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7460650 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,...
7457753 Telephone pathology assessment  
A system for remote assessment of a user is disclosed. The system comprises application software resident on a server and arranged to interact across a network with a user operating a client device...
7457396 Automated call management  
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for automated processing of an auditory communication is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving the auditory communication with call...
7457397 Voice page directory system in a voice page creation and delivery system  
A voice page directory system for enabling users of a voice page delivery system to locate voice pages of interest. A database system stores location identification information and description...
7457752 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing device  
Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing device, notably of the type where the emotion is conveyed by a sound, having at least one input parameter whose value...
7454352 Method and system for eliminating redundant voice recognition feedback  
A method and system for eliminating redundant voice recognition feedback includes receiving a voice command input at a command processor and determining a feedback requirement. The method further...
7454346 Apparatus and methods for converting textual information to audio-based output  
A system for providing text-to-speech conversion of a body of text is presented. The system includes a first executable resource which generates text portions from the body of text in response to...
7454334 Method and apparatus for automatically identifying animal species from their vocalizations  
Relatively powerful hand-held computing devices, Digital Signal Processors, Audio signal processing technology, voice recognition technology, expert systems, Hidden Markov Models, and/or neural...
7453369 System and method for voice alarm in measuring a workpiece  
A computer-based method for voice alarming in measuring a workpiece is provided. The method includes the steps of: configuring message commands; configuring triggering events that execute the...
7451090 Information processing device and information processing method  
In a system implementing image retrieval by performing speech recognition on voice information added to an image, the speech recognition is triggered by an event, such as an image upload event,...
7451085 System and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition  
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system...
7451079 Emotion recognition method and device  
Emotion recognition is performed by extracting a set comprising at least one feature derived from a signal, and processing the set of extracted feature(s) to detect an emotion therefrom. The voice...
7451086 Method and apparatus for voice recognition  
A voice recognition system according to embodiments of the present invention includes a recognizer; a grammar operably coupled to the recognizer, the grammar defining utterances to be recognized; a...
7450700 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...
7451088 System and method of handling problematic input during context-sensitive help for multi-modal dialog systems  
A method of presenting a multi-modal help dialog move to a user in a multi-modal dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises presenting an audio portion of the multi-modal help dialog move...
7451089 System and method of spoken language understanding in a spoken dialog service  
A voice-enabled help desk service is disclosed. The service comprises an automatic speech recognition module for recognizing speech from a user, a spoken language understanding module for...
7450698 System and method of utilizing a hybrid semantic model for speech recognition  
A method for processing a call is disclosed. The method receives a speech input in connection with a call and transforms at least a segment of the speech input into a first textual format. The...
7447637 System and method of processing speech within a graphic user interface  
According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice...
7447638 Speech input disambiguation computing method  
According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice...
7447626 Method and apparatus for generating a language independent document abstract  
A method of extracting significant phrases from one or more documents stored in a computer-readable medium. A sequence of words is read from the one or more documents and a score is determined for...
7444285 Method and system for sequential insertion of speech recognition results to facilitate deferred transcription services  
Methods and systems are disclosed for the sequential insertion of speech recognition results for deferred transcription services. Speech recognition results are used in the creation of resultant...
7444278 Method and system for synchronizing the user interface language between a software application and a web site  
A method and system is generally directed to synchronizing the language used for applications and the language used for information provided across a network. The client language that is associated...
7443962 System and process for speaking in a two-way voice communication without talking using a set of speech selection menus  
A system and process for enabling a communication device having computing capability, a user interface and display, to conduct two-way voice communications between a user and a remote party over a...
7444288 Automatically mixing audio signals in a predetermined manner  
A recorded voice message having a first length and a background sound having a second length longer than the first length are received. The first length of the recorded voice message is determined....
7444286 Speech recognition using re-utterance recognition  
The present invention relates to speech recognition that enables a user to perform re-utterance recognition, in which speech recognition is performed upon both a second saying of a sequence of one...
7444287 Efficient monitoring system and method  
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for monitoring a location having a plurality of audio sensors and video sensors are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving auditory...
7440898 System and method for the creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, with system and method that enable on-the-fly content and speech generation  
A system and method for creation and automatic deployment of personalized, dynamic and interactive voice services, including information derived from on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems is...
7440895 System and method for tuning and testing in a speech recognition system  
Systems and methods for improving the performance of a speech recognition system. In some embodiments a tuner module and/or a tester module are configured to cooperate with a speech recognition...
7440894 Method and system for creation of voice training profiles with multiple methods with uniform server mechanism using heterogeneous devices  
A system and method for creating user voice profiles enables a user to create a single user voice profile that is compatible with one or more voice servers. Such a system includes a training server...
7440899 Phonetic-sound providing system, server, client machine, information-provision managing server and phonetic-sound providing method  
A server, which transmits phonetic-sound information to a plurality of client machines and reproduces the transmitted phonetic-sound information, includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of...
7437298 Method and apparatus for mobile phone using semiconductor device capable of inter-processing voice signal and audio signal  
A method and apparatus of mobile phone using a semiconductor device includes a first converter, a second converter, a first digital processing circuit, and a second digital processing circuit. The...
7437293 Data transmission system with enhancement data  
A method of enhancing an electronic communication is disclosed, be it in the form of a message, file, or other type of transmission. The method includes the steps of transmitting and receiving a...
7436948 Method and system for timed interaction with an interactive voice response  
Provided are methods and systems associated with interactive voice response (“IVR”) systems that control the amount of time a user interacts with the system. According to the invention, an IVR...
7437295 Natural language processing for a location-based services system  
A method and system for providing natural language processing in a communication system is disclosed. A voice request is generated with a remote terminal that is transmitted to a base station. A...
7437292 Dialog system for a man-machine interaction having cooperating dialog devices  
A system and method for a dialog system which provides for a user to carry on a dialog with dialog experts having different capabilities, during an existing dialog session. A terminal device may be...
7437294 Methods for selecting acoustic model for use in a voice command platform  
A voice command platform provides an application developer with the ability to select a particular acoustic model from a plurality of available acoustic models. In a representative embodiment, the...
7437296 Speech recognition dictionary creation apparatus and information search apparatus  
A program guidance apparatus includes a recognition word storage unit ( 105 ) operable to store a past recognition word that is recognized by speech recognition in the past, a viewing history word...
7433822 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding pause information  
At an audio source, pause information is added to audio data, the combination of which is subsequently packetized. The resulting packets are transmitted to an audio destination via a network in...
7433490 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...
7433442 Linear half-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit  
A linear, half-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit for recovering clock information embedded in a received data signal. The half-rate CDR circuit comprises a phase detector that may receive...
7433819 Assessing fluency based on elapsed time  
A computer based method and related system, computer program product and device includes receiving audio input associated with a user reading a sequence of words and determining an approximate...
7433821 Methods and systems for intelligibility measurement of audio announcement systems  
A measurement system and method combine an audio announcement system with a plurality of spaced apart wirelessly coupled devices which evaluate speech intelligibility of audio output from...
7433818 Subscriber terminal for providing speech-text encoding and telephony service  
A subscriber terminal is provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual...
7433823 Speech input disambiguation computing system  
According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice...
7430511 Speech enabled computing system  
According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice...
7430510 System and method of using modular spoken-dialog components  
A system and method are disclosed for switching contexts within a spoken dialog between a user and a spoken dialog system. The spoken dialog system utilizes modular subdialogs that are invoked by...
7426467 System and method for supporting interactive user interface operations and storage medium  
There is provided a system for supporting interactive operations for inputting user commands to a household electric apparatus such as a television set/monitor and information apparatuses....
7426469 Speech enabled computing method  
According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice...
7426468 Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software  
The present invention involves the dynamic loading and unloading of relatively small text-string vocabularies within a speech recognition system. In one embodiment, sub-databases of high likelihood...
7426417 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 one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for...