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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Recognition > Specialized Equations Or Comparisons > Probability ProbabilityProbability 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 - 20060265223 - Method and system for using input signal quality in speech recognition A method and system for using input signal quality in an automatic speech recognition system. The method includes measuring the quality of an input signal into a speech recognition system and varying a rejection threshold of the speech recognition system at runtime in dependence on the measurement of the input ... 11/23/06 - 20060265222 - Method and apparatus for indexing speech A method of indexing a speech segment includes identifying at least two alternative word sequences based on the speech segment. For each word in the alternative sequences, information is placed in an entry for the word in the index. The information indicates the position of the word in at least ... 08/24/06 - 20060190252 - System for predicting speech recognition accuracy and development for a dialog system A system for developing dialog systems estimates the speech recognition accuracy achievable when using a dialog system, and the number of example input phrases required to achieve a desired speech recognition accuracy. The maximum achievable speech recognition accuracy is also predicted. The development system thereby allows a developer of a ... 08/17/06 - 20060184366 - Speech processing method and apparatus and program therefor A scheme to judge emphasized speech portions, wherein the judgment is executed by a statistical processing in terms of a set of speech parameters including a fundamental frequency, power and a temporal variation of a dynamic measure and/or their derivatives. The emphasized speech portions are used for clues to summarize ... 08/10/06 - 20060178882 - Method and system for considering information about an expected response when performing speech recognition A speech recognition system receives and analyzes speech input from a user in order to recognize and accept a response from the user. Under certain conditions, information about the response expected from the user may be available. In these situations, the available information about the expected response is used to ... 07/27/06 - 20060167689 - System and method for predictive analysis and predictive analysis markup language A predictive architecture system and method that supports predicting likely future evolutions by aggregating and analyzing large amounts of data. The invented system includes a multi-level architecture, along with one or more feedback functions that drive search and discovery for information in support of a “hypothesis” or discovery of significant ... 07/20/06 - 20060161433 - Codec-dependent unit selection for mobile devices A method of extracting a subset of speech units from a larger set of speech units for use by a speech synthesizer in synthesizing speech, wherein the speech units are stored in a compressed encoded representation that was generated by a codec, the method comprising: selecting members of the subset ... 06/15/06 - 20060129395 - Gradient learning for probabilistic arma time-series models The subject invention leverages the conditional Gaussian (CG) nature of a continuous variable stochastic ARMAxp time series model to efficiently determine its parametric gradients. The determined gradients permit an easy means to construct a parametric structure for the time series model. This provides a gradient-based alternative to the expectation maximization ... 06/08/06 - 20060122832 - Signal enhancement and speech recognition Provides speech enhancement techniques which are effective even for extemporaneous noise without a noise interval and unknown extemporaneous noise. An example of a signal enhancement device includes: spectral subtraction means for subtracting a given reference signal from an input signal containing a target signal and a noise signal by spectral ... 04/20/06 - 20060085186 - Tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system A tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system has a speech recognition dictionary (360) with at least one word (371). That word (371) has at least two transcriptions (373), each transcription (373) having a probability factor (375) and an indicator (377) of whether the transcription is active. When a speech utterance is ... 04/06/06 - 20060074653 - Pattern identification method, apparatus, and program Pattern recognition capable of robust identification for the variance of an input pattern is performed with a low processing cost while the possibility of identification errors is decreased. In a pattern recognition apparatus which identifies the pattern of input data from a data input unit (11) by using a hierarchical ... 10/20/05 - 20050234717 - Method and apparatus for providing improved hmm pos tagger for multi-word entries and factoids A method of calculating trigram path probabilities for an input string of text containing a multi-word-entry (MWE) or a factoid includes tokenizing the input string to create a plurality of parse leaf units (PLUs). A PosColumn is constructed for each word, MWE, factoid and character in the input string of ... 09/29/05 - 20050216265 - Representation of a deleted interpolation n-gram language model in arpa standard format A method and apparatus are provided for storing parameters of a deleted interpolation language model as parameters of a backoff language model. In particular, the parameters of the deleted interpolation language model are stored in the standard ARPA format. Under one embodiment, the deleted interpolation language model parameters are formed ... 09/15/05 - 20050203737 - Speech recognition device A matching unit 114 spreads speech models belonging to a first speech model network 300 and a garbage model 350 in a RAM 112, and gives a speech parameter extracted by a speech parameter extraction unit 106 to the speech model in the RAM 112, and when an occurrence probability ... 09/01/05 - 20050192803 - Method for calculating hmm output probability and speech recognition apparatus The invention enables even a CPU having low processing performance to find an HMM output probability by simplifying arithmetic operations. The dimensions of an input vector are grouped into several sets, and tables are created for the sets. When an output probability is calculated, codes corresponding to the first dimension ... 09/01/05 - 20050192802 - Handwriting and voice input with automatic correction A hybrid approach to improve handwriting recognition and voice recognition in data process systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a front end is used to recognize strokes, characters and/or phonemes. The front end returns candidates with relative or absolute probabilities of matching to the input. Based on linguistic characteristics of ... 09/01/05 - 20050192801 - System and method for augmenting spoken language understanding by correcting common errors in linguistic performance A method and system for automatic speech recognition are disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech from a user, the speech including at least one speech error, increasing the probabilities of closely related words to the at least one speech error and processing the received speech using the increased probabilities. A ... 08/25/05 - 20050187769 - Method and apparatus for constructing and using syllable-like unit language models A method and computer-readable medium use syllable-like units (SLUs) to decode a pronunciation into a phonetic description. The syllable-like units are generally larger than a single phoneme but smaller than a word. The present invention provides a means for defining these syllable-like units and for generating a language model based ... 08/04/05 - 20050171773 - Feature extraction apparatus and method and pattern recognition apparatus and method It is intended to increase the recognition rate in speech recognition and image recognition. An observation vector as input data, which represents a certain point in the observation vector space, is mapped to a distribution having a spread in the feature vector space, and a feature distribution parameter representing the ... 08/04/05 - 20050171772 - Feature extraction apparatus and method and pattern recognition apparatus and method It is intended to increase the recognition rate in speech recognition and image recognition. An observation vector as input data, which represents a certain point in the observation vector space, is mapped to a distribution having a spread in the feature vector space, and a feature distribution parameter representing the ... 07/21/05 - 20050159951 - Method of speech recognition using multimodal variational inference with switching state space models A method of efficiently setting posterior probability parameters for a switching state space model begins by defining a window containing at least two but fewer than all of the frames. A separate posterior probability parameter is determined for each frame in the window. The window is then shifted sequentially from ... 06/16/05 - 20050131689 - Apparatus and method for detecting signal Robust signal detection against various types of background noise is implemented. According to a signal detection apparatus and method of this invention, the feature amount of an input signal sequence and the feature amount of a noise component contained in the signal sequence are extracted. After that, the first likelihood ... 06/16/05 - 20050131688 - Apparatus and method for classifying an audio signal An apparatus for classifying audio signals comprises audio signal clipping means for partitioning audio signals into audio clips, and class discrimination means for discriminating the audio clips provided by the audio signal clipping means into predetermined audio classes based on predetermined audio class classifying rules, by analysing acoustic characteristics of ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |