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7603273 Simultaneous multi-user real-time voice recognition system  
This invention is a combination of software and hardware components and methodologies that enable voice recognition for multiple users simultaneously. It introduces the concept of a...
7602889 Dynamically alerting callers of changes to menu structures in a telephone prompting system  
A method, system and apparatus for dynamically alerting calling parties of menu structure changes in a telephone prompting system. In a telephone prompting system, a menu structure change alert...
7599830 Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing quick text entry in a message  
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In...
7599475 Method and apparatus for generic analytics  
A method and apparatus for revealing business or organizational aspects of an organization in audio signals captured from interactions, broadcasts or other sources. The method and apparatus...
7599838 Speech animation with behavioral contexts for application scenarios  
Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation server and one or more speech animation clients. The speech animation server...
7599357 Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting electrical interference in a conference call  
The present invention enables a network to detect electrical interference caused by cellular phones and correct the problem by playing a network announcement to the network operator if the...
7599839 Enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup  
A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation...
7596498 Monitoring, mining, and classifying electronically recordable conversations  
Conversations that take place over an electronically recordable channel are analyzed by constructing a set of features from the speech of two participants in the conversation. The set of features...
7596370 Management of nametags in a vehicle communications system  
A method for managing user nametags for a vehicle communications system, the method including receiving a nametag transfer request at a call center from a source, determining a target vehicle...
7593514 Methods and apparatuses for communicating between messaging and telephony systems  
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses receive a telephone number from an originating device; match the telephone number to an IM identifier; associate the IM identifier to a receiving...
7593854 Method and system for collecting user-interest information regarding a picture  
A user is presented with a picture image either in hard-copy or electronic form. Particular picture features in the image each have associated information that is presented to the user upon the...
7590539 System and method for email notification  
Email subscribers are notified of the receipt of new email messages when they are not at their computers via voice or page. An email notification server polls the email server corresponding to the...
7590538 Voice recognition system for navigating on the internet  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for recognizing voice commands for manipulating data on the Internet. Data is provided on a website. Voice signals are received from a user...
7590541 HMI presentation layer configuration system  
A human-machine interface generation system comprises a voice recognition component that receives voice commands relating to generation of a human-machine interface within an industrial automation...
7590542 Method of generating test scripts using a voice-capable markup language  
A method is disclosed for generating test scripts for testing an IVR from an IVR's voice-capable markup language application. The test scripts can be generated directly from the voice-capable...
7590534 Method and apparatus for processing voice data  
One aspect of the present disclosure is a device for processing voice data associated with an application program. The application program has a form therein for entering voice data. The...
7587318 Correlating video images of lip movements with audio signals to improve speech recognition  
A speech recognition device can include an audio signal receiver configured to receive audio signals from a speech source, a video signal receiver configured to receive video signals from the...
7584105 Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis  
According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a...
7584051 Navigation system and program for the same  
A navigation system for use in a subject vehicle for organizing a navigation instruction of a navigation route toward a destination in map data includes a closeness determination function for...
7584094 Automated digital voice recorder to personal information manager synchronization  
Apparatus and methods are presented for Automated Digital voice recorder to Personal information manager Synchronization (ADPS) message creation that allow a user to indicate that an ADPS message...
7584101 System for and method of automated quality monitoring  
A system and method according to the present invention automates call monitoring activities to evaluate and directly improve agent-customer interactions. Rather than listening to an entire call or...
7580842 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...
7580840 Systems and methods for performance tuning of speech applications  
A system ( 140 ) aids in the tuning of one or more speech applications. The system ( 140 ) may receive event data associated with multiple user interactions with one or more speech applications and...
7580837 System and method for targeted tuning module of a speech recognition system  
A system and method are disclosed for targeted tuning of a speech recognition system. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include deploying a speech recognition module to...
7580377 Systems and method of datalink auditory communications for air traffic control  
A system and method for engaging in two-way communication between a pilot and an air traffic controller by speech and hearing processes wherein spoken messages are compared to a database of...
7580512 Selection of incoming call screening treatment based on emotional state criterion  
An incoming call screening treatment is selected for a call to a called communication device based on an emotional state criterion input by a user of the called communication device.
7580841 Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser  
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested...
7577569 Combined speech recognition and text-to-speech generation  
Text-to-speech (TTS) generation is used in conjunction with large vocabulary speech recognition to say words selected by the speech recognition. The software for performing the large vocabulary...
7577568 Methods and system for creating voice files using a VoiceXML application  
Methods and systems for automating the assembly or creation of audio files for providing to listeners or for use in voice interactive services are provided. A voice application script is prepared...
7574275 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...
7574362 Method for automated sentence planning in a task classification system  
The invention relates to a method for sentence planning ( 120 ) in a task classification system that interacts with a user. The method may include recognizing symbols in the user's input...
7574356 System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input  
A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method comprises performing spelling recognition via automatic speech recognition (ASR) on...
7571104 Dynamic real-time cross-fading of voice prompts  
A system and method are provided for creating shorter more natural sounding voice messages and prompts from a plurality of pre-recorded sound segments, the prerecorded sound segments are...
7571093 Method of identifying duplicate voice recording  
A method of identifying duplicate voice recording by receiving digital voice recordings, selecting one of the recordings; segmenting the selected recording, extracting a pitch value per segment,...
7571100 Speech recognition and speaker verification using distributed speech processing  
Processing a speech utterance by communicating between a local computer and a remote computer using a hyper text communication session. The local computer sends a recording of a speech utterance to...
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...
7567904 Mobile listing system  
A method for use on a hand-held mobile self-powered wireless device including a listing program is provided. The listing programs extracts commands from a user's voice streams and initiates...
7567897 Method for dynamic selection of optimized codec for streaming audio content  
Several encoders at a broadcast system encode the same audio content. Packets from the resulting streams are immediately decoded and compared against the packets of the original audio stream. The...
7567906 Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide  
Systems and methods for generating an annotation guide. Speech data is organized and presented to a user. After the user selects some of the utterances in the speech data, the selected utterances...
7567905 Method for identifying and verifying an element using a voice system  
An identification and verification method for identifying and verifying an element. The method uses a voice system. The method includes the steps of associating at least one of an at least 4 unit...
7565295 Method and apparatus for translating hand gestures  
A sign language recognition apparatus and method is provided for translating hand gestures into speech or written text. The apparatus includes a number of sensors on the hand, arm and shoulder to...
7565294 Methods and systems employing digital content  
A portable device for use with audio or visual content (e.g., an MP3 player-like device, or a camera-enabled device) is equipped with one or more features/capabilities, including: a user interface...
7565293 Seamless hybrid computer human call service  
A Voice User Interface is provided for interactively responding in a synthesized voice to a call from a human caller, a Text to Speech system by which text entered by an agent and interactive data...
7562019 Automated testing of voice recognition software  
A method and a system for testing a voice enabled application on a target device, the method including conducting one or more interactions with the target device, at least some of the interactions...
7558736 System and method for providing talker arbitration in point-to-point/group communication  
One embodiment of the invention is based on a facilitation of the natural dynamics associated with face to face conversation, where the amplitude of a speaker's voice is often used to gain floor...
7558730 Speech recognition and transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols  
A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a...
7558735 Transcription application infrastructure and methodology  
A method and system for capturing and transcribing dictated information and for delivering the transcribed information to an end user. A voice file containing a digital recording of the dictated...
7555431 Method for processing speech using dynamic grammars  
Speech data is processed with one or more dynamic grammars, to reduce latency and improve accuracy. Different speech grammars are used by a speech recognition process depending on a context...
7555425 System and method of improved recording of medical transactions  
This invention relates to the field of patient health care. In particular, it relates to medical informatics, and to systems and methods for recording medical transactions. A system for recording...
7552403 Controlling an electronic component within an environment using a pointing device  
The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech...