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7072835 Method and apparatus for speech recognition  
A method and apparatus for speech recognition of the present application has a process to collate, with an input utterance, an acoustic model corresponding to a hypothesis to be expressed by the...
7072836 Speech processing apparatus and method employing matching and confidence scores  
A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which each utterance matched to a feature model within a feature model memory ( 110 ) is associated with a confidence score indicative of...
7069215 Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices  
Finite-state systems and methods allow multiple input streams to be parsed and integrated by a single finite-state device. These systems and methods not only address multimodal recognition, but are...
7062441 Automated language assessment using speech recognition modeling  
A system for measuring an ability of a subject. The system includes a set of tasks that require the subject to provide one or more spoken responses. A speech recognition system, which is coupled to...
7058580 Client-server speech processing system, apparatus, method, and storage medium  
The system implements high-accuracy speech recognition while suppressing the amount of data transfer between the client and server. For this purpose, the client compression-encodes speech...
7058575 Integrating keyword spotting with graph decoder to improve the robustness of speech recognition  
An arrangement is provided for integrating graph decoder with keyword spotting to improve the robustness of speech recognition. When a graph decoder based speech recognition mechanism fails to...
7054813 Automatic generation of efficient grammar for heading selection  
A method of generating a grammar for recognizing headings in a speech recognition system can include identifying, within a data store, at least one heading selection associated with a content item....
7050976 Method and system for use of navigation history in a voice command platform  
A method and system for using navigation history in a voice command platform. The voice command platform maintains, for each user, a navigation history record indicating which voice command...
7043438 Moral standard protecting system in voice and/or text communication and interactive game system using therewith  
An administrative server interconnects user terminals through the communication network and transmits voice and/or text information submitted and received between the user terminals to a storage...
7043430 System and method for speech recognition using tonal modeling  
A system and method for speaker independent speech recognition is provided that integrates spectral and tonal analysis in a sequential architecture. The system analyzes the spectral content of a...
7039629 Method for inputting data into a system  
The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more...
7035800 Method for entering characters  
The invention concerns a voice-activated data input signal representing a character, means for processing the received speech signal and for comparing the processed speech signal with a stored...
7035742 Apparatus and method for characterizing an information signal  
For characterizing an information signal having an amplitude-time waveform with local extreme values, at first the local extreme values of the information signal are determined, wherein a local...
7024359 Distributed voice recognition system using acoustic feature vector modification  
A voice recognition system applies speaker-dependent modification functions to acoustic feature vectors prior to voice recognition pattern matching against a speaker-independent acoustic model. An...
7024361 Information processing apparatus and method, a computer readable medium storing a control program for making a computer implemented information process, and a control program for selecting a specific grammar corresponding to an active input field or for controlling selection of a grammar or comprising a code of a selection step of selecting a specific grammar  
An information processing apparatus inputs a document having a plurality of input fields, and displays it using a display control item. The apparatus then determines whether or not one of the...
7020587 Method and apparatus for generating and managing a language model data structure  
The generation and management of a language model data structure include assigning each segment of a received corpus to a node in a data structure that denotes dependencies between the respective...
7020609 Voice activated apparatus for accessing information on the World Wide Web  
This is a voice activated Hypermedia system using grammatical metadata, the system comprising: a speech user agent; a browsing module; and an information resource. The system may include: embedded...
7013277 Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition method, and storage medium  
A preliminary word-selecting section selects one or more words following words which have been obtained in a word string serving as a candidate for a result of speech recognition; and a matching...
7010485 Method and system of audio file searching  
A system, method, and computer program product for locating an audio segment includes an input device for transmitting an input sample indicative of the audio segment and a media player for playing...
7010484 Method of phrase verification with probabilistic confidence tagging  
A method of phrase verification to verify a phrase not only according to its confidence measures but also according to neighboring concepts and their confidence tags. First, an utterance is...
7003462 Voice filter for normalizing an agent's emotional response  
A method and apparatus are provided for adjusting a content of an oral presentation provided by an agent of an organization and perceived by a human target of the organization based upon an...
6999931 Spoken dialog system using a best-fit language model and best-fit grammar  
A spoken dialog system using a best-fit language model and a spoken dialog system using best-fit grammar are disclosed. A spoken dialog system implementing both a best-fit language model and...
6999929 Recognizing speech by selectively canceling model function mixture components  
A method for recognizing speech is proposed wherein the process of recognition is started using the starting acoustic model (SAM) and wherein the current acoustic model (CAM) is modified by...
6999928 Method and apparatus for speaker identification using cepstral covariance matrices and distance metrics  
Disclosed is a method of automated speaker identification, comprising receiving a sample speech input signal from a sample handset; deriving a cepstral covariance sample matrix from the first...
6996525 Selecting one of multiple speech recognizers in a system based on performance predections resulting from experience  
A method for selecting a speech recognizer from a number of speech recognizers in a speech recognition system. The speech recognition system receives an audio stream from an application and derives...
6996531 Automated database assistance using a telephone for a speech based or text based multimedia communication mode  
An interface for remote human input for reading a database, the interface including an automatic voice question unit for eliciting speech input, a speech recognition unit for recognizing human...
6993487 Software code comments management method and system supporting speech recognition technology  
A system and method for enabling audio comments to be used when writing and executing code, during design time and run time. A code writer is hereby enabled to simultaneously write code and compose...
6990455 Command and control using speech recognition for dental computer connected devices  
Tools (in the form of apparatus, systems and methods) for hands-free command and control of a dental computer imaging system are provided. A speech recognition unit converts to electronic speech...
6985861 Systems and methods for combining subword recognition and whole word recognition of a spoken input  
A computer-based detection (e.g., speech recognition) system combines a word decoder and subword decoder to detect words (or phrases) in a spoken input provided by a user into a speaker connected...
6985863 Speech recognition apparatus and method utilizing a language model prepared for expressions unique to spontaneous speech  
A speech recognition apparatus can include a transformation processor configured to transform at least one phoneme sequence included in speech into at least one word sequence, and to provide the...
6983247 Augmented-word language model  
A language model comprising a plurality of augmented-word n-grams and probabilities corresponding to such n-grams. Each n-gram is comprised of a sequence of augmented words. Each augmented word is...
6983252 Interactive human-machine interface with a plurality of active states, storing user input in a node of a multinode token  
A method and apparatus for controlling an interactive human-machine interface, which includes an input device and comprises a set of states. The set of states form a network through which data can...
6980954 Search method based on single triphone tree for large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer  
A search method based on a single triphone tree for large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer is disclosed in which speech signal are received. Tokens are propagated in a phonetic tree to...
6978240 Speech translation system utilizing holographic data storage medium  
A speech translation system and method are disclosed utilizing a holographic storage medium having a plurality of frames therein, each frame containing one or more discrete speech wave forms...
6973428 System and method for searching, analyzing and displaying text transcripts of speech after imperfect speech recognition  
A speech conversation is changed to a text transcript, which is then pre-processed and subjected to text mining to determine salient terms. Salient terms are those terms that meet a predetermined...
6973168 Method of identifying a caller with a telephone service operator  
A method of identifying a caller with a telephone service operator. Of the invention, said method comprises the following steps: for the operator, drawing up a list of literal expressions and...
6968310 Method, system, and apparatus for speech recognition  
The present invention can be used to improve speech recognition accuracy, especially with regard to characters, words and the like which can correspond to a plurality of readings. The same person...
6966030 Method, system and computer program product for implementing acronym assistance  
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing acronym assistance for a user of a text editor or browser program. An acronym in a text document is identified. Then the...
6963841 Speech training method with alternative proper pronunciation database  
In accordance with a present invention speech training system is disclosed. It uses a microphone to receive audible sounds input by a user into a first computing device having a program with a...
6963836 Speechdriven setting of a language of interaction  
A voice controlled electronic device includes a controller ( 12, 13, 14 ) for initiating individual functions of the electronic device. The controller also establishes a language attribute...
6961706 Speech recognition method and apparatus  
Concerned is speech recognition that reference speech information is extracted from a plurality of speech recognition dictionaries in a hierarchical structure to compare between extracted reference...
6947896 Text marking for deferred correction  
A method for marking dictated text for deferred correction or review of dictated text in a speech recognition system proofreader, comprising the steps of: displaying previously dictated text;...
6944592 Interactive voice response system  
An interactive voice response system which statistically analyses word usage in speech recognition results to select prompts for use in the interaction. A received voice signal is converted to text...
6931351 Decision making in classification problems  
A method of classifying samples to one of a number of predetermined classes involves using a number of class models or classifiers to form order statistic for each classifier. A linear combination...
6928404 System and methods for acoustic and language modeling for automatic speech recognition with large vocabularies  
Systems and methods are provided for generating a language component vocabulary VC for a speech recognition system having a language vocabulary V of a plurality of word forms. One method for...
6922809 Method and apparatus providing capitalization recovery for text  
A method for capitalizing text in a document includes processing a reference corpus to construct a plurality of dictionaries of capitalized terms, where the plurality of dictionaries include a...
6922669 Knowledge-based strategies applied to N-best lists in automatic speech recognition systems  
A highly accurate technique for recognizing spoken digit strings is described. A spoken digit string is received and analyzed by a speech recognizer, which generates a list of hypothesized digit...
6912498 Error correction in speech recognition by correcting text around selected area  
Correcting incorrect text associated with recognition errors in computer-implemented speech recognition includes receiving a selection of a word from a recognized utterance. The selection indicates...
6910012 Method and system for speech recognition using phonetically similar word alternatives  
A method for performing speech recognition can include the steps of providing a grammar including entries comprising a parent word and a pseudo word being substantially phonetically equivalent to...
6907397 System and method of media file access and retrieval using speech recognition  
An embedded device for playing media files is capable of generating a play list of media files based on input speech from a user. It includes an indexer generating a plurality of speech recognition...
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