Matches 1 - 50 out of 136 1 2 3 >
Match Document Document Title
7509257 Method and apparatus for adapting reference templates  
A method and apparatus for adapting reference templates is provided. The method includes adapting one or more reference templates using a stored test utterance by replacing data within at the...
7398208 Method for producing reference segments describing voice modules and method for modeling voice units of a spoken test model  
A method models voice units and produces reference segments for modeling voice units. The reference segments describe voice modules by characteristic vectors, the characteristic vectors being...
7394833 Method and apparatus for reducing synchronization delay in packet switched voice terminals using speech decoder modification  
A device is disclosed that makes packetized and encoded speech data audible to a listener, as is a method for operating the device. The device includes a unit for generating a synchronization...
7366667 Method and device for pause limit values in speech recognition  
Method and device for the recognition of words and pauses in a voice signal. The words (W i ) spoken in a row and pauses (T i ) are thereby combined as to be appertaining to a word group as soon as...
7337116 Speech processing system  
A system is provided for allowing a user to add word models to a speech recognition system. In particular, the system allows a user to input a number of renditions of the new word and which...
7317999 Method of mapping linearly spaced spectrum points to logarithmically spaced frequency and a measuring apparatus using the method  
A method for mapping a spectrum obtained from signals under test corresponding to linearly spaced frequencies to logarithmically spaced frequencies in a measuring apparatus. A spectrum within a...
7266496 Speech recognition system  
The present invention discloses a complete speech recognition system having a training button and a recognition button, and the whole system uses the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)...
7263486 Active learning for spoken language understanding  
Disclosed is a system and method of training a spoken language understanding module. Such a module may be utilized in a spoken dialog system. The method of training a spoken language understanding...
7231315 Distribution goodness-of-fit test device, consumable goods supply timing judgment device, image forming device, distribution goodness-of-fit test method and distribution goodness-of-fit test program  
A distribution goodness-of-fit test device for testing whether measured data matches an estimated probability distribution has a counting section determination unit, a counting unit and a...
7171362 Assignment of phonemes to the graphemes producing them  
The assignment of phonemes to graphemes producing them in a lexicon having words (grapheme sequences) and their associated phonetic transcription (phoneme sequences) for the preparation of patterns...
7149686 System and method for eliminating synchronization errors in electronic audiovisual transmissions and presentations  
A system and method for eliminating synchronization errors using speech recognition. Using separate audio and visual speech recognition techniques, the inventive system and method identifies...
7143034 Dynamic time warping device for detecting a reference pattern having a smallest matching cost value with respect to a test pattern, and speech recognition apparatus using the same  
Provided are a dynamic time warping device using speech recognition software, and a speech recognition apparatus using the same. The dynamic time warping device includes memory units for processing...
7085717 Scoring and re-scoring dynamic time warping of speech  
A method includes (i) measuring first distances between (a) vectors belonging to a set of vectors that represent an utterance and (b) vectors belonging to a set of vectors that represent a...
7062435 Apparatus, method and computer readable memory medium for speech recognition using dynamic programming  
A method for matching an input pattern with a number of stored reference patterns using a dynamic programming matching technique is described. The reference patterns of a reference signal which are...
7024358 Recovering an erased voice frame with time warping  
An approach to reduce the quality impact due to lost voiced frame data is presented. The decoder reconstructs the lost frame using the pitch track from a directly prior frame. When the decoder...
6996527 Linear discriminant based sound class similarities with unit value normalization  
A common requirement in automatic speech recognition is to recognize a set of words for any speaker without training the system for each new speaker. A speech recognition system is provided...
6983246 Dynamic time warping using frequency distributed distance measures  
Distances are measured between vectors representing speech and a stored reference template. Frequency distributions of the distance measurements are generated by counting how many times a...
6978241 Transmission system for transmitting an audio signal  
An analyzer determines frequency and amplitudes of an audio signal represented by sinusoids for transmission transmitted to a receiver decoder which includes a synthesizer to reconstruct the audio...
6961702 Method and device for generating an adapted reference for automatic speech recognition  
The invention relates to a method for generating an adapted reference for automatic speech recognition. In a first step, recognition is performed based on a spoken utterance and a recognition...
6879955 Signal modification based on continuous time warping for low bit rate CELP coding  
A signal modification technique facilitates compact voice coding by employing a continuous, rather than piece-wise continuous, time warp contour to modify an original residual signal to match an...
6868378 Process for voice recognition in a noisy acoustic signal and system implementing this process  
The invention relates to a process and a system for voice recognition in a noisy signal. In a preferred embodiment, the system ( 2 ) comprises modules for detecting speech ( 30 ) and for...
6836758 System and method for hybrid voice recognition  
A method and system for speech recognition combines different types of engines in order to recognize user-defined digits and control words, predefined digits and control words, and nametags....
6832190 Method and array for introducing temporal correlation in hidden markov models for speech recognition  
In the recognition of spoken language, phonemes of the language are modelled by hidden Markov models. A modified hidden Markov model includes a conditional probability of a feature vector dependent...
6735563 Method and apparatus for constructing voice templates for a speaker-independent voice recognition system  
A method and apparatus for constructing voice templates for a speaker-independent voice recognition system includes segmenting a training utterance to generate time-clustered segments, each segment...
6714910 Method of training an automatic speech recognizer  
Provided is a method of training an automatic speech recognizer, said speech recognizer using acoustic models and/or speech models, wherein speech data is collected during a training phase and used...
6681207 System and method for lossy compression of voice recognition models  
A method and system that improves voice recognition by improving storage of voice recognition (VR) templates. The improved storage means that more VR models can be stored in memory. The more VR...
6594630 Voice-activated control for electrical device  
An apparatus for voice-activated control of an electrical device comprises a receiving arrangement for receiving audio data generated by user. A vioce recognition arrangement is provided for...
6594392 Pattern recognition based on piecewise linear probability density function  
The present invention is a method and apparatus to determine a similarity measure between first and second patterns. First and second storages store first and second feature vectors which represent...
6591237 Keyword recognition system and method  
A keyword recognition system for speaker dependent, dynamic time warping (DTW) recognition systems uses all of the trained word templates in the system, (keyword and vocabulary), to determine if an...
6560575 Speech processing apparatus and method  
An apparatus is provided for checking the consistency between two training words which can be used in, for example, a speech recognition or verification system. Two training examples are aligned...
6542866 Speech recognition method and apparatus utilizing multiple feature streams  
A method and apparatus is provided for using multiple feature streams in speech recognition. In the method and apparatus, a feature extractor generates at least two feature vectors for a segment of...
6411734 Object image search using validated sub-model poses  
A method is provided for finding a pose of a geometric model of an object within an image of a scene containing the object that includes providing sub-models of the geometric model; and providing...
6389392 Method and apparatus for speaker recognition via comparing an unknown input to reference data  
A method and apparatus for pattern recognition comprising comparing an input signal representing an unknown pattern with reference data representing each of a plurality of pre-defined patterns, at...
6374222 Method of memory management in speech recognition  
A memory management method is described for reducing the size of memory required in speech recognition searching. The searching involves parsing the input speech and building a dynamically changing...
6321195 Speech recognition method  
The present invention relates to an automated dialing method for mobile telephones. According to the method, a user enters a telephone number via the keypad of the mobile phone, followed by...
6301562 Speech recognition using both time encoding and HMM in parallel  
A speech recognition method that combines time encoding and hidden Markov approaches. The speech is input and encoded using time encoding, such as TESPAR. A hidden Markov model generates scores;...
6263216 Radiotelephone voice control device, in particular for use in a motor vehicle  
The apparatus comprises a data memory containing a series of correspondents' call numbers and, for each call number, at least one associated voice print; a sound transducer suitable for picking up...
6260013 Speech recognition system employing discriminatively trained models  
A speech recognition system has vocabulary word models having for each word model state both a discrete probability distribution function and a continuous probability distribution function. Word...
6236963 Speaker normalization processor apparatus for generating frequency warping function, and speech recognition apparatus with said speaker normalization processor apparatus  
In a speaker normalization processor apparatus, a vocal-tract configuration estimator estimates feature quantities of a vocal-tract configuration showing an anatomical configuration of a vocal...
6226610 DP Pattern matching which determines current path propagation using the amount of path overlap to the subsequent time point  
A method and apparatus for matching a first sequence of patterns representative of a first signal with a second sequence of patterns representative of a second signal using a dynamic programming...
6195636 Speech recognition over packet networks  
In a system in which user equipment is connected to a packet network and a speech recognition application server is also connected to the packet network for performing speech recognition on speech...
6157911 Method and a system for substantially eliminating speech recognition error in detecting repetitive sound elements  
A method and a system substantially eliminates an erroneous voice recognition of repetitive elements in word spotting. One preferred embodiment according to the current invention eliminates...
6134527 Method of testing a vocabulary word being enrolled in a speech recognition system  
A method of testing a new vocabulary word is performed using any set of enrollment utterances provided by the user or from an available database. The present method preferably does not use separate...
5987411 Recognition system for determining whether speech is confusing or inconsistent  
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention enroll a candidate phrase uttered by a user in a dictionary having at least one previously enrolled phrase. The system receives utterances...
5960395 Pattern matching method, apparatus and computer readable memory medium for speech recognition using dynamic programming  
A method for matching an input pattern with a number of stored reference patterns using a dynamic programming matching technique is described. The reference patterns of a reference signal which are...
5956678 Speech recognition apparatus and method using look-ahead scoring  
In the recognition of coherently spoken words, a plurality of hypotheses is usually built up which end in various words during the recognition process and are then to be continued with further...
5933808 Method and apparatus for generating modified speech from pitch-synchronous segmented speech waveforms  
A system that synchronously segments a speech waveform using pitch period and a center of the pitch waveform. The pitch waveform center is determined by finding a local minimum of a centroid...
5909665 Speech recognition system  
To construct an inexpensive speech recognition system, a speech recogntion system includes an analyzing unit for extracting a sound, sequentially dividing the sound into a plurality of frames,...
5907825 Location of pattern in signal  
A method for determining the location of a pattern, when input in isolation, within a representative input signal is provided. The method aligns the input signal with a signal representative of a...
5854999 Method and system for speech recognition with compensation for variations in the speech environment  
Compensatory values for compensating a reference pattern to match with an utterance environment of an input speech are employed for determining an environmental variation index to be input to a...
Matches 1 - 50 out of 136 1 2 3 >