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6205425 System and method for speech recognition by aerodynamics and acoustics  
Speech recognition and speech commands are achieved by inputting aerodynamic component and acoustic component of a speech utterance. The aerodynamic and acoustic components are recognized by...
6188986 Voice activated switch method and apparatus  
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...
6185527 System and method for automatic audio content analysis for word spotting, indexing, classification and retrieval  
A system and method for indexing an audio stream for subsequent information retrieval and for skimming, gisting, and summarizing the audio stream includes using special audio prefiltering such that...
6185538 System for editing digital video and audio information  
A system for non-linearly editing video and audio information, uses a device for recognizing speech in the audio information and for generating a character sequence, particularly an ASCII character...
6175819 Translating telephone  
Speech into a telephone is converted from an analog to a digital signal using voice recognition and the output shown as text on a visual display. An error may be identified and a supplementary...
6163596 Phonebook  
A personalized directory including an identifier database which is constructed based on a user's set-up input and which is characterized in that it contains disparate types of identifiers which all...
6161087 Speech-recognition-assisted selective suppression of silent and filled speech pauses during playback of an audio recording  
A method for playback of speech in an audio recording. The method comprises performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of silent pauses and filled pauses,...
6154723 Virtual reality 3D interface system for data creation, viewing and editing  
A three dimensional virtual reality creation, manipulation and editing system including a voice and three dimensional gesture input interface. An operator immersed in a data structure preferably...
6151576 Mixing digitized speech and text using reliability indices  
Methods and apparatus of processing, storing and transmitting an original data stream of digitized speech samples. The method converts a stream of digitized speech samples to a stream of text and...
6141641 Dynamically configurable acoustic model for speech recognition system  
The present invention includes a system for recognizing speech based on an input data stream. The system includes an acoustic model which has a model size. The model is adjustable to a desired size...
6133904 Image manipulation  
An apparatus for manipulating the colour of an image is provided, having a microphone for providing electrical speech signals representative of a user command, a speech recognition unit for...
6131044 Method for increasing the voice recognition rate of a voice recognition calling device  
A method for increasing the voice recognition rate in a voice recognition calling device wherein the frequencies of a ring sound are separated from those of a voice bandwidth to enable the...
6128482 Providing mobile application services with download of speaker independent voice model  
The vehicle of a subscriber of mobile application services is provided with wireless telecommunication apparatus for communication over a wireless network and a public switched telephone network...
6125347 System for controlling multiple user application programs by spoken input  
The system described herein facilitates the control, by spoken input, of multiple user application programs running under an operating system providing multi-tasking capability. A speech...
6119088 Appliance control programmer using voice recognition  
A voice activated programmer (10) controlling the operation of an appliance such as a television (T) or VCR (V). A receiver (12) operating in the audio frequency range receives an audio command...
6108515 Interactive responsive apparatus with visual indicia, command codes, and comprehensive memory functions  
An interactive conversational apparatus provides seamless uninterrupted conversational responsiveness to a variety of user inputs utilizing a storage media having a plurality of temporally related...
6101471 Apparatus and method for processing voices, and storage medium using attribute data  
An object of the present invention is to convert a voice to a character string and output attribute data associated with the character string. The central controller of the data processing...
6101473 Using speech recognition to access the internet, including access via a telephone  
Voice activation of functions on a network such as the Internet are accomplished using a speech recognition system running synchronously with standard desktop-based Internet functions. This...
6101241 Telephone-based speech recognition for data collection  
A production script for interactions between participants and an automated data collection system is created by selectively tuning an experimental script through successive trials until a...
6094635 System and method for speech enabled application  
The present invention is a computer apparatus and method for adding speech interpreting capabilities to an interactive voice response system. An annotated corpus is used to list valid utterances...
6076059 Method for aligning text with audio signals  
In a computerized method, text segments of a text file are aligned with audio segments of an audio file. The text file includes written words, and the audio file includes spoken words. A vocabulary...
6073102 Speech recognition method  
Proceeding from a command or request that a user (B) gives a speech recognition system, an action is first determined from a prescribable plurality of actions upon employment of action indicators...
6070140 Speech recognizer  
A computer system has a power-down mode to conserve energy. The computer system includes a speech transducer for capturing speech; a low-energy consuming power-up indicator coupled to said speech...
6067516 Speech and text messaging system with distributed speech recognition and speaker database transfers  
A system for automatically storing a message comprises a first telecommunication device for transmitting and/or receiving an audio message to a second telecommunication device. Both devices are...
6064963 Automatic key word or phrase speech recognition for the corrections industry  
The present invention comprises speaker-independent, continuous speech, multilingual, multi-dialect, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology. In particular, the present application integrates...
6055536 Information processing apparatus and information processing method  
An information processing system stores information of various types, which is obtained in the real world, in connection with keys indicative of the attribute and feature of the information so that...
6055498 Method and apparatus 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....
6031915 Voice start recording apparatus  
A voice start recording apparatus includes a voice level determining circuit for determining whether consecutive frames of input voice is sound or silent, each frame being a coded voice signal; a...
6026407 Language data storage and reproduction apparatus  
The invention provides a language data storage and reproduction apparatus wherein manual application of a tag is unnecessary and, even if key inputting for retrieval is not accurate, object...
6009396 Method and system for microphone array input type speech recognition using band-pass power distribution for sound source position/direction estimation  
A microphone array input type speech recognition scheme capable of realizing a high precision sound source position or direction estimation by a small amount of calculations, and thereby realizing...
5995934 Method for recognizing alpha-numeric strings in a Chinese speech recognition system  
A recognition method for alpha-numeric strings in a Chinese speech recognition system, uses a special coding scheme to map each of 36 alpha-numeric symbols into an easily remembered Chinese idiom...
5987416 Electronic community system using speech recognition for use by the visually impaired  
In an electronic community system, host and user terminals are connected so that a virtual space shared by the user terminals is formed based on information transmitted from the host to the user...
5983186 Voice-activated interactive speech recognition device and method  
Techniques for implementing adaptable voice activation operations for interactive speech recognition devices and instruments. Specifically, such speech recognition devices and instruments include...
5974385 System and method for ordering data in a computer system in accordance with an input data sequence  
An information processing system (10) receives input data from a keyboard (26), a mouse (28) and spoken data input device (30) in an input data sequence. A microphone (32) converts received speech...
5970448 Historical database storing relationships of successively spoken words  
The text is generated from voice input that divides the processing of each spoken word into a dictation event and a text event. Each dictation event handles the processing of data relating to the...
5970449 Text normalization using a context-free grammar  
A text normalizer normalizes text that is output from a speech recognizer. The normalization of the text produces text that is less awkward and more familiar to recipients of the text. The text may...
5960447 Word tagging and editing system for speech recognition  
A word tagging and editing system for speech recognition receives recognized speech text from a speech recognition engine, and creates tagging information that follows the speech text as it is...
5956681 Apparatus for generating text data on the basis of speech data input from terminal  
A speech signal input from the microphone of a mobile terminal having a PHS function in a communication or off-line state is sent from a PHS network to a speech control host unit connected to a LAN...
5956684 Voice recognition apparatus, voice recognition method, map displaying apparatus, map displaying method, navigation apparatus, navigation method and car  
Voice processing for recognizing a predetermined voice such as a place name is performed by a voice processing section 14 from an audio signal inputted from a microphone 11 on the basis of an...
5950159 Word spotting using both filler and phone recognition  
The present invention relates to a word-spotting system and a method for finding a keyword in ascoustic data. The method includes a filler recognition phase and a keyword recognition phase wherein:...
5940793 Voice-operated services  
A method and apparatus accesses a database where entries are linked to at least two sets of patterns. One or more patterns of a first set of patterns are recognized within a received signal. The...
5930757 Interactive two-way conversational apparatus with voice recognition  
A voice recognition interactive conversational apparatus employs temporally related data storage tracks containing interactive conversational content. The conversational content is stored on each...
5924069 Voice-control integrated field support data communications system for maintenance, repair and emergency services  
A method and apparatus for assisting in the performance of maintenance, repair and emergency services. An integrated field support system is connectable to a customer support center. The integrated...
5909662 Speech processing coder, decoder and command recognizer  
The present invention relates to a speech processing device equipped with both a speech coding/decoding function and a speech recognition function, and is aimed at providing a speech processing...
5893064 Speech recognition method and apparatus with voice commands and associated keystrokes  
Speech recognition is provided which is operable with a host computer having a keyboard. An electrical circuit inclusive of the speech recognition is incorporation into the host computer. A first...
5893063 Data processing system and method for dynamically accessing an application using a voice command  
A voice command interface is implemented in a data processing system whereby a user may select any application which is currently running on the data processing system without having to manually...
5890123 System and method for voice controlled video screen display  
A system and method for a voice controlled video screen display system are provided. The voice controlled system is useful for providing "hands-free" navigation through various video screen...
5878394 Process and device for the speech-controlled remote control of electrical consumers  
The invention pertains to a process and a device for the speech-controlled remote control of electrical consumers by means of speech commands entered via a standard, commercially available PC (1)....
5875429 Method and apparatus for editing documents through voice recognition  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus that places visual markers onto the display of a document on a graphical user interface. The visual markers assist in the navigation around the...
5874939 Keyboard apparatus and method with voice recognition  
A standalone keyboard (101) for use with computers (102), which keyboard (101) has integral voice recognition capabilities to facilitate both text entry and cursor-movement control. The speech...