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7403899 Method for dialog management  
A spoken dialog system and method having a dialog management module are disclosed. The dialog management module includes a plurality of dialog motivators for handling various operations during a...
7401018 Foreign language learning apparatus, foreign language learning method, and medium  
A speech recognition unit ( 114 ) and a processor unit ( 116 ) of a foreign language learning device ( 100 ) receive sentence speech information corresponding to a sentence pronounced by a learner...
7392190 Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis  
A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data...
7392189 System for speech recognition with multi-part recognition  
A speech recognition system for processing voice inputs from a user to select a list element from a list or group of list elements. Recognition procedures are carried out on the voice input of the...
7392188 System and method enabling acoustic barge-in  
A system and method enabling acoustic barge-in during a voice prompt in a communication system. An acoustic prompt model is trained to represent the system prompt using the specific speech signal...
7392186 System and method for effectively implementing an optimized language model for speech recognition  
A system and method for effectively implementing an optimized language model for speech recognition includes initial language models each created by combining source models according to selectable...
7392182 Speech recognition system  
A speech recognition system processes speech outputs from a user to select a list element from a list of list elements. The user speaks the speech output as a whole word and an initial character...
7386454 Natural error handling in speech recognition  
A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural...
7386453 Dynamically changing the levels of reading assistance and instruction to support the needs of different individuals  
Techniques for dynamic personalized reading instruction at word and sentence level are provided by determining word recognition level and learning gradient information for a user. Comprehension...
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...
7386449 Knowledge-based flexible natural speech dialogue system  
A knowledge-based natural speech dialogue system includes: (i) a knowledge support system, (ii) a flexible dialogue control system, and (iii) a context information system. Flexibilities of the...
7386101 System and method for call answer determination for automated calling systems  
There is disclosed an automatic calling system which analyzes the contents of detected voice on a called line and controls the operation of the calling system dependent upon the analyzed context....
7383185 System and method of epsilon removal of weighted automata and transducers  
An improved ε-removal method is disclosed that computes for any input weighted automaton A with ε-transitions an equivalent weighted automation B with no ε-transitions. The method comprises two...
7383182 Systems and methods for speech recognition and separate dialect identification  
A speech-to-text conversion system. The two-way speech recognition and dialect system comprises a computer system, an attached microphone assembly, and speech-to-text conversion software. The...
7382867 Variable data voice survey and recipient voice message capture system  
Personalized voice survey delivery systems and methods in which a computer identifies a person to be surveyed, including his or her phone number or Internet login to a specific website, or email...
7380203 Natural input recognition tool  
A recognition tool according to various examples of the invention intelligently recognizes natural input before it is passed to a destination or target application. More particularly, the...
7376560 Speech recognition device to mark parts of a recognized text  
In a transcription device ( 1 ) for transcribing a spoken text (GT) into a recognized text (ET) and for editing incorrectly recognized parts of the recognized text (ET), marking means ( 12, 15, 17...
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...
7356475 System and method for providing access to an interactive service offering  
A system and method are disclosed for providing access to an interactive service offering. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving a first communication in...
7356462 Automatic clustering of tokens from a corpus for grammar acquisition  
A method of grammar learning from a corpus comprises, for the other non-context words, generating frequency vectors for each non-context token in a corpus based upon counted occurrences of a...
7346511 Method and apparatus for recognizing multiword expressions  
Words of an input string are morphologically analyzed to identify their alternative base forms and parts of speech. The analyzed words of the input string are used to compile the input string into...
7346509 Software for statistical analysis of speech  
Computer-implemented methods and apparatus are provided to facilitate the recognition of the content of a body of speech data. In one embodiment, a method for analyzing verbal communication is...
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 ...
7340397 Speech recognition optimization tool  
A method of optimizing audio input for speech recognition applications can include identifying a source waveform and at least one optimization parameter, wherein the optimization parameter is...
7337116 Speech processing system  
A system is provided for allowing a user to add word models to a speech recognition system. In particular, the system allows a user to input a number of renditions of the new word and which...
7334183 Domain-specific concatenative audio  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating speech output from a text string. During operation, the system first receives the text string and then examines the text...
7328155 Method and system for speech recognition using grammar weighted based upon location information  
A speech recognition method and system for use in a vehicle navigation system utilize grammar weighted based upon geographical information regarding the locations corresponding to the tokens in the...
7324944 Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in speech  
Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in an individual's speech in order to selectively categorize the speech fluency of the individual and/or to selectively provide speech...
7324943 Voice tagging, voice annotation, and speech recognition for portable devices with optional post processing  
A media capture device has an audio input receptive of user speech relating to a media capture activity in close temporal relation to the media capture activity. A plurality of focused speech...
7324942 System and method for interactive voice services using markup language with N-best filter element  
A voice-enabled markup language system an N-best filter element that generates unverified possible matches to the utterance for verification to the user during an interactive voice dialog. Such an...
7319960 Speech recognition method and system  
A speech recognition system uses a phoneme counter to determine the length of a word to be recognized. The result is used to split a lexicon into one or more sub-lexicons containing only words...
7319952 Ranking parser for a natural language processing system  
A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function...
7318031 Apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover  
An apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover are provided. With the apparatus, system and method, spoken utterances of the call taker, not the caller,...
7315818 Error correction in speech recognition  
New techniques and systems may be implemented to improve error correction in speech recognition. These new techniques and systems may be implemented to correct errors in speech recognition systems...
7313516 Electronic dictionary client connectable to an electronic dictionary server to search a dictionary on the electronic dictionary server  
In dictionary retrieval processing by the electronic dictionary, if a headword matching a retrieval object word is not stored in a built-in dictionary data, the retrieval object word is registered...
7302392 Voice browser with weighting of browser-level grammar to enhance usability  
A computer system in the form of a voice command platform includes a voice browser and voice-based applications. The voice browser has global-level grammar elements and the voice applications have...
7299178 Continuous speech recognition method and system using inter-word phonetic information  
A continuous speech recognition method and system are provided. The continuous speech recognition method includes constructing a pronunciation dictionary database including at least one...
7295980 Pattern matching method and apparatus  
A system is provided for matching two or more sequences of phonemes both or all of which may be generated from text or speech. A dynamic programming matching technique is preferably used having...
7295975 Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices  
Multimodal utterances contain a number of different modes. These modes can include speech, gestures, and pen, haptic, and gaze inputs, and the like. This invention use recognition results from one...
7292980 Graphical user interface and method for modifying pronunciations in text-to-speech and speech recognition systems  
A method and user interface which allow users to make decisions about how to pronounce words and parts of words based on audio cues and common words with well known pronunciations. Users input or...
7289960 System and method for speech activated internet browsing using open vocabulary enhancement  
The invention discloses a system and method for speech-activated navigating or browsing via a speech control interface used in a speech-activated multifunctional communications system. In one...
7286993 Holographic speech translation system and method  
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a speech translation system comprising a display upon which at least one word spoken by a user can be displayed. The speech translation system can...
7283964 Method and apparatus for voice controlled devices with improved phrase storage, use, conversion, transfer, and recognition  
The embodiments of the invention provide for the storage of speech phrases. Speech phrases are processed by a speaker-independent speech recognition engine of a voice controlled device. This engine...
7283962 Methods and systems for detecting, measuring, and monitoring stress in speech  
As disclosed herein, the present invention provides methods and systems for detecting, measuring, or monitoring the presence of absence of at least one emotion in a subject from a speech sample...
7280964 Method of recognizing spoken language with recognition of language color  
In accordance with a present invention speech recognition is disclosed. It uses a microphone to receive audible sounds input by a user into a first computing device having a program with a database...
7277697 Method and system for establishing a teleconference over a telephony network  
A teleconference system and method in which an initiator of a teleconference sends a request or instructions to the teleconference server. The teleconference server communicates with the intended...
7272565 System and method for monitoring individuals  
A system and method for monitoring individuals using voice print matching to match monitored speech with stored voice prints is disclosed. Voice prints of individuals are obtained and stored in a...
7272455 Remote controlling device, program and system with control command changing function  
A control device for controlling a control target device includes a control content acquisition unit, a recognition unit, a device control unit, and a communication unit. The control content...
7269557 Coarticulated concatenated speech  
Described are methods and systems for reducing the audible gap in concatenated recorded speech, resulting in more natural sounding speech in voice applications. The sound of concatenated, recorded...
7266500 Method and system for automatic action control during speech deliveries  
A system and method of automatically controlling actions in dependence on a text of a speech includes storing most words or word combinations of the speech text. During the delivery of the speech,...
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