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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Application > Speech Controlled System Speech Controlled SystemSpeech Controlled System 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 - 20060271368 - Voice interface for consumer products A method for generating voice interface for appliances which may be performed by a manufacturer of the appliance. The manufacturer selects a programmable device for controlling the appliance, the programmable device having resources of less than 9 kilobytes of random access memory and capable of less than 41 million instructions ... 11/23/06 - 20060265226 - Lerning shoes A learning shoe consists of a voice chip circuit, motion trigger, battery, and speaker is an assembly, which is attached to a shoe. The circuit activates, via the motion trigger, with each child's step to deliver a pre-programmed audible phrase to the speaker. The voice chip can consist of multiple ... 11/16/06 - 20060259305 - Method and device for recovering interrupted voice input A method for recovering interrupted voice input, particularly voice input into communication, audio and/or navigation systems installed in a vehicle detects, during an ongoing voice input process, an event that requires interruption of the voice input process, stores an incomplete sequence of the voice input, and interrupts the voice input ... 11/09/06 - 20060253287 - Method and system for monitoring speech-controlled applications In a non-manual method and system for monitoring speech-controlled applications, a speech data stream of a user is acquired by a microphone and the speech data stream is analyzed by a speech recognition unit for the occurrence of stored key terms. An application associated with the key term is activated ... 10/26/06 - 20060241948 - Method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, the method continuously records an audio stream comprising a sequence of frames to a circular buffer. When a user command to commence or terminate speech recognition is received, the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235701 - Activity-based control of a set of electronic devices A “reduced button count” remote control device controls a set of external electronic devices that, collectively, comprise an entertainment system such as a home theater. The remote control device is operable in conjunction with a processor-based subsystem that is programmable to respond to a spoken command phrase for selectively altering ... 10/19/06 - 20060235700 - Processing files from a mobile device using voice commands The presently described subject matter allows the user to interactively browse a collection of electronic files, such as a digital photo collection, remotely using voice activated mobile device. Files from the collection of electronic files can be displayed on the mobile device or they can be directed from the mobile ... 10/19/06 - 20060235699 - Automating input when testing voice-enabled applications A method for automating an input process during a testing of a voice-enabled application so that a tester is not required to manually respond to each prompt of the voice-enabled application. The method including the step of identifying a session input store that includes input data associated with voice-enabled application ... 10/19/06 - 20060235698 - Apparatus for controlling a home theater system by speech commands A “reduced button count” remote control device controls a set of external electronic devices that, collectively, comprise an entertainment system such as a home theater. The remote control device is operable in conjunction with a processor-based subsystem that is programmable to respond to a spoken command phrase for selectively altering ... 10/12/06 - 20060229881 - Voice recognition gateway apparatus A voice recognition gateway apparatus includes a voice command receiving module, a voice identification module, a memory module, a voice guidance module, a command assigning module, and a wireless transmission module. The voice command receiving module is able to receive voice command signal, then to compare the voice command signal ... 10/12/06 - 20060229880 - Remote control of an appliance using a multimodal browser A system, a method and machine readable storage for remotely controlling an appliance using multimodal access. The system can include a multimodal control device having a multimodal user interface, which receives at least one user input comprising a spoken utterance. The system also can include a wireless transmitter that propagates ... 09/28/06 - 20060217987 - Pillow speaker remote control Embodiments of a pillow speaker are disclosed. In one embodiment, a pillow speaker includes a case that contains a collection of control circuitry. A wireless transmitter is operably connected to the collection of control circuitry. The wireless transmitter is configured to transmit control signals. Also included is a wired interface ... 09/28/06 - 20060217986 - Command processing apparatus and program product executed thereby A command processing apparatus includes an LCD. A manual trick action instruction to a dog object displayed on the LCD is accepted through a touch panel. The dog object performs a trick according to the accepted trick action instruction. An arbitrary voice command is fetched by a microphone in relation ... 09/14/06 - 20060206338 - Device and method for providing contents There is provided a content providing device which enables easy and quick review of relevant information of contents. The content providing device 100 includes a control unit 10 which carries out a provisional process of presenting a content, a speech recognizing engine 16 which recognizes a speech pattern collected by ... 09/14/06 - 20060206337 - Online learning for dialog systems An online dialog system and method are provided. The dialog system receives speech input and outputs an action according to its models. After executing the action, the system receives feedback from the environment or user. The system immediately utilizes the feedback to update its models in an online fashion. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206336 - Xml based architecture for controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands A voice-enabled user interface includes a first user interface. A voice extension module is associated with the first user interface and is configured to voice-enable the first user interface. The voice extension module includes a speech recognition engine, an XML configuration repository, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The XML ... 09/14/06 - 20060206335 - Method for remote control of an audio device A method for remote control of an audio device (1) is described, which receives an audio data stream (A) from a transmission system. A control command in the form of an audio data sample (AM) within the audio data stream (A) is sent to the audio device (1). The received ... 09/07/06 - 20060200354 - Medical practice support system A medical practice support system according to the present invention comprises a voice conversion unit for obtaining a voice and converting the voice to an electric signal for making voice data; a voice recognition unit for recognizing the voice data and generating character information by converting the voice to a ... 08/31/06 - 20060195324 - Voice input interface A voice input system comprising a stationary central unit (1) and a mobile voice interface (2) which is carried around by the user, e.g. in his clothing, is described. The voice interface (2) is used to acoustically record spoken commands which are transmitted to the central unit (1) over a ... 08/24/06 - 20060190270 - Menu-driven voice control of characters in a game environment In a gaming system, a user controls actions of characters in the game environment using speech commands. In a learning mode, available speech commands are displayed in a command menu on a display device. In a non-learning mode, the available speech commands are not displayed. A speaker-independent context-sensitive speech recognition ... 08/24/06 - 20060190269 - Open architecture for a voice user interface A system and method for processing voice requests from a user for accessing information on a computerized network and delivering information from a script server and an audio server in the network in audio format. A voice user interface subsystem includes: a dialog engine that is operable to interpret requests ... 08/24/06 - 20060190268 - Distributed language processing system and method of outputting intermediary signal thereof A unified speech input dialogue interface, and a distributed multiple application-dependent language processing unit system with the unified speech recognition function and the unified dialogue interface are provided. The system not only provides a convenient user's environment, but also enhances the whole performance of speech recognition. The distributed multiple application-dependent ... 08/24/06 - 20060190267 - Voice activated clock A voice activated clock has a body, a clock projector for displaying time, and an electronic operating circuit that includes a clock circuit for performing various clock functions including operating the projector to display time. The operating circuit further includes a voice input circuit for inputting a voice command issued ... 08/17/06 - 20060184370 - Spoken dialogue interface apparatus and method The spoken dialogue interface apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a speech recognition module for recognizing a human's speech from a sound signal; a user intention interpretation module for extracting a sentence from the recognized speech and interpreting a user's intention based on the sentence; a ... 08/17/06 - 20060184369 - Voice activated instruction manual A system is provided that allows a user to select digitized audio instructions from a computer via a wireless headset. The user activates the computer to deliver each instruction of a series of instructions on an as needed basis by delivering audio commands via the headset to the computer. Electrical ... 08/10/06 - 20060178888 - Voice bulb A voice bulb, which is adapted for detachably mounting to an electric bulb socket, includes a supporting housing, an illumination unit, and an audio unit. The supporting housing includes a supporting base and an electric head extended therefrom for detachably connecting to the bulb socket. The illumination unit is extended ... 08/03/06 - 20060173689 - Speech information service system and terminal An object of the present invention is to provide a user interface method and a device capable of arbitrarily and efficiently performing the dialog through the speech input in an in-vehicle information service system, and a system configuration which can cope with network connection loss with a center is also ... 07/27/06 - 20060167697 - Methodology for voice enabling applications Methodology for voice-enabling an application minimizes code add-ons or code insertions. As an example, in applications used by a plurality of remote devices, the method may include dividing a master wordlist associated with the application into a plurality of wordlists respectively associated with the plurality of remote devices, and then ... 07/13/06 - 20060155549 - Imaging device and image output device The device of the present invention synthesizes voices or the like with the image data when an image is taken, and can thereby obtain impressive images or prints with high added values. Furthermore, the present invention can also extract a voice of a specific speaker through a voice print decision ... 07/13/06 - 20060155548 - In-vehicle chat system An in-vehicle chat system realizes chatting between passengers of more than three vehicles through a center facility having a speech recognition device. The center facility selects only one of a plurality of speech signals competing with each other in accordance with a predetermined selection criterion based on results of speech ... 07/13/06 - 20060155547 - Voice activated lighting of control interfaces A voice activated control interface system for selectively lighting and/or highlighting a control interface for a function generally includes a microphone for receiving a voice command; at least one control interface in operative communication with a function; and a controller in operative communication with the at least one microphone and ... 07/13/06 - 20060155546 - Method and system for controlling input modalities in a multimodal dialog system A method and a system for controlling a set of input modalities in a multimodal dialog system are provided. The method includes selecting (302) a sub-set of input modalities that a user can use to provide user inputs during a user turn. The method further includes dynamically activating (304) the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149555 - System and method of providing an automated data-collection in spoken dialog systems The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog ... 07/06/06 - 20060149554 - Library of existing spoken dialog data for use in generating new natural language spoken dialog systems A machine-readable medium may include a group of reusable components for building a spoken dialog system. The reusable components may include a group of previously collected audible utterances. A machine-implemented method to build a library of reusable components for use in building a natural language spoken dialog system may include ... 07/06/06 - 20060149553 - System and method for using a library to interactively design natural language spoken dialog systems Aspects of the invention pertain to a system for using a library to interactively design natural language spoken dialog systems. The system may include a processing device and an extractor. The processing device may be configured to receive user input selections indicating ones of a group of spoken dialog data ... 06/29/06 - 20060143017 - Interactive robot, speech recognition method and computer program product An interactive robot capable of speech recognition includes a sound-source-direction estimating unit that estimates a direction of a sound source for target voices which are required to undergo speech recognition; a moving unit that moves the interactive robot in the sound-source direction; a target-voice acquiring unit that acquires the target ... 06/22/06 - 20060136222 - Enabling voice selection of user preferences A method, system and apparatus for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser. A method for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser can include matching voice input to a bound command in a speech grammar and invoking logic in the user ... 06/22/06 - 20060136221 - Controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands One or more voice-enabled user interfaces include a user interface, and a voice extension module associated with the user interface. The voice extension module is configured to voice-enable the user interface and includes a speech recognition engine, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The preprocessor registers with the speech recognition ... 06/22/06 - 20060136220 - Controlling user interfaces with voice commands from multiple languages One or more internationalized voice user interfaces include a user interface and a voice extension module associated with the user interface. The voice extension module is configured to voice-enable the user interface and includes a speech recognition engine, a preprocessor, and an input handler. The preprocessor is configured to register ... 06/15/06 - 20060129409 - Dialog supporting apparatus To provide a dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 and an utterance receiving unit 103 which respectively receive the utterances of ... 06/15/06 - 20060129408 - A remote control device and method with speech control A remote control device and method with speech control for controlling an electric appliance which stores up an identifiable speech vocabulary data. The remote control device includes a sensor and a speech identification module. The sensor receives speech to produce a speech sense signal. The speech identification module establishes contact ... 06/15/06 - 20060129407 - Voice recognition doorlock apparatus A voice recognition doorlock apparatus includes a control unit for controlling the lock state of a doorlock to be unlocked by a doorlock driving unit only when a currently inputted digital voice signal matches a specific voice signal stored in first storing unit and matches input key signals stored in ... 06/08/06 - 20060122840 - Tailoring communication from interactive speech enabled and multimodal services Methods, computer program products, and systems that tailor communication of an interactive speech and multimodal services system are provided. An automated application provides intelligence that customizes speech and/or multimodal services for a user. A method involves utilizing designated communication characteristics to interact with a user of the interactive speech and/or ... 