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Data Processing: Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, And Audio Compression/decompression > Speech Signal Processing > Application > Translation TranslationTranslation 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 - 20060271371 - Audio output apparatus, document reading method, and mobile terminal An audio output apparatus comprises an audio output unit which outputs an audio; a storage unit which stores a predetermined word and a type associated with the word; a controller which, upon outputting an electronic document as an audio from the audio output unit using a speed synthesis, when the ... 11/30/06 - 20060271370 - Mobile two-way spoken language translator and noise reduction using multi-directional microphone arrays A mobile two-way spoken language translation device utilizes a multi-directional microphone array component. The device is capable of translating one person's speech from one language into another language in either text or speech for another person and vice verse. Using this device, two or more persons who speak different languages ... 10/12/06 - 20060229883 - Methods and apparatus for providing push to talk text data In the present technique of push to talk communications system, a push to talk audio data message is translated to text data to provide for a translated text data message. The push to talk audio data message is then associated with the corresponding translated text data message to provide for ... 10/12/06 - 20060229882 - Method and system for modifying printed text to indicate the author's state of mind A method and system for producing a printed text. A system operates in accordance with the method to: receive a message signal created by an author and representative of the semantic content of a printed text; produce a text signal in response to the message signal; analyze the message signal ... 09/07/06 - 20060200355 - System and method for a real time client server text to speech interface A method and system may provide an interface (e.g., “API”), client side software module or other process that may accept an input from a client process such as a website, being executed on a local computer. The module may send the input and possibly authentication information to a remote server, ... 07/27/06 - 20060167698 - System and method for generating an identification signal for electronic devices A system and method for creating a ring tone for an electronic device takes as input a phrase sung in a human voice and transforms it into a control signal controlling, for example, a ringer on a cellular telephone. Time-varying features of the input signal are analyzed to segment the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149557 - Sentence displaying method, information processing system, and program product A method of displaying a sentence described in a first language using an information processor includes the steps of input-reception for receiving an input of the sentence described in the first language; separation of separating the input sentence into each constituent word; a determination of determining whether the constituent word ... 07/06/06 - 20060149556 - Sequential-data correlation at real-time on multiple media and multiple data types A method and device for synchronizing data between analog and digital mediums recorded either simultaneously from a single source or recorded from different sources, which requires synchronization. User-Data recorded in analog medium is referenced with out-of-band unique digital reference-data that is generated by the interface device to mark the position ... 06/22/06 - 20060136227 - 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 who the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus 100 includes: an utterance receiving unit 101 which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance ... 06/22/06 - 20060136226 - System and method for creating artificial tv news programs The present invention relates to interactive television, in particular to a method and system for creating artificial TV programs according to TV viewers' preferences and more particularly to a system and method for enabling a TV viewer to replace the newscaster of a TV news program by an artificial newscaster ... 06/22/06 - 20060136225 - Pronunciation assessment method and system based on distinctive feature analysis A method and system for pronunciation assessment based on distinctive feature analysis is provided. It evaluates a user's pronunciation by one or more distinctive feature (DF) assessor. It may further construct a phone assessor with DF assessors to evaluate a user's phone pronunciation, and even construct a continuous speech pronunciation ... 06/22/06 - 20060136224 - Communications devices including positional circuits and methods of operating the same Methods of processing signals received at wireless communications devices are provided. First and second audio signals are received from first and second sources, respectively, at the communications device. The first audio signal is assigned to a first speaker channel and the second audio signal is assigned to a different second ... 06/22/06 - 20060136223 - Bilingual authoring assistant for the tip of the tongue problem A bilingual authoring apparatus includes a user interface (20) for inputting partially translated text including a text portion in a source language and surrounding or adjacent text in a target language. A bilingual dictionary (34) associates words and phrases in the target language and words and phrases in a source ... 05/25/06 - 20060111917 - Method and system for transcribing speech on demand using a trascription portlet A method and system for transcribing speech on demand using a transcription portlet. The method can include the step of providing a transcription portlet including user data having personalized speech profiles for individual users. The transcription portlet can receive audio data. A user associated with the audio data can be ... 05/18/06 - 20060106618 - System and method for converting text to speech Text is converted to speech based at least in part on the context of the text. A body of text may be parsed before being converted to speech. Each portion may be analyzed to determine whether it has one or more particular attributes, which may be indicative of context. The ... 12/01/05 - 20050267761 - Information transmission system and information transmission method In this information transmission system, a first user terminal gains access to a business server through a communication network, to transmit a body text of an electronic mail in voice information there. The business server converts the voice information into text information, discriminates the information to be converted into a ... 11/24/05 - 20050261910 - Method and apparatus for natural language translation in a finite domain A method and apparatus are provided for performing natural language translation in a finite domain, e.g., where the finite domain describes a specific subject area or field of use. In one embodiment, a method for translating user input relating to a finite domain includes receiving user input in a source ... 10/20/05 - 20050234730 - System and method for network based transcription The systems and methods described herein allow dictation and associated routing and formatting information to be forwarded to a transcription system. The transcription system converts the information into a document. The additional information associated with the dictation is then applied to the document to ensure proper formatting, routing, or the ... 09/29/05 - 20050216276 - Method and system for voice-inputting chinese character A method of voice-inputting a Chinese character is provided. The method comprises: inputting a target character in a voice; generating a plurality of candidate characters including the target character based on a spelling of the target character; and selecting the target character from the plurality of candidate characters based on ... 09/29/05 - 20050216275 - Telephone apparatus for making telephone calls in conjunction with a computing device A telephone apparatus for use in conjunction with a computing device. The computing device executes a telephone software application for making telephone calls over the Internet. The telephone apparatus includes an interface for receiving downstream audio packages from the computing device and for sending upstream audio packages to the computing ... 09/22/05 - 20050209859 - Method for aiding and enhancing verbal communication A method of facilitating oral communication between two or more participants involves monitoring the oral communications with a voice recognition program so as to convert the sound bytes of the conversation into a textual record of the oral communications. Then the textual records are then presented on a display in ... 09/01/05 - 20050192811 - Portable translation device A portable translation device includes a microphone connected to an amplification circuit. A voice recognition module receives input from the amplification circuit and recognizes speech in a plurality of languages from multiple speakers. The voice recognition module converts received speech into printable text. A translation module converts the printable text ... 08/25/05 - 20050187774 - System and method for multi-lingual translation The present invention relates to the translation of a portion of text to be communicated in a text-based communication in a communications network. A communications device for composing the text-based communication queries a translation service with a portion of text in a first language to obtain a replacement for the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177376 - Recognition results postprocessor for use in voice recognition systems Systems and techniques for analyzing voice recognition results in order to improve efficiency and accuracy of voice recognition. When a voice activated module undertakes a voice recognition attempt, it invokes a voice recognition module that constructs a list of voice recognition results. The list is analyzed by a results postprocessor ... 08/04/05 - 20050171784 - Multilingual adaptive system A Web service server 11 is connected to a data storage device 14 including a large-capacity HDD to store various data items in order to create and develop web pages for various linguistic areas. A Web database server 12 is connected to a data storage device 15 including a large-capacity ... 07/21/05 - 20050159960 - Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one illustrative embodiment, handles loading and unloading of grammars, as well as maintaining a desired activation state of the grammars which are loaded. Further, the ... 07/21/05 - 20050159959 - Network support for voice-to-text memo service A method for a wireless network to provide a voice-to-text memo service to a wireless subscriber associated with a mobile device is provided. The method includes: a) routing an active call path associated with the mobile device to a voice-to-text conversion system, b) capturing audio from the active call path ... 07/14/05 - 20050154596 - Configurable speech recognizer A configurable speech recognizer includes a geographic configuration unit to process geographic indications from a cellular telephone and a speech recognition unit to limit a recognition search space as a function of the geographic indications. ... 07/14/05 - 20050154595 - Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon simultaneous speech Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected ... 07/07/05 - 20050149337 - Automatic speech recognition to control integrated communication devices An integrated communications device provides an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to control communication functions of the communications device. The ASR system includes an ASR engine and an ASR control module with an out-of-vocabulary rejection capability. The ASR engine performs speaker independent and dependent speech recognition and also performs speaker ... 07/07/05 - 20050149336 - Voice to image printing Methods, devices, and systems for voice to image printing are provided. One method includes translating voice input into text on a printing device. The method also includes associating the text with an image. The method further includes editing the text on the printing device. In addition, the method includes printing ... 07/07/05 - 20050149335 - Prompt language translation for a telecommunications system A prompt translation application for use in a telecommunications messaging system provides an administrator with a plurality of messaging prompts in a base language for revising, translating, and editing. The administrator can nearly simultaneously revise both a visual component of a prompt and an audio component of the prompt, and ... 06/30/05 - 20050144014 - Directory dialer name recognition A method, apparatus, computer program product and service for directory dialer name recognition. The directory dialer has a directory of names and a first name grammar and a second name grammar representing phonetic baseforms of first names and second names respectively. The method includes: receiving voice data for a spoken ... 06/30/05 - 20050144013 - Conversation control apparatus, conversation control method, and programs therefor The present invention is a conversation control apparatus for carrying out conversation control based on both speech content and conversation state and information acquired from outside, and carrying out natural responses. This apparatus comprises a conversation database storing a plurality of items of conversation topic specifying information, a conversation control ... 06/30/05 - 20050144012 - One button push to translate languages over a wireless cellular radio A system having a plurality of communication devices, at least one of which comprises a control device, a half duplex communication network to transmit data between the plurality of communication devices, and a translation engine to translate voice communications spoken into a first one of the communication devices into at ... 06/30/05 - 20050144011 - Vehicle mounted unit, voiced conversation document production server, and navigation system utilizing the same Navigation system includes vehicle mounted unit, voiced conversation document production server and information retrieval server, and the vehicle mounted unit produces and transmits to the server a request including recognized word and present position information acquired from a position detection part when evaluation by a driving performance evaluation part satisfies ... 06/30/05 - 20050144010 - Interactive language learning method capable of speech recognition The present invention relates to an interactive language learning method capable of speech recognition. The speech recognition technology is applied in the interactive language learning method for analyzing and comparing whether the language practiced by the user is correct. The present invention comprises a repetition mode or a conversation mode. ... 06/23/05 - 20050137881 - Method for generating and embedding vocal performance data into a music file format A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for embedding enhancement data into lyrics to generate Enhanced Symbolic Phonetic Representation (ESPR) data file that incorporates symbolic representations of actions that are associated with singing, such as sustaining and vibrato. The ESPR includes data for singing by a human ... 06/23/05 - 20050137880 - Espr driven text-to-song engine A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for deriving audio that includes singing by a human voice or chorus of voices. The audio is derived from an Enhanced Symbolic Phonetic Representation (ESPR) that incorporates symbolic representations of actions that are associated with singing, such as sustaining and ... 06/16/05 - 20050131709 - Providing translations encoded within embedded digital information A method of providing a translation within a voice stream can include receiving a speech signal in a first language, determining text from the speech signal, translating the text to a second and different language, and encoding the translated text within the speech signal. ... 06/02/05 - 20050119899 - Phrase constructor for translator In general, the invention is directed to techniques for finding and constructing phrases for translation. In an exemplary embodiment, a hand-held device that acts as an electronic phrase book implements the techniques of the invention. The device presents the user with a menu of object words and receives the user's ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |