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7620550 Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system  
A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each...
7617102 Speaker identifying apparatus and computer program product  
A speaker identifying apparatus includes: a module for performing a principal component analysis on predetermined vocal tract geometrical parameters of a plurality of speakers and calculating an...
7606707 Speaker recognition apparatus and speaker recognition method to eliminate a trade-off relationship between phonological resolving performance and speaker resolving performance  
In a speaker distance calculation part of a speaker recognition apparatus, a quantization distance is obtained between a voice feature vector of a voice feature vector sequence produced from a...
7603275 System, method and computer program product for verifying an identity using voiced to unvoiced classifiers  
Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product for verifying an identity claimed by a claimant using voiced to unvoiced classifiers are described. In accordance with one embodiment, a...
7599474 Voice recognition for filtering and announcing message  
A system and method of call-routing and caller-screening that employs voice recognition to automatically recognize a caller's voice and then screen a caller, if appropriate; all without forcing the...
7590538 Voice recognition system for navigating on the internet  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for recognizing voice commands for manipulating data on the Internet. Data is provided on a website. Voice signals are received from a user...
7590537 Speaker clustering and adaptation method based on the HMM model variation information and its apparatus for speech recognition  
A speech recognition method and apparatus perform speaker clustering and speaker adaptation using average model variation information over speakers while analyzing the quantity variation amount and...
7584101 System for and method of automated quality monitoring  
A system and method according to the present invention automates call monitoring activities to evaluate and directly improve agent-customer interactions. Rather than listening to an entire call or...
7580839 Apparatus and method for voice conversion using attribute information  
A speech processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a conversion-source-speaker speech-unit database; a voice-conversion-rule-learning-data generating means; and a...
7574358 Natural language system and method based on unisolated performance metric  
A natural language business system and method is developed to understand the underlying meaning of a person's speech, such as during a transaction with the business system. The system includes a...
7565290 Speech recognition method and apparatus  
A speech recognition apparatus includes a word dictionary having recognition target words, a first acoustic model which expresses a reference pattern of a speech unit by one or more states, a...
7562288 System for concurrent display and textual annotation of prepared materials by voice-to-text converted input  
A system and method for converting spoken vocal input to a data-encoded text string, and annotating/mixing the text string with prepared presentation materials while concurrently displaying the...
7561677 Communication conversion between text and audio  
Techniques and tools are described for converting incoming and/or outgoing communications to usable and convenient formats. For example, a user selects a desired profile from a group of available...
7561672 Automatic voice call connection service method using personal phone book database constructed through voice recognition  
Disclosed is an automatic voice call connection service method using a personal phone book database constructed through voice recognition, which includes the steps of allocating personal databases...
7558426 Device for outputting character recognition results, character recognition device, and program therefor  
An output mechanism of a character recognition device includes a category classifier for classifying image data of characters to be recognized for each category recognized in character recognition...
7555426 Method and apparatus for dynamic grammars and focused semantic parsing  
The present invention provides a dialogue system in which semantic ambiguity is reduced by selectively choosing which semantic structures are to be made available for parsing based on previous...
7555316 System and method for formatting and displaying numbers  
A system and method for formatting numbers is disclosed. The system and method can determine if a telephone number is received, either alone or as part of a string. If a telephone number is...
7548857 Method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar  
The invention relates to a method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar known as GT/PS grammar. According to the invention, a spoken phrase is...
7542967 Searching an index of media content  
A search engine, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for transmitting requested media content in response to a search request. The search request may include a search term containing...
7529676 Audio device control device, audio device control method, and program  
A language analyzer 2 performs speech recognition on a speech input by a speech input unit 1 , specifies a possible word which is represented by the speech, and the score thereof, and supplies...
7529669 Voice-based multimodal speaker authentication using adaptive training and applications thereof  
A voice based multimodal speaker authentication method and telecommunications application thereof employing a speaker adaptive method for training phenome specific Gaussian mixture models. Applied...
7519533 Fixed codebook searching apparatus and fixed codebook searching method  
A fixed codebook searching apparatus which slightly suppresses an increase in the operation amount, even if the filter applied to the excitation pulse has the characteristic that it cannot be...
7516071 Method of modeling single-enrollment classes in verification and identification tasks  
In automatic pattern recognition, in the context of patterns being observed either in the same or a new environment, e.g. a new acoustic channel, as compared to the one seen during the previous...
7515738 Biometric data collection and storage system  
A biometric data collection and storage system includes stations (e.g., checkpoints such as those found in airports, seaports and border crossings) for collecting biometric data from each...
7505906 System and method for augmenting spoken language understanding by correcting common errors in linguistic performance  
A method and system for automatic speech recognition are disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech from a user, the speech including at least one speech error, increasing the probabilities...
7505569 Diagnosing voice application issues of an operational environment  
A computerized method for diagnosing deployed voice-enabled application issues within a maintenance environment. The method can identify a recognition log file that includes details of previously...
7502736 Voice registration method and system, and voice recognition method and system based on voice registration method and system  
Disclosed is a voice registration method for voice recognition, comprising the steps of analyzing a spectrum of a sound signal inputted from the outside; extracting predetermined language units for...
7496693 Wireless enabled speech recognition (SR) portable device including a programmable user trained SR profile for transmission to external SR enabled PC  
A method of interacting with a speech recognition (SR)-enabled personal computer (PC) is provided in which a user SR profile is transferred from a wireless-enabled device to the SR-enabled PC....
7496511 Method and apparatus for using locale-specific grammars for speech recognition  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates recognizing voice input. During operation, the system receives a document that includes a specification of a datatype for...
7496510 Method and apparatus for the automatic separating and indexing of multi-speaker conversations  
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing a continuous audio stream containing human speech in order to locate a particular speech-based transaction in the audio stream, applying both...
7487440 Reusable voiceXML dialog components, subdialogs and beans  
Systems and methods for building speech-based applications using reusable dialog components based on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language). VoiceXML reusable dialog components can be used for...
7487089 Biometric client-server security system and method  
The present invention includes a client-server security system. The client-server security system includes a client system receiving first biometric data and having a first level security...
7480620 Changing characteristics of a voice user interface  
The invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, and system capable of changing a voice user interface possessing both operational characteristics and security characteristics based upon...
7475344 Genders-usage assistant for composition of electronic documents, emails, or letters  
The present invention, in one embodiment, aids the user during composition of emails/letters/documents with assistance for correct gender usage. In one example application, first an automated user...
7474739 Providing speaker identifying information within embedded digital information  
A method of providing identifying information over a voice communications link can include receiving, from a call participant, a personal identification code over the voice communications link,...
7467085 Method and apparatus for language translation using registered databases  
A method of providing an interpretation service, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving an incoming telephone call from a user, forming a plurality of databases, wherein the...
7467026 Autonomously moving robot management system  
An autonomous robot is controlled by the local robot information controller which is connected to a robot application network to which the transceiver to communicate with the autonomous robot is...
7464034 Voice converter for assimilation by frame synthesis with temporal alignment  
A voice converting apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice into an output voice according to a target voice. The apparatus includes a storage section, an analyzing section including...
7461059 Dynamically updated search results based upon continuously-evolving search query that is based at least in part upon phrase suggestion, search engine uses previous result sets performing additional search tasks  
A system for guiding a search for information is presented. The system comprises a user interface that accepts a phrase and receives at least one suggestion based at least in part on the phrase....
7460995 System for speech recognition  
This invention provides a system for speech recognition comparing speech against stored character strings in memory. Speech is transformed into spoken character strings. To accelerate the...
7457753 Telephone pathology assessment  
A system for remote assessment of a user is disclosed. The system comprises application software resident on a server and arranged to interact across a network with a user operating a client device...
7454339 Discriminative training for speaker and speech verification  
A method for discriminatively training acoustic models is provided for automated speaker verification (SV) and speech (or utterance) verification (UV) systems. The method includes: defining a...
7454334 Method and apparatus for automatically identifying animal species from their vocalizations  
Relatively powerful hand-held computing devices, Digital Signal Processors, Audio signal processing technology, voice recognition technology, expert systems, Hidden Markov Models, and/or neural...
7447633 Method and apparatus for training a text independent speaker recognition system using speech data with text labels  
There is provided an apparatus for providing a Text Independent (TI) speaker recognition mode in a Text Dependent (TD) Hidden Markov Model (HMM) speaker recognition system and/or a Text Constrained...
7447632 Voice authentication system  
A voice authentication system includes: a standard template storage part 17 in which a standard template that is generated from a registered voice of an authorized user and featured with a voice...
7424427 Systems and methods for classifying audio into broad phoneme classes  
An audio classification system classifies sounds in an audio stream as belonging to one of a relatively small number of classes. The audio classification system includes a signal analysis component...
7424156 Recognition method and the same system of ingegrating vocal input and handwriting input  
The present invention relates to a recognition method integrating vocal input and handwriting input. After receiving a vocal input of an object alphanumeric symbol, the system will recognize the...
7415410 Identification apparatus and method for receiving and processing audible commands  
An audible command can be utilized to both permit identification of the speaker and to permit subsequent actions that comprise a corresponding response to the audible command when the identity of...
7412643 Method and apparatus for linking representation and realization data  
A method and apparatus for creating links between a representation, (e.g. text data,) and a realization, (e.g. corresponding audio data,) is provided. According to the invention the realization is...
7412393 Method for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components  
A method of developing a dialog manager for a spoken dialog service is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable...