Patent Examiner: Lerner; Martin

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Methods and systems for determining audio loudness levels in programming
Inventor: Riedl | Patent Number: 7398207

Lossless multi-channel audio codec
Inventor: Fejzo | Patent Number: 7392195

Speech based learning/training system using semantic decoding
Inventor: Bennett | Patent Number: 7392185

Method and system for reducing a voice signal noise
Inventor: Frank, et al. | Patent Number: 7392177

Predictive coding scheme with adaptive speed parameters
Inventor: Schuller, et al. | Patent Number: 7386446

Method for processing speech signal features for streaming transport
Inventor: Bennett | Patent Number: 7376556

Encoding and decoding of overlapping audio signal values by differential encoding/decoding
Inventor: Schuijers, et al. | Patent Number: 7376555

Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus
Inventor: Beutnagel, et al. | Patent Number: 7369994

Unified filter bank for audio coding
Inventor: Absar, et al. | Patent Number: 7369989

Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis
Inventor: Basso, et al. | Patent Number: 7366670

Voice interface for a search engine
Inventor: Franz, et al. | Patent Number: 7366668

Method and device for pause limit values in speech recognition
Inventor: Dobler | Patent Number: 7366667

Noise pre-processor for enhanced variable rate speech codec
Inventor: Moogi, et al. | Patent Number: 7366658

Psychosomatic diagnosis system
Inventor: Shiomi, et al. | Patent Number: 7363226

Method for searching data in at least two databases
Inventor: Josenhans | Patent Number: 7363222

Speech detection system in an audio signal in noisy surrounding
Inventor: Martin, et al. | Patent Number: 7359856

Text categorization method and apparatus
Inventor: Tremblay, et al. | Patent Number: 7356461

Translating a voice signal into an output representation of discrete tones
Inventor: Puterbaugh, et al. | Patent Number: 7353167

Minimizing resource consumption for speech recognition processing with dual access buffering
Inventor: Staiger | Patent Number: 7349844

Method of translating a voice signal to a series of discrete tones
Inventor: Puterbaugh, et al. | Patent Number: 7346500

System and method for providing high-quality stretching and compression of a digital audio signal
Inventor: Florencio, et al. | Patent Number: 7337108

Method and system for network-based speech recognition
Inventor: Jochumson | Patent Number: 7330815

Handling of speech recognition in a declarative markup language
Inventor: Porter, et al. | Patent Number: 7321856

Method, apparatus and program for recognizing, extracting, and speech synthesizing strings from documents
Inventor: Okutani, et al. | Patent Number: 7318033

Method and apparatus for a interactive voice response system
Inventor: Coyle, et al. | Patent Number: 7318029

Method for detecting the quantization of spectra
Inventor: Baum | Patent Number: 7318023

Statistical sound event modeling system and methods
Inventor: Cascone, et al. | Patent Number: 7310604

Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method
Inventor: Nishizaki, et al. | Patent Number: 7310601

Language recognition using a similarity measure
Inventor: Garner, et al. | Patent Number: 7310600

Text-to-speech synthesis system and associated method of associating content information
Inventor: Shizuka, et al. | Patent Number: 7305342

Text-to-speech (TTS) for hand-held devices
Inventor: Xie | Patent Number: 7299182

System and method for deploying filters for processing signals
Inventor: Johnston, et al. | Patent Number: 7292973

Method of determining uncertainty associated with acoustic distortion-based noise reduction
Inventor: Deng, et al. | Patent Number: 7289955

System and method for processing low signal-to-noise ratio signals
Inventor: Li, et al. | Patent Number: 7286983

Method for learning linguistically valid word pronunciations from acoustic data
Inventor: Beaufays, et al. | Patent Number: 7280963

Digest generation method and apparatus for image and sound content
Inventor: Watanabe, et al. | Patent Number: 7277859

Speech recognition system interactive agent
Inventor: Bennett, et al. | Patent Number: 7277854

Scalable lossless audio codec and authoring tool
Inventor: Fejzo | Patent Number: 7272567

Speech recognition training method for audio and video file indexing on a search engine
Inventor: Soucy, et al. | Patent Number: 7272558

Method and system for learning linguistically valid word pronunciations from acoustic data
Inventor: Beaufays, et al. | Patent Number: 7266495

Distributed voice and wireless interface modules for exposing messaging/collaboration data to voice and wireless devices
Inventor: Abu-Samaha | Patent Number: 7260536

Satellite mobile telephone cell departure prediction
Inventor: Hutchinson | Patent Number: 7260391

Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium
Inventor: Kayama, et al. | Patent Number: 7249022

Speech recognition with score calculation
Inventor: Lucke, et al. | Patent Number: 7249017

Method for fast dynamic estimation of background noise
Inventor: Behboodian, et al. | Patent Number: 7246059

Speech recognition by automated context creation
Inventor: Jaepel, et al. | Patent Number: 7243069

Microphone setup and testing in voice recognition software
Inventor: Barker, et al. | Patent Number: 7243068

Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer
Inventor: Weinmann, et al. | Patent Number: 7243067

Explicitly registering markup based on verbal commands and exploiting audio context
Inventor: Brocious, et al. | Patent Number: 7240006

Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing for adaptation of acoustic model
Inventor: Honda, et al. | Patent Number: 7236922

