of occurrence for the second segmented... Agent: Google Inc.

20120089399 - Voice over short messaging service: A method of operating a mobile communication device is described. A text message is received over a wireless messaging channel, wherein the text message contains a non-text representation of an utterance. The non-text representation is extracted from the text message, and an audio representation of the spoken utterance is synthesized... Agent: Nuance Communications, Inc.

20120089401 - Methods and apparatus to audibly provide messages in a mobile device: Methods and apparatus to audibly provide messages in a mobile device at described. An example method includes receiving a message at a mobile device, wherein the message includes an identification of a sender, an identification of a recipient, and a message contents, determining that the message contents includes a predetermined... Agent:

20120089402 - Speech synthesizer, speech synthesizing method and program product: According to one embodiment, a speech synthesizer includes an analyzer, a first estimator, a selector, a generator, a second estimator, and a synthesizer. The analyzer analyzes text and extracts a linguistic feature. The first estimator selects a first prosody model adapted to the linguistic feature and estimates prosody information that... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120089400 - Systems and methods for using homophone lexicons in english text-to-speech: The present invention relates to information systems. More specifically, the present invention relates to infrastructure and techniques for improving Text-to-Speech-enabled applications.... Agent:

20120089403 - Postal processing including voice feedback: System, methods, and computer-readable media. A method includes receiving a voice input, from an operator, corresponding to a mail item. The method includes performing a voice recognition process on the voice input to produce spoken data, and producing a system result corresponding to the spoken data. The method includes analyzing... Agent: Siemens Industry, Inc.

20120084073 - Displaying original text in a user interface with translated text: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for user interaction with machine translation. A user interface for receiving requests to translate text and/or documents from a first language text to a second language text. The translated text and/or document is displayed such that the first language text corresponding to... Agent: Google Inc.

20120084074 - Association of semantic meaning with data elements using data definition tags: Technology is described for associating semantic meaning with data elements. The system can include a messaging module configured to receive a message having data elements. A storage module can store the data elements from the message in a structured format. A message dictionary can be configured to identify a type... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120084075 - Character input apparatus equipped with auto-complete function, method of controlling the character input apparatus, and storage medium: A character input apparatus which makes it possible to suppress degradation of use-friendliness in a case where a visually disabled user inputs characters using an auto-complete function. In the character string input apparatus, a character string to be input as a portion following a character string input by a user... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120084076 - Context-based disambiguation of acronyms and abbreviations: Context-based disambiguation of acronyms and/or abbreviations may determine a target abbreviation and one or more keywords appearing in context with the target abbreviation in a received passage, the target abbreviation representing a shortened form of one or more word. A contextual search query including the target abbreviation and said one... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084077 - Building and contracting a linguistic dictionary: A method for building and contracting a linguistic dictionary, the linguistic dictionary comprising a list of surface forms and a list of normalized forms, each normalized form being associated with a surface form, the method comprising the steps of: comparing each character of a surface form with each character of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120084079 - Integration of embedded and network speech recognizers: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for performing a voice command on a client device. The method can include translating, using a first speech recognizer located on the client device, an audio stream of a voice command to a first machine-readable voice command and generating a first... Agent: Google Inc.

20120084078 - Method and apparatus for voice signature authentication: A scalable voice signature authentication capability is provided herein. The scalable voice signature authentication capability enables authentication of varied services such as speaker identification (e.g. private banking and access to healthcare account records), voice signature as a password (e.g. secure access for remote services and document retrieval) and the Internet... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120084080 - Machine for enabling and disabling noise reduction (mednr) based on a threshold: The present invention provides a novel system and method for monitoring the audio signals, analyze selected audio signal components, compare the results of analysis with a threshold value, and enable or disable noise reduction capability of a communication device.... Agent: Alon Konchitsky

20120084081 - System and method for performing speech analytics: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing trend analysis of speech. A system practicing the method receives a speech trend analysis request having candidate feature constraints, an objective function with respect to a speech trend to be analyzed, and a set of speech record constraints.... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120084082 - Adaptive voice activity detection: Encoding audio signals with selecting an encoding mode for encoding the signal categorizing the signal into active segments having voice activity and non-active segments having substantially no voice activity by using categorization parameters depending on the selected encoding mode and encoding at least the active segments using the selected encoding... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120084083 - Method and apparatus for processing audio signal in a mobile communication terminal: A method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal in a mobile terminal are provided, wherein an audio signal received from a counterpart mobile terminal is classified into a voice signal and a noise signal according to respective energy, and a frequency of the classified voice signal and an... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120084085 - Method and device for tracking background noise in communication system: A method and a device for tracking background noise in a communication system are provided. The method includes: calculating a SNR of a current frame according to input audio signals; increasing a frame counter, and calculating tone features and signal steadiness features of the current frame if the SNR of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120084084 - Noise cancellation device for communications in high noise environments: This invention presents a noise cancellation device for improved personal face-to-face and radio communications in high noise environments. The device comprises speech acquisition components, an audio signal processing module, a loudspeaker, and a radio interface. With the noise cancellation device, the signal-to-noise ratio can be improved by as much as... Agent: Li Creative Technologies, Inc.

20120084086 - System and method for open speech recognition: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing speech recognition across different applications or environments without model customization or prior knowledge of the domain of the received speech. The disclosure includes recognizing received speech with a collection of domain-specific speech recognizers, determining a speech recognition confidence for... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120084087 - Method, device, and system for speaker recognition: A method, device, and system for speaker recognition are provided. The method includes: receiving a Speaker Verification instruction sent from a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) (101); executing a speaker verification operation according to the Speaker Verification instruction, and obtaining a result of the speaker verification operation (102); and reporting the... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120084088 - System and method for computerized psychological content analysis of computer and media generated communications to produce communications management support, indications and warnings of dangerous behavior, assessment of media images, and personnel select: At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The categories of information are processed with at least one analysis to quantify at least one type of information in each category. A first output communication is... Agent:

20120084089 - Progressive encoding of audio: The present disclosure includes processing a signal to generate a first sub-set of data, transmitting the first sub-set of data for generation of a reconstructed audio signal, the reconstructed audio signal having a fidelity relative to the signal, processing the signal to generate a second sub-set of data and a... Agent: Google Inc.