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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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