Patent Assignment
Reel/Frame 069797/0818
Release (Reel 052935 / Frame 0584)
Recorded: 2025-01-02
Pages: 49
Assignor
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Executed: 2024-12-31
Assignee
CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY
25 BURLINGTON MALL ROAD, SUITE 416, BURLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 01803
Covered Properties
(541)
Method, System and Computer Program Product for Storing Transliteration and/or Phonetic Spelling Information in a Text String Class
Patent:
7,099,876 →
Application:
09/211,803 →
Recognition System Method
Patent:
6,895,117 →
Application:
09/277,954 →
Method and Apparatus for Providing Outbound Voice-to-Fax Service
Patent:
6,445,779 →
Application:
09/417,882 →
System and Method for Creation and Conversion of Electronic Mail Messages for Delivery to Telephone Recipients
Patent:
6,449,343 →
Application:
09/436,094 →
Speech Synthesis Using Concatenation of Speech Waveforms
Patent:
6,665,641 →
Application:
09/438,603 →
Voice-Activated Control for Electrical Device
Patent:
6,594,630 →
Application:
09/443,957 →
Reduced Keyboard Text Input System for the Japanese Language
Patent:
6,646,573 →
Application:
09/454,406 →
Audio Transmission System with Reduced Bandwidth Consumption
Patent:
6,980,957 →
Application:
09/460,830 →
Method of Providing an Alternative Audio Format of a Weg Page in Response to a Request for Audible Presentation of the Same
Patent:
6,721,781 →
Application:
09/490,661 →
Speech Enhancement with Gain Limitations Based on Speech Activity
Patent:
6,604,071 →
Application:
09/499,985 →
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Patent:
6,697,780 →
Application:
09/557,146 →
Reduced Keyboard Text Input System for the Japanese Language
Patent:
6,636,162 →
Application:
09/577,282 →
Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Patent:
6,801,190 →
Application:
09/580,319 →
Method and System for Preselection of Suitable Units for Concatenative Speech
Patent:
6,684,187 →
Application:
09/607,615 →
Handwriting Input Device and Method Using a Single Character Set
Patent:
6,724,936 →
Application:
09/643,747 →
Real Time Audio Transmission System Supporting Asynchronous Input from a Text-to-Speech (Tts) Engine
Patent:
6,615,173 →
Application:
09/648,995 →
Keypad Layout for Alphabetic Character I Nput
Patent:
6,686,852 →
Application:
09/662,686 →
Speech Recognition Apparatus Having Multiple Audio Inputs to Cancel Backgroung Noise from Input Speech
Patent:
7,050,971 →
Application:
09/666,398 →
Generating Non-Stationary Additive Noise for Addition to Synthesized Speech
Patent:
6,829,577 →
Application:
09/705,849 →
Method and Apparatus for Producing Natural Sounding Pitch Contours in a Speech Synthesizer
Handwriting Data Input Device with Multiple Character Sets
Method and Apparatus for Active Reduction of Speakerphone Singing
Noise Spectrum Subtraction Method and System
System, Method and Computer Program Product for Point-to-Point Voice-Enabled Driving Directions
Audio Renderings for Expressing Non-Audio Nuances
Multi-Channel Codebook Dependent Compensation
Keypad Layout for Alphabetic Symbol Input
Training of Text-to-Speech Systems
Text Input System for Ideographic and Nonideographic Languages
Patent:
6,801,659 →
Application:
09/857,363 →
Input Devices and Their Use
Systems and Methods for Voice Synthesis
Feature-Domain Concatenative Speech Synthesis
User Interface for a Portable Electronic Device
Noise-Level Adaptive Residual Echo Suppressor
Patent:
6,959,167 →
Application:
09/927,780 →
Method and System for Text-to-Speech Caching
Fast Waveform Synchronization for Concentration and Time-Scale Modification of Speech
Corpus-Based Prosody Translation System
Speech Enhancement with Gain Limitations Based on Speech Activity
System for Bandwidth Extension of Narrow-Band Speech
Method and System for Customizing Voice Translation of Text to Speech
Key Press Disambiguation Using a Keypad of Multidirectional Keys
Database Engines for Processing Ideographic Characters and Methods Therefor
Patent:
6,956,968 →
Application:
10/053,876 →
Employing Speech Models in Concatenative Speech Synthesis
Patent:
6,950,798 →
Application:
10/090,065 →
Noise Reduction Method with Self-Controlling Interference Frequency
System and Method for Triphone-Based Unit Selection for Visual Speech Synthesis
Patent:
7,209,882 →
Application:
10/143,717 →
Explicit Character Filtering of Ambiguous Text Entry
Techniques for Enhancing the Performance of Concatenative Speech Synthesis
Apparatus, Program Storage Device and Method for Testing Speech Recognition in the Mobile Environment of a Vehicle
Method for Encoding and Decoding Spectral Phase Data for Speech Signals
Audio-Visual Codebook Dependent Cepstral Normalization
System and Method for Recognizing Word Patterns Based on a Virtual Keyboard Layout
System and Method for Predicting Prosodic Parameters
Patent:
7,136,816 →
Application:
10/329,181 →
Hybrid Lexicon for Speech Recognition
Patent:
7,945,445 →
Application:
10/333,114 →
System and Method for Continuous Stroke Word-Based Text Input
Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech
Reduced Unit Database Generation Based on Cost Information
Linguistic Prosodic Model-Based Text to Speech
Patent:
6,961,704 →
Application:
10/355,296 →
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Training Speech Recognition Word Models from Word Samples Synthesized by Monte Carlo Techniques
Patent:
7,133,827 →
Application:
10/361,154 →
Computational Effectiveness Enhancement of Frequency Domain Pitch Estimators
Keypad Construction
Method and System for Generating Natural Sounding Concatenative Synthetic Speech
Compensating for Ambient Noise Levels in Text-to-Speech Applications
Synthetically Generated Speech Responses Including Prosodic Characteristics of Speech Inputs
Text Entry Within a Video Game
Keypads and Key Switches
Method, Device and Computer Program for Recognition of a Handwritten Character
Method and Device for Recognition of a Handwritten Pattern
Method of Processing a Text, Gesture, Facial Expression, and/or Behavior Description Comprising a Test of the Authorization for Using Corresponding Profiles for Synthesis
Component-Based, Adaptive Stroke-Order System
Method for Producing Reference Segments Describing Voice Modules and Method for Modelling Voice Units of a Spoken Test Model
Keypads with Multi-Function Keys
Presenting Recognised Handwritten Symbols
Grapheme to Phoneme Alignment Method and Relative Rule-Set Generating System
System for Communication Enhancement in a Noisy Environment
Automatic Segmentation of Texts Comprising Chunks Without Separators
System and Method for Information Identification
Handsfree System for Use in a Vehicle
Speech Recognition with Language-Dependent Model Vectors
Text-To-Speech Method and System, Computer Program Product Therefor
Method and Apparatus to Compensate for Fundamental Frequency Changes and Artifacts and Reduce Sensitivity to Pitch Information in a Frame-Based Speech Processing System
Method and Apparatus for Preparing a Document to Be Read by a Text-to-Speech Reader
Dynamic Database Reordering System
Method for Detecting Misaligned Phonetic Units for a Concatenative Text-to-Speech Voice
System and Method for Disambiguating Phonetic Input
Systems and methods for text-to-speech synthesis using spoken example
Directional Input System with Automatic Correction
Training and Using Pronunciation Guessers in Speech Recognition
Patent:
7,467,087 →
Application:
10/684,135 →
Interactive Debugging and Tuning Method for Ctts Voice Building
Method and System for Preselection of Suitable Units for Concatenative Speech
Reduced Keyboards System Using Unistroke Input and Having Automatic Disambiguating and a Recognition Method Using Said System
System and Method for Continuous Stroke Word-Based Text Input
Patent:
7,453,439 →
Application:
10/710,575 →
Multilingual Speech Recognition
Speech Synthesis Using Concatenation of Speech Waveforms
Creating a Voice Response Grammar from a User Grammar
Creating a Voice Response Grammar from a Presentation Grammer
Voice Model for Speech Processing Based on Ordered Average Ranks of Spectral Features
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Patent:
7,082,396 →
Application:
10/742,274 →
System for Speech Recognition
Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
System and Method for Chinese Input Using a Joystick
Method of Producing Alternate Utterance Hypotheses Using Auxiliary Information on Close Competitors
Intonation Generation Method, Speech Synthesis Apparatus Using the Method and Voice Server
System and Method for Recognizing Word Patterns in a Very Large Vocabulary Based on a Virtual Keyboard Layout
Character Recognition
Method and System for Disambiguation and Predictive Resolution
Patent:
7,376,938 →
Application:
10/800,203 →
Apparatus Method and System for a Data Entry Interface
Method and Apparatus for Active Reduction of Speakerphone Singing
System and Method for Generating Customized Text-to-Speech Voices
Systems, Methods and Devices for Efficient Communication Utilizing a Reduced Number of Selectable Inputs
Patent:
7,321,360 →
Application:
10/852,739 →
Selective Input System Based on Tracking of Motion Parameters of an Input Device
Personalized Voice Playback for Screen Reader
On Demand Tts Vocabulary for a Telematics System
Speech Enhancement for Electronic Voiced Messages
Combined Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Generation
Word Recognition Using Choice Lists
Speech Recognition Using Ambiguous or Phone Key Spelling and/or Filtering
Speech Recognition Using Selectable Recognition Modes
System for Communicating Information from a Server via a Mobile Communication Device
Speech Recognition Using Re-Utterance Recognition
Combining Speech and Handwriting Recognition Allowing Multiple User Input Methods to Improve Recognition Accuracy.
