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5479490 Voice responsive remote-controllable system  
There is disclosed a system which can be subjected to remote control by an input voice command, which comprises: a voice detection circuit for detecting inputting of a voice signal; a voice command...
5475791 Method for recognizing a spoken word in the presence of interfering speech  
A method for recognizing a spoken word in the presence of interfering speech, such as a system-generated voice prompt, begins by echo cancelling the voice prompt and any detected speech signal to...
5459781 Selectively activated dual tone multi-frequency detector  
A technique for improved DTMF detection utilizes a speech detector, either alone or in combination with other information from a voice processing arrangement, to adjust the sensitivity of the DTMF...
5434909 Methods and apparatus for integrated voice communication  
An integrated voice communication system is provided which includes first circuitry for delivering a stored message to a subscriber calling party upon the receipt of a first command. Second...
5430792 Automated telephone calling system  
An automatic telephone calling system that characterizes the responses from telephone subscribers' telephone stations to placed calls from the system. The system comprises communication lines which...
5430791 Technique for administering personal telephone numbers  
A method of administering a sequence of locations to which calls placed to a subscriber's personal telephone number may be routed for personal communication service by a) storing pre-defined...
5416830 Integrated voice meassaging/voice response system  
An integrated voice messaging/interactive voice response system in which information given by a caller or known to a system database could be transferred among various application modules of the...
5406618 Voice activated, handsfree telephone answering device  
A telephone answering device that is activated by a proximity sensor when a user crosses its field of detection and whose operation is controlled by simple voice commands. The device incorporates...
5390278 Phoneme based speech recognition  
A flexible vocabulary speech recognition system is provided for recognizing speech transmitted via the public switched telephone network. The flexible vocabulary recognition (FVR) system is a...
5384833 Voice-operated service  
In a system for allocating a user identifier to a user of a voice-operated service, the user is requested (20) to utter words in a set of requested words. A speech recognizer (2) compares (24) each...
5375166 Communication apparatus with cross-talk protection  
A communication apparatus includes a Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) noise signal detector for detecting a first DTMF noise signal caused by the apparatus and a second DTMF signal detector for...
5369469 Voice of the customer acquistion system  
A method of receiving and processing verbal input from a user of a printing machine having at least, a voice input activator, a voice receiver, an output signal connected to a communications...
5365574 Telephone network voice recognition and verification using selectively-adjustable signal thresholds  
A method for enabling a caller to obtain access to one or more services via a telephone network by speaking a password is described. The method begins by establishing at least one predetermined...
5353376 System and method for improved speech acquisition for hands-free voice telecommunication in a noisy environment  
Systems and methods for improved speech acquisition are disclosed including a plurality of linearly arrayed sensors to detect spoken input and to output signals in response thereto, a beamformer...
5335313 Voice-actuated, speaker-dependent control system for hospital bed  
A voice-actuated environmental operator system of the kind which enables a user/patient to use simple voice commands to control a plurality of hospital environment room functions including...
5311575 Telephone signal classification and phone message delivery method and system  
A method of processing a signal having characteristics and received from a telephone line is presented. The method includes defining a frame by measuring a plurality of samples from the signal over...
5309504 Automated identification of attendant positions in a telecommunication system  
In a communication complex having attendant positions and data terminals, the audio equipment of each position can be associated with the data terminals without direct connections between the...
5303299 Method for continuous recognition of alphanumeric strings spoken over a telephone network  
The present invention describes a method for recognizing alphanumeric strings spoken over a telephone network wherein individual character recognition need not be uniformly high in order to achieve...
5297194 Simultaneous speaker-independent voice recognition and verification over a telephone network  
The present invention describes a system and method for enabling a caller to obtain access to services via a telephone network by entering a spoken password having a plurality of digits....
5289530 Method and apparatus for vocally communicating to a caller at a remote telephone station synthesized speech of stored special service information  
A telephone system is disclosed for remotely obtaining from a selected local telephone station audible synthesized speech representative of directory telephone numbers and/or names of previous...
5283833 Method and apparatus for speech processing using morphology and rhyming  
A method and apparatus for natural language processing using morphology and rhyming. The method and apparatus employ a hybrid of dictionary and rule-based approaches for both speech and speech...
5259026 Method for speed calling automatic update  
A method for automatically updating a speed calling data base in a telecommunications network entails tagging an outgoing speed call with a speed calling tag, identifying the telephone number of a...
5255310 Method of approximately matching an input character string with a key word and vocally outputting data  
A method for approximately matching a DTMF input character string with a key word and for vocally outputting information in response to the input character string. A telephone apparatus is provided...
5247497 Security systems based on recording unique identifier for subsequent playback  
In order to enable an authorized user of a secured system to detect unauthorized use of that system, the system records identifying information about the user (e.g., a sample of the user's voice)...
5239586 Voice recognition system used in telephone apparatus  
A voice recognition system comprises a handset and a hands-free microphone for generating an input audio signal, a high-pass filter for eliminating low frequency components from the signal from the...
5224158 Terminal apparatus  
A terminal apparatus carries out both of facsimile communication and automatic telephone answering operation which has the response message circuit for sending first and second response messages to...
5224156 Method and apparatus for facsimile enhancement  
A method and apparatus for causing a message sent in facsimile compatible form over a telephone system from a first location to a second location to be received at the second location in a...
5222121 Voice recognition dialing unit  
A voice recognition dialing unit of a telephone mounted on a vehicle or similar mobile body and which allows a call to be originated with ease. When the user of the telephone enters a voice command...
5220595 Voice-controlled apparatus using telephone and voice-control method  
A voice-controlled device of this invention includes a receiving/discriminating mechanism for receiving a DTMF signal externally input through a telephone line and discriminating the DTMF signal, a...
5208848 Telecommunications call processing  
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for establishing telecommunications calls. An intelligent peripheral is bridged to a call being dialed. If the intelligent peripheral recognizes a...
5193110 Integrated services platform for telephone communication system  
An integrated services platform for a telephone communication system includes a plurality of application processing ports for providing different types of information services through the telephone...
5182765 Speech recognition system with an accurate recognition function  
A speech registration/recognition processing section is responsive to a speech input signal to be registered or recognized from a microphone to selectively subject the speech input signal to a...
5181238 Authenticated communications access service  
This invention relates to arrangements for providing pre-authenticated access from a caller to a service provider. The caller dials the number of the service provider and subsequently enters a...
5179585 Integrated voice messaging/voice response system  
An integrated voice messaging/interactive voice response system in which information given by a caller or known to a system database could be transferred among various application modules of the...
5168548 Integrated voice controlled report generating and communicating system  
In the reporting system disclosed herein, a speech recognizer is used to select sections of text from a report form stored in a computer and to insert recognized terms in the text thereby to...
5164981 Voice response system with automated data transfer  
A voice response system for providing interactive data exchange between an outside party, an operator and one or more data bases wherein a voice path switch initially connects an outside party to a...
5163081 Automated dual-party-relay telephone system  
A facility is provided for automating dual party relay service so that the cost of such a service may be reduced. The desired result is achieved by automating particular features of dual party...
5163084 Voice information service system and method utilizing approximately matched input character string and key word  
A voice information system utilizing approximately matched input character string and key word and a method for the approximate matching thereof is disclosed. A telephone apparatus is provided to...
5163082 Memory management methods and apparatus for digital telephone answering devices  
A digital memory used by a digital telephone answering device to record messages, a method by which vacant memory space created by the deletion of a message interlying two saved messages is...
5155760 Voice messaging system with voice activated prompt interrupt  
An arrangement providing voice activated prompt interrupt for a voice messaging system. The exemplary apparatus includes a telephone line interface, a memory device, a processor, a prompting device...
5146491 Telephone billing method  
A method of telephone billing comprise providing a toll-free number to a customer to access a provider in a toll-free call from an originating customer telephone number, receiving the originating...
5131045 Audio-augmented data keying  
Present-day limitations of the conventional touch-tone keypad are overcome permitting alphabetic information to be entered into a distant computer. The caller speaks a speech portion into a...
5125023 Software switch for digitized audio signals  
A method and apparatus are described for permitting conferencing in an automatic telephone information system by utilizing shared circular memory buffers incorporated in voice processing boards...
5125024 Voice response unit  
A voice response unit for transmitting voice prompt messages to customers and for receiving messages generated by customers in response to the voice prompt message. The unit has a speech recognizer...
5111501 Telephone terminal device having speech recognition unit  
A telephone terminal device equipped with a transmitter microphone, a receiver, a speech recognition unit that receives and recognizes speech signals from the transmitter microphone and a circuit...
5091949 Method and apparatus for the recognition of voice signal encoded as time encoded speech  
There is provided an automatic voice recognition system which utilizes time encoded speech. Through the determination of zero crossing information and waveform parameters of an input voice signal,...
5073921 Line connection switching apparatus for connecting communication line in accordance with matching result of speech pattern  
A line connection switching apparatus performs connection switching of a communication line used both for speech communication performed by a telephone set and data communication performed by a...
5054082 Method and apparatus for programming devices to recognize voice commands  
To program a communication device to respond to voice commands, an individual desiring to operate the communication device sends a message to a repository of voice recognition codebooks. The...
5033088 Method and apparatus for effectively receiving voice input to a voice recognition system  
Processing voice information is performed to complete a task with minimal human intervention. Information received by the automated system from the caller is fed into a speech recognition system,...
5003574 Voice capture system  
A voice capture system for use with a telephone switching system and transcribing terminals to record calling party generated information in predefined formats. The system digitizes and records...
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