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US20110071824 Systems and Methods for Multiple Pitch Tracking  
An apparatus includes a function module, a strength module, and a filter module. The function module compares an input signal, which has a component, to a first delayed version of the input signal...
US20080077407 PHONETICALLY ENRICHED LABELING IN UNIT SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS  
A system, method and computer-readable media are disclosed for improving speech synthesis. A text-to-speech (TTS) voice database for use in a TTS system is generated by a method comprising labeling...
US20090276219 VOICE INPUT SYSTEM AND VOICE INPUT METHOD  
In the present invention, a voice input system and a voice input method are provided. The voice input method includes the steps of: (A) initiating a speech recognition process by a first input...
US20110173010 Audio Encoder and Decoder for Encoding and Decoding Audio Samples  
An audio encoder for encoding audio samples has a first time domain aliasing introducing encoder configured to decode audio samples in a first encoding domain and having a first framing rule, a...
US20110178946 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUNDANCY USING SNAPSHOTS AND CHECK POINTING IN CONTACT HANDLING SYSTEMS  
One example embodiment includes a method for computing environment redundancy with check pointing. The method includes receiving a script application in a first computing environment and a second...
US20080244740 BROWSER-INDEPENDENT EDITING OF CONTENT  
A system for editing a web page includes receiving the web page in a normalized form, where the normalized form is independent of any browser form. The page may be displayed to a user, where the...
US20100274584 Method and system for presenting and processing multiple text-based medical reports  
A system for processing medical reports includes a network. The system includes a plurality of EMR systems. Each EMR system has an EMR database and an EMR processing unit. The processing unit of at...
US20110178792 Acquisition Of Out-Of-Vocabulary Translations By Dynamically Learning Extraction Rules  
A method and apparatus for identifying a set of bilingual term pairs, and from the set of bilingual term pairs, identifying a set of candidate patterns related to the layout of the bilingual term...
US20080183474 Process for creating and administrating tests made from zero or more picture files, sound bites on handheld device  
Process to record or create sound bites or sound files into test format on a handheld device A preferred embodiment includes a process that can change text to sound bites or files to play back...
US20110282645 Electronic Multi-Language-to-Multi-Language Translation Method and System  
An electronic multi-language-to-multi-language translation method and system is disclosed. The system includes a first user to communicate in a first language, a server, where the first user and...
US20110161077 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS FROM A SINGLE UTTERANCE  
A method of and system for accurately determining a caller response by processing speech-recognition results and returning that result to a directed-dialog application for further interaction with...
US20120316881 SPEECH SYNTHESIZER, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM  
A normalized spectrum storage unit 204 prestores normalized spectra calculated based on a random number series. A voiced sound generating unit 201 generates voiced sound waveforms based on a...
US20120284034 METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF ALIASING INTRODUCED BY SPECTRAL ENVELOPE ADJUSTMENT IN REAL-VALUED FILTERBANKS  
The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels...
US20120284033 METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF ALIASING INTRODUCED BY SPECTRAL ENVELOPE ADJUSTMENT IN REAL-VALUED FILTERBANKS  
The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels...
US20110054914 Method for Reduction of Aliasing Introduced by Spectral Envelope Adjustment in Real-Valued Filterbanks  
The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels...
US20120316883 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PERSONAL SHG PROFILE BY VOICE ANALYSIS  
According to one embodiment of the present invention a computerized voice-analysis device for determining an S, H, G profile is provided (as described herein, such an S, H, G profile relates to the...
US20110173003 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PERSONAL SHG PROFILE BY VOICE ANALYSIS  
According to one embodiment of the present invention a computerized voice-analysis device for determining an S,H,G profile is provided (as described herein, such an S,H,G profile relates to the...
US20130073276 MT Based Spoken Dialog Systems Customer/Machine Dialog  
Operation of an automated dialog system is described using a source language to conduct a real time human machine dialog process with a human user using a target language. A user query in the...
US20120004910 System and method for speech processing and speech to text  
Systems and method for processing speech from a user is disclosed. In the system of the present invention, the user's speech is received as input audio stream. The input audio stream is converted...
US20080208581 Model Adaptation System and Method for Speaker Recognition  
A system and method for speaker recognition speaker modelling whereby prior speaker information is incorporated into the modelling process, utilising the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm and...
US20070100632 Speaker-dependent voice recognition method and voice recognition system  
A speaker-dependent voice recognition method is provided involving the use of a voice recognition system, during which voice utterances of the user are trained, and commands are assigned to the...
US20120296649 Digital Signatures for Communications Using Text-Independent Speaker Verification  
A speaker-verification digital signature system is disclosed that provides greater confidence in communications having digital signatures because a signing party may be prompted to speak a...
US20120016663 IDENTIFYING RELATED NAMES  
Provided are techniques for identifying related names. A collection of names from different languages is stored, wherein each of the names has a native orthographic form and a romanized form. An...
US20090089063 VOICE CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM  
A method, system and computer program product for voice conversion. The method includes performing speech analysis on the speech of a source speaker to achieve speech information; performing...
US20120004915 CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH ANALYSIS METHOD, AND CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH ANALYZER  
The invention provides a conversational speech analyzer which analyzes whether utterances in a meeting are of interest or concern. Frames are calculated using sound signals obtained from a...
US20050038647 Program product, method and system for detecting reduced speech  
A program product, system and method for speech recognition, the program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, a machine to perform the following method:...
US20110141855 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC CALENDARS  
Systems and methods for updating information in an electronic calendar are disclosed. One example of the method includes recording a voice-tag memo via an in-vehicle telematics unit, the voice-tag...
US20120173243 Expert Conversation Builder  
An expert conversation builder contains a knowledge database that includes a plurality of dialogues having nodes and edges arranged as directed acyclic graphs. Users and authors of the system...
US20130018647 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...
US20120296656 ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER FOR A CONFIGURABLE AUDIO CODING SYSTEM  
An adaptive controller for a configurable audio coding system comprising a fuzzy logic controller modified to use reinforcement learning to create an intelligent control system. With no knowledge...
US20120035911 CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF  
A customer premises equipment accessible with electronic equipment. The electronic equipment has a browser. Many types of language environments are stored in the customer premises equipment. The...
US20120209599 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZING THE GAINS OF THE ADAPTIVE AND FIXED CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE EXCITATION IN A CELP CODEC  
A device and method for quantizing a gain of a fixed contribution of an excitation in a frame, including sub-frames, of a coded sound signal. The gain is estimated in a sub-frame using a frame...
US20110246196 INTEGRATED VOICE BIOMETRICS CLOUD SECURITY GATEWAY  
A triple factor authentication in one step method and system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an Integrated Voice Biometrics Cloud Security Gateway (IVCS Gateway) intercepts an access...
US20110257962 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING SENTENCES OF A LANGUAGE  
A system and method for automatically generating sentences in a language is disclosed. The system comprising a grammar processor for converting an input grammar into a hierarchical representation,...
US20110161078 PITCH MODEL FOR NOISE ESTIMATION  
Pitch is tracked for individual samples, which are taken much more frequently than an analysis frame. Speech is identified based on the tracked pitch and the speech components of the signal are...
US20080300878 Method For Transporting Speech Data For A Distributed Recognition System  
Speech signal information is formatted, processed and transported in accordance with a format adapted for TCP/IP protocols used on the Internet and other communications networks. NULL characters...
US20120050008 Methods and Systems For Secure Pass-Set Entry  
Methods and systems for secure pass-set entry are disclosed. In one example, an authenticator device is configured to generate a pass-set menu to output in visual format on the display. An I/O...
US20130090921 PRONUNCIATION LEARNING FROM USER CORRECTION  
Systems and methods are described for adding entries to a custom lexicon used by a speech recognition engine of a speech interface in response to user interaction with the speech interface. In one...
US20120310622 Inter-language Communication Devices and Methods  
A single device allows two or more users to converse in different languages. The translation device receives inputs from the users which are translated and displayed to the other user in the other...
US20120259621 Translating Texts Between Languages  
Methods and computer systems for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation are provided. Based on a comprehensive understanding about...
US20120215521 Software Application Method to Translate an Incoming Message, an Outgoing Message, or an User Input Text  
The present invention is a software application that is capable of translating incoming messages, outgoing messages, and user input texts, such as E-books and online articles. The software...
US20120284027 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING PORTABLE VOICE PROFILES  
An embodiment of the present invention provides a speech recognition engine that utilizes portable voice profiles for converting recorded speech to text. Each portable voice profile includes...
US20100030551 JARGON TRANSLATION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT  
A translation system, method and program product for an instant messaging (IM) infrastructure. The system includes a profile look-up system for determining a profile for both a first and a second...
US20120022862 SPEECH RECOGNITION CIRCUIT AND METHOD  
A speech recognition circuit comprising a circuit for providing state identifiers which identify states corresponding to nodes or groups of adjacent nodes in a lexical tree, and for providing...
US20120330658 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT VOICE MESSAGE INFORMATION TO A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE  
Systems and methods to process and/or present information relating to voice messages for a user that are received from other persons. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a data processing...
US20090150148 VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND MEMORY PRODUCT  
A voice recognition apparatus can reduce false recognition caused by matching with respect to the phrases composed of a small number of syllables, when it performs a recognition process, by a...
US20110202346 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC SPEECH WITH CONTRASTIVE STRESS  
Techniques for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress. In one aspect, a speech-enabled application generates a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output, and...
US20110202345 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC SPEECH WITH CONTRASTIVE STRESS  
Techniques for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress. In one aspect, a speech-enabled application generates a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output, and...
US20120084078 Method And Apparatus For Voice Signature Authentication  
A scalable voice signature authentication capability is provided herein. The scalable voice signature authentication capability enables authentication of varied services such as speaker...
US20090287481 SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM  
A speech enhancement system improves speech conversion within an encoder and decoder. The system includes a first device that converts sound waves into operational signals. A second device selects...