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8326343 Mobile communication terminal and text-to-speech method  
A mobile communication terminal and text-to-speech method. The mobile communication terminal includes a display unit for displaying at least one object on a screen; a controller for identifying a...
8321228 Audio interface unit for supporting network services  
Techniques for providing network services at an audio interface unit include determining, based on spoken sounds of a user of an apparatus received at a microphone of the apparatus, whether to...
8321227 Methods and devices for appending an address list and determining a communication profile  
Disclosed are methods and electronic communication devices, such as an in-car speaker device, that can receive via a downloading process, a communication address list from another device to the...
8321226 Generating speech-enabled user interfaces  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for automatically creating a speech-based user interface involve identifying a software service definition that includes...
8321219 Systems and methods of performing speech recognition using gestures  
Embodiments of the present invention improve methods of performing speech recognition using human gestures. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a speech recognition method comprising...
8321201 Identifying a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies a synonym with N-gram agreement for a query phrase. During operation, the system receives a candidate synonym for the query...
8321277 Method and system for voice ordering utilizing product information  
A method for voice ordering utilizing catalog taxonomies and hierarchical categorization relationships in product information management (PIM) systems includes: prompting a user with a query to...
8321221 Speech communication system and method, and robot apparatus  
This invention realizes a speech communication system and method, and a robot apparatus capable of significantly improving entertainment property. A speech communication system with a function to...
8320531 Template-based electronic message generation using sound input  
A unified messaging system enables a subscriber to log into the system remotely and compose and send text messages, such as email messages, using predefined templates and sound input. The sound...
8315723 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...
8315878 Voice controlled wireless communication device system  
A wireless communication device is disclosed that accepts recorded audio data from an end-user. The audio data can be in the form of a command requesting user action. Likewise, the audio data can...
8315360 Method for designing an automated speech recognition (ASR) interface for a customer call center  
A method of designing a customer interface for a service center, such as an automated speech recognition (ASR) self-service center. Customer activity to an existing service center is monitored,...
8315799 Location based full address entry via speech recognition  
A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product confirm an orally entered address to a mobile navigation device. The mobile navigation device receives a global positioning...
8315875 Wireless server based text to speech email  
An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media...
8315874 Voice user interface authoring tool  
A voice user interface authoring tool is configured to use categorized example caller responses, from which callflow paths, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing control...
8311834 Computerized information selection and download apparatus and methods  
Methods and apparatus for providing information useful to a particular user of a computerized apparatus. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a portable computerized apparatus (such as for...
8311826 Method and system for screening using voice data and metadata  
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising: (a) maintaining a database of known fraudsters, wherein each fraudster has a voice signature and metadata associated therewith; (b)...
8311835 Assisted multi-modal dialogue  
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls are organized in collections to obtain information pertaining...
8311823 System and method for searching based on audio search criteria  
A method of conducting a search includes tagging a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip. The audio clip is captured from the audio content...
8311204 Automatic complaint registration for violations of telephonic communication regulations with call rejection  
In an embodiment, call information is received indicating that a called party, responsive to receiving a call from a calling party, desires to record a complaint against the calling party relating...
8311839 Device and method for selective image display in response to detected voice characteristics  
An image display device includes a display unit, a storage unit, a voice receiving unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of image data, a plurality of voice data and a...
8311832 Hybrid-captioning system  
A hybrid-captioning system for editing captions for spoken utterances within video includes an editor-type caption-editing subsystem, a line-based caption-editing subsystem, and a mechanism. The...
8311824 Methods and apparatus for language identification  
In a multi-lingual environment, a method and apparatus for determining a language spoken in a speech utterance. The method and apparatus test acoustic feature vectors extracted from the utterances...
8311657 Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing  
Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least on DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for...
8311804 On demand TTS vocabulary for a telematics system  
A driving directions system loads into memory a limited subset of prerecorded, spoken utterances of geographic names from a mass media storage. The subset of spoken utterances may be limited, for...
8311817 Systems and methods for enhancing voice quality in mobile device  
Provided are methods and systems for enhancing the quality of voice communications. The method and corresponding system may involve classifying an audio signal into speech, and speech and noise and...
8311837 Mobile voice self service system  
A Mobile Voice Self Service (MVSS) mobile system that includes an MVSS mobile device, on which a VoiceXML browser is implemented directly. The VoiceXML browser may request a VoiceXML application...
8311836 Dynamic help including available speech commands from content contained within speech grammars  
A method for providing help to voice-enabled applications, including multimodal applications, can include a step of identifying at least one speech grammar associated with a voice-enabled...
8311838 Devices and methods for identifying a prompt corresponding to a voice input in a sequence of prompts  
This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device while prompts are provided. In particular, this is directed to providing a sequence of prompts to a user (e.g., voice...
8311833 Interactive voice response system  
Methods and systems for testing and analyzing integrated voice response systems are provided. Computer devices are used to simulate caller responses or inputs to components of the integrated voice...
8306816 Rapid transcription by dispersing segments of source material to a plurality of transcribing stations  
A method and system for producing and working with transcripts according to the invention eliminates time inefficiencies. By dispersing a source recording to a transcription team in small segments,...
8306823 Dialog detecting apparatus, dialog detecting method, and computer program product  
A speech receiving unit receives a user ID, a speech obtained at a terminal, and an utterance duration, from the terminal. A proximity determining unit calculates a correlation value expressing a...
8306822 Automatic reading tutoring using dynamically built language model  
A method of providing automatic reading tutoring is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a textual indication of a story from a data store and creating a language model including constructing...
8306824 Method and apparatus for creating face character based on voice  
An apparatus and method of creating a face character which corresponds to a voice of a user is provided. To create various facial expressions with fewer key models, a face character is divided in a...
8306578 Distributed sound enhancement  
Sound quality is enhanced in a sound system including handsets and headsets. Handset sound enhancing algorithms are implemented in a handset. The handset automatically determines which, if any, of...
8306192 System and method for processing speech  
Systems and methods for processing speech are provided. A system may include a speech recognition interface and a processor. The processor may convert speech received from a call at the speech...
8301444 Automated demographic analysis by analyzing voice activity  
A method of generating demographic information relating to an individual is provided. The method includes monitoring an environment for a voice activity of an individual and detecting the voice...
8301452 Voice activated application service architecture and delivery  
A system and method for retrieving distributed content responsive to voice data are disclosed. Voice data is transmitted from a source client device to media server which applies a mixing table to...
8301446 System and method for training an acoustic model with reduced feature space variation  
Feature space variation associated with specific text elements is reduced by training an acoustic model with a phoneme set, dictionary and transcription set configured to better distinguish the...
8301453 Watermark synchronization signals conveying payload data  
Steganographic synchronization signals (sometimes termed “orientation signals,” “marker signals,” reference signals,” “grid signals,” “calibration signals,” etc.) are sometimes included with dig...
8301454 Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing timely user cues pertaining to speech recognition  
A method is provided of providing cues from am electronic communication device to a user while capturing an utterance. A plurality of cues associated with the user utterance are provided by the...
8296147 Interactive voice controlled project management system  
A method for facilitating project management includes identifying a user, identifying a project management access level for the user, dynamically generating a voice dialog based on the identified...
8296377 Facilitating presentation by mobile device of additional content for a word or phrase upon utterance thereof  
A method for presenting additional content for a word that is part of a message, and that is presented by a mobile communication device, includes the steps of: presenting the message, including...
8296383 Electronic devices with voice command and contextual data processing capabilities  
An electronic device may capture a voice command from a user. The electronic device may store contextual information about the state of the electronic device when the voice command is received. The...
8296149 Systems and methods for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field  
A system (20) for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field includes a graphical input device (22) for inputting the graphical data into the graphical input field, and a...
8296153 Computerized information presentation methods  
Methods for providing information useful to a user of a remote computerized apparatus. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving via a network link a digitized speech input relating to an...
8296144 System and method for automated testing of complicated dialog systems  
Embodiments of an automated dialog system testing method and component are described. This automated testing method and system supplements real human-based testing with simulated user input and...
8296150 System and method for audio content navigation  
A system and method for communicating one or more audio files through a network. One or more original files of an original web site are converted into one or more audio files. An indication is...
8296143 Audio signal processing apparatus, audio signal processing method, and program for having the method executed by computer  
An audio waveform processing not imparting any feeling of strangeness and high in definition, in which time stretch and pitch shift are performed by a vocoder method, and the variation of phase...
8296146 Computerized information presentation apparatus  
A computerized information system and computer readable apparatus. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured for use in a transport apparatus and comprises a computer readable medium having at...