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7299185 Systems and methods for managing interactions from multiple speech-enabled applications  
Systems and methods are described for speech systems that utilize an interaction manager to manage interactions—also known as dialogues—from one or more applications. The interactions are...
7299183 Closed caption signal processing apparatus and method  
A closed caption signal processing apparatus comprises a speech recognition unit to recognize speech contents from the speech signal, a speech timing detecting unit to detect a speech timing of the...
7299177 Speaker recognition in a multi-speaker environment and comparison of several voice prints to many  
One-to-many comparisons of callers'voice prints with known voice prints to identify any matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service...
7295983 Musical tune playback apparatus  
A musical tune playback apparatus is basically constituted by a controller (CPU), a digital media drive (e.g., a CD drive), a hard disk drive, and a sound system. Musical tune data recorded on a...
7295984 Systems and methods for providing voice and data interfaces to web services-based applications  
A system and method for facilitating voice communications between an end user and a third party Internet web application. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the communication...
7295981 Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system  
A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each...
7295982 System and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech  
The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically verifying that a message received from a user is intelligible. In an exemplary embodiment, a message is received from the...
7295963 Adaptive machine translation  
A computer-implemented method for providing information to an automatic machine translation system to improve translation accuracy is disclosed. The method includes receiving a collection of source...
7292689 System and method for providing a message-based communications infrastructure for automated call center operation  
A system and method for providing a message-based communications infrastructure for automated call center operation is described. A call from a user into a call center is accepted. The accepted...
7292986 Method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition progress  
A graphical user interface provides a graphical volume meter indicating the volume of the user's speech and a speech recognition meter showing the progress of a speech recognizer. The graphical...
7292984 Method of producing voice data method of playing back voice data, method of playing back speeded-up voice data, storage medium, method of assisting memorization, method of assisting learning a language, and computer program  
A computer-assisted method of assisting a user of a computer to memorize includes steps of displaying an image indicating a content to be memorized, on a left-hand side of a computer screen for a...
7289962 Compressed list presentation for speech user interfaces  
A list presentation method. The list presentation method can include the steps of: dynamically grouping selected items in a list based on sequentially positioned symbols in the items which are...
7289960 System and method for speech activated internet browsing using open vocabulary enhancement  
The invention discloses a system and method for speech-activated navigating or browsing via a speech control interface used in a speech-activated multifunctional communications system. In one...
7289961 Data hiding via phase manipulation of audio signals  
Data are embedded in an audio signal for watermarking, steganography, or other purposes. The audio signal is divided into time frames. In each time frame, the relative phases of one or more...
7289959 Biometric identification method, portable electronic device and electronic device acquiring biometric data therefor  
A biometric identification method includes the steps of acquiring biometric data, analysing the data to produce a current signature, and comparing the current signature with a reference signature....
7286985 Method and apparatus for preprocessing text-to-speech files in a voice XML application distribution system using industry specific, social and regional expression rules  
In a voice-application creation and deployment architecture, a system for preprocessing text strings for VXML view generation and subsequent voice rendering has a text-to-speech preprocessing...
7286989 Speech-processing system and method  
A speech processing system has an arbitrary number of speech recognition modules (Ei, i=1 . . . n) and speech output modules (Aj, j−1 . . . m). The modules provided respectively for a particular...
7286987 Multi-phoneme streamer and knowledge representation speech recognition system and method  
A system and method related to a new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech. In its fullest implementation, the system and method shifts the balance of power...
7286988 Speech recognition based interactive information retrieval scheme using dialogue control to reduce user stress  
In the disclosed speech recognition based interactive information retrieval scheme, the recognition target words in the speech recognition database are divided into prioritized recognition target...
7287248 Method and system for the generation of a voice extensible markup language application for a voice interface process  
A method and system for Extensible Markup Language (XML) application transformation may include converting a call flow diagram describing a voice interface process into a list of states in a XML...
7283962 Methods and systems for detecting, measuring, and monitoring stress in speech  
As disclosed herein, the present invention provides methods and systems for detecting, measuring, or monitoring the presence of absence of at least one emotion in a subject from a speech sample...
7283621 System for speech-enabled web applications  
Systems, methods, and structures are discussed that enhance media processing. One aspect of the present invention includes a data structure to enhance media processing. The data structure includes...
7283973 Multi-modal voice-enabled content access and delivery system  
A voice-enabled system for online content access and delivery provides a voice and telephony interface, as well a text and graphic interface, for browsing and accessing requested content or...
7280958 Method and system for suppressing receiver audio regeneration  
The invention concerns a method ( 500 ) and system ( 100 ) for suppressing receiver audio regeneration. The method ( 500 ) includes the steps of receiving a communication signal ( 502 ), at a Radio...
7280966 Electronic mail replies with speech recognition  
A method for responding to an electronic mail message with a limited input device such as a phone includes audibly rendering the question and a set of proposed answers typically provided in the...
7277855 Personalized text-to-speech services  
A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory...
7277857 Method and system for facilitating restoration of a voice command session with a user after a system disconnect  
A method and system for facilitating restoration of a voice command session. A voice command platform may send to an application server a signal indicative of a system disconnect. In response to...
7277696 System and method for minimising bandwidth utilisation in a wireless interactive voice response system  
The present invention provides a novel system, method and apparatus of delivering interactive voice response services in a more efficient manner over a network. The system provides for the...
7277858 Client/server rendering of network transcoded sign language content  
A method and system is provided for communicating a interpreted sign-language communication in a communication system having a plurality of nodes including at least a source node, a destination...
7274775 Transcription playback speed setting  
A computer program product resides on a computer-readable medium, and includes computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to analyze a first playback speed history...
7272455 Remote controlling device, program and system with control command changing function  
A control device for controlling a control target device includes a control content acquisition unit, a recognition unit, a device control unit, and a communication unit. The control content...
7272563 Personal computer and scanner for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection  
A user conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen)....
7272562 System and method for utilizing speech recognition to efficiently perform data indexing procedures  
A system and method for utilizing speech recognition to efficiently perform data indexing procedures includes an authoring module that coordinates an authoring procedure for creating an index file...
7272564 Method and apparatus for multimodal communication with user control of delivery modality  
A method and apparatus for providing multimodal communication outputs information, such as retrieved content, in a first modality. An output modality change command is generated, such as via a...
7269561 Bandwidth efficient digital voice communication system and method  
A bandwidth efficient digital voice communication system ( 10 ) can include a speech-to-text converter ( 22 ) for converting a voice signal to a text representation, a speech parameter extractor (...
7269560 Speech detection and enhancement using audio/video fusion  
A system and method facilitating speech detection and/or enhancement utilizing audio/video fusion is provided. The present invention fuses audio and video in a probabilistic generative model that...
7266499 Voice user interface with personality  
The present invention provides a voice user interface with personality. In one embodiment, a method includes executing a voice user interface, and controlling the voice user interface to provide...
7266498 Method and apparatus for reducing conflicts between speech-enabled applications sharing speech menu  
Method and apparatus are provided for developing a speech menu which is adapted to store a plurality of sound commands for a speech-enabled application. A first sound command of the plurality of...
7263474 Cultural simulation model for modeling of agent behavioral expression and simulation data visualization methods  
A computer simulation method is provided for modeling the behavioral expression of one or more computerized agents for running a simulation against real-world input data, and providing a visual...
7263483 USB dictation device  
The invention includes a handheld device for receiving audio input in the form of speech. The handheld device is specifically optimized for digitally recording speech input for the purpose of...
7263489 Detection of characteristics of human-machine interactions for dialog customization and analysis  
A system which uses automatic speech recognition to provide dialogs with human speakers automatically detects one or more characteristics, which may be characteristics of a speaker, his speech, his...
7260534 Graphical user interface for determining speech recognition accuracy  
A solution for determining the accuracy of a speech recognition system. A first graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for selecting a transaction log. The transaction log has at least one...
7260531 Interactive system, method, and program performing data search using pronunciation distance and entropy calculations  
Disclosed are an interactive system and method of controlling the same for achieving a task more efficiently. Items of data to be searched are stored in a memory ( 107 ) in a form classified...
7260537 Disambiguating results within a speech based IVR session  
Within an interactive voice response system, a method of automatically disambiguating results presented to a user can include determining the identity of a user within an interactive voice response...
7260536 Distributed voice and wireless interface modules for exposing messaging/collaboration data to voice and wireless devices  
In one aspect, a system for providing remote electronic services to a device includes an access module and a voice interface module. The access module is configured to expose...
7258660 Speech therapy method  
An improved stuttering treatment program provides for a multi dimensional diagnostic procedure for identifying the problems associated with stuttering. A simultaneous attitude modification phase...
7260535 Web server controls for web enabled recognition and/or audible prompting for call controls  
Web server controls are provided for generating client side markups with recognition and/or audible prompting to enable telephone call controls such as making, transferring and disconnecting...
7260530 Enhanced go-back feature system and method for use in a voice portal  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for transitioning among states during use of a voice browser. Initially, a script is received at a voice browser from a web server...
7257540 Voice browser apparatus and voice browsing method  
In a voice browser apparatus, an HTML document is obtained from a designated URL, the obtained document is analyzed based on a rule designated from a plurality of rules for defining voice...
7257538 Generating animation from visual and audio input  
A technique for generating an animated character based on visual and audio input from a live subject. Further described is a technique of extracting phonemes to select corresponding visemes to...