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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;...
7609669 Voice directed system and method configured for assured messaging to multiple recipients  
A communications system transmits messages via a wireless network to multiple users nearly simultaneously in real-time. Each user has a terminal that receives a message and plays the message for...
7603279 Grammar update system and method for speech recognition  
A grammar update method for storing grammar data for speech interaction used for recognizing speech data and newly recognizing the speech data without using the grammar data, includes determining...
7596499 Multilingual text-to-speech system with limited resources  
A multilingual text-to-speech system includes a source datastore of primary source parameters providing information about a speaker of a primary language. A plurality of primary filter parameters...
7593844 Document translation systems and methods employing translation memories  
Disclosed are systems and methods for translating documents.
7593842 Device and method for translating language  
A device and method for translating language is disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a method for providing a translated output signal derived from a speech input signal, comprises receiving...
7590689 Associating multi-lingual audio recordings with objects in Internet presentation  
Methods for associating multi-lingual audio recordings with visual objects in a presentation system accessed by the Internet network wherein a plurality of visual objects such as charts or slides...
7587033 Methods and systems for rendering voice mail messages amenable to electronic processing by mailbox owners  
A method for execution by an owner of a mailbox in a voice mail system. The method comprises using an access device to access a voicemail message contained in the mailbox and entering a command...
7580830 Named entity translation  
Translating named entities from a source language to a target language. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating potential translations of a named entity from a source...
7577562 Extracting treelet translation pairs  
In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear...
7571092 Method and apparatus for on-demand localization of files  
Method and apparatus for the on-demand localization of files. Embodiments may provide a file format-independent localization mechanism that automates the extraction of localizable text content from...
7555433 Voice generator, method for generating voice, and navigation apparatus  
A main controller feeds a spelling translator with a text item representing a place name stored in a map database. The spelling translator translates the spelling of the text item according to...
7554679 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program  
An image forming apparatus having a display unit which displays system information and job information on such as a job execution state, comprising: a storage unit which stores in plural kinds of...
7552225 Enhanced media resource protocol messages  
A communication system can include a telephony application server and at least one speech engine, where the system uses a standardized messaging protocol that specifies a standard for media...
7552221 System for communicating with a server through a mobile communication device  
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing information from a server via a mobile communication device. One implementation of a method includes the acts of automatically determining a...
7548863 Adaptive context sensitive analysis  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that converts input data, such as speech or phonetic characters, to text by finding documents that are similar to the input data and using the...
7542967 Searching an index of media content  
A search engine, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for transmitting requested media content in response to a search request. The search request may include a search term containing...
7542909 Method, system, and apparatus for repairing audio recordings  
A system and method is disclosed for detecting and repairing audio recordings that contain busy signals and extended periods of silence by searching for clusters of silence by reviewing the...
7542908 System for learning a language  
A system operating on a network for learning a language includes a memory for storing a scenario having tasks to be carried out in the language. A connection manager accepts a plurality of...
7542893 Machine translation using elastic chunks  
A machine translation method includes receiving source text in a first language and retrieving text fragments in a target language from a library of bi-fragments to generate a target hypothesis....
7539619 Speech-enabled language translation system and method enabling interactive user supervision of translation and speech recognition accuracy  
A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both...
7539296 Methods and apparatus for processing foreign accent/language communications  
Techniques for improving the efficiency of foreign accent/language communications processing are disclosed. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing a call received...
7526424 Sentence realization model for a natural language generation system  
The present invention is a sentence realization system that processes an abstract linguistic representation (ALR) of a sentence into a structure that can be fully realizable. The system includes a...
7516070 Method for simultaneously creating audio-aligned final and verbatim text with the assistance of a speech recognition program as may be useful in form completion using a verbal entry method  
A system and method for creating a final text from an audio file. This has particular utility in completing forms with speech-to-text conversion. The system and method includes transcribing the...
7516062 Language converter with enhanced search capability  
A weighted search program is disclosed. The weighted search program may be integrated into a translation program, or the weighted search program may be used independently with an available search...
