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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...
7412382 Voice interactive system and method  
A voice interactive system includes an acoustic processing part 11 for performing acoustic signal processing with respect to an input voice signal, a voice recognizing part 12 for recognizing...
7409343 Verification score normalization in a speaker voice recognition device  
During a learning phase, a speech recognition device generates parameters of an acceptance voice model relating to a voice segment spoken by an authorized speaker and a rejection voice model. It...
7406422 Techniques for improving collaboration effectiveness  
A computer-implemented method, in a given computer, of identifying at least one current speaker among at least three participants of a network-based collaborating system. The participants...
7406421 Systems and methods for reviewing informational content in a vehicle  
A system and method for reviewing inputted voice instructions in a vehicle-based telematics control unit. The system includes a microphone, a speech recognition processor, and an output device. The...
7401017 Adaptive multi-pass speech recognition system  
Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first...
7391877 Spatial processor for enhanced performance in multi-talker speech displays  
Optimal head related transfer function spatial configurations designed to maximize speech intelligibility in multi-talker speech displays by spatially separating competing speech channels combined...
7386452 Automated detection of spoken numbers in voice messages  
An apparatus, program product and method utilize voice recognition to process voice messages in an automated manner to detect spoken numbers contained therein. Detected spoken numbers can then be...
7386448 Biometric voice authentication  
A system and method enrolls a speaker with an enrollment utterance and authenticates a user with a biometric analysis of an authentication utterance, without the need for a PIN (Personal...
7386443 System and method for mobile automatic speech recognition  
A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a...
7386151 System and method for assessing suspicious behaviors  
Identity and biometric data are collected from individuals. The collected data is used to form biometric data packages, each of which contains information about one biometric feature and identity...
7383184 Method for determining a characteristic data record for a data signal  
A method for determining a characteristic data set (“fingerprint”) for a sound signal, the sound signal itself is searched through for characteristic locations, and these characteristics...
7379869 Voice evaluation for comparison of a user's voice to a pre-recorded voice of another  
A method of comparing voice signatures is provided comprising selecting an original performance. The original performance is comprised of an original performance voice signature. A user...
7376645 Multimodal natural language query system and architecture for processing voice and proximity-based queries  
The present invention provides a wireless natural language query system, architecture, and method for processing multimodally-originated queries, including voice and proximity-based queries. The...
7376566 Image forming apparatus and method  
Provided are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method in which a decline in the recognition rate of voice recognition ascribable to operating sound during printing can be prevented by...
7373301 Method for detecting emotions from speech using speaker identification  
To reduce the error rate when classifying emotions from an acoustical speech input (SI) only, it is suggested to include a process of speaker identification to obtain certain speaker identification...
7366666 Relative delta computations for determining the meaning of language inputs  
A method for processing language input can include the step of determining at least two possible meanings for a language input. For each possible meaning, a probability that the possible meaning is...
7363223 Policy analysis framework for conversational biometrics  
The present invention describes a framework for the analytical and visual analysis and tuning of complex speaker verification systems guided by a policy finite state machine. The Receiver Operating...
7359857 Method and system of correcting spectral deformations in the voice, introduced by a communication network  
A technique for correcting the voice spectral deformations introduced by a communication network. Prior to the operation of equalization of the voice signal of a speaker, the constitution of...
7356131 Methods and systems for voice activated dialing  
Methods and systems for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a...
7353171 Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with voice commands  
Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with voice commands are described herein. In an example method, at least one of a television program audio signal or a voice command...
7346508 Information retrieving method and apparatus  
A speaker of encoded speech data recorded in a semiconductor storage device in an IC recorder is to be retrieved easily. An information receiving unit 10 in a speaker retrieval apparatus 1 ...
7337115 Systems and methods for providing acoustic classification  
A speech recognition system receives an audio signal and detects various features of the audio signal. For example, the system classifies the audio signal into speech and non-speech portions,...
7318032 Speaker recognition method based on structured speaker modeling and a “Pickmax” scoring technique  
A technique for improved score calculation and normalization in a framework of recognition with phonetically structured speaker models. The technique involves determining, for each frame and each...
7315819 Apparatus for performing speaker identification and speaker searching in speech or sound image data, and method thereof  
A process of identifying a speaker in coded speech data and a process of searching for the speaker are efficiently performed with fewer computations and with a smaller storage capacity. In an...
7308079 Automating testing path responses to external systems within a voice response system  
A method of testing path a voice response system can include establishing a voice link between a test system and a voice response system and playing voice prompts to the test system over the voice...
7302391 Methods and apparatus for performing speech recognition over a network and using speech recognition results  
Techniques for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models are described. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices...
7302390 Configurable distributed speech recognition system  
A configurable distributed speech recognition system comprises a configurable distributed speech recognition protocol, and a configurable distributed speech recognition server. Herein, the...
7299177 Speaker recognition in a multi-speaker environment and comparison of several voice prints to many  
One-to-many comparisons of callers'voice prints with known voice prints to identify any matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service...
7296218 Instant note capture/presentation apparatus, system and method  
A live-presentation utterance-capture system includes a microphone accessible to a speaker at a live presentation; a voice-recognition mechanism configured linguistically to interpret a vocal...
7295970 Unsupervised speaker segmentation of multi-speaker speech data  
Systems and methods for unsupervised segmentation of multi-speaker speech or audio data by speaker. A front-end analysis is applied to input speech data to obtain feature vectors. The speech data...
7292979 Time ordered indexing of audio data  
Methods and apparatuses in which attributes including one or more types of accents and one or more types of human languages from an audio information stream are identified. Each identified...
7292678 Voice activated, voice responsive product locator system, including product location method utilizing product bar code and aisle-situated, aisle-identifying bar code  
The present invention is an item location system which relies upon voice activation and responsiveness to identify location(s) of item(s) sought by a user. The system includes a continuous speech...
7289959 Biometric identification method, portable electronic device and electronic device acquiring biometric data therefor  
A biometric identification method includes the steps of acquiring biometric data, analysing the data to produce a current signature, and comparing the current signature with a reference signature....
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