05/25/06 - 20060111915 - Hypothesis generation A hypothesis generation system includes a related concepts datastore recording relationships between core concepts in a field of study. A recognition module performs automatic recognition of a hypothesis recognition pattern respective of contents of the related concepts datastore. The recognition module records a hypothetical relationship between core concepts of the ... 05/25/06 - 20060111914 - System and method for hierarchical voice actived dialling and service selection The invention is related to an automatic speech recognition system, in particular for use within telecommunications switching systems, providing hierarchically structured set of servers each server being arranged to interpret part of a spoken user request ... 05/18/06 - 20060106617 - Speech controls for use with a speech system Systems and methods are described for a speech system that includes one or more speech controls incorporated into one or more speech-enabled applications that run on the speech system. The controls allow applications to be developed with minimal programming effort to incorporate common speech-enabled application functions. A question control provides ... 05/18/06 - 20060106616 - Nc device An NC device includes an accumulation portion for accumulating a report-item corresponding to a report-requiring situation that occurs in a machine. A voice generator control section of the device operates a voice generator to generate a voice for announcing a report-item accumulated by an accumulation portion if a determination portion ... 05/18/06 - 20060106615 - Speech interaction apparatus and speech interaction method A speech interaction apparatus starts pushing information to a user and executes a speech interaction about the information in a case where (i) an interaction starting condition for starting pushing the information is set and (ii) the interaction starting condition is satisfied. The speech interaction apparatus includes an interaction policy ... 05/18/06 - 20060106614 - Centralized method and system for clarifying voice commands A method and system for facilitating centralized interaction with a user includes providing a recognized voice command to a plurality of application modules. A plurality of interpretations of the voice command are generated by at least one of the plurality of application modules. A centralized interface module visually renders the ... 05/11/06 - 20060100884 - Intelligent peripheral for speech recognition in networks A telecommunication network with an intelligent peripheral that is provided with a processor and a memory, as well as speech recognition funtionality. The memory stores a list of VPN-addresses of at least one of a set of persons, personal functions, specific terminals and services. The telecommunication network also has a ... 05/04/06 - 20060095268 - Dialogue system, dialogue method, and recording medium A dialogue system, a dialogue method, and a recording medium storing a computer program are provided for allowing a third party to assist effectively a plurality of dialogues, without causing a sense of discomfort to the users. In a dialogue system for performing automatic answering to a voice, a dialogue ... 05/04/06 - 20060095267 - Dialogue system, dialogue method, and recording medium A dialogue system, a dialogue method, and a recording medium storing a computer program are provided for allowing a third party to assist effectively a plurality of dialogues, without causing a sense of discomfort to the users. In a dialogue system for performing automatic answering to a voice, a dialogue ... 04/20/06 - 20060085199 - System and method for controlling the behavior of a device capable of speech recognition The present invention discloses a system and method for controlling the behavior of a device in response to voice commands or other system events. By utilizing the system of the present invention, a user may select the time period(s), or the system may automatically select the time period based on ... 04/13/06 - 20060080107 - Management of conversations In one aspect, an arbitrary natural language communication is received from a user. A concept recognition process is applied to automatically derive a representation of concepts embodied in the communication. The concept representation is used to provide to a human agent information useful in responding to the natural language communication. ... 04/06/06 - 20060074689 - System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according ... 04/06/06 - 20060074688 - System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according ... 04/06/06 - 20060074687 - Numbering scheme for selection by voice A numbering scheme is disclosed for implementation in the context of an application display. A user is able to select an item on the display by speaking a number corresponding to a desired control item. In some cases, the screen can include so many numbers that the user loses context ... 04/06/06 - 20060074686 - Controlling an apparatus based on speech The speech control unit (100) comprises: a microphone array, comprising multiple microphones (102, 104, 106, 108 and 110) for receiving respective audio signals (103, 105, 107, 109 and 111); abeam forming module (116) for extracting a clean, i.e. speech, signal (117) of a user (U1), from the audio signals; a ... 03/30/06 - 20060069573 - Speech controls for use with a speech system Systems and methods are described for a speech system that includes one or more speech controls incorporated into one or more speech-enabled applications that run on the speech system. The controls allow applications to be developed with minimal programming effort to incorporate common speech-enabled application functions. A question control provides ... 03/30/06 - 20060069572 - Apparatus for producing sound in phone and method of doing the same An apparatus for producing sound in an electronic device which has a function of making communication with another electronic device or to which a function of making communication with another electronic device can be applied, includes a first mixer for mixing sound transmitted from a sound source with voices with ... 03/02/06 - 20060047518 - Interface for management of multiple auditory communications A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for presenting a plurality of auditory communications having associated data representing at least one term identified in the communication is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises providing a visual representation of the term, providing links associated with occurrences of the term in the ... 02/23/06 - 20060041433 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for implementing voice-initiated computer functions Exemplary embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for implementing voice-initiated computer functions. The method includes translating a voice command into a machine-readable format. The voice command requests implementation of a function. The method also includes executing the function requested in the voice command, and acknowledging whether the function ... 02/23/06 - 20060041432 - Method of improving physicians' productivity A method of increasing physicians' productivity, securing the monetary payments for and due to physicians for the performed health-care services and reducing the economic loss and legal encumbrances being imposed on the physicians. The method comprises the processes wherein individual physicians, at anytime and anywhere, articulating data on performed treatments ... 02/16/06 - 20060036445 - Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognition system for use in handsfree conversational dialogue Conversational dialog with a computer or other processor-based device without requiring push-to-talk functionality. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines that a user desires to engage in a dialog. Based thereon the method turns on a speech recognition functionality for a period of time referred to as a listening ... 02/16/06 - 20060036444 - Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more different corpora The present invention generates a task-dependent acoustic model from a supervised task-independent corpus and further adapted it with an unsupervised task dependent corpus. The task-independent corpus includes task-independent training data which has an acoustic representation of words and a sequence of transcribed words corresponding to the acoustic representation. A relevance ... 02/02/06 - 20060026003 - System and method for report level confidence A system and method is disclosed for Report Confidence Modeling (RCM) including automatic adaptive classification of ASR output documents to determine the most efficient document edit workflow to convert dictation into finished output. The RCM according to the present invention may include a mechanism to predict recognition accuracy of a ... 02/02/06 - 20060026002 - Method and system for handling audio signals of conference A new system and method particularly useful in handling the audio of a “large” conference is disclosed. The system and method initially defines certain conferees as panel members, which can provide audio to and receive audio from the conference, and audience members, which only passively receive audio from the conference. ... 01/26/06 - 20060020473 - Method, apparatus, and program for dialogue, and storage medium including a program stored therein A dialgue apparatus for interacting by outputting a response sentence in response to an input sentence includes a formal response acquisition unit configured to acquire a formal response sentence in response to the input sentence, a practical response acquisition unit configured to acquire a practical response sentence in response to ... 01/26/06 - 20060020472 - Voice guidance device and navigation device with the same For a voice guidance phrase, multiple voice data items having individually different voice ranges or frequencies are previously stored in a memory. A voice mixing unit chooses to mix three voice data items among the stored voice data items and thereby produces a mixed voice data item. A voice outputting ... 01/26/06 - 20060020471 - Method and apparatus for robustly locating user barge-ins in voice-activated command systems A method of querying a user to select from a list in a voice-activated command system is provided. The method includes generating command prompt phrases during which the user can select items on the list. The command prompt phrases include an item on the list and an index for another ... 01/05/06 - 20060004582 - 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 ... 01/05/06 - 20060004581 - Efficient monitoring system and method 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 ... 01/05/06 - 20060004580 - Archiving of surveillance data 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 - 20050288936 - Multi-context conversational environment system and method An interactive speech-activated information retrieval application for use in automated telephone systems includes a control manager that interfaces between the caller's speech input and applications and enables several applications to be open at the same time. The control manager continually monitors for control words, enabling the user to switch between ... 