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8185400 System and method for isolating and processing common dialog cues  
A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided. Speech input is received at a speech recognition component and recognized output is produced. A common dialog cue from the received speech...
8185401 Automated sentence planning in a task classification system  
The invention relates to a system that interacts with a user in an automated dialog system (100). The system may include a communicative goal generator (210) that generates communicative goals...
8185397 Speech processing apparatus, medium, and method recognizing and responding to speech using entity information  
A speech processing apparatus, medium, and method recognizing speech and responding to the speech. The speech processing apparatus may includes an entity extracting unit which extracts entity...
8180643 Script compliance using speech recognition and compilation and transmission of voice and text records to clients  
Apparatus and methods are provided for using automatic speech recognition to analyze a voice interaction and verify compliance of an agent reading a script to a client during the voice interaction....
8180647 Automated sentence planning in a task classification system  
The invention relates to a task classification system (900) that interacts with a user. The task classification system (900) may include a recognizer (920) that may recognize symbols in the user's...
8180646 System and method for implementing voice print-based priority call routing  
A system, method, and computer-usable medium for routing a call. A server receives a call from a client. A routing engine captures a voice print from the call. In response to the routing engine...
8175883 Speech recognition system and 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...
8175885 Controlling a set-top box via remote speech recognition  
A device may receive over a network a digitized speech signal from a remote control that accepts speech. In addition, the device may convert the digitized speech signal into text, use the text to...
8175886 Determination of signal-processing approach based on signal destination characteristics  
A comprehensive system and method for telematics including the following features individually or in sub-combinations: vehicle user interfaces, telecommunications, speech recognition, digital...
8170881 Distributed voice browser  
The present invention can include a method of call processing using a distributed voice browser including allocating a plurality of service processors configured to interpret parsed voice markup...
8170877 Printing to a text-to-speech output device  
A method for producing speech output can include the step of selecting a TTS output device from a plurality of available output devices. The selected output device can be associated with outputting...
8165883 Application abstraction with dialog purpose  
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer,...
8165885 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...
8165870 Classification filter for processing data for creating a language model  
The method and apparatus utilize a filter to remove a variety of non-dictated words from data based on probability and improve the effectiveness of creating a language model.
8160883 Focus tracking in dialogs  
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer,...
8160884 Methods and apparatus for automatically extending the voice vocabulary of mobile communications devices  
The invention is a method of improving the performance of a speech recognizer. The method generally involves: providing a lexicon for the speech recognizer; monitoring a user's interaction with a...
8155962 Method and system for asynchronously processing natural language utterances  
The methods and systems described herein may asynchronously process natural language utterances to provide real-time response performance and natural interaction with users. In particular, the...
8150696 Method of providing dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity  
A device for providing dynamic speech processing services during variable network connectivity with a network server includes a connection determiner that determines the level of network...
8150697 Autonomous systems and network management using speech  
A method of managing systems in a managed network can include storing configuration information corresponding to at least one managed system and automatically generating a grammar and a speech...
8145495 Integrated voice navigation system and method  
An integrated voice navigation system 40 is disclosed. The voice navigation system (40) includes a voice messaging system (44), a speech recognition system (46), a voice channel (50) and a control...
8145492 Robot behavior control system and method, and robot apparatus  
A behavior control system of a robot for learning a phoneme sequence includes a sound inputting device inputting a phoneme sequence, a sound signal learning unit operable to convert the phoneme...
8144854 Conference bridge which detects control information embedded in audio information to prioritize operations  
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for improved audio, video, and data conferencing. The present invention provides a conferencing system comprising a plurality of endpoints...
8144840 Method and system for facilitating mediated communication  
One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating mediated communication. In such an embodiment of the disclosures made herein, a voice-based communication request...
8144838 Automated task classification system  
The invention concerns an automated task classification system that operates on a task objective of a user. The system may include a meaningful phrase generator that generates a plurality of...
8139730 Integrating an IVR application within a standards based application server  
A method for providing Interactive Voice Response functionality within a multi-tiered telephony environment can identify an enterprise archive file that contains an Interactive Voice Response (IVR)...
8140632 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...
8140684 Voice activated system for dynamically re-connecting user computer operation sessions  
A system enables clinicians to use naturally spoken voice commands from a small, wearable, wireless badge (or other portable device) to trigger events including, application session transfer,...
8135578 Creation and use of application-generic class-based statistical language models for automatic speech recognition  
A method of creating an application-generic class-based SLM includes, for each of a plurality of speech applications, parsing a corpus of utterance transcriptions to produce a first output set, in...
8131557 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...
8131555 System and method for funneling user responses in an internet voice portal system to determine a desired item or service  
A method of funneling user responses in a voice portal system to determine a desired item or service includes (a) establishing an attribute value associated with a particular attribute of a desired...
8132126 Controlling electronic components in a computing environment  
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...
8131556 Communications using different modalities  
Communications between users of different modalities are enabled by a single integrated platform that allows both the input of voice (from a telephone, for example) to be realized as text (such as...
8131551 System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads  
A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is speaking to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data to be...
8126719 Interactive voice recognition and response over the internet  
Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the Internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start until they receive...
8121844 Dimension measurement system  
A dimension measurement system is provided. The dimension measurement system includes a speech I/O device fit in an ear canal of a worker, generating a voice signal from vibration in the air...
8121843 Fingerprint methods and systems for media signals  
The present invention relates generally to fingerprinting, e.g., a reduced-bit representation or other identifier of a media signal (e.g., audio, video or still images). One method recites:...
8117268 Hosted voice recognition system for wireless devices  
Methods, systems, and software for converting the audio input of a user of a hand-held client device or mobile phone into a textual representation by means of a backend server accessed by the...
8117030 System and method for analysis and adjustment of speech-enabled systems  
A method for analyzing and adjusting the performance of a speech-enabled application includes selecting a number of user utterances that were previously received by the speech-enabled application....
8116445 System and method for monitoring an interaction between a caller and an automated voice response system  
An apparatus and method for monitoring an interaction between a caller and an automated voice response (AVR) system is provided. An audio communication from a caller is processed by executing an...
8117035 Method and device for verifying the identity of a user of several telecommunication services using biometric characteristics  
A method and device for verification of an identity of a subscriber of a communication service on a telecommunications network is provided. The communication service requires authentication of the...
8117036 Non-disruptive side conversation information retrieval  
Information is exchanged between a user of a communications device and an application during an ongoing conversation between the user using the communications device and a party, without disrupting...
8112283 In-vehicle audio apparatus  
An audio apparatus has a function of correcting an audio signal in response to a noise level. The audio apparatus includes a correction unit that corrects an input audio signal on the basis of a...
8108214 System and method for recognizing proper names in dialog systems  
Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes contextual information to perform recognition of proper names are described. Unlike present name recognition methods on large name lists that generally...
8108213 Script compliance and quality assurance based on speech recognition and duration of interaction  
Apparatus and methods are provided for using automatic speech recognition to analyze a voice interaction and verify compliance of an agent reading a script to a client during the voice interaction....
8103508 Voice activated language translation  
A voice activated language translation system that is accessed by telephones where voice messages of a caller are translated into a selected language and returned to the caller or optionally sent...
8103509 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...
8103007 System and method of detecting speech intelligibility of audio announcement systems in noisy and reverberant spaces  
A system and method to detect and remediate unacceptable levels of speech intelligibility evaluates received test audio transmitted across and received in a space or region of interest....
8098833 System and method for dynamic modification of speech intelligibility scoring  
A system and method to detect and measure remediated speech intelligibility by evaluating received test audio transmitted across and received in a space or region of interest. Remediation of the...
8099284 System and method for speech recognition system  
A digital speech enabled middleware module is disclosed that facilitates interaction between a large number of client devices and network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) resources. The...
8095372 Digital process and arrangement for authenticating a user of a database  
Digital process for authentication of a user of a database for access to protected data or a service reserved for a defined circle of users or for the use of data currently entered by the user,...