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7266492 Training machine learning by sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling  
A system and method facilitating training machine learning systems utilizing sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling is provided. The invention includes an expected value update...
7257529 Apparatus and method for an automated grammar file expansion tool  
An apparatus and method for an automated grammar file expansion tool are described. The method includes the receipt of a source grammar file. Once received, one or more grammar rules within the...
7257531 Speech to text system using controlled vocabulary indices  
A synthesis of automated speech recognition (voice to text) technology and a knowledge-based analysis of the concepts and contexts of the free text therefrom enable a directed-vocabulary look up...
7257537 Method and apparatus for performing dialog management in a computer conversational interface  
A dialog management system functions to manage the dialog between a user of a computer system and one or more speech enabled software applications. The user provides spoken input to a microphone...
7254529 Method and apparatus for distribution-based language model adaptation  
A method and apparatus are provided for adapting a language model to a task-specific domain. Under the method and apparatus, the relative frequency of n-grams in a small training set (i.e....
7254539 Bi-directional natural language system for interfacing with multiple back-end applications  
A system and method for servicing natural language requests with a plurality of remote host systems. The system utilizes a computer program that comprises: (1) an input system for inputting an NL...
7251600 Disambiguation language model  
A language model for a language processing system such as a speech recognition system is constructed from training corpus formed from associated characters, word phrases and context cues. A method...
7249019 Method and apparatus for providing an integrated speech recognition and natural language understanding for a dialog system  
An apparatus and a concomitant method for natural language understanding. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a new architecture that employs a sophisticated natural language...
7249018 System and method for relating syntax and semantics for a conversational speech application  
A conversation manager processes spoken utterances from a user of a computer. The conversation manager includes a semantics analysis module and a syntax manager. A domain model that is used in...
7243071 Speech-recognition grammar analysis  
An apparatus for determining at least one recognition parameter, associated with a grammar, for use in attempting to recognize utterances using the grammar includes an input configured to receive...
7236922 Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing for adaptation of acoustic model  
A speech processing system including a speech recognition unit to receive input speech, and a natural language processing unit. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on input...
7236931 Systems and methods for automatic acoustic speaker adaptation in computer-assisted transcription systems  
The invention is a system and method for automatic acoustic speaker adaptation in an automatic speech recognition assisted transcription system. Partial transcripts of audio files are generated by...
7231352 Method for computer-supported speech recognition, speech recognition system and control device for controlling a technical system and telecommunications device  
The speech recognition rate which is necessary is determined for a selected speech recognition application. The information content of the feature vector components which is at least necessary to...
7228278 Multi-slot dialog systems and methods  
Systems and methods for constructing a series of interactions with a user to collect multiple pieces of related information for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal or topic (a multi-slot...
7225127 Method for recognizing speech  
Method for recognizing speech includes receiving a speech phrase, generating a signal being representative to the speech phrase, pre-processing and storing the signal with respect to a determined...
7225128 System and method for providing information using spoken dialogue interface  
There are provided a system and method for providing information using a spoken dialogue interface. The system includes a speech recognizer for transforming voice signals into sentences; a sentence...
7225132 Method for assigning an identification code  
An identification code is assigned to a user by making a selection from a closed set of possible tokens. The selection is determined algorithmically by user identity data. The format of the...
7222074 Psycho-physical state sensitive voice dialogue system  
An arrangement is provided to achieve automated voice responding dialogue that is psycho-physical state sensitive. The input speech data from a user is used to detect the psycho-physical state of...
7222073 System and method for speech activated navigation  
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...
7219057 Speech recognition method  
A speech recognition method includes receiving signals derived from indices of a codebook corresponding to recognition feature vectors extracted from speech to be recognized. The signals include an...
7219050 Automatic interpreting system including a system for recognizing errors  
An automatic interpreting system, having at least an inputting unit for inputting utterances, an interpreting unit for recognizing the input utterance and interpreting the input utterance into a...
7216080 Natural-language voice-activated personal assistant  
A handheld personal assistant including a voice-recognizer and a natural-language processor is disclosed. The recognizer is configured to transform a verbal expression from a person into a...
7206742 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system  
The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one...
7203646 Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support  
A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is...
7200559 Semantic object synchronous understanding implemented with speech application language tags  
A speech understanding system includes a language model comprising a combination of an N-gram language model and a context-free grammar language model. The language model stores information related...
7197457 Method for statistical language modeling in speech recognition  
A system for generating language modeling data for a speech recognition system includes an expression extractor to extract expression from domain-specific data of an existing domain using a base of...
7191118 Method for dynamic context scope selection in hybrid N-gram+LSA language modeling  
A method and system for dynamic language modeling of a document are described. In one embodiment, a number of local probabilities of a current document are computed and a vector representation of...
7191131 Electronic document processing apparatus  
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S 1 , a document processing apparatus at step S 2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds...
7184947 Document anonymity setting device, method and computer readable recording medium recording anonymity setting program  
A document anonymity setting device comprises a document input means inputting a document, a specificity calculating means extracting an expression specifying a person from the input document and...
7181387 Homonym processing in the context of voice-activated command systems  
A method is disclosed from constructing a grammar. The grammar is configured to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes...
7181394 Device setter, device setting system, and recorded medium where device setting program recorded  
A word-device setting information storage part stores multiple device setting information in association with a single voice and a voice recognition part recognizes a voice input through a voice...
7181399 Recognizing the numeric language in natural spoken dialogue  
A system for recognizing connected digits in natural spoken dialogue includes a speech recognition processor that receives unconstrained fluent input speech and produces a string of words that can...
7181395 Methods and apparatus for automatic generation of multiple pronunciations from acoustic data  
Methods and apparatus for automatically deriving multiple phonetic baseforms of a word from a speech utterance of this word are provided in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment,...
7177817 Automatic generation of voice content for a voice response system  
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for building a voice response system. The method comprises developing voice content for the voice response system, the voice content including...
7177796 Automated set up of web-based natural language interface  
A procedure automates the process of setting up an instance of a conversational natural language interface for a Web site. By automating the process of setting up a new Web site, the process...
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...
7158935 Method and system for predicting problematic situations in a automated dialog  
The invention concerns a system and method of predicting problematic dialogs in an automated dialog system based on the user's input communications. The method may include determining whether a...
7155392 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system  
The present invention includes a context-free grammar (CFG) engine which communicates through an exposed interface with a speech recognition engine. The context-free grammar engine, in one...
7155391 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...
7149695 Method and apparatus for speech recognition using semantic inference and word agglomeration  
A method and apparatus for command recognition using semantic inference and word agglomeration is described herein. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for recognizing a...
7143036 Ranking parser for a natural language processing system  
A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function...
7139714 Adjustable resource based speech recognition system  
A real-time speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. Both the client and server can dedicate a variable number...
7127393 Dynamic semantic control of a speech recognition system  
A method and apparatus are provided for automatically recognizing words of spoken speech using a computer-based speech recognition system according to a dynamic semantic model. In an embodiment,...
7127398 Interactive system, interactive method, two-way interactive system, two-way interactive method and recording medium  
The present invention includes a microphone 1 inputting voice uttered by a user; a voice recognition processing section 3 recognizing the voice inputted by the microphone 1 , and converting...
7127395 Method and system for predicting understanding errors in a task classification system  
This invention concerns a method and system for monitoring an automated dialog system for the automatic recognition of language understanding errors based on a user's input communications in a task...
7127394 Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system  
Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression...
7120585 Remote server object architecture for speech recognition  
A speech recognition system includes a line of service including a first server object coupled to a telephone network for receiving a voice data message from the telephone network, a second server...
7117437 Systems and methods for displaying interactive topic-based text summaries  
Techniques for displaying interactive topic-based summarization are provided. A text to be summarized is segmented. Discrete keyword, key-phrase, n-gram, sentence and other sentence constituent...
7107207 Training machine learning by sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling  
A system and method facilitating training machine learning systems utilizing sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling is provided. The invention includes an expected value update...
7107215 Determining a compact model to transcribe the arabic language acoustically in a well defined basic phonetic study  
In the development of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, an extensive study of the basic phonetic alphabet is performed to collect information regarding phonology and phonetics of the...