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5664061 Interactive computer system recognizing spoken commands  
An interactive computer system having a processor executing a target computer program, and having a speech recognizer for converting an utterance into a command signal for the target computer...
5664050 Process for evaluating speech quality in speech synthesis  
The present invention relates to a process for evaluating speech quality in speech synthesizers with the aid of a speech recognition system. The recognition system is programmed using a number of...
5655057 Speech recognition apparatus  
A speech recognition apparatus includes an average vector calculating portion 5, a compensating portion 6, and a matching portion 8. The average vector calculating portion 5 calculates an average...
5651096 Merging of language models from two or more application programs for a speech recognition system  
A speech recognition system operating on a computer system, which uses a single speech recognizer for all of the currently running application programs and provides a way of efficiently determining...
5649060 Automatic indexing and aligning of audio and text using speech recognition  
A method of automatically aligning a written transcript with speech in video and audio clips. The disclosed technique involves as a basic component an automatic speech recognizer. The automatic...
5640488 System and method for constructing clustered dictionary for speech and text recognition  
The dictionary is broken into clusters by first grouping the dictionary according to a rule based procedure whereby the dictionary is sorted by word length and alphabetically. After sorting, a...
5640485 Speech recognition method and system  
The present invention relates to a speech recognition method and a system for a speech-controllable telephone in which a value is computed (2) for a reference word with a speech recognizer (8) on...
5638425 Automated directory assistance system using word recognition and phoneme processing method  
A mechanized directory assistance system for use in a telecommunications network includes multiple speech recognition devices comprising a word recognition device, a phoneme recognition device, and...
5630015 Speech signal processing apparatus for detecting a speech signal from a noisy speech signal  
A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is...
5625748 Topic discriminator using posterior probability or confidence scores  
An improved topic discriminator includes an integrated speech recognizer or word and phrase spotter as part of a speech event detector, and a topic classifier trained on topic-dependent event...
5621809 Computer program product for automatic recognition of a consistent message using multiple complimentary sources of information  
A general approach is provided for the combined use of several sources of information in the automatic recognition of a consistent message. For each message unit (e.g., word) the total likelihood...
5617855 Medical testing device and associated method  
A medical testing device comprises an analog-to-digital converter for converting to an electrical digital signal a voice-frequency signal originating in a speech by a human speaker. The A/D...
5617509 Method, apparatus, and radio optimizing Hidden Markov Model speech recognition  
In a statistical based speech recognition system, one of the key issues is the selection of the Hidden Markov Model that best matches a given sequence of feature observations. The problem is...
5613037 Rejection of non-digit strings for connected digit speech recognition  
A high reliability digit string recognizer/rejection system that processes spoken words through an HMM recognizer to determine a string of candidate digits, a filler model for each digit in the...
5612869 Electronic health care compliance assistance  
An electronic health care compliance assistance system includes a user device and a host station used by a health care provider. The user device generates voice messages to remind a user when and...
5613034 Method and apparatus for recognizing spoken words in a speech signal  
In the recognition of coherent speech, language models are favourably used to increase the reliability of recognition, which models, for example, take into account the probabilities of word...
5602960 Continuous mandarin chinese speech recognition system having an integrated tone classifier  
A speech recognition system for continuous Mandarin Chinese speech comprises a microphone, an A/D converter, a syllable recognition system, an integrated tone classifier, and a confidence score...
5598505 Cepstral correction vector quantizer for speech recognition  
A method for correcting cepstral vectors representative of speech generated in a test environment by use of a vector quantization (VQ) system with a codebook of vectors that was generated using...
5594834 Method and system for recognizing a boundary between sounds in continuous speech  
Boundaries of spoken sounds in continuous speech are identified by classifying delimitative sounds to provide improved performance in a speech-recognition system. Delimitative sounds, those...
5583965 Methods and apparatus for training and operating voice recognition systems  
A voice recognition system and method for training the same are provided wherein a first voice signal representing an instruction as well as a predetermined instruction signal corresponding to the...
5577165 Speech dialogue system for facilitating improved human-computer interaction  
A speech dialogue system capable of realizing natural and smooth dialogue between the system and a human user, and easy maneuverability of the system. In the system, a semantic content of input...
5577164 Incorrect voice command recognition prevention and recovery processing method and apparatus  
Information for identifying whether a word should be recognized in the next recognition operation is stored in a recognition dictionary. This information is updated each time the recognized result...
5572624 Speech recognition system accommodating different sources  
The speech recognition system disclosed herein obtains improved recognition accuracy by employing recognition models which are discriminatively trained from a data base comprising training data...
5566229 Voice directed communications system employing shared subscriber identifiers  
The use of subscriber identifiers in a voice directed telecommunications system employing automatic speaker recognition is enhanced such that a group of subscribers may share the same identifier.
5562453 Adaptive biofeedback speech tutor toy  
A prompt-providing adaptive speech tutor toy, is characterized by a programmed sequence of prompts in standard speech evoking a user's voice response of a word or phrase. Initially, a vocalized...
5561722 Pattern matching method and pattern recognition apparatus  
A pattern matching multiplies distances between an input pattern and standard patterns by distance-scale correcting weight coefficients respectively prepared for the standard patterns. This yields...
5559925 Determining the useability of input signals in a data recognition system  
A system for generating a signal proportional to the useability of the output of a speech recognition system comprises a processor, an engine, and a histogram object. The histogram object comprises...
5532936 Transform method and spectrograph for displaying characteristics of speech  
A method of transforming time-domain data to frequency-domain data by means of digital numerical models of damped oscillators, and a spectrograph implemented using said method.
5526407 Method and apparatus for managing information  
A method and apparatus for recording, categorizing, organizing, managing and retrieving speech information obtains a speech stream; stores the speech stream in at least a temporary storage;...
5526463 System for processing a succession of utterances spoken in continuous or discrete form  
The system of the invention relates to continuous speech pre-filtering systems for use in discrete and continuous speech recognition computer systems. The speech to be recognized is converted from...
5526466 Speech recognition apparatus  
At the time of training reference speech, the relationship between durations of each recognition unit is obtained by a duration training circuit and, at the time of recognizing speech, a beginning...
5517558 Voice-controlled account access 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 first character string having a plurality of...
5504805 Calling number identification using speech recognition  
In a system such as an AUDIX® voice mail system or answering machine, a caller's telephone number is extracted from a recorded message using voice recognition. The called party initiates automatic...
5495553 Recognizer for recognizing voice messages in pulse code modulated format  
A recognition device and method for recognizing a voice message in the form of pulse code modulation (PCM) digital signals indicative of samples of the voice message. The device and method are...
5477511 Portable documentation system  
Disclosed are means and method to implement a portable and fully functional audio data recording and processing system. Voice data is received, converted to digital representations, compressed and...
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...
5465317 Speech recognition system with improved rejection of words and sounds not in the system vocabulary  
A speech recognizer that selects a command model for a current sound if the best match score for the current sound exceeds its corresponding threshold score. The threshold score is assigned a...
5465378 Report generating system  
A preferred report generating system includes a computer (12) responsive to user-spoken inputs for selecting previously defined report material including text and graphics stored in memory...
5457770 Speaker independent speech recognition system and method using neural network and/or DP matching technique  
A system and method for recognizing an utterance of a speech in which each reference pattern stored in a dictionary is constituted by a series of phonemes of a word to be recognized, each phoneme...
5454062 Method for recognizing spoken words  
A method for identifying any one of a plurality of utterances using a programmed digital computing system, each utterance having an audible form representable by a sequence of speech elements each...
5452397 Method and system for preventing entry of confusingly similar phases in a voice recognition system vocabulary list  
A method and system prevent the entry of confusingly similar phrases (60) in a vocabulary list (10) of a speaker-dependent voice recognition system. The method first receives (20, 30, 50) and...
5440663 Computer system for speech recognition  
The invention concerns a computer system for speech recognition with a word table and a triphone table in its memory. In response to a new word not contained in the word table and which is...
5432886 Speech recognition device for calculating a corrected similarity partially dependent on circumstances of production of input patterns  
In a speech recognition device including a similarity calculator for calculating a usual similarity as a provisional similarity between an input pattern and prepared reference patterns, a...
5428707 Apparatus and methods for training speech recognition systems and their users and otherwise improving speech recognition performance  
A tutorial instructs how to use a word recognition system, such as one for speech recognition. It specifies a set of allowed response words for each of a plurality of states. It sends messages on...
5420912 Telephone having portable voice control module for playing back speech or performing a hands-free telephone function  
The operation and control of devices is made possible by a portable unit. Operation and control of devices, particularly telephone installations is a means of speech via a portable voice module. A...
5408582 Method and apparatus adapted for an audibly-driven, handheld, keyless and mouseless computer for performing a user-centered natural computer language  
The invention is a software driven methodology plus input processing circuit used to program a computer with instructions derived from user-spoken voice commands. Any "mathematical" or "logical"...
5396542 Method for use by a telecommunications system in enabling improved attendant services  
A method where a telecommunication system records a message spoken by a caller and plays the recorded message to a human attendant for use in routing an incoming call without the attendant having...
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...
5377303 Controlled computer interface  
Voice utterances are substituted for manipulation of a pointing device, the pointing device being of the kind which is manipulated to control motion of a cursor on a computer display and to...
5377302 System for recognizing speech  
A pattern recognition system particularly useful for recognizing speech or handwriting. An input signal is first filtered by a filter bank having two stages where the outputs of the first stage is...