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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Recognition > Word Recognition > Subportions SubportionsSubportions 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.11/30/06 - 20060271365 - Methods and apparatus for processing information signals based on content Methods and apparatus are provided for processing an information signal containing content presented in accordance with at least one modality. In one aspect of the present invention, a method of processing an information signal containing content presented in accordance with at least one modality, comprises the steps of: (i) obtaining ... 10/26/06 - 20060241944 - Method and system for generating spelling suggestions A computer implemented method of suggesting replacement words for words of a string. In the method, an input string of input words is received. The input words are then matched to subject words of a candidate table. Next, candidate replacement words and scores from the candidate table corresponding to the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235688 - System and method of providing telematically user-optimized configurable audio A method of repeating a computer recognized string in a telematics unit in a vehicle, including receiving a user utterance at the telematics unit from a user, the user utterance including a plurality of words and a plurality of user pauses between the words, parsing the user utterance into a ... 09/21/06 - 20060212296 - System and method for automatic speech recognition from phonetic features and acoustic landmarks A probabilistic framework for acoustic-phonetic automatic speech recognition organizes a set of phonetic features into a hierarchy consisting of a broad manner feature sub-hierarchy and a fine phonetic feature sub-hierarchy. Each phonetic feature of said hierarchy corresponds to a set of acoustic correlates and each broad manner feature of said ... 09/14/06 - 20060206331 - Multilingual speech recognition A speech recognition system is provided for selecting, via a speech input, an item from a list of items, includes at least using at least two different languages for recognizing at least two strings of subword units for the speech input. The speech recognition system including a subword comparing module ... 09/07/06 - 20060200351 - Two-stage implementation for phonetic recognition using a bi-directional target-filtering model of speech coarticulation and reduction A structured generative model of a speech coarticulation and reduction is described with a novel two-stage implementation. At the first stage, the dynamics of formants or vocal tract resonance (VTR) are generated using prior information of resonance targets in the phone sequence. Bi-directional temporal filtering with finite impulse response (FIR) ... 08/03/06 - 20060173685 - Method and apparatus for constructing new chinese words by voice input A method and apparatus for constructing new Chinese words by voice input is disclosed. The invention provides a method of adding new words to a speech recognition system, for example, a speaker-independent Chinese speech recognition system, for updating its vocabulary database. In the invention, voice signals indicating a description of ... 08/03/06 - 20060173684 - Sensor based speech recognizer selection, adaptation and combination A method and respective system for operating a speech recognition system, in which a plurality of recognizer programs are accessible to be activated for speech recognition, and are combined on a per need basis in order to efficiently improve the results of speech recognition done by a single recognizer. In ... 07/06/06 - 20060149548 - Speech input method and system for portable device In the present invention, a speech input method for the portable device is provided. The speech input method includes steps of (a) selecting a language mode and determining an acoustic unit, (b) inputting a speech by a user and comparing the speech with the acoustic unit to generate a plurality ... 06/29/06 - 20060143010 - Method, medium, and apparatus recognizing speech An apparatus, medium, and method recognizing speech. The method may include the calculating of scores indicating the degree of similarity between a characteristic of an input speech and characteristics of speech models based on the degree of similarity between the length of each phoneme included in an input speech and ... 06/29/06 - 20060143009 - Lattice encoding Initially an embedding module (22) determines an embedding of a lattice in a two-dimensional plane. The embedding module (22) then processes the initial embedding to generate a planar graph in which no links cross. The planar graph is then simplified by a link encoding module (24) and data representing the ... 06/22/06 - 20060136209 - Methodology for generating enhanced demiphone acoustic models for speech recognition A system and method for effectively performing speech recognition procedures includes enhanced demiphone acoustic models that a speech recognition engine utilizes to perform the speech recognition procedures. The enhanced demiphone acoustic models each have three states that are collectively arranged to form a preceding demiphone and a succeeding demiphone. An ... 05/18/06 - 20060106607 - System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting them into n-dimensional space, where n is a ... 05/11/06 - 20060100871 - Speech recognition method, apparatus and navigation system A speech recognition method and apparatus and a navigation system having the speech recognition apparatus are provided. The speech recognition method includes capturing speech as speech signal and extracting features from the speech signal, selecting candidates of a subword among subwords of the word based on the extracted features and ... 05/11/06 - 20060100870 - Speech recognition apparatus and vehicle incorporating speech recognition apparatus When a voice input is detected as being applied to a directional microphone, sounds output from selected loudspeakers from among a plurality of loudspeakers, which otherwise would obstruct the speech recognition process, are attenuated, and sound signals supplied to the selected loudspeakers are combined with sound signals supplied to the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074663 - Speech waveform processing system and method A speech waveform processing system and method which is able to perform a segmentation process for a continuous speech waveform according to predetermined speech parameters is proposed. First of all, an inputted continuous speech signal is read and subsequently preprocessed by the system. Meanwhile, the waveform of the speech signal ... 04/06/06 - 20060074662 - Three-stage word recognition In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its ... 03/16/06 - 20060058998 - Indexing apparatus and indexing method An indexing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires an acoustic signal; a dividing unit that divides the acoustic signal into a plurality of segments; an acoustic model producing unit that produces an acoustic model for each of the segments; a reliability determining unit that determines reliability of the acoustic ... 01/26/06 - 20060020462 - System and method of speech recognition for non-native speakers of a language An accent compensative speech recognition system and related methods for use with a signal processor generating one or more feature vectors based upon a voice-induced electrical signal are provided. The system includes a first-language acoustic module that determines a first-language phoneme sequence based upon one or more feature vectors, and ... 01/19/06 - 20060015340 - Operating system and method An operating system and method applicable to a computer environment are provided for a user to input a speech message via a user-friendly operating interface that transforms the speech message into an input signal and transmits the input signal to a speech recognition module of an operating system. The speech ... 12/01/05 - 20050267755 - Arrangement for speech recognition A speech recognizer comprises a random access memory, a downloader for loading decision trees from a set of decision trees into said random access memory, a vocabulary comprising one or more words of a language, a divider for dividing at least one word of the vocabulary into subwords, and a ... 11/24/05 - 20050261906 - Methods and systems for enabling speech-based internet searches Merged “grammars” derived from statistical indicators (e.g., N-grams and cohorts) are used to enable speech-based, Internet searches. ... 10/20/05 - 20050234721 - Language phonetic system and method thereof A phonetics having vowel phonetic symbols separated into full sound symbols and half sound symbols, and consonant phonetic symbols. The full sounds symbols are represented by letters in the English phonetic symbol. The half sound symbols are represented by simple symbols. The phonetics is suitable for the traditional method of ... 09/15/05 - 20050203742 - System and method for computer recognition and interpretation of arbitrary spoken-characters For improving the accuracy of a speech recognition system, for the specific task of character recognition, the character that is to be recognized or interpreted, is spoken in accordance with this invention, using simple coding-schemes that result in acoustic renderings that are well separated in the acoustic space. Furthermore, to ... 09/15/05 - 20050203741 - Caller interface systems and methods Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is received. Successive characters are selected one at a time from the recognized character sequence in order beginning with the first recognized ... 09/15/05 - 20050203740 - Speech recognition using categories and speech prefixing Speech recognition utilizing categories and prefixes is disclosed. Categories identify types of recognition and allow different grammars and prefixes for each category. Categories can be directed to specific applications and/or program modules. Uttering a prefix allows users to easily direct text to specific grammars for enhanced recognition, and also to ... 09/15/05 - 20050203739 - Generating large units of graphonemes with mutual information criterion for letter to sound conversion A method and apparatus are provided for segmenting words into component parts. Under the invention, mutual information scores for pairs of graphoneme units found in a set of words are determined. Each graphoneme unit includes at least one letter. The graphoneme units of one pair of graphoneme units are combined ... 07/21/05 - 20050159954 - Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a final part. The final part ... 07/21/05 - 20050159953 - Phonetic fragment search in speech data A method of searching audio data is provided including receiving a query defining multiple phonetic possibilities. The method also includes comparing the query with a lattice of phonetic hypotheses associated with the audio data to identify if at least one of the multiple phonetic possibilities is approximated by at least ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |