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7620550 |
Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system
A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each...
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7603278 |
Segment set creating method and apparatus
A segment set before updating is read, and clustering considering a phoneme environment is performed to it. For each cluster obtained by the clustering, a representative segment of a segment set...
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7580839 |
Apparatus and method for voice conversion using attribute information
A speech processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a conversion-source-speaker speech-unit database; a voice-conversion-rule-learning-data generating means; and a...
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7571099 |
Voice synthesis device
A voice synthesis device for generating synthetic voice having great freedom in voice quality and good sound quality from text data is provided. The voice synthesis device is provided with: voice...
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7570746 |
Method and apparatus for voice interactive messaging
A method comprising receiving a request to compose a message; outputting a first prompt requesting a recipient for the message; receiving a first audible response to the first prompt, the first...
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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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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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7526073 |
IVR to SMS text messenger
Wireless service providers use SMS to notify users of text messages from other wireless users using text-based communications. SMS is used in conjunction with an Interactive Voice Response system...
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7523038 |
Voice controlled system and method
A voice controlled system includes a microphone for receiving voice commands and for converting each voice command to an electrical output; a filter system connected to receive the electrical...
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7508393 |
Three dimensional animated figures
A system comprising a plurality of three dimensional artificially animated portraits for performing preprogrammed animations of voice and facial expressions in the form of a scripted dialogue...
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7480616 |
Information recognition device and information recognition method
Information relating to an amount of muscle activity is extracted from a myo-electrical signal by activity amount information extraction means, and information recognition is performed by activity...
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7472061 |
Systems and methods for building a native language phoneme lexicon having native pronunciations of non-native words derived from non-native pronunciations
Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon...
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7467086 |
Methodology for generating enhanced demiphone acoustic models for speech recognition
A system and method for effectively performing speech recognition procedures includes enhanced demiphone acoustic models that a speech recognition engine utilizes to perform the speech recognition...
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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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7453994 |
Sequential presentation of long instructions in an interactive voice response system
A method of presenting instructions to a user sending an incoming communication to a service center includes presenting a menu to the user. The menu includes a plurality of procedure descriptors to...
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7451125 |
System and method for compiling rules created by machine learning program
A system, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided. A group of linear rules and associated weights are provided as a result of machine learning. Each one of the group of linear rules is...
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7447634 |
Speech recognizing apparatus having optimal phoneme series comparing unit and speech recognizing method
A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered vocabulary, by using the time series of...
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7440897 |
Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices
In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input...
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7418385 |
Voice detection device
This voice detection device is composed of a myoelectric signal acquisition part for acquiring, from a plurality of regions, myoelectric signals generated at the time of a vocalization operation, a...
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7415408 |
Speech recognizing apparatus with noise model adapting processing unit and speech recognizing method
A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered vocabulary, by using the time series of...
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7412386 |
Directory dialer name recognition
A method, apparatus, computer program product and service for directory dialer name recognition. The directory dialer has a directory of names and a first name grammar and a second name grammar...
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7409346 |
Two-stage implementation for phonetic recognition using a bi-directional target-filtering model of speech coarticulation and reduction
A structured generative model of a speech coarticulation and reduction is described with a novel two-stage implementation. At the first stage, the dynamics of formants or vocal tract resonance...
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7409345 |
Methods for reducing spurious insertions in speech recognition
Techniques for improving an automatic baseform generation system. More particularly, the invention provides techniques for reducing insertion of spurious speech events in a word or phone sequence...
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7401019 |
Phonetic fragment search in speech data
A method of searching audio data is provided including receiving a query defining multiple phonetic possibilities. The method also includes comparing the query with a lattice of phonetic hypotheses...
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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...
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7392178 |
Chaos theoretical diagnosis sensitizer
The present invention is a preprocessing apparatus including a voice input apparatus for acquiring an uttered voice, an analog-digital conversion apparatus for converting the acquired uttered voice...
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7376648 |
Computer-implemented methods and systems for entering and searching for non-Roman-alphabet characters and related search systems
A computer-implemented method for selecting a desired Roman or non-Roman-alphabet character or objects from a set of non-Roman characters or objects may include steps of providing an association...
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7369993 |
System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space
A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method....
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7353174 |
System and method for effectively implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognition dictionary
The present invention comprises a system and method for effectively implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognition dictionary, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech...
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7353173 |
System and method for Mandarin Chinese speech recognition using an optimized phone set
The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input...
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7353172 |
System and method for cantonese speech recognition using an optimized phone set
The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Cantonese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data...
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7349839 |
Method and apparatus for aligning bilingual corpora
A method is provided for aligning sentences in a first corpus to sentences in a second corpus. The method includes applying a length-based alignment model to align sentence boundaries of a sentence...
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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...
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7346510 |
Method of speech recognition using variables representing dynamic aspects of speech
A method and computer-readable medium are provided that determine predicted acoustic values for a sequence of hypothesized speech units using modeled articulatory or VTR dynamics values and using...
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7337117 |
Apparatus and method for phonetically screening predetermined character strings
An apparatus for phonetically screening predetermined character strings. The apparatus includes a text-to-speech module, and a phonetic screening module in communication with the text-to-speech...
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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...
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7319964 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events
The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events. In an embodiment a method of classifying an audio stream is provided. This...
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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...
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7319959 |
Multi-source phoneme classification for noise-robust automatic speech recognition
A system and method are disclosed for processing an audio signal including separating the audio signal into a plurality of streams which group sounds from a same source prior to classification and...
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7319958 |
Polyphone network method and apparatus
Acoustic phones (preferably drawn 12 from a plurality of spoken languages) are provided 11. A hierarchically-organized polyphone network ( 20 ) organizes views of these phones of varying...
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7318032 |
Speaker recognition method based on structured speaker modeling and a “Pickmax” scoring technique
A technique for improved score calculation and normalization in a framework of recognition with phonetically structured speaker models. The technique involves determining, for each frame and each...
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7302393 |
Sensor based approach recognizer selection, adaptation and combination
A method and respective system for operating a speech recognition system, in which a plurality of recognizer programs are accessible to be activated for speech recognition, and are combined on a...
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7299179 |
Three-stage individual word recognition
In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a...
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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...
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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...
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7295979 |
Language context dependent data labeling
Bootstrapping of a system from one language to another often works well when the two languages share the similar acoustic space. However, when the new language has sounds that do not occur in the...
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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...
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7286987 |
Multi-phoneme streamer and knowledge representation speech recognition system and method
A system and method related to a new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech. In its fullest implementation, the system and method shifts the balance of power...
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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...
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7263487 |
Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more different corpora
The present invention generates a task-dependent acoustic model from a supervised task-independent corpus and further adapted it with an unsupervised task dependent corpus. The task-independent...
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