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7624012 Method and apparatus for automatically generating a general extraction function calculable on an input signal, e.g. an audio signal to extract therefrom a predetermined global characteristic value of its contents, e.g. a descriptor  
The invention enables to generate a general function ( 4 ) which can operate on an input signal (Sx) to extract from the latter a value (DVex) of a global characteristic value expressing a feature...
7603274 Method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal  
A method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal independent of a pattern recognition ratio is provided. The method for determining the...
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...
7586423 Handheld electronic device and method for dual-mode disambiguation of text input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In response to an ambiguous editing input at...
7545290 Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of compound text input and for prioritizing compound language solutions according to completeness of text components  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble...
7471775 Method and apparatus for generating and updating a voice tag  
A method and apparatus ( 100 ) for updating a voice tag comprising N stored voice tag phoneme sequences includes a function ( 110 ) for determining ( 205 ) an accepted stored voice tag phoneme...
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...
7424425 Optimization of detection systems using a detection error tradeoff analysis criterion  
In detection systems, such as speaker verification systems, for a given operating point range, with an associated detection “cost”, the detection cost is preferably reduced by essentially...
7421387 Dynamic N-best algorithm to reduce recognition errors  
A method for reducing recognition errors. The method includes receiving an N-best list associated with an input of a computer based recognition system. The N-best list includes one or more...
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...
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...
7376434 Adaptable communication techniques for electronic devices  
Improved approaches for users of electronic devices to communicate with one another are disclosed. The electronic devices have audio and/or textual output capabilities. The improved approaches can...
7177808 Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable speech  
Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable speech. Degraded speech is preprocessed in a speaker identification (SID) process to produce SID usable and SID unusable segments....
7146315 Multichannel voice detection in adverse environments  
A multichannel source activity detection system, e.g., a voice activity detection (VAD) system, and method that exploits spatial localization of a target audio source is provided. The method...
7054811 Method and system for verifying and enabling user access based on voice parameters  
A system for verifying and enabling user access, which includes a voice registration unit for providing a substantially unique and initial identification of each of a plurality of the speaker/users...
6937702 Method, apparatus, and computer readable media for minimizing the risk of fraudulent access to call center resources  
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for minimizing the risk of fraudulent access to call center resources. The invention described herein provides a method of minimizing fraudulent...
6925154 Methods and apparatus for conversational name dialing systems  
Techniques for providing an automated conversational name dialing system for placing a call in response to an input by a user. One technique begins with the step of analyzing an input from a user,...
6741962 Speech recognition system and standard pattern preparation system as well as speech recognition method and standard pattern preparation method  
A speech recognition system for recognizing an input voice of a narrow frequency band. The speech recognition system includes: a frequency band converting unit for converting the input voice of the...
6697778 Speaker verification and speaker identification based on a priori knowledge  
Client speaker locations in a speaker space are used to generate speech models for comparison with test speaker data or test speaker speech models. The speaker space can be constructed using...
6563911 Speech enabled, automatic telephone dialer using names, including seamless interface with computer-based address book programs  
The present invention a speech enabled automatic telephone dialer device, system, and method using a spoken name corresponding to name-telephone number data of computer-based address book programs....
6405166 Multimedia search apparatus and method for searching multimedia content using speaker detection by audio data  
A multimedia search apparatus and method for searching multimedia content using speaker detection to segment the multimedia content. The multimedia search apparatus receives a search request from a...
6356868 Voiceprint identification system  
A voiceprint identification system identifies and verifies a user from voice data collected from a single interaction with the user. The voice data is a number, word phrase or any utterance chosen...
6341263 Speech recognition apparatus, method and storage medium thereof  
A voice recognition system, method and storage medium is provided. The system includes a plurality of storage sections, a selection section, an adaptation section, a plurality of calculation...
6338036 Confirmation notification by apparatus using audio recognition as to the acceptability of an input sound  
When a sound which is to be recognized is input to a device, this invention briefly informs the user of whether the sound has been input in an appropriate state. A sound inputting part which...
6263311 Method and system for providing security using voice recognition  
Method and system for providing security to a space by detecting an unauthorized presence in the space using voice recognition. A plurality of acceptable voice patterns is generated from sounds of...
6260012 Mobile phone having speaker dependent voice recognition method and apparatus  
An apparatus and method for performing improved speech recognition in a communication terminal, e.g., a mobile phone with a hands-free voice dialing function. In a speech recognition mode, a user's...
6246987 System for permitting access to a common resource in response to speaker identification and verification  
A method of accessing a resource, where the resource is accessible by a plurality of authorized persons. The method receives a signal representative of a first utterance from a first person,...
6236967 Tone and speech recognition in communications systems  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for verifying address identifiers over a telecommunications network by first storing a plurality of zip codes in a database. A corresponding...
6223161 Method for setting terminal specific parameters of a communication terminal  
In a method for setting terminal-specific parameters of a communication terminal, a speech recognition device is activated to convert acoustic signals into a data sequence to be compared to a...
6223159 Speaker adaptation device and speech recognition device  
Voice feature quantity extractor extracts feature vector time-series data by acoustic feature quantity analysis of the speaker's voice. Reference speaker-dependent conversion factor computation...
6223156 Speech recognition of caller identifiers using location information  
A speech recognition system recognizes a caller identifier received during a telephone call as a speech signal from a caller. The system generates a plurality of caller identifier choices from the...
6205424 Two-staged cohort selection for speaker verification system  
Speech signals from speakers having known identities are used to create sets of acoustic models. The acoustic models along with their corresponding identities are stored in a memory. A plurality of...
6199067 System and method for generating personalized user profiles and for utilizing the generated user profiles to perform adaptive internet searches  
A system and method for automatically generating personalized user profiles and for utilizing the generated profiles to perform adaptive Internet or computer data searches is provided. In...
6195639 Matching algorithm for isolated speech recognition  
The present invention provides a system and method for improving conventional, isolated word, speech recognition systems. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a pattern...
6182037 Speaker recognition over large population with fast and detailed matches  
Fast and detailed match techniques for speaker recognition are combined into a hybrid system in which speakers are associated in groups when potential confusion is detected between a speaker being...
6161090 Apparatus and methods for speaker verification/identification/classification employing non-acoustic and/or acoustic models and databases  
A method of controlling access of a speaker to one of a service and a facility, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving first spoken utterances of the speaker, the first spoken utterances...
6151575 Rapid adaptation of speech models  
A source-adapted model for use in speech recognition is generated by defining a linear relationship between a first element of an initial model and a first element of the source-adapted model....
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...
6128594 Process of voice recognition in a harsh environment, and device for implementation  
A process for voice recognition in a harsh environment such as the cockpit of a military aircraft. An acquisition device is connected to an acoustico-phonetic decoding device which is then...
6029130 Integrated endpoint detection for improved speech recognition method and system  
A method and a system recognize speech based upon an approach which combines certain advantages of speech detection and word spotting for improved accuracy without sacrificing efficiency. The...
5937381 System for voice verification of telephone transactions  
A system and a method is disclosed for verifying a voice of a user conducting a telephone transaction. The system and method includes a mechanism for prompting the user to speak in a limited...
5862519 Blind clustering of data with application to speech processing systems  
The present invention relates to a method for segmenting speech into subword speech segments. Optimal boundary locations for each estimate of a number of segments are determined within an estimated...
5794195 Start/end point detection for word recognition  
During speech recognition of words, a precise and strong detection of start/end points of the words must be ensured, even in very noisy surroundings. Use of a feature with noise-resistant...
5774851 Speech recognition apparatus utilizing utterance length information  
An apparatus includes a speech pattern memory, a microphone, an utterance length detector circuit, an utterance length selector circuit, switches, and a pattern matching unit. The speech pattern...
5774841 Real-time reconfigurable adaptive speech recognition command and control apparatus and method  
An adaptive speech recognition and control system and method for controlling various mechanisms and systems in response to spoken instructions and in which spoken commands are effective to direct...
5758317 Method for voice-based affiliation of an operator identification code to a communication unit  
A method for voice-based affiliation of an operator identification code to a communication unit (101) is accomplished when the communication unit transmits a voice-based affiliation request, a...
5745873 Speech recognition using final decision based on tentative decisions  
A method for recognizing speech elements (e.g., phones) in utterances includes the following steps. Based on acoustic frequency, at least two different acoustic representatives are isolated for...
5696877 Pattern recognition using a predictive neural network  
Input feature vectors (a(t)) is considered a pattern selected from a plurality of reference patterns which represent categories of recognition objects. Each reference pattern is defined by a...
5687287 Speaker verification method and apparatus using mixture decomposition discrimination  
A new speaker verification method, termed Mixture Decomposition Discrimination (MDD), and a new apparatus for using MDD are presented. MDD takes mixture component score information from a speaker...
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