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

Speech Assisted Network

Speech Assisted Network 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.

10/26/06 - 20060241947 - Voice prompt generation using downloadable scripts
A device for generating voice prompts comprises a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and audio playback circuitry coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to retrieve at least one voice prompt file from the memory, and to interpret the file for playback of an associated voice prompt ...

10/26/06 - 20060241946 - Speech input interface for dialog systems
A method is described for operation of a dialog system (1) with a speech input interface (2) and an application (3) co-operating with the speech input interface (2). The speech input interface (2) detects audio speech signals (AS) of a user and converts these into a recognition result (ER) in ...

10/19/06 - 20060235696 - Network based interactive speech recognition system
A network based interactive speech system responds in real-time to speech-based queries addressed to a set of topic entries. A best matching response is provided based on speech recognition processing and natural language processing performed on recognized speech utterances to identify a selected set of phrases related to the set ...

10/19/06 - 20060235695 - Voice activated hypermedia systems using grammatical metadata
This is a voice activated Hypermedia system using grammatical metadata, the system comprising: a speech user agent; a browsing module; and an information resource. The system may include: embedded intelligence in hypermedia source; a means for processing the actions of a user based on the embedded intelligence; a means for ...

10/19/06 - 20060235694 - Integrating conversational speech into web browsers
A method of integrating conversational speech into a multimodal, Web-based processing model can include speech recognizing a user spoken utterance directed to a voice-enabled field of a multimodal markup language document presented within a browser. A statistical grammar can be used to determine a recognition result. The method further can ...

10/05/06 - 20060224392 - Test harness for a speech server
One aspect of the present invention relates to simulating an interaction between a client and a server. A session is established between the client and the server to conduct a test. Testing data is transmitted from the client to the server. The server processes the testing data and provides an ...

09/07/06 - 20060200353 - Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support
A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is distributed across a client and server architecture, and is adaptive so that speech processing operations can be allocated as needed between the two. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195323 - Distributed speech recognition system
This invention relates to a distributed speech recognition system. The inventive system consists of: at least one user terminal comprising means for obtaining an audio signal to be recognized, parameter calculation means and control means which are used to select a signal to be transmitted; and a server comprising means ...

08/24/06 - 20060190265 - Robust voice browser system and voice activated device controller
The present invention relates to a system for acquiring information from sources on a network, such as the Internet. A voice browsing system maintains a database containing a list of information sources, such as web sites, connected to a network. Each of the information sources is assigned a rank number ...

08/24/06 - 20060190264 - Verifying a user using speaker verification and a multimodal web-based interface
A method of verifying a user identity using a Web-based multimodal interface can include sending, to a remote computing device, a multimodal markup language document that, when rendered by the remote computing device, queries a user for a user identifier and causes audio of the user's voice to be sent ...

07/06/06 - 20060149551 - Mobile dictation correction user interface
A method of speech recognition is described for use with mobile user devices. A speech signal representative of input speech is forwarded from a mobile user device to a remote server. At the mobile user device, a speech recognition result representative of the speech signal is received from the remote ...

07/06/06 - 20060149550 - Multimodal interaction
In order to enable an application to be provided with multimodal inputs, a multimodal application interface (API), which contains at least one rule for providing multimodal interaction is provided. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143016 - Method to access and use an integrated web site in a mobile environment
A method to access and use an integrated web site from a mobile environment is disclosed. The method includes communicating voice activated commands, using voice recognition technology, to an integrated web site via a wireless communication network and a global informational network. The integrated web site comprises a network-based media ...

06/22/06 - 20060136218 - Method for optimizing loads of speech/user recognition system
A method for optimizing a load of a speech/user recognition system is provided. The speech/user recognition system comprises a server end, a client end and a network, and the method is achieved by performing N stages of computations for speech features of a speech, where N is a positive integer, ...

06/15/06 - 20060129406 - Method and system for sharing speech processing resources over a communication network
A method and system (40) for sharing speech processing resources (54) over a (communication network (21) for handling multiple client types (100, 101, etc.) and multiple media protocol types. The system can include a router (400) coupled to the communication network, a speech response system (500) coupled to the router, ...

06/08/06 - 20060122837 - Voice interface system and speech recognition method
Disclosed are a voice interface system and a speech recognition method, which can be employed in applications such as intelligent robots, can provide natural voice communication, and can improve speech recognition performance. A voice interface server of the voice interface system includes a speech recognition module for performing speech recognition ...

06/01/06 - 20060116882 - User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method
An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a displayed page associated with a first data file. The audio version includes information from the first data file ...

05/25/06 - 20060111911 - Method and apparatus to generate audio versions of web pages
Method and apparatus for generating audio files from web pages and for providing the audio files and/or the web pages at client terminals are disclosed. The audio files are generated by filtering a web page to remove characters that are non-audible. The audio files can be generated by a first ...

05/04/06 - 20060095266 - Roaming user profiles for speech recognition
The invention relates to use of speech recognition on a computer network where users roam from one network location to another. A local workstation on the network includes a speech recognition application having a local user profile associated with an application user. The local user profile includes at least one ...

04/13/06 - 20060080106 - System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery
A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080105 - Multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method
A multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method, the apparatus includes a client checking whether the client recognizes the speech using a characteristic of speech to be recognized and recognizing the speech or transmitting the characteristic of the speech according to a checked result; and first through N-th servers, wherein the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074683 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested text data is retrieved from a source, such as a database, and converted into a sound file. The retrieved ...

03/02/06 - 20060047516 - Method for processing audio data on a network and device therefor
A method of processing a data stream comprising audio data exchanged over a network between a server (SERV) and at least one telephone terminal, the data stream corresponding to a telephone call from said terminal during which a user has produced at least one event. The method comprises a step ...

02/23/06 - 20060041431 - Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols
A system and method for implementing conversational protocols for distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over a computer network. The implementation of distributed conversational systems/applications according to the present invention is based, in part, on ...

02/16/06 - 20060036441 - Data-managing apparatus and method
A data-managing method for managing image data is provided. The method includes receiving the data and corresponding linked voice data, recognizing the voice data with voice-recognition processings to obtain voice recognition results, and then storing the data and the voice-recognition results in a linked manner. ...

02/02/06 - 20060026001 - Enhanced communications services for the deaf and hard of hearing cross-reference to related applications
A system and method for a deaf party to communicate in a sign language by way of a video computing device to relay center having a sign language interpreter. A relay system receives a sign language input from the deaf party. Then, a spoken message is relayed to the hearing ...

02/02/06 - 20060026000 - Delivering dynamic media content for collaborators to purposeful devices
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content including a grammar and a structured document; generating a dynamic client context for a client; detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context; identifying one or ...

12/15/05 - 20050278179 - Method and apparatus for providing network support for voice-activated mobile web browsing for audio data streams
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing network support for voice-activated mobile web browsing for audio data streams. More particularly, the presently described embodiments are directed to enhancing an existing wireless network to provide hands-free web browsing to retrieve audio data. This allows wireless customers to make ...

12/01/05 - 20050267760 - System and user interface for producing acoustic response predictions via a communications network
A web hosted system and user interface in a client-server architecture permits audio designers to perform acoustic prediction calculations from a thin client computer. A client computer or other Internet connect device having a display screen is used by an audio professional to access via the Internet a host computer ...

11/24/05 - 20050261909 - Method and server for providing a multi-modal dialog
The invention concerns a method of providing a multi-modal dialog between a multi-modal application (5) and a user (6) communicating with the multi-modal application (5) via a client (4) suited to exchange and present documents (7) encoded in standard or extended hyper text mark-up language. The invention further concerns a ...

11/24/05 - 20050261908 - Method, system, and apparatus for a voice markup language interpreter and voice browser
The present invention can include a method of allocating an interpreter module within an application program. The application program can create one or more interpreter module instances. The method also can include updating a property descriptor of the interpreter module instance and directing the interpreter module instance to allocate speech ...

11/10/05 - 20050251394 - System and method for enhancing live speech with information accessed from the world wide web
The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for enabling an auditor of a live speech to access immediately after or at a later time, complementary information related with terms pronounced during this speech. The system associates hyperlinks (i.e., URLs) with selected terms or words likely ...

11/10/05 - 20050251393 - Arrangement and a method relating to access to internet content
The present invention relates to an arrangement (and a method) allowing multi-modal access of content over a global data communications network, e.g. Internet, comprising a mobile station (1), with a user agent, a proxy server (2), and a telephony platform (3). The mobile station (1) is a dual mode station ...

11/03/05 - 20050246176 - Voice browser implemented as a distributable component
A system for implementing voice services can include at least one virtual machine, such as a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) virtual machine. The virtual machine can include a bean container for handling software beans, such as Enterprise Java Beans. The bean container can include a voice browser bean. The ...

11/03/05 - 20050246175 - Establishing call-based audio sockets within a componentized voice server
A method of interfacing a telephone application server and a speech engine can include the step of establishing one or more audio sockets in a media converting component of the telephone application server. The audio socket can remain available for approximately a duration of a call. A work unit that ...

10/20/05 - 20050234727 - Method and apparatus for adapting a voice extensible markup language-enabled voice system for natural speech recognition and system response
A system for analyzing natural language spoken through a voice recognition system comprising: a language separator for separating a natural language expression into multiple word segments; and a grammar module for creating XML-based description sets or binary sets using word segments as input. In a preferred embodiment, the word segments ...

10/20/05 - 20050234726 - Method for serving complex user requests
A Method of operating a dialogue system for serving complex user requests by appropriately controlling a network of devices (D1, . . . , Dn) and/or applications, wherein each device (D1, . . . , Dn) and/or application and its functionality are modeled by a finite state machine (FSM-1, FSM-2, ...

09/29/05 - 20050216270 - Remotely accessed virtual recording room
An audio/video stream recording, storage, and delivery system 10 utilizes an Internet-based browser connection. The system 10 includes recording software 20, storage memory 30, a code generator 40, and a user interface 50. Preferably, the recording software 20 is located on the host back end 60 where it processes and ...

09/29/05 - 20050216269 - Information provision for call centres
The invention provides for a voice platform to monitor a conversation between a call centre agent and a caller to identify any predetermined keywords or phrases used in the conversation therebetween. These keywords or phrases can then be used to interface into an existing knowledge management system in order to ...

09/22/05 - 20050209856 - Dialogue apparatus, dialogue method, and dialogue program
The user's waiting time in a dialogue system is effectively utilized. A dialogue apparatus makes a first dialogue with a user and judges whether a second dialogue should be started when a user's waiting time occurs during the first dialogue, For example, when information necessary to further continue the first ...

09/15/05 - 20050203747 - Dialog component re-use in recognition systems
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer, confirmation, command or statement. A module forms a dialog by making use of the information carried in the controls. The ...

09/08/05 - 20050197842 - Vehicle with an instant messaging communications system
A vehicle comprises an instant messaging communications system for communication between an occupant of the vehicle and a communications participant via an instant messaging server, wherein the instant messaging communications system includes a communications module to receive an instant messaging message, containing a message string and a text-to-speech engine to ...

09/01/05 - 20050192809 - Application server providing personalized voice enabled web application services using extensible markup language documents
A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, selects an XML document for execution ...

08/11/05 - 20050177371 - Automated speech recognition
A system comprises a first speech recognition engine, a second speech recognition engine, and evaluation logic coupled to the first and second speech recognition engines. The evaluation logic evaluates the first and second speech recognition engines based on evaluation voice signals from a user and, based on the evaluation, selects ...

08/04/05 - 20050171781 - Speech information system
A method of controlling a speech based communication system. The method will initialize the system and poll a server for data or data sources. The method requests a new call through a telephony coordinator and connects the new call with a speech server. The method enables the speech server to ...

08/04/05 - 20050171780 - Speech-related object model and interface in managed code system
The present invention provides an object model that exposes speech-related functionality to applications that target a managed code environment. In one embodiment, the object model and associated interfaces are implemented consistently with other non-speech related interfaces supported across a platform. ...

08/04/05 - 20050171779 - Method of operating a speech dialogue system
A method of operating a speech dialogue system (1) is described. For controlling the dialogue for selecting one of various services (9, 10) of the dialogue system (1) by the user, a database (6) is used which has a hierarchical data structure (DS) with a plurality of nodes (K) and ...

07/14/05 - 20050154591 - Focus tracking in dialogs
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer, confirmation, command or statement. A module forms a dialog by making use of the information carried in the controls. The ...

07/07/05 - 20050149332 - Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal
In order to provide a speech input system for having access from a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a portable phone, or a stationary terminal such as a home telephone, a TV set, or a PC to a network through speech, and receiving a service from a provider ...

07/07/05 - 20050149331 - Method and system for developing speech applications
A method for is provided for creating a voice application comprising steps of (a) gathering voice application requirements; (b) generating a product requirements document; (c) creating a voice user interface from information generated at step (b); (d) implementing the interface created at step (c); (e) creating one or more data ...

06/30/05 - 20050144004 - Speech recognition system interactive agent
A speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. A number of different speech models for different languages are used to support and detect a language spoken by a user. In some implementations an interactive electronic agent responds in ...

06/23/05 - 20050137875 - Method for converting a voicexml document into an xhtmldocument and multimodal service system using the same
The present invention relates to a method and system for converting a VoiceXML-based voice service into an XHTML+Voice-based multimodal service. A conversion method of the present invention includes the steps of: scanning the VoiceXML tree from an upper tag to a lower tag with initializing the XHTML+Voice tree; checking a ...

06/23/05 - 20050137874 - Integrating object code in voice markup
A method, system and apparatus for integrating object code in a voice application. In accordance with the present invention, a system for integrating application objects within voice markup can include a voice markup interpreter configured to process voice markup. The system further can include reflective logic programmed to match references ...

06/23/05 - 20050137873 - Method and system for multi-language web homepage selection process
A method and system to allow a user to select a web site home page in a desired language is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of identifying within a web address request a directional information item, providing a web page associated with the web address to a second web ...

06/16/05 - 20050131704 - System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition and text to speech services via a packet network
A system and method of operating an automatic speech recognition application over an Internet Protocol network is disclosed. The ASR application communicates over a packet network such as an Internet Protocol network or a wireless network. A grammar for recognizing received speech from a user over the IP network is ...

06/16/05 - 20050131703 - Creating a voice response grammar from a presentation grammer
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server including identifying presentation documents for a presentation, each presentation document having a presentation grammar. Typical embodiments include storing each presentation grammar in a voice response grammar on a voice response server. In typical ...

06/16/05 - 20050131702 - Creating a voice response grammar from a user grammar
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server that include identifying a user for a presentation, the user having a user grammar, the user grammar including one or more user grammar elements and storing a multiplicity of user grammar elements for ...

06/16/05 - 20050131701 - Enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup
A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. After the speech input has been defined within ...

06/09/05 - 20050125232 - Automated speech-enabled application creation method and apparatus
A system for creating and hosting speech-enabled applications having a speech interface that can be customised by a user is disclosed. The system comprises a customisation module that manages the components, e.g. templates, needed to enable the user to create a speech-enabled application. The customisation module allows a non-expert user ...

06/02/05 - 20050119897 - Multi-language speech recognition system
A speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. A number of different speech models for different natural languages are used to support and detect a natural language spoken by a user. In some implementations an interactive electronic agent ...

06/02/05 - 20050119896 - Adjustable resource based speech recognition system
A real-time speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. Both the client and server can dedicate a variable number of processing resources for performing speech recognition functions. In some implementations the partitioning of responsibility for speech recognition operations ...

06/02/05 - 20050119895 - System and method for transmitting voice input from a remote location over a wireless data channel
A system and method for improving voice recognition processing at a server system that receives voice input from a remotely located user system. The user system includes a microphone, a processor that performs front-end voice recognition processing of the received user voice input, and a communication component configured to send ...



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