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6413079 Voice activated fireplace control system  
Gas fireplaces are provided with commercially available gas valves that are similar to gas valves in furnaces and boilers. Such gas valves may be controlled manually, by thermostat or by solenoid...
6400805 Statistical database correction of alphanumeric identifiers for speech recognition and touch-tone recognition  
A method and apparatus recognize an identifier entered by a user. A caller enters a predetermined identifier through a voice input device or a touch-tone keypad of a telephone handset. A signal...
6401065 Intelligent keyboard interface with use of human language processing  
An intelligent use-friendly keyboard interface that is easily adaptable for wide variety of functions and features, and also adaptable to reduced size portable computers. Speech recognition and...
6392132 Musical score display for musical performance apparatus  
A musical score display apparatus installed in an electronic musical instrument such as a player piano is designed to automatically display and change over images of electronic musical score data...
6389114 Method and apparatus for relaying communication  
The invention provides a telecommunication relay device that relays communication from a first party to at least one second party. The first party and the second party may use terminals of...
6385586 Speech recognition text-based language conversion and text-to-speech in a client-server configuration to enable language translation devices  
A method for dynamically providing language translations of a human utterance from a first human language into a second human language. A human utterance is captured in a first human language...
6384591 Hands-free signal level meter  
An electrical signal measurement device comprises a system unit which is carried on the person of a technician by attachment to a belt, harness or the like and, in one embodiment, a headpiece...
6377925 Electronic translator for assisting communications  
An electronic translator translates input speech into multiple streams of data that are simultaneously delivered to the user, such as a hearing impaired individual. Preferably, the data is...
6377927 Voice-optimized database system and method of using same  
A voice-optimized database system and method of audio vector valuation (AVV) provides means to search a database in response to a spoken query. Audio vectors (AVs) are assigned to phonemes in the...
6377928 Voice recognition for animated agent-based navigation  
A method of operation of a computer system for processing an arbitrary document such as a World Wide Web page to provide additional information not immediately available from the raw, unprocessed...
6374224 Method and apparatus for style control in natural language generation  
A method and an apparatus for style control in natural language recognition and generation are provided, wherein an acoustic input is received comprising at least one source language. The acoustic...
6363346 Call distribution system inferring mental or physiological state  
A telephone call reception system which infers mental and/or physiological states of callers. Two types of analysis are available, and both types may be used upon the telephone calls. In one type,...
6363349 Method and apparatus for performing distributed speech processing in a communication system  
The present invention addresses the need for an apparatus and method for facilitating and performing distributed speech processing in a wireless communication system. The present invention...
6359270 Communications module mounting for domestic appliance  
A domestic appliance is described having the ability to connect to the Internet. An appliance, such as a microwave oven, is equipped with a touch-screen display on its door. The display connects to...
6356865 Method and apparatus for performing spoken language translation  
A method and an apparatus for performing spoken language translation are provided, wherein a speech input is received comprising at least one source language. The speech input comprises words,...
6353809 Speech recognition with text generation from portions of voice data preselected by manual-input commands  
A computer reads a voice speech recognition program from a first recording medium, and reads voice data from a second recording medium, and causes a CPU in the computer to recognize speech...
6351698 Interactive vehicle control system  
An interactive navigation system includes a navigation processing unit, a current position sensor, a speaker, a microphone and a display. When it is preliminary inferred, based on receipt of a...
6349212 Cordless telephone arrangement  
A cordless telephone arrangement, such as a DECT Business Cordless Telecommunications (BCT) system, comprises a PBX base station ( 1 ) and a plurality of mobile stations in the form of portable...
6345253 Method and apparatus for retrieving audio information using primary and supplemental indexes  
An audio retrieval system and method are provided for augmenting the transcription of an audio file with one or more alternate word or phrase choices, such as next-best guesses for each word or...
6345252 Methods and apparatus for retrieving audio information using content and speaker information  
Methods and apparatus are provided for retrieving audio information based on the audio content as well as the identity of the speaker. The results of content and speaker-based audio information...
6341264 Adaptation system and method for E-commerce and V-commerce applications  
Electronic commerce (E-commerce) and Voice commerce (V-commerce) proceeds by having the user speak into the system. The user's speech is converted by speech recognizer into a form required by the...
6339706 Wireless voice-activated remote control device  
The present invention relates to a wireless, voice-activated remote control device for controlling an electronic device having voice control circuitry. A short-range range wireless data and voice...
6338038 Variable speed audio playback in speech recognition proofreader  
A method for inserting a delay between the playback of individual words or phrases by a speech recognition system, comprises the steps of: (A) waiting for a playback command; (B) measuring a delay...
6332120 Broadcast speech recognition system for keyword monitoring  
Broadcast audio is automatically monitored for information of interest. A computer processor has a memory associated therewith for storing a vocabulary of keywords of interest. An audio receiver...
