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

Speech To Image

Speech To Image 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.

11/23/06 - 20060265221 - system and method for multi level transcript quality checking
Methods and systems for multi level quality checking of transcripts are disclosed. The method includes the steps of searching subsets of metadata associated with the transcripts, identifying a group of transcripts having at least one particular subset of metadata, selecting a number of transcripts from the group of identified transcripts ...

11/23/06 - 20060265220 - Grapheme to phoneme alignment method and relative rule-set generating system
Grapheme-to-phoneme alignment quality is improved by introducing a first preliminary alignment step, followed by an enlargement step of the grapheme-set and phoneme-set, and a second alignment step based on the previously enlarged grapheme/phoneme sets. During the enlargement step, grapheme clusters and phoneme clusters are generated that become members of a ...

11/16/06 - 20060259301 - High quality thai text-to-phoneme converter
An improved, high-quality Thai text-to-phoneme converter. Syllabification is performed strictly according to the Thai pronunciation rules. Initial vowels, Thai syllable structures, special vowels, leading vowels, syllables with silent marks, unterminated vowels and terminated vowels are used to accurately implement the Thai syllabification. After syllabification, the most probable phonemes are obtained ...

10/26/06 - 20060241943 - Medical vocabulary templates in speech recognition
A system of templates of words and terms use in medicine and surgery by physicians for optimizing the outcomes of speech recognition process of converting digital voice data produced by physicians into digital text data comprises words and terms use in medical and surgical specialties. The medical and surgical vocabulary ...

10/19/06 - 20060235685 - Framework for voice conversion
This invention relates to a framework for converting a source speech signal associated with a source voice into a target speech signal that is a representation of the source speech signal associated with a target voice. The source speech signal is encoded into samples of encoding parameters, wherein the encoding ...

09/21/06 - 20060212292 - Transcription rule base enrichment
In a transcriber terminal, a module transcribes a trace stored in a trace database, another module validates the transcription of the transcribed trace by applying transcription rules and, if the transcribed trace is invalidated, a central unit transmits a control message including an identifier of the transcribed trace to an ...

08/31/06 - 20060195319 - Method for converting phonemes to written text and corresponding computer system and computer program
Method for converting phonemes to written text and corresponding computer system and computer program. In languages having a low correspondence between sounds and letters, converting phonemes to letters is complex. The continual addition of neologisms, with an adapted pronunciation but with an original spelling makes the conversion even harder. The ...

08/31/06 - 20060195318 - System for correction of speech recognition results with confidence level indication
A correction device (12) for correcting text passages in a recognized text information (RTI) which recognized text information (RTI) is recognized by a speech recognition device from a speech information and which is therefore associated to the speech information comprises a reception unit for receiving the speech information and the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190250 - Systems and methods for automated audio transcription, translation, and transfer
The present invention relates to systems and methods for audio processing. For example, the present invention provides systems and methods for receiving live speech, converting the speech to text, and transferring the text to a user. As desired, the speech or text can be translated into one or more different ...

08/24/06 - 20060190249 - Method for comparing a transcribed text file with a previously created file
A method to creating a final text from an audio file comprising (a) transcribing the audio file into a transcribed text file using a speech recognition software; (b) loading a first widow with the transcribed text file; (c) loading a second window with a previously created text file; (d) comparing ...

08/17/06 - 20060184365 - Word-specific acoustic models in a speech recognition system
An acoustic model includes word-specific models, that are specific to candidate words. The candidate words would otherwise be mapped to a series of general phones. A sub-series of the general phones representing the candidate word is modeled by a new phone and the new phone is dedicated to the candidate ...

08/17/06 - 20060184364 - System of influencing health-care utilizations
A system for influencing health-care utilizations by patients and physicians comprises a plurality of templates of first digital text data on health and health-care related information on and relating to patients and health-care related information relating to physicians. The digital audio data comprising health and health-care related information on and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173680 - Partial spelling in speech recognition
A method of speech recognition processing is described based on spelling out the initial characters of a word or a sequence of words. Characters representative of an initial portion of an intended user input are collected from a user. In response to a first user action, (e.g., a short pause) ...

08/03/06 - 20060173679 - Healthcare examination reporting system and method
A system and method for managing recorded audio information concerning a patient's medical condition including receiving a signal comprising dictated information; processing the signal by parsing data representing the dictated information in the signal and identifying key words in the dictated information and providing data representing a text translation of ...

07/27/06 - 20060167687 - Management and assistance system for the deaf
A computer-aided communication and assistance system that uses a signal processing and other algorithms in a processor in wireless communication with a microphone system to aid a deaf person. An instrumented communication module receives information from one or more microphones and provides textual and, optionally, stimulatory information to the deaf ...

07/27/06 - 20060167686 - Method for form completion using speech recognition and text comparison
A system and method for creating a final text from an audio file. This has particular utility in completing forms with speech-to-text conversion. The system and method includes transcribing the audio file into a transcribed text file using a speech recognition program. They further include comparing the transcribed text file ...

07/27/06 - 20060167685 - Method and device for the rapid, pattern-recognition-supported transcription of spoken and written utterances
The invention relates to a method and a device for the transcription of spoken and written utterances. To this end, the utterances undergo speech or text recognition, and the recognition result (ME) is combined with a manually created transcription (MT) of the utterances in order to obtain the transcription. The ...

07/20/06 - 20060161431 - System and method for independently recognizing and selecting actions and objects in a speech recognition system
A method for processing a call is disclosed. The method receives a speech input via a call and transforms at the speech input into a textual format. The method also creates a list of salient terms of actions and objects from the text, adjusts the confidence level of objects on ...

07/13/06 - 20060155536 - Method and device for displaying a telephone number
Devices and methods of displaying a telephone number are disclosed. The telephone number may be displayed in a manner that is likely to be helpful to the user of an appliance, such as a cell phone or personal digital assistant. ...

07/06/06 - 20060149543 - Construction of an automaton compiling grapheme/phoneme transcription rules for a phoneticizer
A system checks the accuracy of a required graphic chain, e.g. usage errors. Modules constructs a phoneticizer by construction of an automaton compiling transcription rules and by determining probabilities of transitions between grapheme/phoneme correspondences. A dictionary of phonetic signatures is constructed by transcribing graphic chains from a graphic chains dictionary ...

06/15/06 - 20060129394 - Method for communicating using synthesized speech
The present invention is a method for communicating using synthesized speech including the steps of: capturing subvocal speech signals from a first party; applying subvocal speech recognition to the signals to generate speech text; and, transmitting the generated speech text to a second party. ...

05/18/06 - 20060106602 - Method and device for providing speech-to-text encoding and telephony service
A machine-readable medium and a subscriber terminal are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in ...

05/04/06 - 20060095259 - Method and system of enabling intelligent and lightweight speech to text transcription through distributed environment
A system includes at least one wireless client device, a service manager, and a plurality of voice transcription servers. The service manager includes a resource management service and a profile management service. The client device communicates the presence of a voice transcription task to the resource management service. The resource ...

04/20/06 - 20060085185 - Image forming apparatus
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising: an operating part which operates the image forming apparatus; an optional first speaker which outputs information guiding operation of the operating part; and a second speaker which outputs sound information that is different from operation guidance information; wherein when the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080097 - Voice acknowledgement independent of a speaker while dialling by name
An initial voice input is associated with a recognition input in the framework of voice recognition and the recording of the voice input is stored in a memory in association with the recognition input in such a way that the voice input is emitted in the form of an audio ...

04/06/06 - 20060074652 - Method and system for voice-enabled autofill
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for filling a graphic-based form field in response to a speech utterance. The computer-implemented method includes generating a grammar corresponding to the form field, the grammar being based on a user profile and comprising a semantic interpretation string. The method further includes creating ...

03/30/06 - 20060069558 - Sentence level analysis
A method and related system, computer program product and device for interactively tracking oral reading of text from a document includes recording audio for a sentence read by a user and determining when the user has reached the last word of the sentence. The method also includes providing visual feedback ...

03/23/06 - 20060064302 - Method and system for voice-enabled autofill
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for filling a graphic-based form field in response to a speech utterance. The computer-implemented method includes generating a grammar corresponding to the form field, the grammar being based on a user profile and comprising a semantic interpretation string. The method further includes creating ...

03/09/06 - 20060053010 - System and method of analyzing communications between a calling party and a called party
A system and method of analyzing communications between a calling party and a called party is disclosed. In an embodiment of a method of the present invention, the method includes receiving a communication at a service provider network, recording the communication, analyzing a voice content portion of the recorded communication ...

03/02/06 - 20060047511 - System, method, and computer program product for content delivery in a push-to-talk communication system
A system, method, and computer program product for real-time content delivery in a communication system utilizing push-to-talk wireless capabilities for voice interaction with a wide range of data processing system applications. By utilizing a vocalizer voice-to-text translation system, various embodiments allow real-time, push-to-talk interaction with conventional voice-response systems, conventional data ...

03/02/06 - 20060047510 - Method and system of building a grammar rule with baseforms generated dynamically from user utterances
A method (200) of building a grammar with baseforms generated dynamically from user utterances can include the steps of recording (205) a user utterance, generating (210) a baseform using the user utterance, creating or adding to (215) a grammar rule using the baseform, and binding (230) the grammar rule in ...

02/23/06 - 20060041427 - Document transcription system training
A system is provided for training an acoustic model for use in speech recognition. In particular, such a system may be used to perform training based on a spoken audio stream and a non-literal transcript of the spoken audio stream. Such a system may identify text in the non-literal transcript ...

02/16/06 - 20060036438 - Efficient multimodal method to provide input to a computing device
A method and system for providing input into a computer includes receiving input speech from a user and providing data corresponding to the input speech. The data is used to search a collection of phrases and identify one or more phrases from the collection having a relation to the data. ...

01/26/06 - 20060020455 - Adaptive plug-in architecture for mix-mode personal communication
A method (100) and apparatus for providing an application over a peer-to-peer network (200). During a communication session in the peer-to-peer network, data having a first format (240) can be transferred from a first device (205) in the peer-to-peer network to at least a second device (210) in the peer-to-peer ...

01/19/06 - 20060015337 - Cooperative processing for portable reading machine
A handheld device includes an image input device capable of acquiring images, circuitry to send a representation of the image to a remote computing system that performs at least one processing function related to processing the image and circuitry to receive from the remote computing system data based on processing ...

01/19/06 - 20060015336 - System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input
A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method comprises performing spelling recognition via automatic speech recognition (ASR) on received speech from a user, the ASR being performed using a statistical letter model trained on domain data and producing a letter lattice ...

01/19/06 - 20060015335 - Framework to enable multimodal access to applications
A technique to link an audio enabled device with a speech driven application without specifying the specific ones of the audio enabled device-independent, speech driven application-independent, and speech application platform independent parameters. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by using voice framework that receives and transmits digitized speech audio ...

01/19/06 - 20060015334 - Method to process two audio input signals
In order to provide a method and a device for the processing of at least two input signals (Si) which contain audio (Ai) and possibly also video information (Vi) which enable the reproduction of the text information (T2) of at least one further input signal (S2) in addition to the ...

12/29/05 - 20050288927 - Quality of service call routing system using counselor and speech recognition engine and method thereof
A QoS call routing system using a counselor and a speech recognition engine comprises a speech recognition engine for recognizing speech and outputting characters and speech recognition results; a first counselor group terminal for reproducing the client's speech file to a counselor of a first counselor group so that the ...

12/29/05 - 20050288926 - Network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion
Embodiments of the system, and method provide for network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion. One embodiment of the method may have the steps of: entering a spoken message at the mobile terminal; sending the spoken message to the network; and converting, at the network, the spoken message to ...

12/08/05 - 20050273327 - Mobile station and method for transmitting and receiving messages
Mobile stations and methods are provided for transmitting and/or receiving messages. The mobile station includes a controller capable of operating a phoneme engine, which is capable of receiving a message comprising input speech. Thereafter, the phoneme engine can convert the input speech into at least one phoneme representative of the ...

11/24/05 - 20050261901 - Training speaker-dependent, phrase-based speech grammars using an unsupervised automated technique
The present invention can include a method for tuning grammar option weights of a phrase-based, automatic speech recognition (ASR) grammar, where the grammar option weights affect which entries within the grammar are matched to spoken utterances. The tuning can occur in an unsupervised fashion, meaning no special training session or ...

11/17/05 - 20050256710 - Text message generation
The invention relates to a method of generating text messages. In order to make the generation of text messages as convenient and efficient as possible for a user, the following steps are proposed: —processing of speech input containing message elements by means of grammar-based speech recognition procedures; —processing of speech ...

10/27/05 - 20050240406 - Speech recognition computing device display with highlighted text
A computing device having a display screen and a speech recognition module, and related method of operation. Received audio input is processed with the speech recognition module to convert the received audio input to text. At least a portion of the converted audio input is displayed as text on the ...

10/27/05 - 20050240405 - Transcription apparatus and dictation system
A personal computer as a transcription apparatus receives voice data from an IC recorder as a voice data recorder, and transcribes the voice data. A standard format of a word processor software program to be applied in a transcription process is identified by a standard format identification recorded in a ...

10/13/05 - 20050228663 - Media production system using time alignment to scripts
A media production system includes a textual alignment module aligning multiple speech recordings to textual lines of a script based on speech recognition results. A navigation module responds to user navigation selections respective of the textual lines of the script by communicating to the user corresponding, line-specific portions of the ...

10/06/05 - 20050222843 - System for permanent alignment of text utterances to their associated audio utterances
The invention includes a computer implemented method for permanently aligning text utterances to their associated audio utterances. A mixer utility associated with a sound card first is found. The mixer utility, which has settings that determine an input source and an output path, is open. A first single audio utterance ...

09/22/05 - 20050209849 - System and method for automatically cataloguing data by utilizing speech recognition procedures
A system and method for automatically cataloguing data by utilizing speech recognition procedures includes an electronic device that captures audio/video data and corresponding verbal narration. A speech recognition engine coupled to the electronic device automatically performs a speech recognition process upon the audio/video data and verbal narration to generate labels ...

08/25/05 - 20050187766 - Real-time transcription system
A transcription system and method that includes a transcription terminal for recording spoken words as units of transcribed text, and a conversion unit for translating the units of transcribed text into a generally accurate transcript of the spoken words and converting said transcript into a signal to be transmitted to ...

07/28/05 - 20050165606 - System and method for providing a printing capability for a transcription service or multimedia presentation
A system and method for providing a printing capability using peripheral or stand-alone devices are disclosed. In the system and method, portions of a multimedia presentation, transcribed text, or both are output to a printing device. In the preferred embodiment, transcribed text is output to a fax machine by means ...

07/21/05 - 20050159949 - Automatic speech recognition learning using user corrections
An automatic speech recognition system recognizes user changes to dictated text and infers whether such changes result from the user changing his/her mind, or whether such changes are a result of a recognition error. If a recognition error is detected, the system uses the type of user correction to modify ...

07/14/05 - 20050154586 - Method of communication with speech-to-text transformation
A method of communication with speech-to-text transformation adaptable for a mobile communication system including a local mobile station, a system server, and a remote mobile station, is provided. The local mobile station communicates with the system server and sends a request for speech-to-text transformation to the system server. When the ...

06/30/05 - 20050143994 - Recognizing speech, and processing data
An example embodiment of the invention includes a speech recognition processing unit for specifying speech segments for speech data, recognizing a speech in each of the speech segments, and associating a character string of obtained recognition data with the speech data for each speech segment, based on information on a ...

06/16/05 - 20050131687 - Portable wire-less communication device
A cellular telephone is described which includes a predictive text editor for generating text messages in response to key-presses made on an ambiguous keyboard of the cellular telephone. The text editor also includes a speech recogniser for recognising words in speech input by the user to disambiguate between possible words ...



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