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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Recognition > Creating Patterns For Matching

Creating Patterns For Matching

Creating Patterns For Matching 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.

08/31/06 - 20060195320 - Conversational user interface
A conversational user interface (CUI) is implemented in a computer by mimicking the organization and retrieval of linguistic memories of human conversation. To mimic the organization of linguistic memories in a human brain, the artificial memories are stored as sequences of patterns, are stored in invariant form, are organized hierarchically, ...

08/24/06 - 20060190254 - System for generating a wideband signal from a narrowband signal using transmitted speaker-dependent data
An electronic communication system is set forth that includes the transmission of a narrowband speech signal corresponding to a narrowband version of speech utterances of a speaker as well as the transmission of speaker-dependent data. The speaker-dependent data may be used to correlate narrowband versions of the speech utterances of ...

08/24/06 - 20060190253 - Unsupervised and active learning in automatic speech recognition for call classification
Utterance data that includes at least a small amount of manually transcribed data is provided. Automatic speech recognition is performed on ones of the utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription to produce automatically transcribed utterances. A model is trained using all of the manually transcribed data and the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155537 - Method and apparatus for discriminating between voice and non-voice using sound model
A method and an apparatus are provided for discriminating between a voice region and a non-voice region in an environment in which diverse types of noises and voices exist. The voice discrimination apparatus includes a domain transform unit for transforming an input sound signal frame into a frame in the ...

06/29/06 - 20060143007 - User interaction with voice information services
An iterative process is provided for interacting with a voice information service. Such a service may permit, for example, a user to search one or more databases and may provide one or more search results to the user. Such a service may be suitable, for example, for searching for a ...

06/22/06 - 20060136205 - Method of refining statistical pattern recognition models and statistical pattern recognizers
A device (800) performs statistical pattern recognition using model parameters that are refined by optimizing an objective function that includes a term for many items of training data for which recognition errors occur wherein each term depends on a relative magnitude of a first score for a recognition result for ...

06/15/06 - 20060129396 - Method and apparatus for automatic grammar generation from data entries
A method of generating an optimized grammar, for use in speech recognition, from a data set or big list of items, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining a tree representing items in the data set, and generating the grammar using the tree. The tree or tree data ...

05/18/06 - 20060106604 - Speech recognition dictionary creation device and speech recognition device
A speech recognition dictionary creation device (10) that efficiently creates a speech recognition dictionary that enables even an abbreviated paraphrase of a word to be recognized with high recognition rate, the device including: a word division unit (2) that divides a recognition object made up of one or more words ...

05/11/06 - 20060100869 - Pattern recognition accuracy with distortions
A pattern recogniser is arranged to receive an input signal and to generate a matching output pattern comprises a pattern matcher, a signal modification module and an output pattern combiner. The pattern matcher includes a signal processor and a pattern matching module. The signal modification module modifies the input signal ...

05/04/06 - 20060095260 - Method and apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition
Provided is a method and an apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition. A signal processing unit receives and digitalizes a vocal cord signal, and a noise removing unit which channel noise included in the vocal cord signal. A feature extracting unit extracts a feature vector from the vocal cord signal, which ...

04/20/06 - 20060085187 - Testing and tuning of automatic speech recognition systems using synthetic inputs generated from its acoustic models
A system and method of testing and tuning a speech recognition system by providing pronunciations to the speech recognizer. First a text document is provided to the system and converted into a sequence of phonemes representative of the words in the text. The phonemes are then converted to model units, ...

04/13/06 - 20060080099 - Signal end-pointing method and system
A method of improving pattern recognition accuracy is provided that uses a mechanism for locating a pattern within an input signal, such as provided by a telephone network. This operation is hard because of the variability of the signal that is likely to be received by the pattern recogniser. It ...

04/13/06 - 20060080098 - Apparatus and method for speech processing using paralinguistic information in vector form
A speech processing apparatus includes a statistics collecting module operable to collect, for each of a prescribed utterance units of a speech in a training speech corpus, a prescribed type of acoustic feature and statistic information on a plurality of paralinguistic information labels being selected by a plurality of listeners ...

04/06/06 - 20060074656 - Discriminative training of document transcription system
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 ...

04/06/06 - 20060074655 - Method and system for the automatic generation of speech features for scoring high entropy speech
A method and system for automatically generating a scoring model for scoring a speech sample are disclosed. One or more training speech samples are received in response to a prompt. One or more speech features are determined for each of the training speech samples. A scoring model is then generated ...

02/09/06 - 20060031070 - System and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition
A system and method for implementing a refined dictionary for speech recognition includes a database analyzer that initially identifies first vocabulary words that are present in a training database and second vocabulary words that are not present in the training database. A relevance module then performs refinement procedures upon the ...

02/09/06 - 20060031069 - System and method for performing a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
A system and method for performing a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion procedure includes a graphone model generator that performs a graphone model training procedure to produce an N-gram graphone model based upon dictionary entries in a training dictionary. A grapheme-to-phoneme decoder then references the N-gram graphone model to perform grapheme-to-phoneme decoding procedures ...

01/05/06 - 20060004572 - Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems
A method is disclosed from constructing a grammar. The grammar is configured to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms. From the plurality of terms, first and second terms are identified. ...

01/05/06 - 20060004571 - Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for creating a grammar to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms and identifying a set of terms that are pronounced the same but spelled differently. ...

01/05/06 - 20060004570 - Transcribing speech data with dialog context and/or recognition alternative information
A framework for easy and accurate transcription of speech data is provided. Utterances related to a single task are grouped together and processed using combinations of associated sets of recognition results and/or context information in a manner that allows the same transcription for a selected recognition result to be assigned ...

12/08/05 - 20050273329 - Speech recognition grammar creating apparatus, speech recognition grammar creating method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program
A speech recognition grammar creating apparatus which makes it possible to easily perform editing operations, such as division and modification of rules, without switching the window. A speech recognition grammar creating apparatus displays a rule name of a rule definition as a node on a left side of the rule ...

11/24/05 - 20050261902 - Method for designing an automated speech recognition (asr) interface for a customer call center
A method of designing a customer interface for a service center, such as an automated speech recognition (ASR) self-service center. Customer activity to an existing service center is monitored, providing customer model, which includes a collection of customer tasks. These tasks are assigned to action-object pairs, which are further assigned ...

11/03/05 - 20050246172 - Acoustic model training method and system
An acoustic model training method includes: (a) constructing a root speech data set, the root speech data set having a plurality of root speech data, each having a root phone; (b) constructing a Hidden Markov Model for the root speech data set; (c)constructing a sub-speech data set dependent on the ...

09/15/05 - 20050203738 - New-word pronunciation learning using a pronunciation graph
A method and computer-readable medium convert the text of a word and a user's pronunciation of the word into a phonetic description to be added to a speech recognition lexicon. Initially, a plurality of at least two possible phonetic descriptions are generated. One phonetic description is formed by decoding a ...

07/21/05 - 20050159952 - Pattern matching for large vocabulary speech recognition with packed distribution and localized trellis access
A method is provided for improving pattern matching in a speech recognition system having a plurality of acoustic models (20). Similarity measures for acoustic feature vectors (54) are determined in groups that are then buffered into cache memory (59). To further reduce computational processing, the acoustic data may be partitioned ...



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