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7617492 Extensible command line parsing  
An extensible generic command line parser may receive a list of options associated with an application and a command line to parse. A new command line option may be added to the options that can be...
7603274 Method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal  
A method and apparatus for determining the possibility of pattern recognition of time series signal independent of a pattern recognition ratio is provided. The method for determining the...
7574356 System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input  
A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method comprises performing spelling recognition via automatic speech recognition (ASR) on...
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...
7533019 System and method for unsupervised and active learning for automatic speech recognition  
A system and method is provided for combining active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition. This process enables a reduction in the amount of human supervision required for...
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...
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...
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...
7487087 Method of speech recognition using variational inference with switching state space models  
A method is developed which includes 1) defining a switching state space model for a continuous valued hidden production-related parameter and the observed speech acoustics, and 2) approximating a...
7437290 Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast  
An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that...
7366668 Voice interface for a search engine  
A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight,...
7363224 Method for entering text  
In a method of entering text into a device a first character input is provided that is indicative of a first character of a text entry. Next, a vocalization of the text entry is captured. A...
7356467 Method for processing recognized speech using an iterative process  
For processing recognized speech a method is proposed, which comprises the steps of receiving and/or generating (S 0 ) recognized speech data (RSD), determining and/or generating (S 1 ) a current...
7319957 Handwriting and voice input with automatic correction  
A hybrid approach to improve handwriting recognition and voice recognition in data process systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a front end is used to recognize strokes, characters and/or...
7310602 Navigation apparatus  
In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these...
7289950 Extended finite state grammar for speech recognition systems  
An extended finite state grammar structure is generated from a finite state grammar. The extended finite state grammar structure includes word subgraphs representing a set of pre-defined word...
7263488 Method and apparatus for identifying prosodic word boundaries  
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that identify prosodic word boundaries for a text. If the text is unsegmented, it is first segmented into lexical words. The lexical words are...
7243069 Speech recognition by automated context creation  
A method for speech recognition can include generating a context-enhanced database from a system input. A voice-generated output can be generated from a speech signal by performing a speech...
7165031 Speech processing apparatus and method using confidence scores  
A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which outputs a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of an utterance being correctly matched to a word model. The...
7162422 Apparatus and method for using user context information to improve N-best processing in the presence of speech recognition uncertainty  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for using user-context information to improve N-best processing in the presence of speech recognition uncertainty. Once digitized voice data is...
7076425 Voice recognition device with larger weights assigned to displayed words of recognition vocabulary  
A voice recognition device is provided to improve a recognition rate for objective recognition terms on display. The device includes a voice pickup unit for picking up user's voices, a storing unit...
7072837 Method for processing initially recognized speech in a speech recognition session  
In a speech recognition session, a method of speech processing utilizing a plurality of grammars can include a series of steps. The method can include spawning a separate thread of execution...
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...
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....
7043429 Speech recognition with plural confidence measures  
A speech recognition system is used to receive a speech signal and output an output language word with respect to the speech signal. The speech recognition system has preset quantities for a first...
7043425 Model adaptive apparatus and model adaptive method, recording medium, and pattern recognition apparatus  
In order to improve recognition performance, a no-speech sound model correction section performs an adaptation of a no-speech sound model which is a sound model representing a no-speech state on...
7035802 Recognition system using lexical trees  
The dynamic programming technique employs a lexical tree that is encoded in computer memory as a flat representation in which the nodes of each generation occupy contiguous memory locations. The...
7006971 Recognition of a speech utterance available in spelled form  
This invention relates to a method of recognizing a speech utterance ( s ) available in spelled form, comprising a processing stage in which a corresponding letter sequence ( r ) is estimated by...
7003456 Methods and systems of routing utterances based on confidence estimates  
A computer-based method of routing a message to a system includes receiving a message, and processing the message using large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition to generate a string of text...
6999927 Speech recognition programming information retrieved from a remote source to a speech recognition system for performing a speech recognition method  
Embodiments of the present invention include a speech recognition method. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving from an external system first recognition information to recognize a first...
6990446 Method and apparatus using spectral addition for speaker recognition  
A method and apparatus for speaker recognition is provided that matches the noise in training data to noise in testing data using spectral addition. Under spectral addition, the mean and variance...
6985859 Robust word-spotting system using an intelligibility criterion for reliable keyword detection under adverse and unknown noisy environments  
A method and system for spotting words in a speech signal having adverse and unknown noisy environments is provided. The method removes the dynamic bias introduced by the environment (i.e., noise...
6975985 Method and system for the automatic amendment of speech recognition vocabularies  
The present invention provides a method and system to improve speech recognition using an existing audio realization of a spoken text and a true textual representation of the spoken text. The audio...
6973427 Method for adding phonetic descriptions to a speech recognition lexicon  
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, two...
6937983 Method and system for semantic speech recognition  
The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method to understand queries or commands spoken by users when they use natural language utterances similar to those that people use...
6937982 Speech recognition apparatus and method using two opposite words  
A speech recognition apparatus recognizes a speech signal received from a speaker and provides the result of recognition for an external device. In the apparatus, a pattern matching section...
6934682 Processing speech recognition errors in an embedded speech recognition system  
A method and system for processing speech misrecognitions. The system can include an embedded speech recognition system having at least one acoustic model and at least one active grammar, wherein...
6920452 Sound pattern feedback for informational events during typing  
A word processing program uses a number of low-key alarm signals or sound patterns to communicate a variety of situations that arise during data input by a user. A personalized program is used to...
6920421 Model adaptive apparatus for performing adaptation of a model used in pattern recognition considering recentness of a received pattern data  
In order to improve recognition performance, a no-speech sound model correction section performs an adaptation of a no-speech sound model which is a sound model representing a no-speech state on...
6882974 Voice-control for a user interface  
Method and systems to voice-enable a user interface using a voice extension module are provided. A voice extension module includes a preprocessor, a speech recognition engine, and an input handler....
6865532 Method for recognizing spoken identifiers having predefined grammars  
A method for selecting and recognizing spoken identifiers first defines a phrase having word slots. The word slots are arranged in the phrase in a predetermined order and according to a...
6850887 Speech recognition in noisy environments  
Methods and apparatus for providing speech recognition in noisy environments. An energy level associated with audio input is ascertained, and a decision is rendered on whether to accept the at...
6836760 Use of semantic inference and context-free grammar with speech recognition system  
A method and apparatus to use semantic inference with speech recognition systems includes recognizing at least one spoken word, processing the spoken word using a context-free grammar, deriving an...
6823493 Word recognition consistency check and error correction system and method  
A word recognition method and system includes obtaining a first portion of a sentence and a second portion of the sentence. The first portion of the sentence is used to obtain a pointer to...
6823307 Language model based on the speech recognition history  
A small vocabulary pattern recognition system is used for recognizing a sequence of words, such as a sequence of digits (e.g. telephone number) or a sequence of commands. A representation of...
6760702 Method for generating candidate word strings in speech recognition  
A method for generating candidate word strings in speech recognition is provided, which is based on the nodes in the word lattice to search candidate word strings. The associated maximum string...
6757652 Multiple stage speech recognizer  
A speech recognition approach that involves forming a series of segments associated with a spoken utterance. Each segment has a time interval within the utterance, and scores characterizing the...
6735562 Method for estimating a confidence measure for a speech recognition system  
A method of estimating a confidence measure for a speech recognition system, involves comparing an input speech signal with a number of predetermined models of possible speech signals. Best scores...
6725197 Method of automatic recognition of a spelled speech utterance  
The invention relates to a method of automatic recognition of an at least partly spelled speech utterance, with a speech recognition unit ( 2 ) based on statistical models that include a linguistic...
6711545 Hand-held transmitter having speech storage actuated by transmission failure  
A device for processing speech signal is disclosed comprising a speech signal input and speech signal digitizer, a control signal input and control signal digitizer, a digital signal processor, a...
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