7515694 Apparatus for personalizing computerized customer service  
A method for improving user satisfaction with automated response computer driven systems is provided. In one embodiment the automated computer system utilizes a Web browser accessing at least a Web...
7512532 Translation server, translation method and program therefor  
A translation server connected to a terminal via a network, comprises: an input information controller for receiving a translation instruction sent from the terminal, the translation instruction...
7508841 Enhanced language support for legacy call control system  
This invention provides a method and apparatus for incorporation with a non-modifiable legacy IP telephony call control system. The system generally includes a legacy call control system for...
7505894 Order model for dependency structure  
In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear...
7505569 Diagnosing voice application issues of an operational environment  
A computerized method for diagnosing deployed voice-enabled application issues within a maintenance environment. The method can identify a recognition log file that includes details of previously...
7499863 System and method for constructing phrases for a media server  
A system and method for constructing phrases for delivery by a media server over a network to a client. Upon initiation of a session an initial ordered play list comprising a plurality of...
7496498 Front-end architecture for a multi-lingual text-to-speech system  
A text processing system for processing multi-lingual text for a speech synthesizer includes a first language dependent module for performing at least one of text and prosody analysis on a portion...
7496496 System and method for machine learning a confidence metric for machine translation  
A machine translation system is trained to generate confidence scores indicative of a quality of a translation result. A source string is translated with a machine translator to generate a target...
7487096 Method to automatically enable closed captioning when a speaker has a heavy accent  
A method for automatically enabling closed captioning in video conferencing when a heavy accent is detected from a current speaker is provided. Language background and/or ethnicity information is...
7486807 Image retrieving device, method for adding keywords in image retrieving device, and computer program therefor  
An image retrieving device for classifying and retrieving an image by detecting an object in the image and adding a keyword comprises an image storing section for storing the image which is...
7478047 Interactive character system  
A system and method for controlling a synthetic character using a control system displays the character engaged in an activity, receiving a first input from a user, determines whether the input is...
7475009 Text input support system and method  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, featuring techniques for text input support that, among other capabilities, can automatically convert a string of characters lacking...
7461001 Speech-to-speech generation system and method  
An expressive speech-to-speech generation system and method which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the...
7457740 Method and system for estimating the significance of rare events  
The present invention can be used to calculate expected precision for association values between types of items in one class with types of items in another class. The present invention accommodates...
7454326 Phrase to phrase joint probability model for statistical machine translation  
A machine translation (MT) system may utilize a phrase-based joint probability model. The model may be used to generate source and target language sentences simultaneously. In an embodiment, the...
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...
7430503 Method of combining corpora to achieve consistency in phonetic labeling  
The present invention is a method of combining corpora to achieve consistency in phonetic labeling. Corpora are received. A first corpus is selected from the corpora. Generating a phonetic...
7421394 Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium, and program  
This invention has as its object to save labor time required for correction and adjustments when an error has occurred during either the recognition of input data or the process of the recognition...
7418378 Method and apparatus for training and deployment of a statistical model of syntactic attachment likelihood  
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for improving the performance of a natural language parser. During training, natural language inputs are processed such that statistical...
7412388 Language-enhanced programming tools  
Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural...
7406408 Method of recognizing phones in speech of any language  
Method of recognizing phones in speech of any language. Acquire phones for all languages and a set of languages. Acquire a pronunciation dictionary, a transcript of speech for the set of languages,...
7403888 Language input user interface  
A language input architecture receives input text (e.g., phonetic text of a character-based language) entered by a user from an input device (e.g., keyboard, voice recognition). The input text is...
7401023 Systems and methods for providing automated directory assistance using transcripts  
An automated directory assistance ( 130 ) includes a training system ( 210 ) and a directory assistance system ( 220 ). The training system ( 210 ) trains and maintains the directory assistance...
7398215 Prompt language translation for a telecommunications system  
A prompt translation application for use in a telecommunications messaging system provides an administrator with a plurality of messaging prompts in a base language for revising, translating, and...
7398214 Method for translating slide presentations into different languages  
The present invention provides a method and system for translating presentation slides from one language to at least one additional language. In this method, text information from one slide can be...
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