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7620553 Simultaneous support of isolated and connected phrase command recognition in automatic speech recognition systems  
A system for operating one or more devices using speech input including a receiver for receiving a speech input, a controller in communication with the receiver, software executing on the...
7620551 Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the internet  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted...
7620550 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...
7617301 Dialogue apparatus for controlling dialogues based on acquired information, judgment result, time estimation and result transmission  
The user's waiting time in a dialogue system is effectively utilized. A dialogue apparatus makes a first dialogue with a user and judges whether a second dialogue should be started when a user's...
7617108 Vehicle mounted control apparatus  
A vehicle mounted control apparatus includes voice recognition section for recognizing a voice command input by an voice input device; and a control section that analyzes a cause of incapability of...
7617107 Information processing device and information processing program  
An information processing device is provided for processing audio data linked with predetermined image data in each of positions on a display screen which correspond to a plurality of playback...
7617106 Error detection for speech to text transcription systems  
A method, a system and a computer program product detects errors within text generated by a speech to text transcription system. The transcribed text is re-transformed into an artificial speech...
7617090 Contents filter based on the comparison between similarity of content character and correlation of subject matter  
A contents filter based on similarity of content character and correlation of subject matter includes a filtering system and a disciplining system, and the contents filter isn't a filtering system...
7613616 Training a user to execute a sequence of commands in a game environment by using voice control  
In a gaming system, a user controls actions of characters in the game environment using speech commands. In a learning mode, available speech commands are displayed in a command menu on a display...
7613613 Method and system for converting text to lip-synchronized speech in real time  
A method and system for presenting lip-synchronized speech corresponding to the text received in real time is provided. A lip synchronization system provides an image of a character that is to be...
7610204 Selective enablement of speech recognition grammars  
A method for processing speech audio in a network connected client device can include selecting a speech grammar for use in a speech recognition system in the network connected client device;...
7610201 Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech  
A method for synthesizing speech includes an obtaining step of obtaining a speech message, and a resuming step of resuming speech output of the speech message according to resumption data...
7610200 System and method for controlling sound data  
A system and method for controlling access to parameter blocks of a sound processor. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the present invention includes a host, a sound processor...
7610109 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...
7606718 Apparatus and method for processing service interactions  
An interactive voice and data response system that directs input to a voice, text, and web-capable software-based router, which is able to intelligently respond to the input by drawing on a...
7606713 Intelligent peripheral for speech recognition in networks  
A telecommunication network with an intelligent peripheral that is provided with a processor and a memory, as well as speech recognition functionality. The memory stores a list of VPN-addresses of...
7606712 Speech recognition interface for voice actuation of legacy systems  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a technician to access a systems interface to back-end legacy systems by voice input commands to a speech recognition module. Generally, a user logs a...
7606708 Apparatus, method, and medium for generating grammar network for use in speech recognition and dialogue speech recognition  
A method, apparatus, and medium for generating a grammar network for speech recognition and a dialogue speech recognition are provided. A method, apparatus, and medium for employing the same are...
7606701 Method and apparatus for determining emotional arousal by speech analysis  
An apparatus for determining emotional arousal of a subject by speech analysis, and an associated method. In the method, a speech sample is obtained, the speech sample is pre-processed into silent...
7606355 Method and apparatus for ordering goods, services and content over an internetwork  
A billing system is provided that allows a consumer to order products from computers connected to the Internet, wherein the consumer is automatically billed for the ordered good or service by its...
7603280 Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program  
A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...