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

20090276206 - Dynamic software localization: Localizing software applications into target languages such as French, Chinese, etc. is time consuming, expensive and error prone. End users often need to install and operate multiple copies of the same software applications localized into different languages if they need to work in multiple languages. By providing a localization engine... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090276207 - Host greeting card: Disclosed is a bilingual greeting card where the bilingual card has text in the language of the host country and in the immigrant's language of their foreign country and may celebrate the immigrant's Holiday.... Agent: Michael Ries

20090276208 - Reducing spam email through identification of source: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to email and provide a novel and non-obvious method and computer program product for detecting undesirable email. In one embodiment of the invention, the method includes receiving an email including text and identifying at least one natural language... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090276209 - System and method for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a normalized form using frequency analysis: Systems and methods for automatically processing candidate resumes and job specifications expressed in natural language into a normalized form using frequency analysis. A database of elements is provided in which each element is expressed in natural language and at least some of which are associated with a corresponding set of... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276210 - Stereo audio encoding apparatus, stereo audio decoding apparatus, and method thereof: Disclosed is a stereo speech decoding device and others capable of reducing a stereo speech encoding bit rate and suppressing degradation of speech quality. In this device, a section 0 where only an L-channel signal SL(n) exists is identified, a monaural signal of the section 0 transmitted from the stereo... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276211 - Method and device for updating status of synthesis filters: A method and device for updating statuses of synthesis filters are provided. The method includes: exciting a synthesis filter corresponding to a first encoding rate by using an excitation signal of the first encoding rate, outputting reconstructed signal information, and updating status information of the synthesis filter and a synthesis... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090276212 - Robust decoder: Techniques and tools related to delayed or lost coded audio information are described. For example, a concealment technique for one or more missing frames is selected based on one or more factors that include a classification of each of one or more available frames near the one or more missing... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090276213 - Robust downlink speech and noise detector: A voice activity detection process is robust to a low and high signal-to-noise ratio speech and signal loss. A process divides an aural signal into one or more bands. Signal magnitudes of frequency components and the respective noise components are estimated. A noise adaptation rate modifies estimates of noise components... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090276214 - Method for dual channel monitoring on a radio device: A method for dual channel monitoring on a radio device as provided enables efficient use of communication network resources. The method includes receiving at the radio device a first speech signal over a first channel, while simultaneously receiving at the radio device a second speech signal over a second channel.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090276215 - Methods and systems for correcting transcribed audio files: Methods and systems for correcting transcribed text. One method includes receiving audio data from one or more audio data sources and transcribing the audio data based on a voice model to generate text data. The method also includes making the text data available to a plurality of users over at... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090276216 - Method and system for robust pattern matching in continuous speech: A method for speech recognition, the method includes: extracting time—frequency speech features from a series of reference speech elements in a first series of sampling windows; aligning reference speech elements that are not of equal time span duration; constructing a common subspace for the aligned speech features; determining a first... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090276218 - Robot and server with optimized message decoding: A method for optimizing message transmission and decoding comprises: reading data from a memory of an originating device, the data comprising information regarding the originating device; encoding the data by converting the data to a subset of words having a ranked recognition accuracy higher than the remainder of words; transmitting... Agent: O'brien Jones, PLLC (w/irobot Corp.)

20090276217 - Voip caller authentication by voice signature continuity: There are provided methods and systems for authenticating a user. A method includes receiving a voice signature certificate corresponding to a setup portion of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call. The VoIP call further has a voice conversation portion. The voice signature certificate includes a voice signature segment. The... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090276220 - Measuring double talk performance: A system evaluates a hands free communication system. The system automatically selects a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC), vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV), or other combination of sounds from an intelligent database. The selection is transmitted with another communication stream that temporally overlaps the selection. The quality of the communication system is evaluated through an automatic... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090276219 - Voice input system and voice input method: In the present invention, a voice input system and a voice input method are provided. The voice input method includes the steps of: (A) initiating a speech recognition process by a first input associated with a first parameter of a first speech recognition subject; (B) providing a voice and a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090276222 - Method and system for incorporating one or more inputs and defining and applying a plurality of rules for the different stages of speech and video analytics systems: A method and system for improving the context and accuracy of speech and video analytics searches by incorporating one or more inputs and defining and applying a plurality of rules for the different stages of said speech and video analytics system searches.... Agent: Raman Ramesh

20090276221 - Method and system for processing channel b data for amr and/or wamr: A method and system for processing channel B data for AMR and/or WAMR may include generating one or more channel B data hypotheses for a present speech frame, if channel A data has a valid CRC and channel B data is unacceptable. Channel B data may be unacceptable, for example,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090276223 - Remote administration method and system: An administration method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, a telephone call from an administrator. The computing system presents an audible menu associated with a plurality of computers to the administrator. The computing system receives from the administrator, an audible selection for a computer from the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090276225 - Method for automated sentence planning in a task classification system: The invention relates to a method for sentence planning (120) in a task classification system that interacts with a user. The method may include recognizing symbols in the user's input communication and determining whether the user's input communication can be understood. If the user's communication can be understood, understanding data... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090276224 - System and method for monitoring delivery of media content by a media communication system: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may operate according to, for example, a method involving recording audio feedback from a plurality of subscribers commenting on media content supplied by a media communication system on at least one of a plurality of media channels, detecting one or more... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276227 - Fast synthesis sub-band filtering method for digital signal decoding: In order to reproduce audio signals which have been compressed or encoded for storage or transmission using, for example, MPEG audio encoding, a synthesis sub-band filter is employed which performs an inverse modified discrete cosine transform. The computational cost of the IMDCT implementation is reduced by pre-calculating arrays of sum... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20090276226 - Method and terminal for encoding an analog signal and a terminal for decording the encoded signal: An analog signal divided into time frames is encoded and a synthetic signal is formed on the model thereof in a time frame manner via a synthesis filter which is excited by an excitation signal. The excitation signal is formed by at least one adaptive code list containing a plurality... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

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