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7617093 |
Authoring speech grammars
A method and apparatus are provided for automatically forming a grammar. Example text strings are received and N-grams are formed based on the text strings. A rule in the grammar is then generated...
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7606718 |
Apparatus and method for processing service interactions
An interactive voice and data response system that directs input to a voice, text, and web-capable software-based router, which is able to intelligently respond to the input by drawing on a...
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7606700 |
Adaptive task framework
The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for performing natural language processing in which natural language input is mapped to a task. The system includes a task interface for...
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7599830 |
Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In...
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7593853 |
Baseband modem for speech recognition and mobile communication terminal using the same
A baseband modem and method for voice recognition and a mobile communication terminal using the baseband modem and method are disclosed. A speech recognition rate may be increased by selecting a...
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7590533 |
New-word pronunciation learning using a pronunciation graph
A method and computer-readable medium convert the text of a word and a user's pronunciation of the word into a phonetic description to be added to a speech recognition lexicon. Initially, a...
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7584101 |
System for and method of automated quality monitoring
A system and method according to the present invention automates call monitoring activities to evaluate and directly improve agent-customer interactions. Rather than listening to an entire call or...
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7580837 |
System and method for targeted tuning module of a speech recognition system
A system and method are disclosed for targeted tuning of a speech recognition system. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include deploying a speech recognition module to...
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7580836 |
Speaker adaptation using weighted feedback
In some embodiments, the invention includes calculating estimated weights for identified errors in recognition of utterances. Sections of the utterances are marked as being misrecognized and the...
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7577569 |
Combined speech recognition and text-to-speech generation
Text-to-speech (TTS) generation is used in conjunction with large vocabulary speech recognition to say words selected by the speech recognition. The software for performing the large vocabulary...
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7574358 |
Natural language system and method based on unisolated performance metric
A natural language business system and method is developed to understand the underlying meaning of a person's speech, such as during a transaction with the business system. The system includes a...
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7567902 |
Generating speech recognition grammars from a large corpus of data
A method of generating a speech recognition grammar for use with a speech recognition system can include parsing the corpus of data to identify grammatical structures within the corpus of data. The...
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7565290 |
Speech recognition method and apparatus
A speech recognition apparatus includes a word dictionary having recognition target words, a first acoustic model which expresses a reference pattern of a speech unit by one or more states, a...
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7565282 |
System and method for adaptive automatic error correction
A method for adaptive automatic error and mismatch correction is disclosed for use with a system having an automatic error and mismatch correction learning module, an automatic error and mismatch...
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7562010 |
Generating confidence scores from word lattices
Systems and methods for determining word confidence scores. Speech recognition systems generate a word lattice for speech input. Posterior probabilities of the words in the word lattice are...
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7552051 |
Method and apparatus for mapping multiword expressions to identifiers using finite-state networks
Multiword expressions are mapped to identifiers using finite-state networks. Each of a plurality of multiword expressions is encoded into a regular expression. Each regular expression encodes a...
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7551784 |
Continuous inference for sequence data
Dynamic inference is leveraged to provide online sequence data labeling. This provides real-time alternatives to current methods of inference for sequence data. Instances estimate an amount of...
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7548859 |
Method and system for assisting users in interacting with multi-modal dialog systems
A method and system for assisting a user in interacting with a multi-modal dialog system ( 104 ) is provided. The method includes interpreting a “What Can I Do? (WCID)” question from a user in...
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7548857 |
Method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar
The invention relates to a method for natural voice recognition based on a generative transformation/phrase structure grammar known as GT/PS grammar. According to the invention, a spoken phrase is...
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7542967 |
Searching an index of media content
A search engine, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for transmitting requested media content in response to a search request. The search request may include a search term containing...
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7542907 |
Biasing a speech recognizer based on prompt context
A method, a system, and an apparatus biasing a speech recognizer based on prompt context. The present invention is capable of analyzing the words used in the prompt given to the user. Then, a set...
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7542902 |
Information provision for call centres
A voice platform monitors a conversation between a call center agent and a caller to identify any predetermined keywords or phrases used in the conversation therebetween. These keywords or phrases...
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7536297 |
System and method for hybrid text mining for finding abbreviations and their definitions
This present invention matches one or more abbreviations to one or more definitions. The invention has an abbreviation pattern generation process that generates one or more abbreviation patterns...
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7536003 |
Computer product, operator supporting apparatus, and operator supporting method
Speech keywords are extracted from voice data on a response that an operator has made to an inquiry from a customer while referring to case data. Response keywords to be responded to the inquiry...
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7533018 |
Tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system
A tailored speaker-independent voice recognition system has a speech recognition dictionary ( 360 ) with at least one word ( 371 ). That word ( 371 ) has at least two transcriptions ( 373 ), each...
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7526429 |
Spelled speech recognition method and system accounting for possible misrecognized characters
Caller interface systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a sequence of recognized characters beginning with a first recognized character and ending with a last recognized character is...
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7523034 |
Adaptation of Compound Gaussian Mixture models
Methods and arrangements for enhancing speech recognition in noisy environments, via providing at least one initial Compound Gaussian Mixture model, applying an adaptation algorithm to at least one...
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7519347 |
Method and device for noise detection
A system and method for detecting cell phone noise induced in telecommunication equipment, especially in microphones and other unshielded electronic units connected to a communication terminal. A...
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7516071 |
Method of modeling single-enrollment classes in verification and identification tasks
In automatic pattern recognition, in the context of patterns being observed either in the same or a new environment, e.g. a new acoustic channel, as compared to the one seen during the previous...
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7509258 |
Phonetic, syntactic and conceptual analysis driven speech recognition system and method
A new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech, which shifts the balance of power in speech recognition from straight sound recognition and statistical models...
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7509257 |
Method and apparatus for adapting reference templates
A method and apparatus for adapting reference templates is provided. The method includes adapting one or more reference templates using a stored test utterance by replacing data within at the...
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7505893 |
Dialogue supporting apparatus
A dialogue supporting apparatus is provided which carries out a trade-off between the speed of the translation process and the fluency of the translation result, in accordance with the contents of...
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7502737 |
Multi-pass recognition of spoken dialogue
A system and method of multi-pass recognition for conversational spoken dialogue systems includes two speech recognizers: a first recognizer that implements, for example, a statistical language...
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7499892 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing apparatus includes a first learning unit adapted to learn a first SOM (self-organization map), based on a first parameter extracted from an observed value, a winner node...
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7496501 |
System and method for identifying base noun phrases
A system and method identify base noun phrases (baseNP) in a linguistic input. A part-of-speech tagger identifies N-best part-of-speech tag sequences corresponding to the linguistic input. A baseNP...
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7487092 |
Interactive debugging and tuning method for CTTS voice building
A speech recognition device which can preferably be used for reducing the memory capacity required for speaker-independent speech recognition is provided. A matching unit loads speech models...
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7487091 |
Speech recognition device for recognizing a word sequence using a switching speech model network
A speech recognition device which can preferably be used for reducing the memory capacity required for speaker-independent speech recognition is provided. A matching unit loads speech models...
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7487084 |
Apparatus, program storage device and method for testing speech recognition in the mobile environment of a vehicle
A testing arrangement provided for speech recognition systems in vehicles. Preferably included are a “mobile client” secured in the vehicle and driven around at a desired speed, an audio system...
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7486807 |
Image retrieving device, method for adding keywords in image retrieving device, and computer program therefor
An image retrieving device for classifying and retrieving an image by detecting an object in the image and adding a keyword comprises an image storing section for storing the image which is...
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7480613 |
Method of supporting the proof-reading of speech-recognized text with a replay speed adapted to the recognition reliability
The invention relates to a method of supporting the proof-reading of a text ( 2, 30 ) obtained in particular by speech recognition from a speech signal ( 1 ), of which at least one text component...
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7475017 |
Method and apparatus to improve name confirmation in voice-dialing systems
A method of providing voice dialing assistance includes providing a first input to a speech recognition engine, with the first input corresponding to a speech sample provided by a caller attempting...
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7467089 |
Combined speech and handwriting recognition
The invention relates to the combination of speech recognition with handwriting and/or character recognition. This includes the innovation of selecting one or more best-scoring recognition...
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7464032 |
Using wildcards in semantic parsing
A method and apparatus perform semantic parsing by designating one or more words in an input text stream as wildcards. Under some embodiments, partially constructed parses formed from other words...
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7464031 |
Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features
In a speech recognition system, the combination of a log-linear model with a multitude of speech features is provided to recognize unknown speech utterances. The speech recognition system models...
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7461004 |
Content filtering for a digital audio signal
According to some embodiments, content filtering is provided for a digital audio signal.
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7460995 |
System for speech recognition
This invention provides a system for speech recognition comparing speech against stored character strings in memory. Speech is transformed into spoken character strings. To accelerate the...
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7457751 |
System and method for improving recognition accuracy in speech recognition applications
A speech recognition system and method are provided to correctly distinguish among multiple interpretations of an utterance. This system is particularly useful when the set of possible...
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7457750 |
Systems and methods for dynamic re-configurable speech recognition
Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response...
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7454341 |
Method, apparatus, and system for building a compact model for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system
According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided in which a mean vector set and a variance vector set of a set of N Gaussians are divided into multiple mean sub-vector sets and...
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7454340 |
Voice recognition performance estimation apparatus, method and program allowing insertion of an unnecessary word
A voice recognition estimating apparatus for a voice recognition apparatus, including a voice data property generator that generates properties of voice data used to determine, based on an...
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