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

20090271177 - Extracting treelet translation pairs: In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090271176 - Multilingual administration of enterprise data with default target languages: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; identifying that the source language is not a predetermined default target... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090271175 - Multilingual administration of enterprise data with user selected target language translation: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from a digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; prompting a user to select a target language; receiving from the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090271178 - Multilingual asynchronous communications of speech messages recorded in digital media files: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include recording a speech message in a digital media file; transmitting, from a sender multilingual communications application to a recipient multilingual communications application, the speech message in the digital media file; receiving, in the recipient multilingual communications... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090271179 - Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data: Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090271180 - Dictionary for textual data compression and decompression: A dictionary for compressing and decompressing textual data has a number of keys. Each key is associated with an identifier. The keys include static word or phrase keys, where each static word or phrase key lists one or more unchanging words in a particular order. The keys further include dynamic... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090271181 - Dictionary for textual data compression and decompression: A dictionary for compressing and decompressing textual data has a number of keys. Each key is associated with an identifier. The keys include static word or phrase keys, where each static word or phrase key lists one or more unchanging words in a particular order. The keys further include dynamic... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090271182 - Computer-implemented methods and systems for modeling and recognition of speech: In accordance with the present invention, computer implemented methods and systems are provided for representing and modeling the temporal structure of audio signals. In response to receiving a signal, a time-to-frequency domain transformation on at least a portion of the received signal to generate a frequency domain representation is performed.... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20090271183 - Producing time uniform feature vectors: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a frame of the signal representing speech, the frame comprising a voiced frame. One or more cords can be extracted from the voiced frame based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271184 - Scalable encoding device, and scalable encoding method: Disclosed is a scalable encoding device capable of reducing an encoding rate thereby to reduce a circuit scale while preventing sound quality deterioration of a decoded signal. In this device, an extension layer is coarsely divided into a system for processing a first channel and a system for processing a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090271185 - Audio-peak limiting in slow and fast stages: A method and apparatus for limiting the absolute magnitude of an audio signal. The method may include firstly variable-gain reducing the gain of an audio signal, and then secondly variable-gain reducing the gain of the audio signal faster than the first variable-gain reduction, thereby limiting the absolute magnitude of the... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Inc.

20090271186 - Audio signal shaping for playback by audio devices: A technique is provided for limiting distortion of an audio signal being processed for playback by an audio device. In accordance with the technique, the audio signal is compressed to generate a compressed audio signal having a level that does not exceed a compression limit. The compressed audio signal is... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090271187 - Two microphone noise reduction system: A two microphone noise reduction system is described. In an embodiment, input signals from each of the microphones are divided into subbands and each subband is then filtered independently to separate noise and desired signals and to suppress non-stationary and stationary noise. Filtering methods used include adaptive decorrelation filtering. A... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090271188 - Adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise, the mobile computing device operatively coupled to a microphone, that include: sampling, through the microphone, background noise for a plurality of operating environments in which the mobile computing device operates;... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090271190 - Method and apparatus for voice activity determination: In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, there is provided an apparatus for detecting voice activity in an audio signal. The apparatus comprises a first voice activity detector for making a first voice activity detection decision based at least in part on the voice activity of a first... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090271189 - Testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise: Methods, systems, and products for testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise that include: receiving recorded background noise for each of the plurality of operating environments; generating a test speech utterance for recognition by a speech recognition engine... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090271192 - Method and systems for measuring user performance with speech-to-text conversion for dictation systems: A computer-implemented system and method for evaluating the performance of a user using a dictation system is provided. The system and method include receiving a text or transcription file generated from user audio. A performance metric, such as, for example, words/minute or errors is generated based on the transcription file.... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090271191 - Method and systems for simplifying copying and pasting transcriptions generated from a dictation based speech-to-text system: A computer-implemented method for simplifying the pasting of textual transcriptions from a transcription engine into an application is described. An audio file is sent to a transcription engine. A textual transcription file of the audio file is received from the transcription engine. The textual transcription file is automatically loaded into... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090271194 - Speech recognition and transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols: A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a system transaction manager that receives a speech information request from at least one of the users. The speech information request includes formatted spoken text generated... Agent: Lee G. Meyer, Esq. Meyer & Associates, LLC

20090271193 - Support device, program and support method: A support device, program and support method for supporting generation of text from speech data. The support device includes a confirmed rate calculator, a candidate obtaining unit and a selector. The confirmed rate calculator calculates a confirmed utterance rate which is an utterance rate of a confirmed part having already-confirmed... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090271195 - Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method, and speech recognition program: A speech recognition apparatus capable of attaining high recognition accuracy within practical processing time using a computing machine having standard performance by appropriately adapting a language model to a speech about a certain topic, irrespectively of a degree of detail and diversity of the topic and irrespectively of a confidence... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090271196 - Classifying portions of a signal representing speech: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a frame of the signal representing speech. The frame can be classified as unvoiced or voiced based on occurrence of one or more events within... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271197 - Identifying features in a portion of a signal representing speech: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a region of the signal representing speech. The region can comprise a portion of a frame of the signal representing speech classified as a voiced... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271198 - Producing phonitos based on feature vectors: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a first frame of the signal, the first frame comprising a voiced frame. One or more cords can be extracted from the voiced frame based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271199 - Records disambiguation in a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for record disambiguation in a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device, the multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including at least a voice mode and a visual mode, that include: prompting, by the multimodal application, a user to identify a particular record... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090271200 - Speech recognition assembly for acoustically controlling a function of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a speech recognition assembly for acoustically controlling a function of a motor vehicle, wherein the speech recognition assembly comprises a microphone disposed in the motor vehicle for inputting a voice command, a data base disposed in the motor vehicle in which respectively at least one meaning... Agent: Manfred Beck Pa

20090271201 - Standard-model generation for speech recognition using a reference model: A standard model creating apparatus which provides a high-precision standard model used for pattern recognition such as speech recognition, character recognition, or image recognition using a probability model based on a hidden Markov model, Bayesian theory, or linear discrimination analysis; intention interpretation using a probability model such as a Bayesian... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090271202 - Speech synthesis apparatus, speech synthesis method, speech synthesis program, portable information terminal, and speech synthesis system: A speech synthesis apparatus includes a content selection unit that selects a text content item to be converted into speech; a related information selection unit that selects related information which can be at least converted into text and which is related to the text content item selected by the content... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090271203 - Voice-activated remote control service: A method of remotely controlling operation of a controlled device involves receiving a telephone call from an owner via a telephone network; authenticating the telephone call to establish that the owner is authorized to control the controlled device; interpreting a voice command from the owner that issues instructions to the... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090271204 - Audio compression: For audio encoding and decoding, in order to enhance coded audio signals, the audio signal is divided into at least a low frequency band and a high frequency band, the high frequency band is divided into at least two high frequency sub-band signals, and parameters are generated that refer at... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090265158 - Complex consolidation of multiple works: Systems and methods for creating a consolidated work or article may include the consolidation of the four canonical Gospels of Luke, Matthew, John, and Mark whereby selections of original text may be compared, separated, and linked to create a new paragraph of amalgamated text, each word thereof having source indicia... Agent: Santangelo Law Offices, P.C.

20090265159 - Speech recognition method for both english and chinese: The present invention can recognize both English and Chinese at the same time. The most important skill is that the features of all English words (without samples) are entirely extracted from the features of Chinese syllables. The invention normalizes the signal waveforms of variable lengths for English words (Chinese syllables)... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090265160 - Comparing text based documents: Text based documents are compared by lexically normalising each word of the text of a first document (104) to form a first normalised representation. A vector representation of the first document is built (206) from the first normalised representation. Each word of the text of a second document (110) is... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090265162 - Method for retrieving items represented by particles from an information database: A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles are determined, and a cost is determined for each possible partitioning. The particles of the possible... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090265161 - Transforming a natural language request for modifying a set of subscriptions for a publish/subscribe topic string: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for transforming a natural language request for modifying a set of subscriptions for a publish/subscribe topic string in which a predetermined element in the request is transformed into a publish/subscribe symbol in the topic string.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090265163 - Systems and methods to enable interactivity among a plurality of devices: Methods and systems to exchange and display data among a plurality of devices in response to one or more of user input and context-based information. User input may include one or more of motion, speech, text, pointing, and touch-selecting. Context-based information may include one or more of user location, which... Agent: Garrett Ip, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090265164 - Method for encoding and decoding object-based audio signal and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a method for encoding and decoding object-based audio signal and an apparatus thereof. The audio decoding method includes extracting a first audio signal in which one or more music objects are grouped and encoded, a second audio signal in which at least two vocal objects... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265165 - Automatic meta-data tagging pictures and video records: A method and apparatus for labeling an image recorded by a portable electronic device with descriptive tags is disclosed. Sounds in the vicinity of the portable electronic device are recorded. When the image is captured, the audio record of recorded sounds from a first predetermined period of time prior to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090265166 - Boundary estimation apparatus and method: A boundary estimation apparatus includes an boundary estimation unit which estimates a first boundary separating a speech into first meaning units, a boundary estimation unit configured to estimate a second boundary separating a speech, related to the speech, into second meaning units related to the first meaning units, a pattern... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090265167 - Speech encoding apparatus and speech encoding method: Disclosed is an audio encoding device capable of adjusting a spectrum inclination of a quantized noise without changing the Formant weight. The device includes: an HPF (131) which extracts a high-frequency component of the frequency region from an input audio signal; a high-frequency energy level calculation unit (132) which calculates... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090265168 - Noise cancellation system and method: A noise cancellation apparatus includes a noise estimation module for receiving a noise-containing input speech, and estimating a noise therefrom to output the estimated noise; a first Wiener filter module for receiving the input speech, and applying a first Wiener filter thereto to output a first estimation of clean speech;... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090265169 - Techniques for comfort noise generation in a communication system: A technique of operating a communication device includes dividing a frequency band associated with a background noise signal into respective sub-bands. Respective individual level estimates for each of the respective sub-bands are then determined. A total level estimate for the background noise signal is determined. Finally, a comfort noise signal... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090265170 - Emotion detecting method, emotion detecting apparatus, emotion detecting program that implements the same method, and storage medium that stores the same program: An audio feature is extracted from audio signal data for each analysis frame and stored in a storage part. Then, the audio feature is read from the storage part, and an emotional state probability of the audio feature corresponding to an emotional state is calculated using one or more statistical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090265171 - 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: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265172 - Integrated system and method for mobile audio playback and dictation: A method and system provides for a single-pass review and feedback of a document. During audio playback of the document to be reviewed, voice-activated recording of feedback and submission of feedback relative to the location in the original document are accomplished. This provides for a fully integrated, single pass review... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090265173 - Tone detection for signals sent through a vocoder: A tone detector and associated method for use with EVRC-B and GSM vocoders to enable reliable detection of system connect tones over a wireless communication system. The tone detection method examines a number of sequential data frames of the signal received from the vocoder and determines that the tone is... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090265174 - Robust and invariant audio pattern matching: The present invention provides an innovative technique for rapidly and accurately determining whether two audio samples match, as well as being immune to various kinds of transformations, such as playback speed variation. The relationship between the two audio samples is characterized by first matching certain fingerprint objects derived from the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090265175 - Method and system for providing a translation service for a voice channel: There is provided a method for providing a translation service for a voice channel. The method comprises receiving a translation request from a first person at a first endpoint of the voice channel, selecting a language translator based on the translation request received from the first person, and installing the... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090265176 - Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal: e

20090259459 - Conceptual world representation natural language understanding system and method: A Natural Language Understanding system is provided for indexing of free text documents. The system according to the invention utilizes typographical and functional segmentation of text to identify those portions of free text that carry meaning. The system then uses words and multi-word terms and phrases identified in the free... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090259460 - Silence-based adaptive real-time voice and video transmission methods and system: A client for silence-based adaptive real-time voice and video (SAVV) transmission methods and systems, detects the activity of a voice stream of conversational speech and aggressively transmits the corresponding video frames if silence in the sending or receiving voice stream has been detected, and adaptively generates and transmits key frames... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090259461 - Gain control system, gain control method, and gain control program: Disclosed is a gain control system in which speech model constituted from a sound pressure and a feature is stored in a speech model storage unit for each of a plurality of phonemes or for each of clusters into which a speech is divided. When an input signal is given,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090259462 - Comfort noise information handling for audio transcoding applications: A device comprising an audio information processor to receive at least one audio stream encoded according to a first protocol by a remote network processing device, the audio stream having associated comfort noise information to indicate a level of background noise available for presentation during silence periods associated with the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090259463 - Methods and apparatus for efficient vocoder implementations: Techniques for implementing vocoders in parallel digital signal processors are described. A preferred approach is implemented in conjunction with the BOPS® Manifold Array (ManArray™) processing architecture so that in an array of N parallel processing elements, N channels of voice communication are processed in parallel. Techniques for forcing vocoder processing... Agent: Peter H. Priest

20090259464 - System and method for facilitating cognitive processing of simultaneous remote voice conversations: A system and method for facilitating cognitive processing of simultaneous remote voice conversations is provided. A plurality of remote voice conversations participated in by distributed participants are provided over a shared communication channel. A main conversation between at least two of the distributed participants and one or more subconversations between... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090259465 - Low latency real-time vocal tract length normalization: A method and system for training an automatic speech recognition system are provided. The method includes separating training data into speaker specific segments, and for each speaker specific segment, performing the following acts: generating spectral data, selecting a first warping factor and warping the spectral data, and comparing the warped... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090259466 - Adaptive confidence thresholds for speech recognition: Adjusting confidence score thresholds is described for a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine is implemented in multiple computer processes functioning in a computer processor, and is characterized by an associated receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. A results confirmation process interprets user confirmation of speech recognition results within a... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090259470 - Bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification: Systems and methods for bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification are disclosed. Generally, a speaker identity verification engine generates a dynamic phrase including at least one dynamically-generated word. The speaker identity verification engine prompts a user to speak the dynamic phrase and receives a dynamic phrase utterance. The speaker identity verification... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090259469 - Method and apparatus for speech recognition: A method and apparatus for performing speech recognition receives an audio signal, generates a sequence of frames of the audio signal, transforms each frame of the audio signal into a set of narrow band feature vectors using a narrow passband, couples the narrow band feature vectors to a speech model,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090259468 - System and method for detecting synthetic speaker verification: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and tangible computer readable-media for detecting synthetic speaker verification. The method comprises receiving a plurality of speech samples of the same word or phrase for verification, comparing each of the plurality of speech samples to each other, denying verification if the plurality of speech samples... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090259467 - Voice recognition apparatus: A voice recognition apparatus 10 carries out voice recognition of an inputted voice with reference to a voice recognition dictionary, and outputs a voice recognition result. In this voice recognition apparatus, a plurality of voice recognition dictionaries 23-1 to 23-N are provided according to predetermined classification items. The voice recognition... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090259471 - Distance metrics for universal pattern processing tasks: A universal pattern processing system receives input data and produces output patterns that are best associated with said data. The system uses input means receiving and processing input data, a universal pattern decoder means transforming models using the input data and associating output patterns with original models that are changed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090259473 - Methods and apparatus to present a video program to a visually impaired person: Methods and apparatus to present a video program to a visually impaired person are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a video stream and an associated audio stream of a video program, detecting a portion of the video program that is not readily consumable by a visually impaired person, obtaining... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090259472 - System and method for answering a communication notification: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for answering a communication notification. The method for answering a communication notification comprises receiving a notification of communication from a user, converting information related to the notification to speech, outputting the information as speech to the user, and receiving from the user... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090259474 - Greeting card having audio recording capabilities with trial mode feature: A greeting card having an audio message recording and playback device permits recording of personalized audio messages to be played upon opening of the greeting card. The recording device is operable in either a trial mode or a use mode. In the trial mode, which would be applicable when the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090259475 - Voice quality change portion locating apparatus: A text edit apparatus which presents, based on language analysis information regarding a text, a portion of the text where voice quality may change when the text is read aloud has advantages of predicting likelihood of the voice quality change and judging whether or not the voice quality change will... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090259478 - Audio decoding apparatus and decoding method and program: An energy corrector (105) for correcting a target energy for high-frequency components and a corrective coefficient calculator (106) for calculating an energy corrective coefficient from low-frequency subband signals are newly provided. These processors perform a process for correcting a target energy that is required when a band expanding process is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090259476 - Device and computer program product for high frequency signal interpolation: Accordingly, the interpolation is carried out by forming the envelope component of the raw signal using the real part and the imaginary part of the analytic signal of the raw signal; and taking the high-harmonic portion out of the formed envelope component. Therefore, a favorable high frequency signal is formed... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090259477 - Method and apparatus for selective signal coding based on core encoder performance: In a selective signal encoder, an input signal is first encoded using a core layer encoder to produce a core layer encoded signal. The core layer encoded signal is decoded to produce a reconstructed signal and an error signal is generated as the difference between the reconstructed signal and the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090259479 - Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks: The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090254334 - Translation method, translation output method and storage medium, program, and computer used therewith: A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source text to be translated are looked up in a dictionary (step S201) to determine whether the text includes an unregistered word (step S203).... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090254335 - Multilingual weighted codebooks: Examples of methods are provided for generating a multilingual codebook. According to an example method, a main language codebook and at least one additional codebook corresponding to a language different from the main language are provided. A multilingual codebook is generated from the main language codebook and the at least... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090254337 - Computer-implemented method and system for conducting a search of electronically stored information: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for conducting a search of electronically stored information. The method includes: (a) providing a user with an interactive targeting rule editor to enable the user to formulate a targeting rule to identify desired search results, the targeting rule comprising a... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20090254336 - Providing a task description name space map for the information worker: Providing for generation of a task oriented data structure that can correlate natural language descriptions of computer related tasks to application level commands and functions is described herein. By way of example, a system can include an activity translation component that can receive a natural language description of an application... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090254338 - System and method for generating a separated signal: The present invention relates to blind source separation. More specifically it relates to the blind source separation using frequency domain processes.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090254339 - Multi band audio compressor dynamic level adjust in a communications device: An uplink or downlink audio processor contains a multi band compressor that receives an input, uplink or downlink, audio signal. The multi-band compressor has a band splitter that splits the input audio signal into a number of different band signals. Each band signal is input to a respective compressor block,... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090254340 - Noise reduction: A signal processor for estimating noise power in an audio signal includes a filter unit for generating a series of power values, each power value representing the power in the audio signal at a respective one of a plurality of frequency bands; a signal classification unit for analysing successive portions... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20090254341 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for judging speech/non-speech: A spectrum calculating unit calculates, for each of the frames, a spectrum by performing a frequency analysis on an acoustic signal. An estimating unit estimates a noise spectrum. An energy calculating unit calculates an energy characteristic amount. An entropy calculating unit calculates a normalized spectral entropy value. A generating unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090254342 - Detecting barge-in in a speech dialogue system: A method for detecting barge-in in a speech dialogue system comprising determining whether a speech prompt is output by the speech dialogue system, and detecting whether speech activity is present in an input signal based on a time-varying sensitivity threshold of a speech activity detector and/or based on speaker information,... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090254343 - Identifying audio content using distorted target patterns: Embodiments of a system for identifying audio content are described. During operation, the system receives a data stream from an electronic device via a communication network. Then, the system distorts a set of target patterns which are used to identify the audio content based on characteristics of the electronic device... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090254344 - Active labeling for spoken language understanding: A spoken language understanding method and system are provided. The method includes classifying a set of labeled candidate utterances based on a previously trained classifier, generating classification types for each candidate utterance, receiving confidence scores for the classification types from the trained classifier, sorting the classified utterances based on an... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090254346 - Automated voice enablement of a web page: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated voice enablement of a Web page. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for voice enabling a Web page can include selecting an input field of a Web page for speech input, generating... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090254348 - Free form input field support for automated voice enablement of a web page: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and computer program product for the automated voice enablement of a Web page with free form input field support. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for voice enabling a Web page with free form input field support can be provided.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090254345 - Intelligent text-to-speech conversion: Techniques for improved text-to-speech processing are disclosed. The improved text-to-speech processing can convert text from an electronic document into an audio output that includes speech associated with the text as well as audio contextual cues. One aspect provides audio contextual cues to the listener when outputting speech (spoken text) pertaining... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090254347 - Proactive completion of input fields for automated voice enablement of a web page: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and computer program product for the proactive completion of input fields for automated voice enablement of a Web page. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for proactively completing empty input fields for voice enabling a Web page can be provided.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090254349 - Speech synthesizer: A speech synthesizer can execute speech content editing at high speed and generate speech content easily. The speech synthesizer includes a small speech element DB (101), a small speech element selection unit (102), a small speech element concatenation unit (103), a prosody modification unit (104), a large speech element DB... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090254350 - Apparatus, method and program for giving warning in connection with inputting of unvoiced speech: Disclosed is an apparatus including an unvoiced speech input device, a decision unit and an alarm unit. The unvoiced speech input device receives the unvoiced speech, and the decision unit determines whether or not a signal received from the unvoiced speech input device is an ordinary speech. The alarm unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090254351 - Mobile terminal and menu control method thereof: A mobile terminal including an input unit configured to receive an input to activate a voice recognition function on the mobile terminal, a memory configured to store information related to operations performed on the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to activate the voice recognition function upon receiving the input... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090254353 - Method and system for an efficient implementation of the bluetooth® subband codec (sbc): A method for processing audio may include performing using one or more processors and/or circuits in a Bluetooth enabled communication device, receiving audio samples that are encoded by a Bluetooth subband CODEC. The encoded audio samples may include inverse discrete cosine transformed windowed audio data. Shifted subband samples corresponding to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090254352 - Method and system for extracting audio features from an encoded bitstream for audio classification: A method and system for extracting audio features from an encoded bitstream for audio classification. The method comprises partially decoding the encoded bitstream; obtaining uniform window block size spectral coefficients of the encoded bit-stream; and extracting audio features based on the uniform window block spectral coefficients.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090254354 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a pilot reference value corresponding to a plurality of data and a pilot difference... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.