Apparatus and method to compensate for unsynchronized transmission of synchrous data using a sorted list
Inventor: Petty | Patent Number: 7233895

Data compression and expansion of an audio signal
Inventor: Bruekers, et al. | Patent Number: 7225136

Speech recognition system trained with regional speech characteristics
Inventor: Bennett, et al. | Patent Number: 7225125

Voice code conversion apparatus
Inventor: Suzuki, et al. | Patent Number: 7222069

Satellite mobile telephone cell departure prediction
Inventor: Hutchinson | Patent Number: 7218932

Lattice-based unsupervised maximum likelihood linear regression for speaker adaptation
Inventor: Padmanabhan, et al. | Patent Number: 7216077

Preparing acoustic models by sufficient statistics and noise-superimposed speech data
Inventor: Yoshizawa, et al. | Patent Number: 7209881

Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support
Inventor: Bennett | Patent Number: 7203646

Automating tuning of speech recognition systems
Inventor: Anderson, et al. | Patent Number: 7203644

Robot control apparatus and method with echo back prosody
Inventor: Ishii, et al. | Patent Number: 7203642

Method and system for verifying derivative digital files automatically
Inventor: Lydecker, et al. | Patent Number: 7197458

Method and system for converting files to a specified markup language
Inventor: Poplawski | Patent Number: 7194402

Audio psychological stress indicator alteration method and apparatus
Inventor: Nunally | Patent Number: 7191134

System and method for automated multimedia content indexing and retrieval
Inventor: Gibbon, et al. | Patent Number: 7184959

Speech synthesis method
Inventor: Kagoshima, et al. | Patent Number: 7184958

Method and system for masking speech
Inventor: Hillis, et al. | Patent Number: 7184952

Method and apparatus for audio compression
Inventor: Kolesnik, et al. | Patent Number: 7181404

Method, apparatus, and system for bottom-up tone integration to Chinese continuous speech recognition system
Inventor: Jia, et al. | Patent Number: 7181391

System, method and computer program product for a dynamically configurable voice portal
Inventor: Guerra, et al. | Patent Number: 7174297

Method of determining uncertainty associated with acoustic distortion-based noise reduction
Inventor: Deng, et al. | Patent Number: 7174292

Background learning of speaker voices
Inventor: Huang, et al. | Patent Number: 7171360

Coupled hidden Markov model for audiovisual speech recognition
Inventor: Nefian | Patent Number: 7165029

Apparatus and method for using user context information to improve N-best processing in the presence of speech recognition uncertainty
Inventor: Bennett | Patent Number: 7162422

Method in the decompression of an audio signal
Inventor: Ojanpera | Patent Number: 7162419

Speech synthesizing method and apparatus for altering amplitudes of voiced and invoiced portions
Inventor: Yamada, et al. | Patent Number: 7162417

Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing for adaptation of acoustic model
Inventor: Honda, et al. | Patent Number: 7158934

Automatic gain control for adjusting gain during non-speech portions
Inventor: Berestesky, et al. | Patent Number: 7155385

Teaching method and system
Inventor: Layng, et al. | Patent Number: 7152034

Method and apparatus for interactive language instruction
Inventor: August, et al. | Patent Number: 7149690

System and method for eliminating synchronization errors in electronic audiovisual transmissions and presentations
Inventor: Cohen, et al. | Patent Number: 7149686

Method and device for robust predictive vector quantization of linear prediction parameters in variable bit rate speech coding
Inventor: Jelinek | Patent Number: 7149683

System and method for compressing a data table using models
Inventor: Babu, et al. | Patent Number: 7143046

Methods and apparatus for generating dialog state conditioned language models
Inventor: Dharanipragada, et al. | Patent Number: 7143035

Method and system for masking speech
Inventor: Hillis, et al. | Patent Number: 7143028

Adjustable resource based speech recognition system
Inventor: Bennett, et al. | Patent Number: 7139714

Hybrid speech coding and system
Inventor: Stachurski, et al. | Patent Number: 7139700

Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium
Inventor: Kayama, et al. | Patent Number: 7124084

Frequency domain postfiltering for quality enhancement of coded speech
Inventor: Wang, et al. | Patent Number: 7124077

Methods and apparatus for pitch determination
Inventor: Terez | Patent Number: 7124075

Method and apparatus for predicting word error rates from text
Inventor: Mahajan, et al. | Patent Number: 7117153

Feature extraction apparatus and method and pattern recognition apparatus and method
Inventor: Iwahashi, et al. | Patent Number: 7117151

Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis
Inventor: Basso, et al. | Patent Number: 7110950

Method of noise reduction based on dynamic aspects of speech
Inventor: Deng, et al. | Patent Number: 7107210

Automatic recognition of company names in speech utterances
Inventor: Rose | Patent Number: 7103546

Method and apparatus for predicting word error rates from text
Inventor: Mahajan, et al. | Patent Number: 7103544

Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty
Inventor: Droppo, et al. | Patent Number: 7103540

Enhanced coded speech
Inventor: Kleijn | Patent Number: 7103539

Method and apparatuses for improving quality of digitally encoded speech in the presence of interference
Inventor: Waltho | Patent Number: 7096180

Speech transcoding method and apparatus for silence compression
Inventor: Tsuchinaga, et al. | Patent Number: 7092875

Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus
Inventor: Beutnagel, et al. | Patent Number: 7082396

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