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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Application

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Application 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.

11/02/06 - 20060247932 - Conversation aid device
There is provided a conversation aid device that can improve usefulness in foreign language conversations etc. The conversation aid device accessibly connects to a data base storing response sentence table correlating uttered sentence identification information for identifying uttered sentences with a reply sentence list enumerated as assumed responses to the ...

11/02/06 - 20060247931 - Method and apparatus for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog systems
A method for multiple value confirmation and correction in spoken dialog systems. A user is allowed to correct errors in values captured by the spoken dialog system, such that the interaction necessary for error correction between the system and the user is reduced. When the spoken dialog system collects a ...

10/19/06 - 20060235693 - High speed imaging system
A system for imaging high speed moving objects, for example, using a scanning beam and beam delivery optics with fast signal processing. It can allow for vocal fold imaging at up to or exceeding approximately 1000 frames per second with grayscale resolution as high as about 100 micrometers or higher ...

09/28/06 - 20060217985 - Voice guide system and voice guide method thereof
A voice guide system for outputting voice in response to operations of an information processing apparatus, which includes a password input detecting unit that detects an input operation of a password; and a voice guide outputting unit that outputs by voice an input status of the password in correspondence with ...

08/31/06 - 20060195322 - System and method for detecting and storing important information
Provided is an improved method for recording audio notes for easier later retrieval. The system monitors audio input and recommends recording of an extended audio segment based on detection of audio triggers. If the user accepts the recommendation, the use is provided with the opportunity to record a segment name. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190263 - Audio signal de-identification
Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identifying information. De-identification of a spoken audio signal may be performed by automatically generating a report based on the spoken ...

08/24/06 - 20060190262 - Voice recognition system and method for tactical response
A system and method for an officer in the field to safely, efficiently, and quickly run license plate numbers and collect license plate numbers is provided. A central precinct server maintains a database of license plate numbers, including plate numbers associated with specific instances and plate numbers of interest (e.g., ...

08/03/06 - 20060173688 - Interactive multimedia book
An interactive multimedia book provides hands-on multimedia instructiion to the user in response to voiced commands. The book is implemented on a computer system and includes both text and audio/video clips. The interactive multimedia book is accessed by voiced commands and natural language queries as the primary user input. The ...

07/27/06 - 20060167696 - Systems and methods for predicting consequences of misinterpretation of user commands in automated systems
Systems and methods are provided for processing and executing commands in automated systems. For example, command processing systems and methods are provided which can automatically determine, evaluate or otherwise predict consequences of execution of misrecognized or misinterpreted user commands in automated systems and thus prevent undesirable or dangerous consequences that ...

07/27/06 - 20060167695 - Method for describing the composition of audio signals
Method for describing the composition of audio signals, which are encoded as separate audio objects. The arrangement and the processing of the audio objects in a sound scene is described by nodes arranged hierarchically in a scene description. A node specified only for spatialization on a 2D screen using a ...

07/27/06 - 20060167694 - Idea model device, spontaneous feeling model device, method thereof, and program
An inspiration model device according to the invention is provided with a spontaneous emotion unit, a knowledge database, and a conception unit. The spontaneous emotion unit prepares, as data, plural emotion states in advance, which are obtained by modeling human emotions, and causes state transitions to occur repeatedly between the ...

07/20/06 - 20060161440 - Guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs
Guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs recognize an input voice with an input/output apparatus and determine, based on the input voice, a request. The request is determined by the input/output apparatus performing voice recognition. The guidance information providing systems, methods, and programs transmit data of a navigation command list ...

07/20/06 - 20060161439 - Stored-value card with sound
A stored-value card includes an audio circuit, a speaker, a housing, decorative indicia, and a button. The audio circuit stores an audio file, and the speaker is coupled to the audio circuit. The housing generally encloses the audio circuit and the speaker and includes an account identifier signifying a financial ...

06/29/06 - 20060143015 - System and method for facilitating call routing using speech recognition
A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to illicit a response from the user that indicates the purpose of the user's communication. The ...

06/29/06 - 20060143014 - [adapter]
An adapter is disclosed to include a casing holding a webcam and a microphone for picking up images and voices from the display and speaker of a first electronic apparatus, and an A/V (audio/video) transmitting interface connected to the AV (audio/video) receiving interface of a second electronic apparatus and controlled ...

06/22/06 - 20060136217 - Portable speech and language video monitor
There are many video monitors and products that promote speech and language development on the market today. However, what is new in the art to which my invention pertains, is the concept of a portable, adjustable computerized speech and language teacher housed inside a video monitor that actually attaches to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129405 - Method and device for determining a personal happiness index and improving it
A method and apparatus allowing the user to characterize a system for minoring his personal variables affecting his emotional state, and identifying his personal happiness index for himself. Relating to and updating the variables and receiving feedback on them relative to himself and between himself and others. The apparatus is ...

06/01/06 - 20060116881 - Portable-type communication terminal device, contents output method, distribution server and method thereof, and contents supply system and supply method thereof
Portable-type communication terminal device easy to use by a user is provided. Determination unit determines, based on whether electronic mail received by a communication unit contains contents identification information, whether the electronic mail is contents electronic mail. When determining that the electronic mail is contents electronic mail, the determination unit ...

06/01/06 - 20060116880 - Voice-driven user interface
A system for a user to give vocal commands and input and receive aural or visual feedback through a headset or other means that telecommunicates with an interface program module installed on or connected to a computer or similar device. The vocal input is converted into digital signals compatible with ...

05/25/06 - 20060111910 - Personal computer and scanner for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection
A user conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual audible technology (e.g., telephones) over the existing telecommunications infrastructure. The ...

05/25/06 - 20060111909 - System and method for providing network coordinated conversational services
A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources includes a network having a first and second network device, ...

05/18/06 - 20060106613 - Method and system for evaluating automatic speech recognition telephone services
A method and system for evaluating telephone services provided by speech recognition interfaces an evaluation engine with a voice recognition service over a telephone system to submit speech utterance samples to the voice recognition service, receive the response of the voice recognition service to the sample utterances, and determine error ...

05/18/06 - 20060106612 - Voice user interface with personality
The present invention provides a voice user interface with personality. In one embodiment, a method includes executing a voice user interface, and controlling the voice user interface to provide the voice user interface with a personality. The method includes selecting a prompt based on various context situations, such as a ...

05/18/06 - 20060106611 - Devices and methods providing automated assistance for verbal communication
Devices and methods are provided for automatically analyzing a user's conversation or verbal presentation and providing feedback to the user, in real-time and/or off-line, to make the user aware of improper speech habits and thus enable the user to acquire better language habits while speaking. For example, a device for ...

05/18/06 - 20060106610 - Method of improving recognition accuracy in form-based data entry systems
The invention provides a method of interpreting data input to a form-based data entry system, including decoding data entered into a particular form field such that its information content can be determined, said information content being in a consistent machine-readable format, wherein said decoding of data includes determining one or ...

05/11/06 - 20060100883 - Computer system, method and program for generating caption based computer data
A computer system, method and program is generated for editing text data, which have been created on a basis of a voice or a video image. In one embodiment, a first computer for outputting voice or video image(s), and for identifying a part of text data, which needs to be ...

05/11/06 - 20060100882 - Method and system to mark an audio signal with metadata
A method of processing an audio signal comprises receiving an audio signal, extracting features from the audio signal, and translating the extracted features into metadata. The metadata comprises an instruction set of a markup language. A system for processing the audio signal is also disclosed, which comprises an input device ...

05/11/06 - 20060100881 - Multi-modal web interaction over wireless network
A system, apparatus, and method is disclosed for receiving user input at a client device, interpreting the user input to identify a selection of at least one of a plurality of web interaction modes, producing a corresponding client request based in part on the user input and the web interaction ...

05/11/06 - 20060100880 - Interactive device
An interactive apparatus 1 which is able to decide on an action pattern in accordance with health conditions of a user without a necessity of putting a biometric sensor on a human body is provided. The interactive apparatus 1 comprises: detection means 50b for detecting a health condition of a ...

05/11/06 - 20060100879 - Method and communication device for handling data records by speech recognition
The present invention relates to a mobile communication device having a speech recognition for selecting and activating device function by acoustic input. Particularly, the present invention relates to a backup method to be used in case of failure of the speech recognition offering an advantageous method for selecting and activating ...

04/13/06 - 20060080104 - Method for testing an audio device associated to a computer
The present invention provides a method for testing play functions of an audio device (12) associated to a computer (10). The method includes the steps of: preparing an original audio file; connecting an input port (13) with an output port (14) of the audio device; playing the original audio file ...

04/13/06 - 20060080103 - Method and system for network downloading of music files
The invention presents a method for network downloading of music files by obtaining at least one music preference and accessing at least one network based music file, the music file including at least one music attribute. The music attribute is compared to the music preference, and the music file is ...

04/06/06 - 20060074682 - Method for evaluating signal transmission quality
A method to assess signal transmission quality and the adjust method thereof are proposed. First, different time points of a control signal at a receiving end are acquired and the number of signal transition in a predetermined time interval is counted. Next, the number of signal transition is recorded and ...

04/06/06 - 20060074681 - Method and apparatus for enhancing voice intelligibility in voice-over-ip network applications with late arriving packets
A method and apparatus for enhancing voice intelligibility for network communications of speech such as, for example, VoIP (Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol), in the presence of packets which arrive too late for normal playout. When a late speech packet is received by a speech decoder, that packet and, if necessary, one or more ...

04/06/06 - 20060074680 - Systems and methods for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field
A system (20) for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field includes a graphical input device (22) for inputting the graphical data into the graphical input field, and a processor-executable voice-form module (28) responsive to an initial presentation of graphical data to the graphical input device. The voice-form module ...

04/06/06 - 20060074679 - System and method of delivering live performance recordings
The invention relates to a system and method for purchasing a live performance recording. A live performance is recorded and edited. The live performance recording is compressed and tagged at a production means, and transferred to a kiosk soon after the performance ends. Consumers purchase a media storage device, the ...

03/30/06 - 20060069571 - Systems and methods for managing interactions from multiple speech-enabled applications
Systems and methods are described for speech systems that utilize an interaction manager to manage interactions—also known as dialogues—from one or more applications. The interactions are managed properly even if multiple applications use different grammars. The interaction manager maintains an interaction list. An application wishing to utilize the speech system ...

03/30/06 - 20060069570 - System and method for defining and executing distributed multi-channel self-service applications
A system and method are provided for defining and executing distributed multi-channel self-service communication systems. A voice system is provided that will assist a user of the system to query the system and receive feedback from the system which can lead to additional queries of the system in order for ...

03/30/06 - 20060069569 - System and method for optimizing prompts for speech-enabled applications
A computer-implemented method is described for optimizing prompts for a speech-enabled application. The speech-enabled application is operable to receive communications from a number of users and communicate one or more prompts to each user to illicit a response from the user that indicates the purpose of the user's communication. The ...

03/30/06 - 20060069568 - Method and apparatus for recording/replaying application execution with recorded voice recognition utterances
A diagnostic tool for speech recognition applications is provided, which enables a administrator to collect multiple recorded speech sessions. The administrator can then search for various failure points common to one or more of the recorded sessions in order to get a list of all sessions that have the same ...

03/02/06 - 20060047515 - Analyzing human movement patterns
Movement analysis is expanded to assist not just in determining the emotional, cognitive, and performance processes of subjects, but to also predict and explain a subject's actions. The analysis is particularly applicable to leaders, but may be applied to other subjects. Additionally, non-expert practitioners may more readily benefit from analyzing ...

02/16/06 - 20060036440 - Biowaves technology
A system for analyzing a voice for a physical condition or deficiency comprising a system for inputting a voice into a system and transmitting it to a server; means for generating a graph of the voice; software means for determining an anomaly points in the graph; and means for characterizing ...

02/09/06 - 20060031073 - Personalized voice playback for screen reader
A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for customizing a synthesized voice based upon audible input voice data. The input voice data is typically in the form of one or more predetermined paragraphs being read into a voice recorder. The input voice data is then analyzed for adjustable ...

01/26/06 - 20060020469 - Apparatus and methods for static and semi-static displays
A display device for modulating light intensity in response to programmed data output. Tapered cells within a base material containing a fluid within which are contained electrostatically responsive particles. Electrodes couple data signals to opposing portions of the cells, whereupon the position of the particles is modulated in response to ...

01/26/06 - 20060020468 - Telephone mapping and traveler information dissemination system
Methods and apparatus for a telephone based traveler information dissemination system that traffic and roadway condition information upon demand. A traveler communicates with a server over a telephone. The server receives a first and second geographic location and generates travel data, which is delivered to the traveler via facsimile or ...