12/22/05 - 20050283369 - Method for speech-based data retrieval on portable devices Methods and apparatus are provided for speech-based data retrieval from a portable communication device, such as a cell phone with an onboard dataset. The method comprises semantically indexing the dataset with domain related keywords that are intuitive to a user familiar with the dataset domain. When the user speaks a ... 12/15/05 - 20050278180 - System for conducting a dialogue A system for conducting a dialogue with a user comprising an assignment unit, a plurality of processing units each of which comprise one or more processing rules, and a plurality of data storage units; wherein the assignment unit receives a communication from a user, assigns the communication to a processing ... 11/17/05 - 20050256720 - Voice-activated audio/visual locator with voice recognition A self-contained, battery-powered device produces a visible signal and/or an audible sound when activated. The device includes an electronic microphone, a voice recognition program and a controller circuit for activating the audio and/or visual signals in response to the appropriate voice signal of the user. The device is attached to ... 11/17/05 - 20050256719 - Voice-activated remote control A voice activated remote control for an appliance broadly includes a receiver for receiving audible commands of a user, a transmitter for transmitting signals to the appliance, and a central processing unit (CPU) in communication with the receiver and transmitter for interpreting the audible commands received by the receiver. The ... 11/17/05 - 20050256718 - Movable barrier control system component with audible speech output apparatus and method An automated movable barrier control system component (11) as comprises a part of a movable barrier control system (10) has an audible speech output device (21) operably coupled thereto. These elements can share a common housing (22). The audible speech output device (21) can audiblize one or more items of ... 11/10/05 - 20050251395 - Device for projecting an object in a space inside a vehicle A device for projecting an object in a space of a vehicle is described. This object is preferably projected holographically, and a voice input and output system is assigned to this object. An artificial passenger is thus created for a driver. ... 11/03/05 - 20050246177 - System, method and software for enabling task utterance recognition in speech enabled systems A system, method and software for collecting, processing and analyzing user task utterances in speech-enabled systems are provided. In one embodiment, a number of task utterances are captured over a period of time. A text-based version of the utterances is created from the captured utterances. The captured task utterances, the ... 10/20/05 - 20050234729 - Mobile unit and method of controlling a mobile unit A mobile unit, such as a robot (12) for example, and a method of controlling a mobile unit are presented. The mobile unit has means of locomotion and is capable of acquiring and recognizing speech signals. If, for example due to its distance from a user (24) or due to ... 10/13/05 - 20050228676 - Audio video conversion apparatus and method, and audio video conversion program Speech of a speaker is repeated by a repeating person whose speech is recognized and a video of the speaker is delayed when displayed so that it is displayed together with characters, so that the speech of the speaker can easily be understood. A video delay unit (2) outputs delayed ... 10/06/05 - 20050222846 - Character branding employing voice and speech recognition technology Devices, apparatuses, systems, methods and the like for marketing, promoting and/or advertising a business or product are provided. The present invention combines applications such as screen savers, desktop assistants and instruction with voice verification technology in a readily installable and operable computer form. The voice interactive applications include visual imagery ... 09/29/05 - 20050216273 - Methods and apparatus for performing speech recognition over a network and using speech recognition results Techniques for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models are described. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications ... 09/29/05 - 20050216272 - System and method for speech-to-text conversion using constrained dictation in a speak-and-spell mode For improving the accuracy of a speech recognition system, for the specific task of speech-to-text (dictation style speech) translation, a constrained dictation methodology using speak-and-spell mode is disclosed. The invention is perfectly suited for modern day “text-messaging” applications wherein the number of words being dictated is very small (limited by ... 09/29/05 - 20050216271 - Speech dialogue system for controlling an electronic device A speech dialogue system (SDS) is provided for controlling an electronic device through speech control. A method for controlling an electronic device with a speech dialogue system is provided, using a speech dialogue system with a speech recognition unit. The speech recognition unit includes a control command determining unit, which ... 09/22/05 - 20050209858 - Apparatus and method for voice activated communication A wireless communication device includes a transceiver to communicate in a push-to-talk mode, and a speech processor having a voice recognition engine. The speech processor detects and processes speech signals input by a user and recognizes predetermined voice commands uttered by the user. The transceiver may be controlled to transmit ... 09/15/05 - 20050203749 - Input device Information inputted by voice is converted into an audio signal by a sound picking section, and the audio signal is outputted from an audio signal output section. Also, the audio signal is fed back by a local feedback section and is subjected to voice recognition by a voice recognition section ... 09/15/05 - 20050203748 - System and method for presenting and browsing information Disclosed is a system and method for presenting and browsing information, comprising the steps of classifying the information into a plurality of classes and sub-classes, each class having at least one sub-class; and presenting the plurality of classes of information to a user. The a system and method capable of ... 09/01/05 - 20050192810 - Key activation system A system is disclosed for controlling at least one electronic device. Each electronic device may have at least one control key. The system for controlling the electronic device may include a speech dialog system that controls the electronic device. The speech dialog system may be activated upon an operation of ... 08/18/05 - 20050182632 - Simulation apparatus To eliminate a wrong recognition of speech and reduce processing load to be applied to a computer in a simulation apparatus. The simulation apparatus includes a speech recognition section for referring to dictionary data in which a plurality of phrase data are recorded to specify phrase data, a dictionary selection ... 08/18/05 - 20050182631 - Voice message recording and playing method using voice recognition Disclosed is a voice message recording/playing method using voice recognition in which if a user's voice command is inputted through a microphone in a voice recognition mode selected by a function selection key, voice is recognized and then a preset command is performed correspondingly to the inputted voice command, the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177375 - System and method for eye tracking controlled speech processing A system and method for operating and monitoring, in particular, an automation system and/or a production machine and/or machine tool. The visual field (9) of a user (1) directed onto at least one display (2) is recorded and an item of speech information (8) of the user (1) is evaluated ... 08/11/05 - 20050177374 - Methods and apparatus for context and experience sensitive prompting in voice applications Systems and techniques for improved user prompting. A system according to one aspect of the invention includes a central server hosting various modules providing services to users. The modules suitably employ voice recognition in order to interpret user inputs. Each module has access to user information that includes information indicating ... 08/11/05 - 20050177373 - Methods and apparatus for providing context and experience sensitive help in voice applications Systems and techniques for improved user prompting in the event of voice recognition failures. A system according to one aspect of the invention includes a central server hosting various modules employing voice recognition in order to interpret user inputs. When a module fails to recognize an input, it invokes a ... 08/04/05 - 20050171782 - Communication apparatus, communication method and program storage medium The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to the voice, a word-collating means for collating the first word generated by the ... 07/28/05 - 20050165610 - Apparatus and method for receiving a message and playing it when a control is operated The invention provides apparatus 10 and a method for receiving a message signal 34 transmitted from a remote entity, storing the message received by way of each message signal, and playing the message via a loudspeaker 16 when a switch 20 of the apparatus 10 is operated in the conventional ... 07/21/05 - 20050159956 - Annotating programs for automatic summary generation Audio/video programming content is made available to a receiver from a content provider, and meta data is made available to the receiver from a meta data provider. The meta data corresponds to the programming content, and identifies, for each of multiple portions of the programming content, an indicator of a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154593 - Method and apparatus employing electromyographic sensors to initiate oral communications with a voice-based device A user interface for an electronic device and a method for interfacing with an electronic device are disclosed. The user interface includes a sensor and an interface. The sensor is capable of sensing a physical movement of a user associated with an oral communication and generating an indication thereof. The ... 07/14/05 - 20050154592 - Vocal connection system between humans and animals A vocal connection system comprises a matrix of sensors (2) adapted to send signal indicative of a status of the animal, in terms of stimuli, feelings, events, actions or behaviours, of the animal, to a microprocessor (3). The microprocessor (3) selects depending upon the signals (4) which are received, a ... 07/07/05 - 20050149334 - Digital camera module with controlled disabling A digital camera module 100) for a portable electronic device includes an image-obtaining device 20) for obtaining images, and a controlling device 10). The image-obtaining device includes a printed circuit board 204) with an image sensor 206) attached thereon. The controlling device includes a microphone 102) for receiving an incoming ... 07/07/05 - 20050149333 - System and method for providing talker arbitration in point-to-point/group communication One embodiment of the invention is based on a facilitation of the natural dynamics associated with face to face conversation, where the amplitude of a speaker's voice is often used to gain floor control. This capability advantageously allows a user who is intending to speak to interrupt a user who ... 06/30/05 - 20050144009 - Systems and methods for tv navigation with compressed voice-activated commands A method, apparatus and system that receives speech commands at a remote control device, digitizes those speech commands, and transmits the digitized speech commands to an electronic device, such as a digital home communication terminal (DCHT). The electronic device interprets the speech commands to allow the remote control operator to ... 06/30/05 - 20050144008 - Correlating call data and speech recognition information in a telephony application A method for improving the recognition confidence of alphanumeric spoken input, suitable for use in a speech recognition telephony application such as a voice response system. An alphanumeric candidate is determined from the spoken input, which may be the best available representation of the spoken input. Recognition confidence is compared ... 06/30/05 - 20050144007 - Voice-activated tuning of channels A method for voice-activated tuning of broadcast programs. A system architecture of an embodiment of the present invention comprises a microphone, a signal converter, a digital signal processor (DSP), a memory, a tuner, and an output device. A method for implementing an embodiment of the present invention comprises the following ... 06/23/05 - 20050137878 - Automatic voice addressing and messaging methods and apparatus A method of operating a device that includes speech recognition capabilities includes implementing on a device a plurality of user interfaces, wherein at least one said user interfaces is a voice interface. The method also includes launching a first application, and as part of launching the first application, launching a ... 06/23/05 - 20050137877 - Method and system for enabling a device function of a vehicle The current invention provides a method and system for enabling a device function of a vehicle. A speech input stream is received at a telematics unit. A speech input context is determined for the received speech input stream. The received speech input stream is processed based on the determination and ... 06/16/05 - 20050131708 - Method and system for dynamic conditional interaction in a voicexml run-time simulation environment A method and system for testing voice applications, such as VoiceXML applications, is provided. The system provides a run-time simulation environment for voice applications that simulates and automates user interaction. A user simulation script is provided in a customized mark-up language. The voice application is processed to derive a nominal ... 06/16/05 - 20050131707 - Method and process to generate real time input/output in a voice xml run-time simulation environment A method and system for testing voice applications, such as VoiceXML applications, is provided. The system provides a run-time simulation environment for applications that simulates and automates user interaction. A user simulation script is provided in a customized mark-up language. The voice application is processed to derive a nominal output ... 06/09/05 - 20050125236 - Automatic capture of intonation cues in audio segments for speech applications A method, system and apparatus for automatically capturing intonation cues in audio segments in speech applications. The method can include identifying planned audio segments in the speech application program, the audio segments containing audio text to be recorded and associated file names. The method further can include extracting the audio ... 06/09/05 - 20050125235 - Method and apparatus for using earcons in mobile communication devices The apparatus and methods for using earcons as user prompts in mobile communication devices described herein are directed to implementing a mode of communication in these communication devices having speech recognition capabilities wherein spoken prompts are disabled and replaced with short identifiable sound prompts such as the earcons. In general, ... 06/09/05 - 20050125234 - Shortcut names for use in a speech recognition system Shortcut names corresponding to flagged locations or frequently stated destinations, phrases, or sentences are registered, maintained, used, and deregistered in a speech recognition system. If a flagged location or a frequently stated destination, phrase, or sentence is received by the speech recognition system, the user is prompted to provide a ... 06/09/05 - 20050125233 - Vehicle mounted controller A vehicle mounted control apparatus includes voice recognition section for recognizing a voice command input by an voice input device; and a control section that analyzes a cause of incapability of recognition of the voice command when the voice command cannot be recognized by the voice recognition section and gives ... 06/02/05 - 20050119898 - Method for processing postal objects using speech synthesis The method of processing postal objects consists in presenting an image (3) of a postal object on a video-coding station (1) and in requesting an operator (4) on the basis of said presentation to provide postal address information via the video-coding station. In this method, the operator (4) is requested ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |