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7467026 Autonomously moving robot management system  
An autonomous robot is controlled by the local robot information controller which is connected to a robot application network to which the transceiver to communicate with the autonomous robot is...
7360155 Structured datatype expansion framework  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that expands a symbolic representation of a data item into a locale-specific textual representation of the data item. The system operates...
7353175 Apparatus, method, and program for speech synthesis with capability of providing word meaning immediately upon request by a user  
A word meaning explanation request to a word in document data, which is output as speech, is input from a user instruction input unit. When the word meaning explanation request is input, a text...
7337117 Apparatus and method for phonetically screening predetermined character strings  
An apparatus for phonetically screening predetermined character strings. The apparatus includes a text-to-speech module, and a phonetic screening module in communication with the text-to-speech...
7334183 Domain-specific concatenative audio  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating speech output from a text string. During operation, the system first receives the text string and then examines the text...
7330774 Reception system  
An operation control unit of a reception system includes a visitor ID information DB for storing therein visitor comparison information and visitor ID information including a phone number of a...
7318033 Method, apparatus and program for recognizing, extracting, and speech synthesizing strings from documents  
Even when a copying machine with a voice guidance function is used, a problem of wastefully copying wrong documents or documents with missing pages remains unsolved for visually impaired persons....
7315820 Text-derived speech animation tool  
A text-derived speech animation tool for producing simple, effective animations of digital media content that educate, entertain, and inform viewers by the presentation of speaking digital...
7310605 Method and apparatus to transliterate text using a portable device  
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a method in a portable device for transliterating text. An image of the text is generated using a camera function in the portable device. The...
7308408 Providing services for an information processing system using an audio interface  
A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services...
7305342 Text-to-speech synthesis system and associated method of associating content information  
A setting window that is displayed when a mail tab is selected includes check boxes for selecting items to read when an electronic mail is read, and a check box and a drop-down list box for setting...
7302395 Speech notification  
A notification device comprises control software including a calendar-type application, which is capable of managing notification messages and where the messages are associated with at least an...
7292980 Graphical user interface and method for modifying pronunciations in text-to-speech and speech recognition systems  
A method and user interface which allow users to make decisions about how to pronounce words and parts of words based on audio cues and common words with well known pronunciations. Users input or...
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...
7275035 System and method for speech generation from brain activity  
In a method of assisting a subject to generate speech, at least one first neural impulse is sensed from a first preselected location in the subject's brain. A first preselected sound is associated...
7275032 Telephone call handling center where operators utilize synthesized voices generated or modified to exhibit or omit prescribed speech characteristics  
A human operator's voice is artificially varied prior to transmission to a remote caller. In one example, the operator indicates target speech content (e.g., actual speech, pre-prepared text,...
7254531 In-context analysis and automatic translation  
Methods are described for automatically presenting at least one definition in context, for a dictionary entry, based a contextual analysis of the grammatical unit, such as the sentence, the clause,...
7228273 Voice control method  
A voice control method that allows vocal characteristics of a character to diversely be set in a computer game where characters are capable of voice output is provided. The voice control method...
7224774 Real-time call control system  
A system and method are provided for real-time call control. When a call is received at a telephone server for a service subscriber, the server identifies the subscriber and retrieves information...
7222076 Speech output apparatus  
The present invention relates to a voice output apparatus capable of, in response to a particular stimulus, stopping outputting a voice and outputting a reaction. The voice output apparatus is...
7203721 Portable browser device with voice recognition and feedback capability  
A mobile information network browser device with audio feedback capability that is capable of transmitting a request for information via a wireless communication interface from one or more servers...
7203647 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...
7203642 Robot control apparatus and method with echo back prosody  
The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphone 15 is subjected to speech recognition by a...
7200560 Portable reading device with display capability  
A hand held device that captures information with the capability to read only the captured information, display only the captured information, or simultaneously read and display the captured...
7194411 Method of displaying web pages to enable user access to text information that the user has difficulty reading  
Web pages and other text documents displayed on a computer are reformatted to allow a a user who has difficulty reading to navigate between and among such documents and to have such documents, or...
7191131 Electronic document processing apparatus  
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S 1 , a document processing apparatus at step S 2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds...
7174509 Multimodal document reception apparatus and multimodal document transmission apparatus, multimodal document transmission/reception system, their control method, and program  
Modality information indicating various functions of a multimodal document reception processing apparatus is transmitted to a multimodal document transmission apparatus, and a multimodal document,...
7174295 User interface for text to speech conversion  
An electronic device which includes a user interface having a display for displaying text and a speech synthesiser including a loudspeaker, arranged to convert an input, dependent upon a text, to...
7171364 Voice assistant apparatus inputting a key  
In a key-input voice assistant apparatus of the present invention, a mode switching key is used to switch the operation mode between a normal mode in which a function assigned to a key is executed...
7171363 Pick-by-line system and method  
The invention is a method for picking an object from a source transport device vehicle using a mobile computer with text-to-speech software adapted for communication between a pick-by-line server...
7139710 Audio synthesis of a currently tuned frequency  
A system 10 is provided which is receptive to selective tuning at particular frequencies. The system 10 includes a display device 15 , an audio synthesizer 14 , and a controller 20 . The...
7136677 Portable terminal  
A portable terminal reading text, such as predetermined information sent as an electronic mail message, and/or viewable by using a browser in a convenient or user-friendly manner for a...
7117159 Method and system for dynamic control over modes of operation of voice-processing in a voice command platform  
A method and system for dynamically controlling a voice-processing mechanism in a voice command platform. The platform receives a specification during a voice command session with a user and...
7117155 Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis  
A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. Representative parameters are...
7110950 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...
7107219 Communication apparatus  
A terminal is designed so that a user who employs numerical keys, allocated for the entry of dots, can enter Braille dot combinations that are used for the input of characters. The input characters...
7106836 System for converting text data into speech output  
The invention relates to a system, in which applications are interconnected by means of a network. Text data can be output as speech data by at least one application. A service that is provided for...
7103551 Computer network including a computer system transmitting screen image information and corresponding speech information to another computer system  
A described computer network includes a first computer system and a second computer system. The first computer system transmits screen image information and corresponding speech information to the...
7099826 Text-to-speech synthesis system  
The present invention is intended to provide a text-to-speech synthesis apparatus, including a storage for storing phoneme data of a plurality of speakers; a selector for selecting one of the...
7080015 Synchronization control apparatus and method, and recording medium  
In a synchronization control apparatus, a voice-language-information generating section generates the voice language information of a word which a robot utters. A voice synthesizing section...
7065711 Information processing device and method, and recording medium  
An information processing device and method, and a recording medium for enabling several users to participate as respective avatars in a virtual space constructed on a network and to have...
7062440 Monitoring text to speech output to effect control of barge-in  
A speech system has a speech input channel including a speech recognizer, and a speech output channel including a text-to-speech converter. Associated with the input channel is a barge-in control...
7062437 Audio renderings for expressing non-audio nuances  
Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by adapting audio renderings of non-audio messages (for example, e-mail messages that are processed by a text-to-speech...
7062428 Natural language machine interface  
A user interface is provided for use with a machine which can use a number of natural language instructions to reach one of a plurality of possible machine states. In order to provide information...
7043436 Apparatus for synthesizing speech sounds of a short message in a hands free kit for a mobile phone  
Synthesizing speech sounds to express a short message received from a caller in a handset coupled to a hands free kit, includes handset circuitry for transferring an alarm signal to the hands free...
7027568 Personal message service with enhanced text to speech synthesis  
A server in a network gathers textual information, such as news items, E-mail and the like. From that information, the server develops or identifies messages for use by individual subscribers. The...
7020611 User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method  
An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a...
6996533 Information processing system  
An information processing system receives notice information, having a predetermine format, transmitted via a network. The information processing system includes an extracting unit for analyzing...
6996530 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program  
Two types of voice can be set for reading text data of an electronic mail. A user selects a detailed setting button associated with one of the voice types to display a voice setting window, in...
6993487 Software code comments management method and system supporting speech recognition technology  
A system and method for enabling audio comments to be used when writing and executing code, during design time and run time. A code writer is hereby enabled to simultaneously write code and compose...
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