System for Limiting Receive Audio
Speech Segment Clustering and Ranking
Automated Testing of Voice Recognition Software
Automatic Speech Recognition Channel Normalization Based on Measured Statistics from Initial Portions of Speech Utterances
Handwriting and Voice Input with Automatic Correction
Speech Synthesis Using Complex Spectral Modeling
Distributed Text-to-Speech Synthesis Between a Telephone Network and a Telephone Subscriber Unit
Method and Systems for Accessing Data from a Network via Telephone, Using Printed Publication
Apparatus and Method for Reordering of Multiple Language Databases for Text Disambiguation
Individualization of Voice Output by Matching Synthesized Voice Target Voice
System for Detecting and Reducing Noise via a Microphone Array
Finger Activated Reduced Keyboard and a Method for Performing Text Input
Methods and Apparatus for Adapting Output Speech in Accordance with Context of Communication
Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Providing a Multi-Speaker Database for Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Voice Over Short Message Service
System for Bandwidth Extension of Narrow-Band Speech
System and Method for Issuing Commands Based on Pen Motions on a Graphical Keyboard
Voice Recording System, Recording Device, Voice Analysis Device, Voice Recording Method and Program
Converting Text-to-Speech and Adjusting Corpus
Multimodal Disambiguation of Speech Recognition
System and Method for Word-Sense Disambiguation by Recursive Partitioning
Printing to a Text-to-Speech Output Device
Extendable Voice Commands
Dynamically Changing Voice Attributes During Speech Synthesis Based Upon Parameter Differentiation for Dialog Contexts
Systems and Methods for Selecting from Multiple Phonectic Transcriptions for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Supporting Multiple Speech Enabled User Interface Consoles Within a Motor Vehicle
Method and System for Collecting Audio Prompts in a Dynamically Generated Voice Application
Apparatus and Method for Providing Visual Indication of Character Ambiguity During Text Entry
Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice systems
Bandwidth Extension of Bandlimited Audio Signals
Multi-Channel Adaptive Speech Signal Processing System with Noise Reduction
System and Method for Preparing a Pronunciation Dictionary for a Text-to-Speech Voice
Patent:
7,630,898 →
Application:
11/235,817 →
System and Method for Correcting Errors When Generating a Tts Voice
Patent:
7,742,921 →
Application:
11/235,821 →
System and Method for Testing a Tts Voice
Patent:
7,711,562 →
Application:
11/235,822 →
System and Method for Repairing a Tts Voice Database
Patent:
7,742,919 →
Application:
11/235,857 →
System and Method of Developing a Tts Voice
Patent:
7,693,716 →
Application:
11/235,954 →
Method and System for Statistic-Based Distance Definition in Text-to-Speech Conversion
Text-To-Speech User's Voice Cooperative Server for Instant Messaging Clients
System and Method to Use Text-to-Speech to Prompt Whether Text-to-Speech Output Should Be Added During Installation of a Program on a Computer System Normally Controlled Through a User Interactive Display
Segmentation-Based Recognition
Microphone Non-Uniformity Compensation System
Searching for and Providing Objects Using Byte-by-Byte Comparison
Organizing Pointers to Objects in an Array to Improve the Speed of Object Retrieval
User Interface with Augmented Searching Characteristics
Devices Having Input Controls for Efficient Input of Data
Patent:
7,548,231 →
Application:
11/316,079 →
Input Device and Method for Entering Data Employing a Toggle Input Control
Patent:
7,446,755 →
Application:
11/316,512 →
Method and apparatus for combining text to speech and recorded prompts
Patent:
8,600,753 →
Application:
11/321,638 →
Autonomous System and Method for Creating Readable Scripts for Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Tts) Corpora
Subtitle Generation and Retrieval Combining Document with Speech Recognition
System for Generating a Wideband Signal from a Received Narrowband Signal
Method and Apparatus Utilizing Voice Input to Resolve Ambiguous Manually Entered Text Input
Handwriting Recognition Using a Graph of Segmentation Candidates and Dictionary Search
Handling of Diacritic Points
Method and Apparatus for Active Reduction of Speakerphone Singing
Embedded Rule Engine for Rendering Text and Other Applications
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Patent:
7,369,994 →
Application:
11/381,544 →
Learner for Resource Constrained Devices
Speech Recognition Using Channel Verification
Back-end database reorganization for application-specific concatenative text-to-speech systems
Enhancing Environment Voice Macros via a Stackable Save/Restore State of an Object Within an Environment Controlled by Voice Commands for Control of Vehicle Components
Method and System for Preselection of Suitable Units for Concatenative Speech
Patent:
7,460,997 →
Application:
11/466,229 →
System for Instant Message to Telephone Speech and Back
Method and System for Generating Synthesized Speech Based on Human Recording
Vehicle Communication System
Frame Erasure Concealment Technique for a Bitstream-Based Feature Extractor
Patent:
7,630,894 →
Application:
11/497,009 →
Method for Extending the Spectral Bandwidth of a Speech Signal
System and Method for Predicting Prosodic Parameters
Patent:
8,126,717 →
Application:
11/549,412 →
Information Delivery System and Method for Mobile Appliances
Noise Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition
Mobile Device Retrieval and Navigation
System and Method for Improving Message Delivery in Voice Systems Utilizing Microphone and Target Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Methods and Apparatus for Masking Latency in Text-to-Speech Systems
System for Tuning Synthesized Speech
System and Method for Dynamically Selecting Among Tts Systems
Local storage and use of search results for voice-enabled mobile communications devices
Application:
11/673,997 →
Publication:
US 2008/0154612
Method for Additive Character Recognition and an Apparatus Thereof
Method and System for Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Personalized Voice
Mobile Appliance System and Method Enabling Efficient Entry
Disambiguating Text That Is to Be Converted to Speech Using Configurable Lexeme Based Rules
System for Bandwidth Extension of Narrow-Band Speech
Patent:
7,613,604 →
Application:
11/691,160 →
System and Method for Extending Spectral Bandwidth of an Audio Signal
Handsfree Communication System
Text to Speech Synthesis
System and Method for Improved Use of Voice Activity Detection
Patent:
7,664,137 →
Application:
11/742,096 →
Input Devices and Their Use
Reducing Recording Time When Constructing a Concatenative Tts Voice Using a Reduced Script and Pre-Recorded Speech Assets
System for Equalizing an Acoustic Signal
Device and Method of Conveying Meaning
Technique for Training a Phonetic Decision Tree with Limited Phonetic Exceptional Terms
Background Noise Reduction System
Voice Activity Detection and Silence Suppression in a Packet Network
Patent:
7,664,646 →
Application:
11/773,699 →
System and Method for Supporting Text-To-Speech
Feedback Reduction System
Multi-Channel Echo Compensation System
Echo Reduction System
Multi-Channel Echo Compensation System
Method and Device for Recognition of a Handwritten Pattern
Dereverberation System for Use in a Signal Processing Apparatus
Method for Processing Speech Signal Data and Finding a Filter Coefficient
Sampling Rate Conversion System
Directional Input System with Automatic Correction
Systems and Methods for Character Correction in Communication Devices
Directional Input System with Automatic Correction
Method and Apparatus for Active Reduction of Speakerphone Singing
System and Method for Triphone-Based Unit Selection for Visual Speech Synthesis
Patent:
9,583,098 →
Application:
11/924,025 →
Noisy Environment Communication Enhancement System
Detection and Suppression of Wind Noise in Microphone Signals
Multi-Channel Codebook Dependent Compensation
Audio-Visual Codebook Dependent Cepstral Normalization
Phonetic Decoding and Concatentive Speech Synthesis
Method for Character Recognition
Interactive Speech Recognition System
Spectral Refinement System
Speech Dialog Control Based on Signal Pre-Processing
System and Method for Providing a Natural Language Voice User Interface in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
Systems and Methods for Semi-Automatic Dialing from a Mixed Entry Sequence Having Numeric and Non-Numeric Data
Low Complexity Echo Compensation System
Image-Based Instant Messaging System for Providing Expressions of Emotions
System for Providing an Acoustic Signal with Extended Bandwidth
Generating Objectively Evaluated Sufficiently Natural Synthetic Speech from Text by Using Selective Paraphrases
Spell-Check for a Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Synthesizing Speech from Text
Providing a Codebook for Bandwidth Extension of an Acoustic Signal
Disambiguation of Telephone Style Key Presses to Yield Chinese Text Using Segmentation and Selective Shifting
System and Method for Triphone-Based Unit Selection for Visual Speech Synthesis
Patent:
7,933,772 →
Application:
12/051,311 →
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Patent:
7,761,299 →
Application:
12/057,020 →
Method and Apparatus for Speech Analysis and Synthesis
Data Entry System and Method of Entering Data
Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech
Method, Preprocessor, Speech Recognition System, and Program Product for Extracting Target Speech by Removing Noise
Generalized Language Independent Index Storage System and Searching Method
Multilingual Asynchronous Communications of Speech Messages Recorded in Digital Media Files
Adjusting a Speech Engine for a Mobile Computing Device Based on Background Noise
Testing a Grammar Used in Speech Recognition for Reliability in a Plurality of Operating Environments Having Different Background Noise
Multiple Predictions in a Reduced Keyboard Disambiguating System
System for Processing an Acoustic Input Signal to Provide an Output Signal with Reduced Noise
Service Access Method and Apparatus
System for Processing Microphone Signals to Provide an Output Signal with Reduced Interference
Systems and Methods for an Automated Personalized Dictionary Generator for Portable Devices
Voice Over Short Message Service
Converting text-to-speech and adjusting corpus
System for Processing Sound Signals in a Vehicle Multimedia System
Voice Model for Speech Processing Based on Ordered Average Ranks of Spectral Features
Probability-Based Approach to Recognition of User-Entered Data
Speech Synthesis System, Speech Synthesis Program Product, and Speech Synthesis Method
System for Speech Signal Enhancement in a Noisy Environment Through Corrective Adjustment of Spectral Noise Power Density Estimations
Method for Preparing Information for a Speech Dialogue System
Method and System for Providing Speech Dialogue Applications
Efficient Audio Signal Processing in the Sub-Band Regime
Inquiry-Oriented User Input Apparatus and Method
Gain and Spectral Shape Adjustment in Audio Signal Processing
Predicting a Resultant Attribute of a Text File Before It Has Been Converted into an Audio File
Method for Dereverberation of an Acoustic Signal
Method and System for Preselection of Suitable Units for Concatenative Speech
Interactive Debugging and Tuning Methods for Ctts Voice Building
Method and Apparatus for Preparing a Document to Be Read by Text-to-Speech Reader
Creating a Voice Response Grammar from a Presentation Grammar
Speech Recognition on Large Lists Using Fragments
Filtering of Beamformed Speech Signals
Support Device, Program and Support Method
Method for Speech Rocognition
Speech Synthesis with Dynamic Constraints
Touch Screen and Graphical User Interface
Method and System for Speech Synthesis Using Dynamically Updated Acoustic Unit Sets
Devices Having Input Controls for Efficient Input of Data
Virtual Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Method and Apparatus for Text Entry
Method for Determining the Presence of a Wanted Signal Component
Interchangeable Input Modules Associated with Varying Languages
Annotating Phonemes and Accents for Text-to-Speech System
Hands-Free Telephony and in-Vehicle Communication
Noise-Reduction Processing of Speech Signals
Subtitle Generation and Retrieval Combining Document Processing with Voice Processing
Frame Erasure Concealment Technique for a Bitstream-Based Feature Extractor
System and Method for Generalized Preselection for Unit Selection Synthesis
System for Bandwidth Extension of Narrow-Band Speech
Information Entry Mechanism for Small Keypads
Method for Adapting a Codebook for Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition Based on a Multilingual Acoustic Model
Keyboard System and Method for Global Disambiguation from Classes with Dictionary Database from First and Last Letters
Method for Determining a Time Delay for Time Delay Compensation
Determination of the Coherence of Audio Signals
System and Method of Developing a Tts Voice
System and Method for Testing a Tts Voice
Voice Activity Detection and Silence Suppression in a Packet Network
System and Method for Improved Use of Voice Activity Detection
Multilingual Speech Recognition
Patent:
8,065,144 →
Application:
12/699,172 →
System and Method for Hybrid Processing in a Natural Language Voice Services Environment
Method and Apparatus for Providing Speech Output for Speech-Enabled Applications
Method for Automated Training of a Plurality of Artificial Neural Networks
Explicit Character Filtering of Ambiguous Text Entry
Method for Determining a Noise Reference Signal for Noise Compensation and/or Noise Reduction
Method for Determining a Signal Component for Reducing Noise in an Input Signal
Virtual Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Method for Estimating a Fundamental Frequency of a Speech Signal
Method and Apparatus for on-Top Writing
Speech Recognition Method for Selecting a Combination of List Elements via a Speech Input
System and Method for Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Using a Modified Viterbi Approach
Selective Input System and Process Based on Tracking of Motion Parameters of an Input Object
Multimodal Disambiguation of Speech Recognition
Directional Input System with Automatic Correction
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
System for Detecting and Reducing Noise via a Microphone Array
System and Method for Automatic Detection of Abnormal Stress Patterns in Unit Selection Synthesis
System and Method for Synthetic Voice Generation and Modification
Method and Apparatus for Generating Synthetic Speech with Contrastive Stress
Method and Apparatus for Generating Synthetic Speech with Contrastive Stress
Speech Recognition Using Channel Verification
System and Method for Improving Text Input in a Shorthand-on-Keyboard Interface
System and Process for Selectable Input with a Touch Screen
Spell-Check for a Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Gesture-Based Repetition of Key Activations on a Virtual Keyboard
Mobile Device Retrieval and Navigation
System and Method for Cloud-Based Text-to-Speech Web Services
Organizing Pointers to Objects
System and Method for Preview and Selection of Words
Methods and Apparatus for Predicting Prosody in Speech Synthesis
Automatically Generating Audible Representations of Data Content Based on User Preferences
Virtual Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Inquiry-Oriented User Input Apparatus and Method
Systems, Methods and Articles for Providing Communications and Services via a Peer-to-Peer Network Over a Data Transport Link
Disambiguating Ambiguous Characters
Speech Processing Based on Time Series of Maximum Values of Cross-Power Spectrum Phase Between Two Consecutive Speech Frames
Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech
Extendable Voice Commands
Vehicle Communication System
Microphone Non-Uniformity Compensation System
System and Method for Dynamic Noise Adaptation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
On Demand Tts Vocabulary for a Telematics System
Partial Word Lists into a Phoneme Tree
Testing a Grammar Used in Speech Recognition for Reliability in a Plurality of Operating Environments Having Different Background Noise
System for Bandwidth Extension of Narrow-Band Speech
Systems and Methods for Character Correction in Communication Devices
Systems and Methods for Using Entered Text to Access and Process Contextual Information
Performing Actions on a Computing Device Using a Contextual Keyboard
Systems and Methods for Using Entered Text to Access and Process Contextual Information
Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus
Frame Erasure Concealment Technique for a Bitstream-Based Feature Extractor
System and Method for Low-Latency Web-Based Text-to-Speech Without Plugins
Multimodal Disambiguation of Speech Recognition
Situation-Aware Message Presentation for Automotive Messaging
System and Method for Dynamically Generating a Recognition Grammar in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
System and Method for Providing Advertisements in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
System and Method for Providing a Natural Language Voice User Interface in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
In-Car Communication System for Multiple Acoustic Zones
Text-To-Speech Method and System, Computer Program Product Therefor
Adjusting a Speech Engine for a Mobile Computing Device Based on Background Noise
Mono and Multi-Channel Echo Compensation from Selective Output
Method for Converting Character Text Messages to Audio Files with Respective Titles Determined Using the Text Message Word Attributes for Their Selection and Reading Aloud with Mobile Devices
Speech Enhancement Techniques on the Power Spectrum
Converting Partial Word Lists into a Phoneme Tree for Speech Recognition
Systems and Methods for an Automated Personalized Dictionary Generator for Portable Devices
Text-To-Speech User's Voice Cooperative Server for Instant Messaging Clients
Measurement and Tuning of Hands Free Telephone Systems
Spell-Check for a Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Tabulating Triphone Sequences by 5-Phoneme Contexts for Speech Synthesis
Selective Input System and Process Based on Tracking of Motion Parameters of an Input Object
System and Apparatus for Selectable Input with a Touch Screen
Methods for Facilitating Text Entry
Multiple Predictions in a Reduced Keyboard Disambiguating System
Temporal Interpolation Of Adjacent Spectra
Using Emoticons for Contextual Text-to-Speech Expressivity
System and Method for Automatic Prediction of Speech Suitability for Statistical Modeling
Service Access Method and Apparatus
Input Recognition Using Multiple Lexicons
Disambiguating Ambiguous Characters
Efficient Audio Signal Processing in the Sub-Band Regime
Method and Apparatus for on-Top Writing
Multimodal Disambiguation of Speech Recognition
Text/Character Input System, Such as for Use with Touch Screens on Mobile Phones
Directional Input System with Automatic Correction
Text to Speech Synthesis for Texts with Foreign Language Inclusions
Speech Synthesis from Acoustic Units with Default Values of Concatenation Cost
Frame Erasure Concealment Technique for a Bitstream-Based Feature Extractor
System and Method for Dynamically Generating a Recognition Grammar in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
Speech Synthesis System, Speech Synthesis Program Product, and Speech Synthesis Method
Hands-Free Telephony and in-Vehicle Communication
Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech
Method for Determining a Noise Reference Signal for Noise Compensation and/or Noise Reduction
System and Method for Information Identification Using Tracked Preferences of a User
Explicit Character Filtering of Ambiguous Text Entry
Systems, Methods and Articles for Providing Communications and Services Involving Automobile Head Units and User Preferences
Application:
13/756,425 →
Publication:
US 2014/0068713
Systems, Methods and Articles for a Communications Device Providing Communications and Services Involving Automobile Head Units
Systems, Methods and Articles for a Server Providing Communications and Services Involving Automobile Head Units
System and Method for Providing a Natural Language Voice User Interface in an Integrated Voice Navigation Services Environment
Systems and Methods for an Automated Personalized Dictionary Generator for Portable Devices
Methods and Apparatus for Formant-Based Voice Synthesis
System and Method for Improved Use of Voice Activity Detection
Temporal Interpolation of Adjacent Spectra
Recognizing Handwriting Input Using Rotatable Support Lines
Systems and Methods for Character Correction in Communication Devices
Speech Recognition on Large Lists Using Fragments
Text-To-Speech User's Voice Cooperative Server for Instant Messaging Clients
System for Tuning Synthesized Speech
Method and Apparatus for Generating Synthetic Speech with Contrastive Stress
System and Method for Improving Text Input in a Shorthand-on-Keyboard Interface
System for Detecting and Reducing Noise via a Microphone Array
Technology for Entering Data Using Patterns of Relative Directions
Dynamic Microphone Signal Mixer
Application:
13/990,176 →
Publication:
US 2013/0325458
Method and Apparatus for Generating Synthetic Speech with Contrastive Stress
System and Method to Use Text-to-Speech to Prompt Whether Text-to-Speech Output Should Be Added During Installation of a Program on a Computer System Normally Controlled Through a User Interactive Display
Virtual Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Interchangeable Input Modules Associated with Varying Languages
Keyboard System with Automatic Correction
Multimodal Disambiguation of Speech Recognition
Probability-Based Approach to Recognition of User-Entered Data
Text Browsing, Editing And Correction Methods For Automotive Applications
Low-Delay Filtering
Single Channel Suppression Of Impulsive Interferences In Noisy Speech Signals
Method and Apparatus for Generating Synthetic Speech with Contrastive Stress
System and Method for Generating Customized Text-to-Speech Voices
System and Method for Improving Text Input in a Shorthand-on-Keyboard Interface
Noisy Environment Communication Enhancement System
System and Method for Providing a Natural Language Voice User Interface
System and Method for Synthetic Voice Generation and Modification
System and Method for Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Using A Modified Viterbi Approach
Method and Apparatus for on-Top Writing
Systems and Methods for an Automated Personalized Dictionary Generator for Portable Devices
System and Method for Speech Enhancement on Compressed Speech
Recording Concatenation Costs of Most Common Acoustic Unit Sequential Pairs to a Concatenation Cost Database for Speech Synthesis
Speech Signal Enhancement Using Visual Information
Speech Communication System for Combined Voice Recognition, Hands-Free Telephony and in-Car Communication
Noise Dependent Signal Processing For In-Car Communication Systems With Multiple Acoustic Zones
Wind Noise Detection for in-Car Communication Systems with Multiple Acoustic Zones
Formant Dependent Speech Signal Enhancement
Speech Enhancement
System and Methods for Determining Keyboard Input in the Presence of Multiple Contact Points
System and Method for Generalized Preselection for Unit Selection Synthesis
System and Method for Reducing Tandeming Effects in a Communication System
Systems, Methods and Articles for Providing Communications and Services via a Peer-to-Peer Network Over a Data Transport Link
Method and System for Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Personalized Voice
Method and Apparatus for Providing Speech Output for Speech-Enabled Applications
Reduced Keyboard with Prediction Solutions When Input Is a Partial Sliding Trajectory
System and Method for Dynamic Noise Adaptation for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
System and Method for Synthetic Voice Generation and Modification
System and Method for Automatic Detection of Abnormal Stress Patterns in Unit Selection Synthesis
System and Method for Pruning Redundant Units in a Speech Synthesis Process
System and Method for Cloud-Based Text-to-Speech Web Services
Recognizing Handwriting Input Using Rotatable Support Lines
System and Method for Processing Out of Vocabulary Compound Words
Process for Improving Pronunciation of Proper Nouns Foreign to a Target Language Text-to-Speech System
Methods and Apparatus for Dynamic Low Frequency Noise Suppression
System For Automatic Speech Recognition And Audio Entertainment
System and Method for Identifying Suboptimal Microphone Performance
System and Method for Addressing Acoustic Signal Reverberation
System and Method for Acoustic Echo Cancellation
System and Method of Providing and Validating Enhanced Captchas
Patent:
9,519,766 →
Application:
14/846,923 →
System and Method for Providing Words or Phrases to Be Uttered by Members of a Crowd and Processing the Utterances in Crowd-Sourced Campaigns to Facilitate Speech Analysis
Patent:
9,361,887 →
Application:
14/846,925 →
System and Method of Recording Utterances Using Unmanaged Crowds for Natural Language Processing
Patent:
9,448,993 →
Application:
14/846,926 →
System and Method for Validating Natural Language Content Using Crowdsourced Validation Jobs
Patent:
9,401,142 →
Application:
14/846,935 →
In-View and Out-of-View Request-Related Result Regions for Respective Result Categories
Integration of Domain Information into State Transitions of a Finite State Transducer for Natural Language Processing
System and Method for Providing Follow-Up Responses to Prior Natural Language Inputs of a User
System and Method of Providing Intent Predictions for an Utterance Prior to a System Detection of an End of the Utterance
System and Method of Determining a Domain and/or an Action Related to a Natural Language Input
Concatenation Cost in Speech Synthesis for Acoustic Unit Sequential Pair Using Hash Table and Default Concatenation Cost
System and Method for Generating Customized Text-to-Speech Voices
System and Method for Low-Latency Web-Based Text-to-Speech Without Plugins
Probability-Based Approach to Recognition of User-Entered Data
Methods and Apparatus for Robust Speaker Activity Detection
Methods And Apparatus For Selective Microphone Signal Combining
System and Method for Automatic Detection of Abnormal Stress Patterns in Unit Selection Synthesis
System and Method of Synthetic Voice Generation and Modification
Methods And Apparatus For Adaptive Gain Control In A Communication System
Application:
15/115,804 →
Publication:
US 2017/0011753
System and Method of Recording Utterances Using Unmanaged Crowds for Natural Language Processing
System and Method for Validating Natural Language Content Using Crowdsourced Validation Jobs
System and Method of Annotating Utterances Based on Tags Assigned by Unmanaged Crowds
System and Method for Eliciting Open-Ended Natural Language Responses to Questions to Train Natural Language Processors
System and Method of Providing and Validating Enhanced Captchas
Methods And Apparatus For Broadened Beamwidth Beamforming And Postfiltering
System and Method of Conversational Adjustment Based on User's Cognitive State and/or Situational State
In-View and Out-of-View Request-Related Result Regions for Respective Result Categories
Application:
15/394,915 →
Publication:
US 2017/0109451
Text Browsing, Editing and Correction Methods for Automotive Applications
Combined Voice Recognition, Hands-Free Telephony and in-Car Communication
System and Method for Providing in-Vehicle Services via a Natural Language Voice User Interface
Residual Interference Suppression
Speech Enhancement Using a Portable Electronic Device
Motion Adaptive Speech Recognition for Enhanced Voice Destination Entry
Communication System For Multiple Acoustic Zones
Method For Converting Character Text Messages To Audio Files With Respective Titles Determined Using the Text Message Word Attributes For Their Selection And Reading Aloud With Mobile Devices
Speech Synthesis Using One or More Recurrent Neural Networks
Selection System and Method
System and Method of Disambiguating Natural Language Processing Requests
System and Method for Generating Customized Text-to-Speech Voices
System and Method of Annotating Utterances Based on Tags Assigned by Unmanaged Crowds
System and Method for Providing Follow-Up Responses to Prior Natural Language Inputs of a User
System and Method for Addressing Acoustic Signal Reverberation
System and Method for Combined Non-Linear and Late Echo Suppression
System and Method for Suppression of Non-Linear Acoustic Echoes
System and Method for Temporal and Power Based Zone Detection in Speaker Dependent Microphone Environments
Geospecific Information System and Method
Application:
15/863,528 →
Publication:
US 2019/0215646
Distracted Driving Detector
Application:
15/884,842 →
Publication:
US 2019/0236387
Integration of Domain Information into State Transitions of a Finite State Transducer for Natural Language Processing
System and Method for Validating Natural Language Content Using Crowdsourced Validation Jobs
System and Method for Generating a Multi-Lingual and Multi-Intent Capable Semantic Parser Based on Automatically Generated Operators and User-Designated Utterances Relating to the Operators
System and Method for Discriminative Training of Regression Deep Neural Networks
Multi-Lingual Semantic Parser Based on Transferred Learning
Audio Stream Mixing System and Method
Patent:
10,459,686 →
Application:
16/058,200 →
Babble Noise Suppression
Enhanced De-Esser For In-Car Communication Systems
Multi-Character Text Input System With Audio Feedback and Word Completion
System and Method for Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Using a Modified Viterbi Approach
Automatically Determining Waypoints Along a Route of Travel
Application:
16/211,793 →
Publication:
US 2020/0182635
Contextual Utterance Resolution in Multimodal Systems
Multimodal Input Processing for Vehicle Computer
Multimodal User Interface for a Vehicle
Interaction System and Method
Method and Apparatus for Enhancing a Geolocation Database
System and Method for Acoustic Detection of Emergency Sirens
Methods and Apparatus for Asr with Embedded Noise Reduction
Errand Plotter System and Method
Application:
16/555,260 →
Publication:
US 2021/0065089
System and Method for Accent Classification
Application:
16/570,122 →
Publication:
US 2021/0082402
Geospecific Information System and Method
System and Method for Validating Natural Language Content Using Crowdsourced Validation Jobs
On Screen Keyboard for Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Tablet Computers
Patent:
591,307 →
Application:
29/307,199 →
On Screen Keyboard for Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Tablet Computers
Patent:
614,644 →
Application:
29/333,939 →
On Screen Keyboard for Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Tablet Computers
Patent:
614,645 →
Application:
29/333,941 →
Interaction System and Method
Application:
62/788,401 →
Use of Voice Interaction to Increase Safety and Enhance Flexibility in Autonomous Vehicles
Application:
62/788,471 →
Hybrid Arbitration Using Raw ASR String and NLU Information
Application:
62/825,391 →
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