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6557756 Communications, particularly in the domestic environment  
A domestic appliance ( 1 ) such as a microwave oven is adapted for interaction with a communications network ( 75 ) such as the Internet by the addition of a substantially self-contained discrete...
6553345 Universal remote control allowing natural language modality for television and multimedia searches and requests  
The remote control unit supports multi-modal dialog with the user, through which the user can easily select programs for viewing or recording. The remote control houses a microphone into which the...
6549883 Method and apparatus for generating multilingual transcription groups  
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating transcriptions suitable for use in a speech-processing device. The invention provides processing the vocabulary item to derive a...
6546082 Method and apparatus for assisting speech and hearing impaired subscribers using the telephone and central office  
A system and method for Assisting Speech And Hearing-impaired Subscribers Using The Telephone And Central Office is disclosed. The present invention in some preferred embodiments permits remote...
6542200 Television/radio speech-to-text translating processor  
A device used with a conventional television set that permits both hearing impaired and non hearing impaired individuals to view television audio voice signals in a text format on the television...
6539358 Voice-interactive docking station for a portable computing device  
A voice-interactive docking station is provided for use with a portable computing device. The portable computing device includes at least one information management application and a corresponding...
6535854 Speech recognition control of remotely controllable devices in a home network environment  
Home networks low-cost digital interfaces are introduced that integrate entertainment, communication and computing electronics into consumer multimedia. Normally, these are low-cost, easy to use...
6535848 Method and apparatus for transcribing multiple files into a single document  
A transcription system ( 100, 200 ) includes multiple recording devices ( 110, 210 ) that individually record and store ( 516 ), into multiple files, digital data representing speech uttered by...
6532444 Network interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing  
A system and method to interact with networked objects, via a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. A Data Definition File relates networked objects and a...
6529608 Speech recognition system  
A speech recognition system 7 for an automotive vehicle 10 is provided including a microphone receiver 12 for receiving a voice audio signal and converting the same to an analog signal 13, ...
6529875 Voice recognizer, voice recognizing method and game machine using them  
A voice recognition device used as a peripheral device for a game machine including a voice input device, a voice recognition section for recognizing the player's voice by comparing the voice...
6526381 Remote control with speech recognition  
A processor-based system may utilize a remote control unit which not only allows mouse input commands to be provided to the processor-based system but also includes a microphone and a speech engine...
6519566 Method for hands-free operation of a pointer  
The method of the invention involves a plurality of steps including, defining a set of user voice commands for hands-free control of a pointer and, in response to receiving a first audio input...
6513006 Automatic control of household activity using speech recognition and natural language  
Speech recognition and natural language parsing components are used to extract the meaning of the user's spoken input. The system stores a semantic representation of an electronic activity guide,...
6513003 System and method for integrated delivery of media and synchronized transcription  
A system for the capture of audio, video and other media from news and other events combines digitized delivery of those media with accompanying high-accuracy textual streams, synchronized with the...
6510411 Task oriented dialog model and manager  
A simplification of the process of developing call or dialog flows for use in an Interactive Voice Response system is provided. Three principal aspects of the invention include a task-oriented...
6509707 Information processing device, information processing method and storage medium  
A robot performing a variety of actions is disclosed. The voice of a user picked up by a microphone is recognized by a voice recognizer. A gesture of the user picked up by a CCD is recognized by...
6510417 System and method for voice access to internet-based information  
A method of providing voice access to Internet-based information and services includes receiving a signal indicating a communication connection request in which the communication connection request...
6507817 Voice IP approval system using voice-enabled web based application server  
A web-based voice messaging system uses an application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, that accesses subscriber attributes from a standardized...
6499013 Interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing  
A system and method to interact with a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. The system comprises a speech processor to search a first grammar file for a...
6499016 Automatically storing and presenting digital images using a speech-based command language  
A method for automatically storing and presenting digital images is disclosed. The method includes capturing digital images with a digital camera and storing the images in an image file, where the...
6493669 Speech recognition driven system with selectable speech models  
A speech recognition driven system provides a speech model based on a biometric signature. Initially, the speech recognition driven system receives a biometric signature from a user of the system....
6490521 Voice-controlled navigation device utilizing wireless data transmission for obtaining maps and real-time overlay information  
A navigation system and method involving wireless communications technology and speech processing technology is presented. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the navigation system...
6484936 Terminal  
A self-service terminal ( 10 ) includes a non-contact interface ( 18, 20 ) for enabling a user to interact with the terminal without requiring physical contact with the terminal, a biometric sensor...
6487534 Distributed client-server speech recognition system  
A distributed speech recognition system includes at least one client station and a server station connected via a network, such as Internet. The client station includes means for receiving the...
6480819 Automatic search of audio channels by matching viewer-spoken words against closed-caption/audio content for interactive television  
A method and apparatus is provided to enable a user watching and/or listening to a program to search for new information in the stream of a telecommunications data. The apparatus includes a voice...
6480753 Communications, particularly in the domestic environment  
A domestic appliance ( 1 ) such as a microwave oven is adapted for interaction with a communications network ( 75 ) such as the Internet by the addition of a substantially self-contained discrete...
6476304 Information processing system with graphical user interface controllable through voice recognition engine and musical instrument equipped with the same  
A musical instrument is computerized for electronically generating tones, and an information processing subsystem assists users selectively to change the attributes of the tones, wherein the...
6477491 System and method for providing speaker-specific records of statements of speakers  
A speech processing system for the generation of speaker specific text output. To automatically generate a transcript of a trial, hearing, or. meeting, the system uses microphones dedicated to...
6466654 Personal virtual assistant with semantic tagging  
A computer based method for performing a command via a voice user interface on a subset of objects. The subset is selected from a set of objects, each having an object type. At least one taggable...
6463412 High performance voice transformation apparatus and method  
A high performance voice transformation apparatus and method is provided in which voice input is transformed into a symbolic representation of phonemes in the voice input. The symbolic...
6460056 Method and apparatus for displaying sign language images corresponding to input information  
In order to provide an image display method and apparatus capable of displaying images corresponding to document data or speech data, image data (such as sign language images) are stored in an...
6456978 Recording information in response to spoken requests  
A system allows a user to use conversational commands to control the recording of video programming. In some embodiments of the present invention, these natural language commands may be also...
6452348 Robot control device, robot control method and storage medium  
A robot control device for controlling a robot having a substantial entertainment value is disclosed. A sensor signal processor recognizes the voice of a user, sets an association between the voice...
6445175 Remote, wireless electrical signal measurement device  
A remote, wireless electrical signal measurement device for measuring and adjusting a component in a communications system. The device includes a source device, a remote system and a base system....
6442952 System and method for controlling communication-executable refrigerator  
A system and method for controlling a refrigerator capable of transmitting and receiving information over an external communication network. A display unit is installed on the front surface of the...
6445779 Method and apparatus for providing outbound voice-to-fax service  
A subscriber, using a voice telephone set ( 12 ) may transmit a facsimile message to a recipient facsimile machine ( 14 ) by dialing a telephone number associated with a platform ( 22 ) in a...
6442518 Method for refining time alignments of closed captions  
A method and apparatus are provided for refining time alignments of closed captions. The method automatically aligns closed caption data with associated audio data such that the closed caption data...
6438216 Nonintrusive call notification method and system using content-specific information  
A method and system for enabling call notification for a user of a telephonic device, such as a telephone, computer or video conference system, include forming a notification message having...
6438524 Method and apparatus for a voice controlled foreign language translation device  
A voice controlled foreign language translator implemented in a device such that a user can speak a phrase in the user's native language and the translator will repeat the phrase in the foreign...
6434523 Creating and editing grammars for speech recognition graphically  
A graphical tool is provided for allowing a developer of a speech-enabled application to create and edit grammars for speech recognition. The tool provides a user interface that has two editing...
6434520 System and method for indexing and querying audio archives  
A system and method for indexing segments of audio/multimedia files and data streams for storage in a database according to audio information such as speaker identity, the background environment...
6434547 Data capture and verification system  
A method and system for capturing data and verifying the data accuracy, includes a structured document having defined regions dealing with different categories. Dictionaries specific to the...
6434524 Object interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing  
A system and method for interacting with objects, via a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. A Data Definition File relates networked objects and a speech...
6430497 Navigation system and a method for operating it as well as a navigation data carrier and a method for writing onto it  
A navigation system is described having a navigation computer, a data carrier reading device, and a navigation data carrier, navigation data of possible destinations stored on the navigation data...
6424946 Methods and apparatus for unknown speaker labeling using concurrent speech recognition, segmentation, classification and clustering  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for identifying speakers participating in an audio-video source, whether or not such speakers have been previously registered or enrolled. The speaker...
6421645 Methods and apparatus for concurrent speech recognition, speaker segmentation and speaker classification  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically transcribing audio information from an audio-video source and concurrently identifying the speakers. The disclosed audio transcription and...
6421643 Method and apparatus for directing an audio file to a speech recognition program that does not accept such files  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for directing a pre-recorded audio file to a speech recognition program that does not normally accept such files, such as IBM Corporation's...
6421644 Information apparatus for dispatching output phrase to remote terminal in response to input sound  
An information apparatus is constructed for notifying output information to a remote terminal in response to an input signal of a sound. In the information apparatus, a first memory block memorizes...
6418418 Transaction information processing system  
An information processing system for transactions by telephone of the present invention comprises a receiving terminal, operated by an operator, for inputting information from a customer taken over...
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