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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing

Speech Signal Processing

Speech Signal Processing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/02/06 - 20060247918 - Systems and methods for 3d audio programming and processing
Systems and methods for 3D audio programming and processing are provided wherein digital signal processing (DSP) settings are calculated for 3D audio effects for a digital audio signal independently of DSP rendering of the digital audio signal. Coordinates of locations within a 3D environment representing at least one sound source ...

09/28/06 - 20060217966 - System and method for audio hot spotting
Audio hot spotting is accomplished by specifying query criterion to include a non-lexical audio cue. The non-lexical audio cue can be, e.g., speech rate, laughter, applause, vocal effort, speaker change or any combination thereof. The query criterion is retrieved from an audio portion of a file. A segment of the ...

07/20/06 - 20060161424 - Digital multi-tone audio-sensing controller
A digital multi-tone audio-sensing controller includes an audio receiver, a signal processor, a driver and a load. The audio receiver receives and outputs an external analog signal and the external analog signal are subject to amplification, frequency-division and digitalization by the signal processor for generating an external digital signal. The ...

07/06/06 - 20060149530 - Circuit arrangement and signal processing device
A circuit arrangement and signal processing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit arrangement includes a resonator circuit for generating an output signal from an input signal with a capacitance and with an inductance, with an input at which the input signal can be provided, and with an output ...

06/15/06 - 20060129386 - Method and apparatus for speech control
A method and apparatus for speech control is provided. The apparatus includes a speech receiver, a speech recognition engine, and an automatic regulation device. In the method, first, a speech is received. Then the speech is identified to obtain an operating order which is to adjust the quantification set with ...

06/15/06 - 20060129385 - Cholinergic therapy for individuals with learning disabilities
Cholinergic agents are used to improve specific learning deficits and language function in individuals of normal intelligence. Psychosocial deficits including a pragmatics impairment, reading deficits, a problem solving impairment, an information processing impairment, an adaptive function impairment, social skills impairment, attention impairment, a mood impairment and employment skills impairment, can ...

06/01/06 - 20060116869 - Automatic keyword extraction apparatus, method, recording medium and program
An automatic keyword extraction apparatus includes a first extraction unit operable to extract a first keyword from title character string information of contents using a first keyword dictionary in which a character string designating a sub-genre is registered; and a second extraction unit operable to extract a second keyword from ...

05/04/06 - 20060095252 - Content creation, graphical user interface system and display
A content creation system 20 of the present invention is used for creating a content which may be viewed through the synthetic voice, the system including: a database 22 for storing a structured document; and an information process section 24 for creating a speech node series 18 from the structured ...

04/13/06 - 20060080086 - Auxiliary channel masking in an audio signal
A method is provided for embedding data into an audio signal and determining data embedded into an audio signal. In the method for embedding data into an audio signal, the audio signal is based on a first set of data and includes a phase component. The method modifies at least ...

04/13/06 - 20060080085 - System and method for making information queries and for sending and mediating information
A method and system for making location-based information queries, including a mobile phone, mobile phone masts, an information centre, comprised of a server and data base, companies offering mobile communications services, short message centres, information lines and catalogues and information contained in data bases, software controlling the information net and ...

03/23/06 - 20060064298 - Adjusting display of mobile communications terminal
The present invention relates to adjusting a display of a mobile communications terminal. The present invention detects a user's voice data, wherein the user's voice data corresponds to image data displayed on the display. The user's eyesight level is then determined based on the detected user's voice data and preset ...

03/09/06 - 20060053002 - System and method for speech processing using independent component analysis under stability restraints
A system and method for separating a mixture of audio signal into desired audio signals (430) (e.g., speech) and a noise sign (440) is disclosed. Microphones (310, 320) are positioned to receive the mixed audio signals, and an independent component analysis (ICA) processes (212) the sound mixture using stability constraints. ...

03/02/06 - 20060047505 - Electronic device
A disk device and microphone are arranged in a device main body. The case of the disk device includes a first shell having a bottom, and a second shell having a top cover. A disk-shaped recording medium is contained in the case. The microphone is positioned closer to the top ...

03/02/06 - 20060047504 - Electronic-book read-aloud device and electronic-book read-aloud method
A control unit of an electronic-book read-aloud device reads book data and electronic-book data from an electronic bookmark and stores the read data in a storage unit. Further, the control unit sets a read-aloud-start position based on the electronic-bookmark data, reads the book data after the read-aloud-start position from the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047503 - System and method for controlling sound data
A system and method for controlling access to parameter blocks of a sound processor. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the present invention includes a host, a sound processor coupled to the host, and at least two copies of a parameter block associated with the sound data. The ...

02/23/06 - 20060041425 - Providing personal skating music on demand at skating rinks
Skating music selections personal to individual skaters are made available for on-demand playback at skating rinks. The music selections are stored as digital files and are played back through a skating rink sound system in response to skater identification input such as a personal identification number keyboard entry or by ...

02/02/06 - 20060025989 - Discrimination of components of audio signals based on multiscale spectro-temporal modulations
An audio signal (172) representative of an acoustic signal is provided to an auditory model (105). The auditory model (105) produces a high-dimensional feature set based on physiological responses, as simulated by the auditory model (105), to the acoustic signal. A multidimensional analyzer (106) orthogonalizes and truncates the feature set ...

01/12/06 - 20060009967 - Sinusoidal audio coding with phase updates
Coding of an audio signal (x) represented by a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are analyzed (130) to generate one or more sinusoidal components (fk,fk-1) for each of the plurality of sequential segments. Sinusoidal codes ...

11/03/05 - 20050246163 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing method is disclosed for use with an information processing apparatus for acquiring data and executing signal processing on the data. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information necessary for executing the signal processing on the data; determining whether a certain parameter included in the information acquired ...

11/03/05 - 20050246162 - Digital vocal device for multiple purposes
A digital vocal device for multiple purposes comprises a triggering unit and a vocal unit for vocalizing according to the triggering unit, and the feature is: comprising an interface unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit electrically connects with an external digital device via the interface ...

10/20/05 - 20050234711 - Method and system for reducing audible side effects of dynamic current consumption
A method and system for reducing audible side effects of dynamic current consumption is provided. The system includes an audio subsystem, and a plurality of digital subsystems. The audio subsystem and the digital subsystem are powered by a common power supply. The digital subsystem processes data packets including audio data ...

10/20/05 - 20050234710 - Canceling a speech interaction session
Systems and method for canceling a speech interaction session are disclosed. In one exemplary implementation a method of canceling a speech interaction session, comprises receiving a signal indicating that a predetermined switch has been set to a first state, monitoring a time parameter indicative of the time the switch remains ...

09/29/05 - 20050216257 - Sound information reproducing apparatus and method of preparing keywords of music data
A storing unit stores a plurality of music data and music data relating information that relates a keyword to each of the music data, a reproducing unit reproduces the music data stored in the storing unit, a searching unit searches the storing unit for music data based on the music ...

08/25/05 - 20050187759 - System for bandwidth extension of narrow-band speech
A system, computer-readable medium and generated signal are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a first signal (i.e., a narrowband signal) such as a speech signal. The system produces a second signal from a first signal by computing first area coefficients from a first signal, generating second area coefficients from ...

08/11/05 - 20050177359 - [video device with voice-assisted system ]
A video device with a voice-assisted system is provided by using a voice command to adjust the images. The voice-assisted system includes a voice recognition engine and a control unit. The voice recognition engine receives a voice command and outputting a voice signal based on the voice command to the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171762 - Creating records of patients using a browser based hand-held assistant
A method, computer program product and system for creating records using a hand-held device capable of recording a voice file. A server may receive a request to select an encounter template, e.g., knee template, from the user of a hand-held computer. The server may transmit one or more screens of ...

07/14/05 - 20050154582 - Erasing a stored information pattern on a storage medium
A method is presented of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of the document data processing device. The document data processing device includes primary processes for processing document data, wherein data may ...

07/14/05 - 20050154581 - Speech recognition method
Input data are translated into at least one output sentence by a decoding step which sub-lexical entities represented by the input data are identified by a first model. During decoding, as the sub-lexical entities are identified and with reference to at least one second mode, various possible combinations of the ...

06/16/05 - 20050131675 - System and method for speech activated navigation
The invention discloses a system and method for speech-activated navigating or browsing via a speech control interface used in a speech-activated multifunctional communications system. In one embodiment, the invention provides an approach to extend speech-activated navigation by linking an output of an open vocabulary recognizer to an Internet search engine ...



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