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6345253 Method and apparatus for retrieving audio information using primary and supplemental indexes  
An audio retrieval system and method are provided for augmenting the transcription of an audio file with one or more alternate word or phrase choices, such as next-best guesses for each word or...
6345252 Methods and apparatus for retrieving audio information using content and speaker information  
Methods and apparatus are provided for retrieving audio information based on the audio content as well as the identity of the speaker. The results of content and speaker-based audio information...
6339759 Method of determining an acoustic model for a word  
For the recognition of spoken text it is necessary that the words to be recognized are available in acoustically modeled form, i.e. in the form of a sequence of reference values. These reference...
6338035 Voice input word processor  
A voice-input document creation system which reduces correction times to a wrongly-recognized input to ensure input efficiency. The system has a determination means for comparing the feature...
6332120 Broadcast speech recognition system for keyword monitoring  
Broadcast audio is automatically monitored for information of interest. A computer processor has a memory associated therewith for storing a vocabulary of keywords of interest. An audio receiver...
6332122 Transcription system for multiple speakers, using and establishing identification  
A method and apparatus for transcribing text from multiple speakers in a computer system having a speech recognition application. The system receives speech from one of a plurality of speakers...
6330537 Automatic filtering of TV contents using speech recognition and natural language  
Speech recognition and natural language parsing components are used to extract the meaning of the user's spoken input. The system stores a semantic representation of an electronic program guide,...
6330539 Dialog interface system  
In the dialog interface apparatus of the present invention, input speech is converted to an input semantic representation by a speech recognition unit, and a dialog management unit outputs an...
6327566 Method and apparatus for correcting misinterpreted voice commands in a speech recognition system  
An efficient method and system, particularly well-suited for correcting natural language understanding (NLU) commands, corrects spoken commands misinterpreted by a speech recognition system. The...
6327568 Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing  
In a multistation intercommunication system human speech is processed on at least two respective levels of generic complexity. The speech is received in one or more origin stations in parallel and...
6324509 Method and apparatus for accurate endpointing of speech in the presence of noise  
An apparatus for accurate endpointing of speech in the presence of noise includes a processor and a software module. The processor executes the instructions of the software module to compare an...
6324512 System and method for allowing family members to access TV contents and program media recorder over telephone or internet  
Users of the system can access the TV contents and program media recorder by speaking in natural language sentences. The user interacts with the television and with other multimedia equipment, such...
6321196 Phonetic spelling for speech recognition  
Speech recognition apparatus includes means for determining when a speaker desires to spell a first word. The speaker may then say a sequence of words selected from a large vocabulary without being...
6321197 Communication device and method for endpointing speech utterances  
A communication device capable of endpointing speech utterances includes a microprocessor (110) connected to communication interface circuitry (115), memory (120), audio circuitry (130), an...
6321226 Flexible keyboard searching  
A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no...
6317711 Speech segment detection and word recognition  
In a speech segment detection method, a sequence of speech samples is provided from an input speech signal and a sequence of feature vectors is provided from the speech samples, the feature vectors...
6314392 Method and apparatus for clustering-based signal segmentation  
In a computerized method a continuous signal is segmented in order to determine statistically stationary units of the signal. The continuous signal is sampled at periodic intervals to produce a...
6311152 System for chinese tokenization and named entity recognition  
A system (100, 200) for tokenization and named entity recognition of ideographic language is disclosed. In the system, a word lattice is generated for a string of ideographic characters using...
6311159 Speech controlled computer user interface  
A speech controlled computer user interface communicates between a user and at least one application program. The user interface has a speech layer, an utterance layer, and a discourse layer. The...
6308155 Feature extraction for automatic speech recognition  
An automatic speech recognition apparatus and method with a front end feature extractor that improves recognition performance under adverse acoustic conditions are disclosed. The inventive feature...
6308156 Microsegment-based speech-synthesis process  
A digital speech synthesis process in which utterances in a language are recorded, and the recorded utterances are divided into speech segments which are stored so as to allow their allocation to...
6308154 Method of natural language communication using a mark-up language  
A method and apparatus are provided for encoding a spoken language. The method includes the steps recognizing a verbal content of the spoken language, measuring an attribute of the recognized...
6304844 Spelling speech recognition apparatus and method for communications  
An accurate speech recognition system capable of rapidly processing greater varieties of words and operable in many different devices, but without the computational power and memory requirements,...
6301560 Discrete speech recognition system with ballooning active grammar  
A discrete speech recognition system has a default grammar with keywords and non-keywords. Upon detecting a non-keyword, the speech recognition system performs the function associated with the...
6301562 Speech recognition using both time encoding and HMM in parallel  
A speech recognition method that combines time encoding and hidden Markov approaches. The speech is input and encoded using time encoding, such as TESPAR. A hidden Markov model generates scores;...
6301561 Automatic speech recognition using multi-dimensional curve-linear representations  
A method and apparatus for speech recognition using Markov processes on curves are presented. The method and apparatus operate such that input speech utterances are received and represented as...
6298324 Speech recognition system with changing grammars and grammar help command  
A speech recognition system has an operator interface that helps a user navigate new or changing grammars. The speech recognition system includes an application, a vocabulary that holds a set of...
6285980 Context sharing of similarities in context dependent word models  
A natural number recognition method and system that uses minimum classification error trained inter-word context dependent models of the head-body-tail type over a specific vocabulary. One part of...
6272455 Method and apparatus for understanding natural language  
In a speech recognition system capable of identifying particular words, input speech signals can be processed to detect certain patterns and word combinations. The recognition of these speech...
6269188 Word grouping accuracy value generation  
The present invention is a computer-implemented method for calculating word accuracy. Word grouping accuracy values (260) are calculated (212) by using the character accuracy values (250)...
6260011 Methods and apparatus for automatically synchronizing electronic audio files with electronic text files  
Automated methods and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text data, e.g., in the form of electronic files, representing audio and text expressions of the same work or information are described....
6256630 Word-containing database accessing system for responding to ambiguous queries, including a dictionary of database words, a dictionary searcher and a database searcher  
A database accessing system for processing a request to access a database including a multiplicity of entries, each entry including at least one word, the request including a sequence of...
6253174 Speech recognition system that restarts recognition operation when a new speech signal is entered using a talk switch  
A speech recognition system for use in an automobile navigation system performs speech processing for recognizing speech or spoken words that correspond to a name of a place and a word designating...
6249765 System and method for extracting data from audio messages  
A system and method for extracting key information from digitized audio messages, including telephone voice messages. Information, such as a telephone number and the name of the caller, is derived...
6243676 Searching and retrieving multimedia information  
A method retrieves a multi-media segment from a signal stream having an audio component and a closed caption component. This includes separating the audio component and the closed caption text...
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...
6236965 Method for automatically generating pronunciation dictionary in speech recognition system  
A method for automatically generating a pronunciation dictionary in a speech recognition system is disclosed. Pronunciation patterns of a large scale pronunciation dictionary are learned through a...
6233553 Method and system for automatically determining phonetic transcriptions associated with spelled words  
New entries are added to the lexicon by entering them as spelled words. A transcription generator, such as a decision-tree-based phoneme or morpheme transcription generator, converts each spelled...
6230126 Word-spotting speech recognition device and system  
A device for speech recognition includes a dictionary which stores features of recognition objects. The device further includes a matching unit which compares features of input speech with the...
6230129 Segment-based similarity method for low complexity speech recognizer  
A digital word prototype is constructed using one or more speech utterance for a given spoken word or phrase. First, a phone model is used to derive phoneme similarity time series for each of a...
6224636 Speech recognition using nonparametric speech models  
The content of a speech sample is recognized using a computer system by evaluating the speech sample against a nonparametric set of training observations, for example, utterances from one or more...
6219638 Telephone messaging and editing system  
A messaging system for receiving speech over a telephone and converting the speech to text includes a first server for receiving speech input by a user, a speech recognition system for converting...
6219641 System and method of transmitting speech at low line rates  
A method of transmitting spoken words including a speech recognition engine in a computer system, the speech recognition engine having a data dictionary containing a number of words associated with...
6219453 Method and apparatus for performing an automatic correction of misrecognized words produced by an optical character recognition technique by using a Hidden Markov Model based algorithm  
A method and apparatus for correcting misrecognized words appearing in electronic documents that have been generated by scanning an original document in accordance with an optical character...
6219646 Methods and apparatus for translating between languages  
Methods and apparatus for performing translation between different language are provided. The present invention includes a translation system that performs translation having increased accuracy by...
6216123 Method and system for rapid retrieval in a full text indexing system  
A method and system for generating and searching a full text index. The fill text index includes the use of word numbers and a minimum delta which minimizes the need to access document level...
6212499 Audible language recognition by successive vocabulary reduction  
A syllable or phoneme at the beginning of a word input by voice is subjected to voice recognition. Using the recognized syllable or phoneme as a key, applicable data is retrieved from a plurality...
6208966 Telephone network service for converting speech to touch-tones  
A telecommunications network service for converting spoken words to individual DTMF (e.g., touch-tone) signals to be furnished to an automated system responsive to touch-tone control thereof. In...
6208970 Method and system for estimation of a source of a voice signal  
Methods of estimating if a voice signal is more likely formed by a machine or human, are disclosed. The methods are particularly well suited for use in an automated call establishment system. A...
6208965 Method and apparatus for performing a name acquisition based on speech recognition  
A method and apparatus for recognizing an input identifier on the basis of a set of comparison identifiers. After a user provides the input identifier according to a first form, the present...
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