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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Recognition > Voice Recognition Voice RecognitionVoice Recognition 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 - 20060265224 - Changing characteristics of a voice user interface The invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, and system capable of changing a voice user interface possessing both operational characteristics and security characteristics based upon user-specific contextual information. The voice processing system consists of at least the following components: a voice user interface possessing both operational characteristics and security ... 09/07/06 - 20060200348 - Method and system for voice recognition menu navigation A method and system for error prevention and recovery of voice activated navigation through a menu having plural nodes provides situation dependent utterance verification by relating confirmation to utterance determination confidence levels. In one embodiment, a high confidence level results in implicit confirmation, a medium confidence level results in explicit ... 08/17/06 - 20060184368 - Fidelity of physicians' thoughts to digital data conversions A system of administering words, terms and phrases for optimizing the fidelity and accuracy of health and health-care information on patients generated by physicians in the process of transferring the information from physicians' minds to digital voice data to first digital text data derived from the conversions of corresponding digital ... 08/17/06 - 20060184367 - Best method of computerized transcriptions A method of labeling individual digital data with individual physicians' medical or surgical specialties and of corresponding words in digital text data to words in corresponding digital voice data wherein digital text data are generated by computer-automated conversions of digital voice data into digital text data and of corresponding words ... 08/10/06 - 20060178886 - Methods and systems 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 ... 08/10/06 - 20060178885 - System and method for speaker verification using short utterance enrollments A system and method are disclosed for verifying an identity of a speaker. In accordance with one embodiment, feature vectors are received that were extracted from an utterance made by a speaker claiming an identity. Dissimilarity may be measured between the feature vectors and a codebook associated with a version ... 08/03/06 - 20060173682 - Information retrieval system, method, and program An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogative to make a search for an answer to the question, and search means ... 08/03/06 - 20060173681 - Semi-covert emergency transmitter A semi-covert emergency transmission device and methodology for soldiers and other such personnel requiring pick-up or rescue is disclosed. The device has a flashlight mode and a transmit mode. In flashlight mode, an LED is turned on to provide an illumination source that can be used in numerous applications. In ... 07/20/06 - 20060161435 - System and method for identity verification and management A system for verifying the identity of a user includes an identification score assignment module configured to receive at least one source of identification of the user and to assign an identification score to each of the at least one source of identification. The system includes a total identification score ... 07/20/06 - 20060161434 - Automatic improvement of spoken language A method for improving spoken language includes accepting a speech input from by a speaker using a language, identifying the speaker with a predetermined speaker category and correcting an error in the speech input using an error model that is specific to the speaker category. ... 07/13/06 - 20060155538 - Method and system for assessing pronunciation difficulties of non-native speakers The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based ... 07/06/06 - 20060149546 - Communication system, communication emitter, and appliance for detecting erroneous text messages A device for detecting erroneous text messages that are produced from a vocal utterance includes a text producing device, a text conversion device associated with the text producing device, and a comparison device. The text producing device produces a text message from an original vocal utterance. The text conversion device ... 06/22/06 - 20060136206 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for speech recognition A speech recognition apparatus includes a sound information acquiring unit that acquires sound information, a unit segment dividing unit that divides the sound information into plural unit segments, a segment information acquiring unit that acquires segment information that indicates a feature of each unit segment, a segment relation value calculating ... 06/08/06 - 20060122833 - Method of and system for providing adaptive respondent training in a speech recognition application based upon the inherent response of the respondent A system for conducting a telephonic speech recognition application includes an automated telephone device for making telephonic contact with a respondent and a speech recognition device which, upon the telephonic contact being made, presents the respondent with at least one introductory prompt for the respondent to reply to; receives a ... 05/25/06 - 20060111904 - Method and apparatus for speaker spotting A method and apparatus for spotting a target speaker within a call interaction by generating speaker models based on one or more speaker's speech; and by searching for speaker models associated with one or more target speaker speech files. ... 05/18/06 - 20060106605 - Biometric record management A method of enrolling voice information of an individual in a repository is disclosed. The individual may be associated with a contributing entity and the repository may be used by multiple entities within a consortium for creating, accessing or enhancing one or more forms of utterances associated with an individual. ... 05/04/06 - 20060095261 - Voice packet identification based on celp compression parameters Mechanisms, and associated methods, for conducting voice analysis (e.g., speaker ID verification) directly from a compressed domain of a voice signal. Preferably, the feature vector is directly segmented, based on its corresponding physical meaning, from the compressed bit stream. ... 04/06/06 - 20060074658 - Systems and methods for hands-free voice-activated devices In some embodiments, systems and methods for hands-free voice-activated devices include devices that are capable of recognizing voice commands from specific users. According to some embodiments, hands-free voice-activated devices may also or alternatively be responsive to an activation identifier. ... 04/06/06 - 20060074657 - Transformation and combination of hidden markov models for speaker selection training The present invention is directed to a 3-stage adaptation framework based on speaker selection training. First a subset of cohort speakers is selected for a test speaker. Then cohort models are transformed to be closer to the test speaker. Finally the adapted model for the test speaker is obtained by ... 03/30/06 - 20060069559 - Information transmission device An information transmission device which analyzes a diction of a speaker and provides an utterance in accordance with the diction of the speaker, and which has a microphone detecting a sound signal of the speaker, a feature extraction unit extracting at least one feature value of the diction of the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047513 - Voice-activated remote control system and method A wireless remote control system and method, by which a user may handle devices with different communication interfaces in voice, has been disclosed. The control system includes: a receiver, which receives a user's voice order. A voice process and recognition system, which recognizes the contents of the voice order to ... 01/26/06 - 20060020460 - Voice authentication system A voice authentication system includes: a standard template storage part 17 in which a standard template that is generated from a registered voice of an authorized user and featured with a voice characteristic of the registered voice is stored preliminarily in a state of being associated with a personal ID ... 01/26/06 - 20060020459 - System and method for immigration tracking and intelligence A client identity verification system and method which includes receiving a spoken voice sample from a client. Identifying the match of the client, verifying client information, changing parameters in a conditional database and communicating alerts based on the results. The method also includes matching the received spoken voice sample against ... 01/26/06 - 20060020458 - Similar speaker recognition method and system using nonlinear analysis Disclosed herein is a similar speaker recognition method and system using nonlinear analysis. The recognition method extracts a nonlinear feature of a sound signal through nonlinear analysis of the sound signal and combines the nonlinear feature with a linear feature such as spectrum. The method transforms sound data in a ... 01/26/06 - 20060020457 - Techniques for improving collaboration effectiveness A computer-implemented method, in a given computer, of identifying at least one current speaker among at least three participants of a network-based collaborating system. The participants collaborate using a plurality of computers. The method includes receiving a first speech event signal at the given computer, the first speech event signal ... 12/08/05 - 20050273331 - Automatic animation production system and method The present invention provides an automatic animation production system and method. The automatic animation production system creates animations by synthesizing various facial features according to audio analysis. By expanding animation parameters in a scenario template database according to audio analysis data, facial features in an image are varied with time, ... 12/08/05 - 20050273330 - Anti-terrorism communications systems and devices An array of electromagnetic implements which, singly or in combination, enable audio, analog or digital communications over short or long distances using low power and a narrow (audio) bandwidth of 3 KHz or less, preferably 1 KHz or less. These electromagnetic implements maintain or restore emergency communications during terrorist and ... 10/27/05 - 20050240407 - Method and system for presenting content to an audience A method for presenting content to an audience includes the steps of receiving a voice input from an audience member, determining the identity of the audience member, converting the voice input from the identified audience member to text, and presenting the text to the audience. A system that brings about ... 10/13/05 - 20050228665 - Metadata preparing device, preparing method therefor and retrieving device A metadata preparing device comprising a content reproducing unit (1) for reproducing and outputting content, a monitor (3) for monitoring the content reproduced by the content reproducing unit, a voice input unit (4), a voice recognition unit (5) for recognizing a voice signal input from the voice input unit, a ... 09/22/05 - 20050209852 - Vehicle computer system with audio entertainment system A vehicle computer system has an audio entertainment system implemented in a logic unit and audio digital signal processor (DSP) independent from the host CPU. The audio entertainment system employs a set of ping/pong buffers and direct memory access (DMA) circuits to transfer data between different audio devices. Audio data ... 09/22/05 - 20050209851 - Systems and methods for implementing segmentation in speech recognition systems A speech recognition system (105) includes an acoustic front end (115) and a processing unit (125). The acoustic front end (115) receives frames of acoustic data and determines cepstral coefficients for each of the received frames. The processing unit (125) determines a number of peaks in the cepstral coefficients for ... 09/01/05 - 20050192804 - Interactive control system and method An interactive control system is disclosed with which the recognition rate and the responsiveness when operating a plurality of interactive services in parallel can be improved. A recognition lexicon and consolidated and reorganized information are generated for each individual interaction. Thus, excessive growth of the recognition lexicon can be avoided ... 08/11/05 - 20050177368 - System and method for providing a message-based communications infrastructure for automated call center post-call processing A system and method for providing a message-based communications infrastructure for automated call center post-call processing is described. Verbal speech utterances in a stream of recorded user messages are identified. The recorded user messages are parsed from a call with a user into a call center. The stream of recorded ... 06/16/05 - 20050131692 - Method for quantifying psychological stress levels using voice pattern samples A computer-implemented method of assigning a numeric score to a voice pattern sample of a human subject wherein the score is indicative of the psychological stress level of the human subject. A verbal utterance of a human subject is converted into electrical signals to provide a subject wave pattern. The ... 06/16/05 - 20050131691 - Aiding visual search in a list of learnable speech commands A method, a system, and an apparatus for aiding a visual search in a list of learnable speech commands. The present invention is capable of making less commonly-used commands more salient and more commonly-used commands less salient. The present invention takes measurements of user interactions with a speech recognition interface ... 06/16/05 - 20050131690 - Providing speaker identifying information within embedded digital information A method of providing identifying information over a voice communications link can include receiving, from a call participant, a personal identification code over the voice communications link, determining identifying information for the call participant using the personal identification code, and encoding the identifying information of the call participant within a ... 06/09/05 - 20050125226 - Voice recognition system and method In a voice transmission system, a method of reducing the likelihood of identity theft, the method including the steps of: (a) recording the voice of a series of users and deriving a corresponding voiceprint from each voice, the voiceprint having at least a corresponding first series of measurable identification features ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |