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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > For Storage Or Transmission For Storage Or TransmissionFor Storage Or Transmission 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 - 20060247920 - Speech output control device and recording medium recorded with speech output control programs While the amplification factor of an external amplifier is increased to raise the minimum volume level, synthesized speech of text data is generated as PCM data. When the PCM data is output for each frame (63 ms), the voltage of a battery power supply is detected and different ATT values ... 11/02/06 - 20060247919 - Method and apparatus for speech privacy A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound based on a speaker's own voice into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to which of the sounds is the real source. This permits disruption of the ability to understand the source speech of the user by eliminating segregation cues that the auditory ... 09/28/06 - 20060217967 - System and methods for storing and presenting personal information A user can interact with a portable device (10, 10A) to store and receive information using a voice-driven interface. Single utterance spoken commands can be used to perform functions such as making calendar entries, generating reminders, generating ToDo items and the like. A portable device (10, 10A) may automatically identify ... 08/17/06 - 20060184358 - Distortion-based method and apparatus for buffer control in a communication system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a buffer in a communication system, such as a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) communication system. A more consistent perceptual quality over time provides for a more pleasing auditory experience to a listener. The disclosed bit allocation process determines, for each frame, a distortion ... 07/20/06 - 20060161426 - Mobile terminal and text-to-speech method of same A mobile terminal able to achieve smooth text-to-speech conversion, that is, a mobile terminal able to display on a display unit information acquired from a server connected to a network by a communication unit, comprising a storage unit; a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech; and a controller for ... 07/20/06 - 20060161425 - System and method for providing electronic program guide Disclosed is a system for providing an electronic program guide and a method of providing the same, the electronic program guide (EPG) being about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, including the steps of receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system, and extracting the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149531 - Random access audio decoder Random access decoding start points (audio frame headers) for AMR-type files are found by sequential elimination of types of file points from consideration for a block of file points following a random access selected point. Chaining of file points according to frame header format interpretation gives paths of points through ... 06/29/06 - 20060142998 - Automatic audio source detection for capture devices A method for selecting an audio source when capturing audio data with at least one capture device includes connecting an audio source to an audio input port of the capture device, turning off the output of the audio source, calculating first signal strengths of the audio signals detected through the ... 06/15/06 - 20060129387 - Method and apparatus for processing the output of a speech recognition engine data processing apparatus is disclosed for receiving recognition data from a speech recognition engine and its corresponding dictated audio data where the recognition data includes recognized words or characters. A display displays the recognized words or characters and the recognized words or characters restored as a file together with the ... 06/08/06 - 20060122824 - Sound data providing system, method thereof, exchange and program A sound data providing system capable of improving the freedom of creation of sound data provided from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal, a method thereof, an exchange, and a program. A sending terminal transmits to a user interface information concerning the data of sound such as voice and ... 05/11/06 - 20060100860 - Method and apparatus for transmission of signals In a method and apparatus for transmission of signals, an input signal is supplied to at least one dynamic compressor and the dynamics of the signal is compressed by the dynamic compressor with a degree of compression. The compressed signal is subsequently adapted, in particular limited, in terms of its ... 05/11/06 - 20060100859 - Method and device for efficient in-band dim-and-burst signaling and half-rate max operation in variable bit-rate wideband speech coding for cdma wireless systems In the method and device for interoperating a first station using a first communication scheme and comprising a first coder and a first decoder with a second station using a second communication scheme and comprising a second coder and a second decoder, communication between the first and second stations is ... 04/06/06 - 20060074638 - Speech file generating system and method A speech file generating system and a speech file generating method are applicable to a data processing device. A resource access module is connected via a preset resource path to a speech resource supply device to access speech resources according to access conditions. Then, a format of the accessed speech ... 04/06/06 - 20060074637 - Low latency real-time audio streaming Systems and methods for audio streaming in a computing device are described. In one aspect an interface to an adapter driver is provided. The adapter driver is associated with an audio device. The adapter driver and a wave real-time (WaveRT) port driver associated with the computing device use the interface ... 02/09/06 - 20060031062 - On demand tts vocabulary for a telematics system A driving directions system loads into memory a limited subset of prerecorded, spoken utterances of geographic names from a mass media storage. The subset of spoken utterances may be limited, for example, to the geographic names within a predetermined radius (e.g., a few miles) of the driver's present location. The ... 12/15/05 - 20050278166 - Data distribution apparatus, its control method, program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to be able to maintain constant audio data transmission intervals even when video and audio data are transmitted to many users. A group number is assigned to each user, and every time data is generated, it is stored in buffers having different start positions. ... 11/24/05 - 20050261893 - Encoding method, encoding apparatus, decoding method, decoding apparatus and program In a quantization step information encoding unit, an average value of the quantization step information is found in an approximate shape extraction unit (20), first of all, from one set of a given number of unitary quantization units to another. In an approximate shape encoding unit (21), the approximate shape ... 10/27/05 - 20050240395 - Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio processing profiles are stored in a processing profile database such that specific combinations of processing parameters can be retrieved and used ... 10/13/05 - 20050228646 - Broadcast router having a serial digital audio data stream decoder A bi-phase decoder suitable for use in a broadcast router and an associated method for extracting subframes of digital audio data from a stream of digital audio data. Logical circuitry within the bi-phase decoder extracts subframes of the digital audio data by constructing a transition window from an estimated bit ... 10/13/05 - 20050228645 - Information providing system The invention provides a novel information providing system as well as a mobile information terminal and an information processing device which are used for the information providing system. In the information providing system, information to be registered in a database is provided from a mobile information terminal to an information ... 09/08/05 - 20050197830 - Method for calculating a frame in audio decoding A method for calculating a frame in audio decoding is described to prevent the decoding error resulted from the calculation error of the frame length due to the misreading of a padding bit in the head information of an audio signal. In the invention, the reading length during decoding can ... 09/01/05 - 20050192795 - Identification of the presence of speech in digital audio data The present invention provides a method, a computer-software-product and an apparatus for enabling a determination of speech related audio data within a record of digital audio data. The method comprises steps for extracting audio features from the record of digital audio data, for classifying one or more subsections of the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177360 - Audio coding In binaural stereo coding, only one monaural channel is encoded. An additional layer holds the parameters to retrieve the left and right signal. An encoder is disclosed which links transient information extracted from the mono encoded signal to parametric multi-channel layers to provide increased performance. Transient positions can either be ... 08/04/05 - 20050171765 - Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus having a microphone, an analog to digital converting circuit, a semiconductor memory, input device, and a controller. The analog to digital converting circuit converts an output signal from the microphone into a digital signal. The semiconductor memory stores the output signal from the analog ... 08/04/05 - 20050171764 - Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus having a microphone, an analog to digital converting circuit, a semiconductor memory, input device, and a controller. The analog to digital converting circuit converts an output signal from the microphone into a digital signal. The semiconductor memory stores the output signal from the analog ... 08/04/05 - 20050171763 - Methods and apparatuses for bit stream decoding in mp3 decoder A decoding method for MP3 bit streams, which replaces a buffer required in the decoding process by manipulating the order of data decoding. The decoding method includes reading the head and side information of the current frame, and calculating a main data's start address of the current frame. While decoding ... 07/28/05 - 20050165605 - Coding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and program storage medium In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being ... 07/28/05 - 20050165604 - Speech recognizing method and device thereof A speech recognition method and apparatus therefor are provided for performing speech recognition in a start/finish point range and improving speech recognition abilities under noisy conditions. The method comprises: an analysis step of performing acoustic analysis of input speech; a start/finish point range determining step of detecting, as hill segments, ... 06/30/05 - 20050143975 - System and method for voice activating web pages A method for processing a voice request for data specifying a web page, the request including a rule-based grammar statement, the method comprising identifying a grammar associated with the rule-based grammar statement, determining whether a first connection identified as being associated with the grammar is specified in a data structure ... 06/30/05 - 20050143974 - Method for qulitative evaluation of a digital audio signal The invention relates to a method of qualitatively evaluating a digital audio signal. It calculates a quality indicator consisting of a vector associated with each time window in real time, in continuous time, and in successive time windows. For example, the generation of a quality indicator vector calculates, for a ... 06/23/05 - 20050137857 - Codec-assisted capacity enhancement of wireless voip The use of a cellular system's packet data channel for transport of speech communications is enhanced by dynamically controlling the transmission of data packets that were received in error and notified to the transmitter by the receiver in accordance with an algorithm that takes into account a self-generated determination of ... 06/16/05 - 20050131678 - Communication system tonal component maintenance techniques An apparatus and method for suppressing noise is presented. The apparatus may utilize a filter bank of bandpass filters to split the input noisy speech-containing signal into separate frequency bands. To determine whether the input signal contains speech, DTMF tones or silence, a joint voice activity & DTMF activity detector ... 06/16/05 - 20050131677 - Dialog driven personal information manager A personal information manager including a data input device receiving an audio data stream, and decoding the data stream into text. A dialog manager is provided having a record mode and a dialog mode, the dialog manager examines the decoded text received to determine whether it contains one of an ... 06/16/05 - 20050131676 - Quality evaluation tool for dynamic voice portals A method and system for evaluating the quality of voice input recognition by a voice portal is provided. An analysis interface extracts a set of current grammars from the voice portal. A test pattern generator generates a test input for each current grammar. The test input includes a test pattern ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |