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7624019 Raising the visibility of a voice-activated user interface  
A system is configured to enable a user to assert voice-activated commands. When the user issues a non-ambiguous command, the system activates a corresponding control. The area of activity on the...
RE41002 Telephone for the deaf and method of using same  
An electronic communications system for the deaf includes a video apparatus for observing and digitizing the facial, body and hand and finger signing motions of a deaf person, an electronic...
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...
7574361 Radio audio indicator  
A user interface for a communication device includes a light emitting diode (LED) ( 200 ) providing both a transmit-carrier indicator and transmit-audio feedback to the user. By varying the...
7567908 Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon simultaneous speech  
Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting...
7539618 System for operating device using animated character display and such electronic device  
A system for operating an electronic device enabling the same agent software to be used in common among a plurality of devices, where a car navigation system or audio system, when the agent...
7505911 Combined speech recognition and sound recording  
A handheld device with both large-vocabulary speech recognition and audio recoding allows users to switch between at least two of the following three modes: (1) recording audio without...
7457756 Method of generating time-frequency signal representation preserving phase information  
A method of generating a time-frequency representation of a signal that preserves phase information by receiving the signal, calculating a joint time-frequency domain of the signal, estimating...
7406409 System and method for recording and reproducing multimedia based on an audio signal  
A system and method summarizes multimedia stored in a compressed multimedia file partitioned into a sequence of segments, where the content of the multimedia is, for example, video signals, audio...
7386437 System for providing translated information to a driver of a vehicle  
A vehicle mounted translation system for providing language translation to a driver of a vehicle. The translation system may be associated with a vehicle navigation system. The translation system...
7366671 Speech displaying system and method  
A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech...
7366670 Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis  
Facial animation in MPEG-4 can be driven by a text stream and a Facial Animation Parameters (FAP) stream. Text input is sent to a TTS converter that drives the mouth shapes of the face. FAPs are...
7356470 Text-to-speech and image generation of multimedia attachments to e-mail  
A multi-mail system and method is disclosed in which a sender may convey and a recipient can realize emotional aspects associated with substantive content of a multi-mail message by receiving a...
7353177 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 listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from...
7349851 Speech recognition user interface  
A speech recognition system having a user interface that provides both visual and auditory feedback to a user is described. In one aspect, a response time in which to receive an audible utterance...
7333865 Aligning data streams  
The invention aligns two wide-bandwidth, high resolution data streams, in a manner that retains the full bandwidth of the data streams, by using magnitude-only spectrograms as inputs into the...
7321854 Prosody based audio/visual co-analysis for co-verbal gesture recognition  
The present method incorporates audio and visual cues from human gesticulation for automatic recognition. The methodology articulates a framework for co-analyzing gestures and prosodic elements of...
7299188 Method and apparatus for providing an interactive language tutor  
A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an...
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...
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)....
7240009 Dialogue control apparatus for communicating with a processor controlled device  
A Control apparatus for controlling communication between a user and at least one processor controlled device, such as a printer or copier, capable of carrying out at least one task. The control...
7227994 Method and apparatus for imbedded pattern recognition using dual alternating pointers  
A method and apparatus for finding a reference pattern (RP) with K elements imbedded in an input pattern IP with repeating substrings uses dual pointers to point to elements in the RP to compare...
7212971 Control apparatus for enabling a user to communicate by speech with a processor-controlled apparatus  
A control apparatus controls the display of text data which includes a speech link that can be activated by spoken command. The shape of a pointing device cursor displayed on a display is then...
7197455 Content selection system  
A client 2 includes a transmission unit 2 d for transmitting the input speech information over a network to a server system 3 and an output unit 2 b for receiving the contents selection...
7165034 Information processing apparatus and method, and program  
Input form information associated with an input form is stored in a form name holding unit. Input speech is recognized by a speech recognition unit, and input form information corresponding to that...
7136818 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...
7089177 System and method for characterizing voiced excitations of speech and acoustic signals, removing acoustic noise from speech, and synthesizing speech  
The present invention is a system and method for characterizing human (or animate) speech voiced excitation functions and acoustic signals, for removing unwanted acoustic noise which often occurs...
7076425 Voice recognition device with larger weights assigned to displayed words of recognition vocabulary  
A voice recognition device is provided to improve a recognition rate for objective recognition terms on display. The device includes a voice pickup unit for picking up user's voices, a storing unit...
7069214 Factorization for generating a library of mouth shapes  
A library of mouth shapes is created by separating speaker-dependent and speaker independent variability. Preferably, speaker dependent variability is modeled by a speaker space while the speaker...
7054817 User interface for speech model generation and testing  
A computer system is provided including a control module 20 and data collection module 22 which generate user interfaces enabling a user to identify a vocabulary and a number of speakers from...
7047200 Voice recognition status display  
A user interface is described that informs the user as to the status of the operation of a voice recognition application. The user interface displays an indicator, such as a volume bar, each time...
7047199 Communication apparatus, communication method and program storage medium  
The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and...
7047192 Simultaneous multi-user real-time speech recognition system  
This invention is a combination of software and hardware components and methodologies that enable speech recognition for multiple users simultaneously. It introduces the concept of a...
7036080 Method and apparatus for implementing a speech interface for a GUI  
A method and apparatus for providing speech control to a graphical user interface (GUI) divide a GUI into a plurality of screen areas; assign the screen areas priorities; receive a first audio...
7031920 Lighting control using speech recognition  
A system and method for the control of color-based lighting through voice control or speech recognition as well as a syntax for use with such a system. In this approach, the spoken voice (in any...
7027985 Speech recognition method with a replace command  
A speech recognition method ( 4 ) with a text editing method of editing a text information part (TW) erroneously recognized in first text information (TI 1 ) with a four-word spoken command (SB)...
7013283 System and method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal  
A system and a concomitant method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal. The programming content and the audio signal are transmitted in a network having a forward...
7013279 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)....
6990455 Command and control using speech recognition for dental computer connected devices  
Tools (in the form of apparatus, systems and methods) for hands-free command and control of a dental computer imaging system are provided. A speech recognition unit converts to electronic speech...
6985854 Information processing device, picture producing method, and program storing medium  
An information processing device in which a picture is displayed by being related to a sound. A selected picture (Psel) is switched on the basis of the change of the sound, and in the meantime, a...
6973428 System and method for searching, analyzing and displaying text transcripts of speech after imperfect speech recognition  
A speech conversation is changed to a text transcript, which is then pre-processed and subjected to text mining to determine salient terms. Salient terms are those terms that meet a predetermined...
6937987 Character information receiving apparatus  
When a received character data is decoded by a decoder 10, a word division circuit 21 divides the data into word units, and a voice storage circuit 22 outputs a voice data corresponding to...
6934552 Method to select and send text messages with a mobile  
To send text messages, a text together with a transmit address is input into a transmitting device by voice input, where the voice input is processed in a speech recognition unit and compared with...
6925438 Method and apparatus for providing an animated display with translated speech  
A first language to second language translator ( 11 ) converts text comprising a message in a first language into text representing that message in a second language. A text to speech transducer (...
6882971 Method and apparatus for improving listener differentiation of talkers during a conference call  
A method and associated apparatus for indicating the voice of each talker from a plurality of talkers to be heard by a listener. The method uses a signal that is transmitted over a...
6873949 Computer based system, computer program product and method for managing geographically distributed assets  
A computer based system, computer program product, and method for managing geographically distributed assets. A computer based system, computer program product, and method are provided for managing...
6813607 Translingual visual speech synthesis  
A computer implemented method in a language independent system generates audio-driven facial animation given the speech recognition system for just one language. The method is based on the...
6792409 Synchronous reproduction in a speech recognition system  
In a speech recognition system, the received speech and the sequence of words, recognized in the speech by a recognizer ( 100 ), are stored in a memory ( 320, 330 ). Markers are stored as well,...
6766299 Speech-controlled animation system  
Methods, systems and apparatuses directed toward an authoring tool that gives users the ability to make high-quality, speech-driven animation in which the animated character speaks in the user's...
6748358 ELECTRONIC SPEAKING DOCUMENT VIEWER, AUTHORING SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND EDITING ELECTRONIC CONTENTS TO BE REPRODUCED BY THE ELECTRONIC SPEAKING DOCUMENT VIEWER, SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE CARD AND INFORMATION PROVIDER SERVER  
An improved electronic speaking document viewer is provided in order that a user can readily use electronic texts in the same manner as reading text images printed on paper. The electronic speaking...
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