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8160880 Generalized object recognition for portable reading machine  
Techniques for operating a reading machine are disclosed. The techniques include forming an N-dimensional features vector based on features of an image, the features corresponding to...
8155966 Apparatus and method for producing an audible speech signal from a non-audible speech signal  
[Problems] To convert a signal of non-audible murmur obtained through an in-vivo conduction microphone into a signal of a speech that is recognizable for (hardly misrecognized by) a receiving...
8145497 Media interface for converting voice to text  
Provided are a user interface for processing digital data, a method for processing a media interface, and a recording medium thereof. The user interface is used for converting a selected script...
8127302 Method for dynamically adjusting audio decoding process  
A method for dynamically arranging DSP tasks. The method comprises receiving an audio bit stream, checking a remaining execution time as the DSP transforms the audio information into spectral...
8121841 Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor  
A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second...
8121831 Method, apparatus, and medium for bandwidth extension encoding and decoding  
Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for encoding/decoding a high frequency band signal by using a low frequency band signal corresponding to an audio signal or a speech signal....
8095359 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal using adaptively switched temporal resolution in the spectral domain  
Perceptual audio codecs make use of filter banks and MDCT in order to achieve a compact representation of the audio signal, by removing redundancy and irrelevancy from the original audio signal....
8055693 Method for retrieving items represented by particles from an information database  
A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles...
8024193 Methods and apparatus related to pruning for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis  
The present invention provides, among other things, automatic identification of near-redundant units in a large TTS voice table, identifying which units are distinctive enough to keep and which...
7966186 System and method for blending synthetic voices  
A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS...
7958446 Systems and methods for language translation in network browsing applications  
A browsing application for accessing resources over a network includes code for receiving a command from a user to translate textual material appearing on an arbitrary page displayed in the content...
7953600 System and method for hybrid speech synthesis  
A speech synthesis system receives symbolic input describing an utterance to be synthesized. In one embodiment, different portions of the utterance are constructed from different sources, one of...
7945446 Sound processing apparatus and method, and program therefor  
Spectrum envelope of an input sound is detected. In the meantime, a converting spectrum is acquired which is a frequency spectrum of a converting sound comprising a plurality of sounds, such as...
7835909 Method and apparatus for normalizing voice feature vector by backward cumulative histogram  
A method and apparatus for normalizing a histogram utilizing a backward cumulative histogram which can cumulate a probability distribution function in an order from a greatest to smallest value so...
7814284 Redundancy elimination by aggregation of multiple chunks  
A data redundancy elimination system. In particular implementations, a method includes storing in a memory one or more aggregation trees, each aggregation tree comprising one or more base chunk...
7716052 Method, apparatus and computer program providing a multi-speaker database for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis  
A method, apparatus and a computer program product to generate an audible speech word that corresponds to text. The method includes providing a text word and, in response to the text word,...
7698139 Method and apparatus for a differentiated voice output  
In a method and apparatus for a differentiated voice output, systems existing in a vehicle, such as the on-board computer, the navigation system, and others, can be connected with a voice output...
7664645 Individualization of voice output by matching synthesized voice target voice  
The voice of a synthesized voice output is individualized and matched to a user voice, the voice of a communication partner or the voice of a famous personality. In this way mobile terminals in...
7580843 Synthesis subband filter process and apparatus  
A synthesis subband filter apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing 18 sets of signals which each includes 32 subband sampling signals in accordance with a specification...
7562018 Speech synthesis method and speech synthesizer  
A language processing portion (31) analyzes a text from a dialogue processing section (20) and transforms the text to information on pronunciation and accent. A prosody generation portion (32)...
7558732 Method and system for computer-aided speech synthesis  
Method and system for computer-aided speed synthesis for synthesizing electronic text by performing a predefined series of rules-based analyses in a predefined order, each of the analyses operating...
7536305 Mixed lossless audio compression  
A mixed lossless audio compression has application to a unified lossy and lossless audio compression scheme that combines lossy and lossless audio compression within a same audio signal. The mixed...
7454348 System and method for blending synthetic voices  
A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS...
7401021 Apparatus and method for voice modulation in mobile terminal  
An apparatus for voice modulation in a mobile terminal comprises: a voice input unit being inputted a voice of a subscriber and generating an analog voice signal; a voice modulation unit for...
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...
7336565 Talking alarm clock  
An educational alarm clock radio is provided that speaks a new word each day when the alarm goes off, the words each being stored in a memory cartridge as an individual increments of information in...
7162417 Speech synthesizing method and apparatus for altering amplitudes of voiced and invoiced portions  
An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are...
7069217 Waveform synthesis  
A synthesizer is disclosed in which a speech waveform is synthesized by selecting a synthetic starting waveform segment and then generating a sequence of further segments. The further waveform...
7050966 Sound intelligibility enhancement using a psychoacoustic model and an oversampled filterbank  
A system and method of improving signal intelligibility over an interference signal is provided. The system includes a psychoacoustic professor having a psychoacoustic model wherein the level of a...
7010488 System and method for compressing concatenative acoustic inventories for speech synthesis  
A system and method is used to compress concatenative acoustic inventories for speech. Instead of using general purpose signal compression methods such as vector quantization, the method of the...
6999520 Efficient FFT implementation for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL)  
A method and apparatus for extending the dynamic range of an integer or fixed-point Fast Fourier Transform (“FFT”) system that may be used in communications devices such as ADSL modems. The dis...
6963842 Efficient system and method for converting between different transform-domain signal representations  
A memory-efficient system converting a signal from a first transform domain to a second transform domain. The system includes a first mechanism that obtains an input signal expressed via a first...
6950799 Speech converter utilizing preprogrammed voice profiles  
A speech processing system modifies various aspects of input speech according to a user-selected one of various preprogrammed voice fonts. Initially, the speech converter receives a formants signal...
6947731 Method for converting status messages output in spoken form  
A method for conversion of a voice output of appliance statuses, wherein three spoken phrases are stored for each appliance to be controlled, with the first spoken phrase being allocated to a first...
6845359 FFT based sine wave synthesis method for parametric vocoders  
A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based voice synthesis method 110, program product and vocoder. Sounds, e.g., speech and audio, are synthesized from multiple sine waves. Each sine wave component is...
6804649 Expressivity of voice synthesis by emphasizing source signal features  
Voice synthesis with improved expressivity is obtained in a voice synthesiser of source-filter type by making use of a library of source sound categories in the source module. Each source sound...
6795807 Method and means for creating prosody in speech regeneration for laryngectomees  
A device and a method to be used by laryngeally impaired people to improve the naturalness of their speech. An artificial sound creating mechanism which forms a simulated glottal pulse in the vocal...
6785652 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes  
A method and an apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes in a speech synthesis system are provided. According to one aspect, text is received into a processor of a speech synthesis...
6778962 Speech synthesis with prosodic model data and accent type  
A speech synthesizing method includes determining the accent type of the input character string, selecting the prosodic model data from a prosody dictionary for storing typical ones of the prosodic...
6757653 Reassembling speech sentence fragments using associated phonetic property  
A method of composing messages for speech output and the improvement of the quality of reproduction of speech outputs. A series of original sentences for messages is segmented and stored as audio...
6754628 Speaker recognition using cohort-specific feature transforms  
Methods and apparatus for facilitating speaker recognition, wherein, from target data that is provided relating to a target speaker and background data that is provided relating to at least one...
6658382 Audio signal coding and decoding methods and apparatus and recording media with programs therefor  
An input signal is time-frequency transformed, then the frequency-domain coefficients are divided into coefficient segments of about 100 Hz width to generate a sequence of coefficient segments, and...
6549884 Phase-vocoder pitch-shifting  
A system for pitch-shifting an audio signal wherein resampling is done in the frequency domain. The system includes a method for pitch-shifting a signal by converting the signal to a frequency...
6529874 Clustered patterns for text-to-speech synthesis  
A representative pattern memory stores a plurality of initial representative patterns as a noise pattern. Different attribute is affixed to each initial representative pattern. A pitch pattern...
6463412 High performance voice transformation apparatus and method  
A high performance voice transformation apparatus and method is provided in which voice input is transformed into a symbolic representation of phonemes in the voice input. The symbolic...
6336092 Targeted vocal transformation  
The invention is a method for transforming a source individual's voice so as to adopt the characteristics of a target individual's voice. The excitation signal component of the target individual's...
6311158 Synthesis of time-domain signals using non-overlapping transforms  
Techniques for synthesizing a time-domain signal. The time-domain signal is partitioned into a number of time-domain frames and a waveform in generated for each time-domain frame. Each waveform...
6278971 Phase detection apparatus and method and audio coding apparatus and method  
An apparatus and procedure for performing phase detection in which one-pitch cycle of an input signal waveform is cut out on a time axis. The cut-out one pitch cycle is filled with zeroes to form...
6253165 System and method for modeling probability distribution functions of transform coefficients of encoded signal  
The coder/decoder (codec) system of the present invention includes a coder and a decoder. The coder includes a multi-resolution transform processor, such as a modulated lapped transform (MLT)...
6199039 Synthesis subband filter in MPEG-II audio decoding  
An MPEG-II audio decoder with a synthesis subband filter includes a fast IMDCT (Inverse Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) module and an IPQMF (Inverse Pseudo Quadrature Mirror Filter) module. The...
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