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7412383 Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application  
Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A...
7412260 Routing call failures in a location-based services system  
A method and system for routing call failures in a location-based services system. A remote terminal is connected to a location-based services system and is used to generate a voice-based tailored...
7398210 System and method for performing analysis on word variants  
A computer-readable medium stores a first lexicon data structure for lexicon words. The first data structure includes a host form variant field containing a host form variant such as a clitic host...
7398211 Method and apparatus for performing plan-based dialog  
The present invention provides a dialog system in which the subsystems are integrated under a single technology model. In particular, each of the sub-systems uses stochastic modeling to identify a...
7392185 Speech based learning/training system using semantic decoding  
An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user...
7392175 Evaluating commonality of documents using segment vector, co-occurrence matrix, and common co-occurrence matrix  
In evaluating commonality of documents, each sentence is represented by a binary vector whose components indicate the presence or absence of corresponding terms, whereupon the concept of a common...
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...
7389228 Speaker adaptation of vocabulary for speech recognition  
A phonetic vocabulary for a speech recognition system is adapted to a particular speaker's pronunciation. A speaker can be attributed specific pronunciation styles, which can be identified from...
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...
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...
7386440 Method, system, and apparatus for natural language mixed-initiative dialogue processing  
In a natural language, mixed-initiative system, a method of processing user dialogue can include receiving a user input and determining whether the user input specifies an action to be performed or...
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...
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...
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...
7373297 Automated speech recognition filter  
An automated speech recognition filter is disclosed. The automated speech recognition filter device provides a speech signal to an automated speech platform that approximates an original speech...
7373300 System and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website  
Disclosed is a system and method for generating a spoken dialog service from website data. Spoken dialog components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language...
7363225 Compressing language models with Golomb coding  
A list of integer values is generated from n-grams of a user input. The list of integer values is sorted. Differences between adjacent integer values in the list are calculated. Each calculated...
7359852 Systems and methods for natural spoken language word prediction and speech recognition  
A word prediction method that improves the precision accuracy, and a speech recognition method and an apparatus therefor are provided. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis...
7359858 User interface for data access and entry  
Automatically searching for one or more matches to a search string includes accessing a first part and a second part of a search string. A first search space is searched for a match for the first...
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...
7353176 Actuation system for an agent oriented architecture  
Roughly described, the invention addresses the above problems by separating an actuation subsystem from the natural language interpretation system. The NLI develops “interpretation result...
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...
7350145 Methods and systems for providing technology-assisted content development  
A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is...
7346495 Method and system for building a domain specific statistical language model from rule based grammar specifications  
A method and system providing a statistical representation from rule-based grammar specifications. The language model is generated by obtaining a statistical representation of a rule-based language...
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...
7328156 Computational linguistic statements for providing an autonomic computing environment  
A method for autonomic computing using a relational grammar represented in a mark-up language. In response to a system input change, the autonomic relational grammar and the autonomic system input...
7328147 Automatic resolution of segmentation ambiguities in grammar authoring  
A rules-based grammar is generated. Segmentation ambiguities are identified in training data. Rewrite rules for the ambiguous segmentations are enumerated and probabilities are generated for each....
7324947 Global speech user interface  
A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the...
7324945 Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition system  
A method of speech recognition that uses hierarchical data structures that include a top level grammar and various related subgrammars, such as word, phone, and state subgrammars. A speech signal...
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...
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...
7313523 Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or previous information in speech synthesis  
A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech....
7308400 Adaptation of statistical parsers based on mathematical transform  
An arrangement for adapting statistical parsers to new data using a mathematical transform, particularly a Markov transform. In particular, it is assumed that an initial statistical parser is...
7302389 Automatic assessment of phonological processes  
A computer-based system generates alternative phonetic transcriptions for a target word or phrase corresponding to specific phonological processes that replace individual phonemes or clusters of...
7302394 Front-end device independence for natural interaction platform  
Roughly described, a natural language interpretation system that provides commands to a back-end application in response to user input is modified to separate out user interaction functions into a...
7299110 Systems and methods for using statistical techniques to reason with noisy data  
Systems and methods are presented that enable logical reasoning even in the presence of noisy (inconsistent) data. The knowledge base is processed in order to make it consistent and is also...
7299180 Name entity extraction using language models  
A name entity extraction technique using language models is provided. A general language model is provided for the natural language understanding domain. A language model is also provided for each...
7296223 System and method for structured document authoring  
A method for creating a structured document, wherein a structured document comprises a plurality of content elements wrapped in pairs of tags, includes parsing a document of a particular type...
7295981 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...
7292878 Radio mobile terminal communication system  
In this radio portable terminal communication system, a service document file is converted into a window-related document file, speech-dialog-related document file, and information sharing document...
7289962 Compressed list presentation for speech user interfaces  
A list presentation method. The list presentation method can include the steps of: dynamically grouping selected items in a list based on sequentially positioned symbols in the items which are...
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...
7289958 Automatic language independent triphone training using a phonetic table  
A method for training acoustic models for a new target language is provided using a phonetic table, which characterizes the phones, used in one or more reference language(s) with respect to their...
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...
7283959 Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar  
A computer-loadable data structure is provided that represents a state-and-transition-based description of a speech grammar. The data structure includes first and second transition entries that...
7283958 Systems and method for resolving ambiguity  
Techniques are provided for resolving ambiguity in natural language speech. Speech is recognized using automatic speech recognition. A theory of discourse analysis is determined and at least one...
7280965 Systems and methods for monitoring speech data labelers  
Systems and methods for monitoring labelers of speech data. To test or train labelers, a labeler is presented with utterances that have already been identified as belonging to a particular class or...
7280966 Electronic mail replies with speech recognition  
A method for responding to an electronic mail message with a limited input device such as a phone includes audibly rendering the question and a set of proposed answers typically provided in the...
7275033 Method and system for using rule-based knowledge to build a class-based domain specific statistical language model  
A method and system for providing a class-based statistical language model representation from rule-based knowledge is disclosed. The class-based language model is generated from a statistical...
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