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7136459 |
Methods and apparatus for data caching to improve name recognition in large namespaces
Systems and techniques for improved efficiency and accuracy in voice dialing and directory lookup applications. A voice dialing module receives an input from a user and examines a directory to...
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7136817 |
Method and apparatus for the voice control of a device appertaining to consumer electronics
In the voice control of a device appertaining to consumer electronics, speech inputs of a user are converted into digitized voice signals. First features, which are characteristic of the individual...
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7133832 |
Recording and reproducing apparatus for use with optical recording medium having real-time, losslessly encoded data
A lossless encoding apparatus encodes audio data and a lossless decoding apparatus restores the losslessly compression encoded audio data on a real-time basis, and a method therefor. The lossless...
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7133830 |
System and method for supporting platform independent speech applications
A system and method for providing end user speech applications. The system is embodied in an application environment framework which exchanges messages with a target execution platform having a...
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7133837 |
Method and apparatus for providing communication transmissions
A method and apparatus for providing communications between a broadcast station and a plurality of viewing stations operated by viewers that allows the viewers to customize the broadcast...
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7133829 |
Dynamic insertion of a speech recognition engine within a distributed speech recognition system
A distributed speech recognition system provides for the convenient and expedited insertion of a new speech recognition engine. The system includes a central speech processor linked to at least one...
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7133535 |
System and method for real time lip synchronization
A novel method for synchronizing the lips of a sketched face to an input voice. The lip synchronization system and method approach is to use training video as much as possible when the input voice...
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7133504 |
Non-voice completion of voice calls
The present invention relates to a system for allowing a caller to leave a voice message for a called party, who is unavailable, such that the voice message is transferred to the called party in a...
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7133696 |
Changing the operational mode of a wireless communication device using a voice service option
Changing a mode of operation of a destination communication device by establishing a voice service option communication channel over a network between an initiating device and a destination device....
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7130446 |
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more...
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7127402 |
Method and apparatus for converting utterance representations into actions in a conversational system
A conversation manager processes a spoken utterance from a user of a computer that is directed to an application program hosted on the computer. The conversation manager includes a reasoning...
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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,...
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7127401 |
Remote control of a medical device using speech recognition and foot controls
A system and method for controlling a medical device is provided such as a medical imaging device. The preferred embodiment of the present invention receives a verbal command for assigning a...
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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...
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7127306 |
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor...
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7127399 |
Voice processing method and voice processing device
In a voice communication system 1, a gateway server 4 receives IP packets from the Internet, converts PCM voice data in the IP packets into AMR encoded voice data frames, and transmits to a...
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7127400 |
Methods and systems for personal interactive voice response
A personal interactive voice response system with a web-based interface allowing the user to specify treatment of incoming calls based on voice or touchtone responses provided by the calling party....
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7124085 |
Constraint-based speech recognition system and method
A constraint-based speech recognition system for use with a form-filling application employed over a telephone system is disclosed. The system comprises an input signal, wherein the input signal...
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7120583 |
Information presentation system, information presentation apparatus, control method thereof and computer readable memory
An information presentation computer receiving news articles distributed from an information distribution computer performs voice synthesis based on text information included in received send data,...
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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...
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7120577 |
Virtual presence
A system and terminal for facilitating a “virtual presence” allows users on a communication network to simply begin speaking through other users. A system immediately detects the destination...
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7117158 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for designing, deploying and managing interactive voice response (IVR) systems
An IVR system may be designed by accepting designer inputs to generate, on a display screen, a flowchart of interconnected flowchart processing blocks and flowchart decision blocks that represent a...
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7117152 |
System and method for speech recognition assisted voice communications
A communication system includes communications equipment having a voice input device, an acoustic output device, and a visual display device. The communications equipment receives voice information...
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7117157 |
Processing apparatus for determining which person in a group is speaking
Image data from cameras showing movement of a number of people, and sound data, is archived and processed to determine the position and orientation of each person's head and to determine at whom...
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7116762 |
Home office communication system and method
A home office communication system ( 10 ) has a control and display system ( 16 ). A modem ( 12 ) is controlled by the control and display system ( 16 ) and connected to a telephone line ( 14 ). A...
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7113910 |
Document expansion in speech retrieval
Methods of document expansion for a speech retrieval document by a recognizer. A database of vectors of automatic transcriptions of documents is accessed and the vectors are truncated by removing...
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7113911 |
Voice communication concerning a local entity
A local entity without its own means of voice communication is provided with the semblance of having a voice interaction capability. This is done by providing a beacon device at or near the entity,...
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7111319 |
Set top box access hub system
An apparatus comprising an audio/video decoder and a storage device. The audio/video decoder may be configured to receive (i) one or more uncompressed audio signals and (ii) one or more compressed...
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7110951 |
System and method for enhancing speech intelligibility for the hearing impaired
A system and method of using a combination of audio signal modification technologies integrated with hearing capability profiles, modern computer vision, speech recognition, and expert systems for...
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7110952 |
Computer accounting method using natural language speech recognition
A computer method is disclosed for the capture, tracking, and management of accounting data using natural language speech recognition with landline or wireless telephones. Information is stored in...
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7107218 |
Method and apparatus for processing queries
Queries which may be expressed in natural language are processed by: decoding a query into one or more semantically meaningful query elements;
accessing data storage, which data storage...
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7107204 |
Computer-aided writing system and method with cross-language writing wizard
A computer-aided writing system offers assistance to a user writing in a non-native language, as the user needs help, without requiring the user to divert attention away from the entry task. The...
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7107209 |
Speech communication apparatus with gain control for clear communication
A speech communication apparatus which is used with a microphone being fixed to a predetermined position in the vicinity of the mouth in such a manner as to prevent the transmission of...
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7107219 |
Communication apparatus
A terminal is designed so that a user who employs numerical keys, allocated for the entry of dots, can enter Braille dot combinations that are used for the input of characters. The input characters...
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7107217 |
Voice interactive system and voice interactive method
There is provided a voice Interactive system for inputting user's voice information, conducting voice recognition with respect to the voice information, analyzing the contents of the voice...
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7107533 |
Electronic book with multimode I/O
An electronic book device runs at least two output mode threads—one graphics, and one audio—such that the device can both graphically display book content, and play the content over a speaker...
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7103430 |
Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus
The present invention provides an apparatus having a microphone, an analog to digital converting circuit, a semiconductor memory, input device, and a controller. The analog to digital converting...
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7103551 |
Computer network including a computer system transmitting screen image information and corresponding speech information to another computer system
A described computer network includes a first computer system and a second computer system. The first computer system transmits screen image information and corresponding speech information to the...
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7103158 |
Dynamic interactive voice architecture
A computer-based method implements a customized instance of a dynamic interactive voice system for a customer. The method includes configuring a call flow that incorporates multiple call flow nodes...
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7103549 |
Method for improving speech recognition performance using speaker and channel information
A method for improving performance of speech recognition systems. Characteristics of the user and communication channels used by the user may be used to more accurately select the speech model used...
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7103154 |
Automatic transmission of voice-to-text converted voice message
A voice messaging system includes an input device to accept a destination electronic messaging address, a voice-to-text converter to convert or transcribe a received voice message into a converted...
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7103550 |
Method of using speech recognition to initiate a wireless application protocol (WAP) session
A method of initiating a data session between a wireless device and an information network over a wireless communication link includes establishing a voice session between the wireless device and a...
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7099828 |
Method and apparatus for word pronunciation composition
A method of generating pronunciation information can include graphically presenting at least one activatable visual identifier corresponding to individual ones of a plurality of phonemes....
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7099829 |
Method of dynamically displaying speech recognition system information
The present invention provides a method of dynamically displaying speech recognition system information. The method can include providing a single floating window for displaying frames of speech...
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7099824 |
Speech recognition system, speech recognition server, speech recognition client, their control method, and computer readable memory
A user dictionary, which is formed by storing pronunciations and notations of target recognition words designated by the user in correspondence with each other, input speech recognition data, and...
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7099825 |
User mobility in a voice recognition environment
A voice recognition system is disclosed. A device receives a signal indicating a user ID and transfers a signal indicating its device ID and the user ID to a processing system. The processing...
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7099827 |
Method and apparatus for producing a waveform corresponding to a style of rendition using a packet stream
Packet stream is generated by combining a plurality of packets corresponding to style-of-rendition identification information which are selected from among a number of packets usable for producing...
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7099820 |
Method and apparatus for concealing jitter buffer expansion and contraction
Methods for concealing audible distortions resulting from changes in jitter buffer size include receiving an audio stream, storing the audio stream in a jitter buffer, and determining a pitch...
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7096184 |
Calibrating audiometry stimuli
In one embodiment, a method is characterized by accepting voice input defining at least one spoken word; and calibrating the at least one spoken word in response to at least one defined...
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7092958 |
Knowledge information management toolkit and method
A system is provided for managing user entry and/or modification of knowledge information into a knowledge base file having an integrator support component and a data source access support...
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