01/12/06 - 20060009981 - Resource saving preemption
A method and apparatus for allowing a user device to avoid undesired state transitions when the user is present but not performing activities is provided. The method provides for detection of activity in the proximity of the user device by monitoring for sounds via an audio input device connected to ...

01/12/06 - 20060009980 - Allocation of speech recognition tasks and combination of results thereof
A system, method, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented system for optimizing allocation of speech recognition tasks among multiple speech recognizers and combining recognizer results is described. An allocation determination is performed to allocate speech recognition among multiple speech recognizers using at least one of an accuracy-based allocation mechanism, a complexity-based allocation ...

01/12/06 - 20060009979 - Vocal training system and method with flexible performance evaluation criteria
A music video game includes a vocal training system and method with flexible performance evaluation criteria. The player is presented with an in-game interface including one or more feedback mechanisms configured to provide feedback to a player relating to the player's performance of the music video game. A compare module ...

01/05/06 - 20060004579 - Flexible video surveillance
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory data, comparing a portion of the auditory data to a lexicon comprising a plurality of keywords to determine if there is ...

12/29/05 - 20050288935 - Integrated dialogue system and method thereof
An integrated dialogue system is provided. The system comprises a bridge and a plurality of domains, wherein all domains are coupled to the bridge with bidirectional communications. A domain database is optional to the domains. After receiving an input data, the domain recognizes the input data and determines whether to ...

12/29/05 - 20050288934 - Multimodal input method
In a multimodal input method, input information input from at least two input sources is received, control of the recognition of input from a second input source is performed based on the number of inputs from a first input source, and a recognition result is output. ...

12/29/05 - 20050288933 - Information input method and apparatus
An information input method inputs certain information and probability information having uncertainty. The information input method displays a plurality of candidates with respect to the probability information that is input, and selects and fixes one of the plurality of displayed candidates in response to the certain information that is input. ...

12/22/05 - 20050283368 - System and method for automated personalized alerts using interactive voice response
A communication is received from a user. A receiving device recognizes a user's voice request through the use of interactive voice response technologies. The user chooses system options, personal options, and/or delivery options. A personalized alert message is recorded by the user and appropriate actions are then taken to store ...

12/22/05 - 20050283367 - Method and apparatus for voice-enabling an application
A method of voice-enabling an application for command and control and content navigation can include the application dynamically generating a markup language fragment specifying a command and control and content navigation grammar for the application, instantiating an interpreter from a voice library, and providing the markup language fragment to the ...

12/22/05 - 20050283366 - Golf commentator
A putting device comprising a storage means having a plurality of recorded audio samples stored thereon; a randomizing means, and a sensing means; wherein all said means are cooperatively connected together; upon activation of said sensing means, said randomizing means selects an audio sample from said storage means for said ...

12/15/05 - 20050278178 - System and method for intrusion decision-making in autonomic computing environments
A mechanism is provided for performing intrusion decision-making using a plurality of approaches. Detection approaches may include, for example, signature-based, anomaly-based, scan-based, and danger theory approaches. When event information is received, each approach produces a result. A consensus of each result is then reached by using, for example, Bayesian Filtering. ...

12/15/05 - 20050278177 - Techniques for interaction with sound-enabled system or service
Automated interaction systems and methods for use with and/or respond to automated sound-enabled systems, commonly called Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. The invented method involves with some or all of the followings; (a) recording information, (b) analyzing signals, (c) initiating and/or participating in communication call, (d) detecting the presence of ...

12/08/05 - 20050273339 - Method and apparatus for remote command, control and diagnostics of systems using conversational or audio interface
A method and apparatus for remote access to a target application is disclosed where a system administrator may establish telephonic contact with an interactive voice response system and obtain access to the target application by speech communication. The interactive response system may authenticate the system administrator by implementing various measures ...

12/01/05 - 20050267759 - Speech dialogue system for dialogue interruption and continuation control
A speech dialogue system (SDS) is provided for carrying out a speech dialogue with a user to control an electronic device. The SDS includes a speech dialogue interruption unit for interrupting the speech dialogue and a speech dialogue continuation unit for continuing the interrupted speech dialogue. The system provides a ...