6330537 Automatic filtering of TV contents 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 program guide,...
6330540 Hand-held computer device having mirror with negative curvature and voice recognition  
A voice controlled compact computer device (10) is provided in which speech is substituted for keyboard entry of text and for control signals otherwise input by keyboard or pointing device. Spoken...
6327568 Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing  
In a multistation intercommunication system human speech is processed on at least two respective levels of generic complexity. The speech is received in one or more origin stations in parallel and...
6324508 Automated method for a takeoff estimate of construction drawings  
A method for performing a construction quantity takeoff estimate of a drawing representative of a construction project having a plurality of items includes applying first vocal indicia...
6324514 Voice activated switch with user prompt  
A voice activated device for producing control signals in response to speech is self-contained and requires no additional software or hardware. The device may be incorporated into a housing that...
6317716 Automatic cueing of speech  
In a computer-based method for use in speech cueing, speech elements initially delivered by a speaker are recognized. A sequence of video images is displayed showing the speaker delivering the...
6314165 Automated hotel attendant using speech recognition  
An automated hotel attendant is provided for coordinating room-to-room calling over a telephone switching system that supports multiple telephone extensions. A hotel registration system receives...
6314397 Method and apparatus for propagating corrections in speech recognition software  
In a computer system having a word processing application adapted for speech recognition, a method and system to propagate corrections in dictated text. in response to a first user command, a first...
6314398 Apparatus and method using speech understanding for automatic channel selection in interactive television  
A speech understanding system for receiving a spoken request from a user and processing the request against a knowledge base of programming information for automatically selecting a television...
6311156 Apparatus for determining aerodynamic wind of utterance  
The present invention relates to the detection, analysis, and recognition of speech and is especially concerned with systems utilizing speech air flow, and, particularly concerned with positioning...
6290566 Interactive talking toy  
A toy with developing skills, the toy including a fanciful figure having a capacity to perform an action, and action control circuitry operative to control the fanciful figure to perform the action...
6286014 Method and apparatus for acquiring a file to be linked  
A specific word is selected from an explanatory note of a link file in an HTML document and displayed with emphasis in the display of the HTML document. When a voice input of the word of emphasized...
6281883 Data entry device  
A hand held data entry controller includes a chassis having a handle portion which is shaped to fit in the user's hand, and a cursor controller, such as a track ball, attached to the chassis for...
6282512 Enhancement of markup language pages to support spoken queries  
Enhancement of hypertext pages containing graphical images is provided by extracting 102 the ALT tag from the markup language to support selection of the corresponding hypertext link by uttering...
6275805 Maintaining input device identity  
A method for maintaining input device identity in a speech application, comprising the steps of: storing a plurality of enrollments, each of the enrollments representing a speech file of training...
6272457 Spatial asset management system that time-tags and combines captured speech data and captured location data using a predifed reference grammar with a semantic relationship structure  
A data collection and automatic database population system which combines global positioning system (GPS), speech recognition software, radio frequency (RF) communications and geographic...
6272461 Method and apparatus for an enhanced presentation aid  
A method and an apparatus for providing visual aid to a presenter involve converting the spoken words of a presenter into an electronic text format, electronically comparing the converted spoken...
6266639 Method and apparatus for providing notification of pre-established shorthand notation  
A method and apparatus for reminding users who enter information in longhand fashion that such information may also be accessed by entering a shorthand counterpart to the entered information....
6260011 Methods and apparatus for automatically synchronizing electronic audio files with electronic text files  
Automated methods and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text data, e.g., in the form of electronic files, representing audio and text expressions of the same work or information are described....
6253184 Interactive voice controlled copier apparatus  
A photocopying machine provides the typical capabilities of paper storage, transport reproduction and copy outputting. An electrical circuit stores a plurality of English language inventory human...
6246983 Text-to-speech e-mail reader with multi-modal reply processor  
A multi-user e-mail reader system allows several users to access their e-mail accounts simultaneously and have the e-mail messages played back with speech synthesis. The user navigates through...
6243684 Directory assistance system and method utilizing a speech recognition system and a live operator  
A method and apparatus utilizes a personal speech recognition system to enable directory assistance operators to retrieve customer requested information from a listing database based upon a voiced...
6243669 Method and apparatus for providing syntactic analysis and data structure for translation knowledge in example-based language translation  
Syntactic analysis is performed on an input and on entries of a bilingual example database using at least one parse tree. The parse trees, formed using a context-free grammar, comprise a number of...
6226611 Method and system for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instruction  
Pronunciation quality is automatically evaluated for an utterance of speech based on one or more pronunciation scores. One type of pronunciation score is based on duration of acoustic units....
6223150 Method and apparatus for parsing in a spoken language translation system  
A method and apparatus for parsing in a spoken language translation system are provided, wherein an input is received comprising at least one input sentence or expression. A parsing table is...
6212497 Word processor via voice  
The word processor of the present invention comprises: a voice inputting device for inputting spoken word and converting the spoken word into voice data; a voice storage device for storing the...
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