11/24/05 - 20050261907 - Voice integration platform
A voice integration platform and method provide for integration of a voice interface with a data system that includes stored data. The voice integration platform comprises one or more generic software components, the generic software components being configured to enable development of a specific voice user interface that is designed ...

11/17/05 - 20050256717 - Dialog system, dialog system execution method, and computer memory product
The present invention provides a dialog system, a dialog execution method and a computer program which are capable of easily updating input information and output information of a dialog scenario and easily changing a plurality of modalities by using a general-purpose dialog scenario. In a dialog system that receives information ...

11/03/05 - 20050246174 - Method and system for presenting dynamic commercial content to clients interacting with a voice extensible markup language system
A system for selecting a voice dialog, which may be an advertisement or information message, from a pool of voice dialogs and for causing the selected voice dialog to be utilized by a voice application for presentation to a caller during an automated voice interactive session includes a voice-enabled interaction ...

11/03/05 - 20050246173 - Barge-in capabilities of a voice browser
A method for barging-in a call can include the step of establishing a component as a communication intermediary between at least one speech engine and a telephone gateway. The component can include at least one input media port and at least one output media port, where the input media port ...

10/27/05 - 20050240413 - Information processing apparatus and method and program for controlling the same
An information processing apparatus performing dialogue processing includes acquisition means for acquiring text data described in a natural language; example storage means for storing a plurality of examples each including an example statement and frame information described using a frame format and corresponding to the example statement; similarity calculation means ...

10/27/05 - 20050240412 - Robot behavior control system and method, and robot apparatus
A behavior control system of a robot for learning a phoneme sequence includes a sound inputting device inputting a phoneme sequence, a sound signal learning unit operable to convert the phoneme sequence into a sound synthesis parameter and to learn or evaluate a relationship between a sound synthesis parameter of ...

10/27/05 - 20050240411 - System and method for quality of service management within a call handling system
A system and method for quality of service management within a call handling system is disclosed. The method discloses: initiating a dialog between a contact and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) module; matching the contact with a predefined contact category; retrieving a predefined quality of service level associated with the ...

10/27/05 - 20050240410 - Method and system for recognising a spoken identification sequence
A method for recognising a spoken identification sequence including one or more different types of identifiers, the spoken identification sequence having one of a plurality of possible predefined identifier type formats, the method including the steps of: (a) maintaining a database (3) of identification sequences having at least a first ...

10/27/05 - 20050240409 - System and method for providing rules-based directory assistance automation
A system and method for providing directory assistance automation to a caller in a telecommunications environment utilizes dedicated processors to convert caller utterances (e.g., corresponding to city, state and listing name) using automated speech recognition technology to grammar strings that are then employed in searching of a listing database. Automation ...

10/13/05 - 20050228675 - Method and system for person/speaker verification via communications systems
A method and a system for person/speaker verification via different communications systems. The system may include a control logic (SL) having access to a voice-controlled dialog system (DS) having verification dialogs stored for querying, a biometrics customer profile (BK), in which the personal biometric data of customers are stored and ...

10/13/05 - 20050228674 - Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators
Methods and systems for displaying assistance messages to aircraft operators are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment includes receiving an input from an aircraft operator at an aircraft flight deck, comparing a characteristic of the input to at least one target value for the characteristic, and, if the ...

10/13/05 - 20050228673 - Techniques for separating and evaluating audio and video source data
Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided to separate and evaluate audio and video. Audio and video are captured; the audio is evaluated to detect one or more speakers speaking. Visual features are associated with the speakers speaking. The audio and video are separated and corresponding portions of the audio are ...

09/29/05 - 20050216268 - Speech to dtmf conversion
A headset or headset system and method utilizing voice recognition technology for translating spoken digits, numbers, and/or letters to in-band dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones to facilitate, for example, navigation of DTMF-controlled systems such as voice mail are disclosed. The headset system generally includes a speech recognition engine that, when ...

09/15/05 - 20050203746 - Asynchronous speech data communication system and communication method therefor
An asynchronous speech data communication system, which is capable of making a hands-free phone conversation at a high speed without causing annoyance in a vehicle, and a communication method therefor are provided. A vehicle-mounted hands-free system includes a speech communication terminal having a speech data communication function, an access point ...

09/08/05 - 20050197841 - Voice recognition technology to capture geoscience data
A hands-free system for capturing data and generating reports recognizes speech as text and commands to create a set of entries intended to have a mathematical relationship to each other such that, if these entries fail to satisfy the relationship, a voice synthesizer generates a warning signal to indicate an ...

09/01/05 - 20050192808 - Use of speech recognition for identification and classification of images in a camera-equipped mobile handset
A method of identifying an image file using a voice recognition system in a camera-equipped mobile communication device includes capturing an image in an image file with a digital camera in the mobile communication device; adding a voice tag to the image file; storing the image file and voice tag ...

08/11/05 - 20050177370 - Voice recorder with sound reminder
A voice recorder with sound reminder, the voice recorder comprises a central processing unit, a switch module, a memory module, a voice recording module, a speaker module and a display module; the user presses the setting button for setting the switch module, and the outer data of acoustic wave is ...

07/28/05 - 20050165609 - Speech recognition user interface
A speech recognition system having a user interface that provides both visual and auditory feedback to a user is described. In one aspect, a response time in which to receive an audible utterance is initiated. A graphic representing the response time is displayed. A first sound is played when an ...

07/14/05 - 20050154590 - Method for assisting the grading and recording of educational tasks in an electronic gradebook using voice recognition
The invention consists of a method for assisting educators in the process of evaluating, grading and recording any task-based assignment utilizing a voice recognition front-end. ...

06/16/05 - 20050131700 - Voice control of a generic input device for an ultrasound system
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing voice control of a system, an ultrasound system for example. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of forming a generic input device used in an ultrasound system and responsive to at least one voice command. ...

06/16/05 - 20050131699 - Speech recognition method and apparatus
A speech recognition apparatus and method of this invention manage previously input frequencies of occurrence for respective geographical names to be recognized (202), update the probability of occurrence of the geographical name to be recognized of interest on the basis of the frequency of occurrence of that geographical name, and ...

06/16/05 - 20050131698 - System, method, and storage medium for generating speech generation commands associated with computer readable information
A system and method for generating a collection of speech generation commands associated with computer readable information is provided. The method includes partitioning the computer readable information into at least first and second portions of computer readable information. The method further includes generating a first collection of speech generation commands ...

06/16/05 - 20050131697 - Speech improving apparatus, system and method
A speech making improving system, apparatus and method are provided. During a videoconference, participants are video-recorded. Data representing participants who exhibit expressions during the video-conference may be stored for further analyses. To do an analysis, an expression to be searched for may have to first be indicated. Once done, a ...

06/09/05 - 20050125231 - Speech-related event notification system
The present invention is directed to a system and method of notifying a speech related application of events generated by a speech related engine. A middleware layer receives a notification selection from the application. The notification selection is indicative of a selected notification mechanism for notifying the application of the ...

06/09/05 - 20050125230 - Method and apparatus for entering alphabetic characters
The disclosed embodiments may relate to a communication device (10). The communication device (10) includes an audio input device (26) that receives voice commands with at least one of the voice commands being an alphabetic character. The communication device (10) also includes memory (30) that is used to store the ...

06/09/05 - 20050125229 - Use of avatar with event processing
Conducting commerce over a network, e.g., the Internet includes receiving a transaction request from a user as text input, using natural programming language to analysis the text input to build conversations with the user based on the transaction request. The technique also includes generating a voice-synthesized response in accordance with ...

06/02/05 - 20050119894 - System and process for feedback speech instruction
The present invention involves methods and systems for providing feedback speech instruction. The method involves collecting data corresponding to a plurality of parameters associated with verbal and non-verbal expression of a speaker and analyzing the data based on an ideal model. The method also includes generating a report or an ...

06/02/05 - 20050119893 - Voice filter for normalizing and agent's emotional response
A method and apparatus are provided for adjusting a content of an oral presentation provided by an agent of an organization and perceived by a human target of the organization based upon an objective of the organization. The method includes the steps of detecting a content of the oral presentation ...

06/02/05 - 20050119892 - Method and arrangement for managing grammar options in a graphical callflow builder
A method (10) in a speech recognition application callflow can include the steps of assigning (11) an individual option and a pre-built grammar to a same prompt, treating (15) the individual option as a valid output of the pre-built grammar if the individual option is a potential valid match to ...



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