Patent International Class: G10L 15/20

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Voice recognizing apparatus, voice recognizing method, voice recognizing program, interference reducing apparatus, interference reducing method, and interference reducing program
Inventor: Iwasawa | Patent Number: 8150688

System and method for filtering and eliminating noise from natural language utterances to improve speech recognition and parsing
Inventor: Kennewick, et al. | Patent Number: 8140327

System for distinguishing desired audio signals from noise
Inventor: Herbig, et al. | Patent Number: 8131544

Adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise
Inventor: Agapi, et al. | Patent Number: 8121837

Noise playback enhancement of prerecorded audio for speech recognition operations
Inventor: Charoenruengkit, et al. | Patent Number: 8117032

Voice activity detection and silence suppression in a packet network
Inventor: James, et al. | Patent Number: 8112273

Echo reduction system
Inventor: Haulick, et al. | Patent Number: 8111840

System and method of detecting speech intelligibility of audio announcement systems in noisy and reverberant spaces
Inventor: Shields, et al. | Patent Number: 8103007

System and method for dynamic modification of speech intelligibility scoring
Inventor: Zumsteg, et al. | Patent Number: 8098833

Method and device for tracking background noise in communication system
Inventor: Wang | Patent Number: 8095361

Voice recognition apparatus
Inventor: Iwamiya, et al. | Patent Number: 8090582

Testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise
Inventor: Agapi, et al. | Patent Number: 8082148

Speech recognition apparatus and method recognizing a speech from sound signals collected from outside
Inventor: Nakadai, et al. | Patent Number: 8073690

Repetitive transient noise removal
Inventor: Hetherington, et al. | Patent Number: 8073689

Apparatus and method for identifying signal frames as audio signal frames
Inventor: Metz, et al. | Patent Number: 8065137

Signal classifying method and apparatus
Inventor: Liu, et al. | Patent Number: 8050916

Robust two microphone noise suppression system
Inventor: Zurek, et al. | Patent Number: 8046219

Speech and method for identifying perceptual features
Inventor: Allen, et al. | Patent Number: 8046218

Multi-pass echo residue detection with speech application intelligence
Inventor: Wong | Patent Number: 8041564

Collecting sound device with directionality, collecting sound method with directionality and memory product
Inventor: Matsuo | Patent Number: 8036888

Determining scale factor values in encoding audio data with AAC
Inventor: Baumgarte | Patent Number: 8032371

Dynamic noise reduction using linear model fitting
Inventor: Li, et al. | Patent Number: 8015002

Low complexity noise reduction method
Inventor: Rahbar | Patent Number: 8010355

Noise cancellation system, speech recognition system, and car navigation system
Inventor: Otsuka, et al. | Patent Number: 8010354

Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program
Inventor: Nagashima | Patent Number: 8005673

Circuit arrangement and method for detecting and improving a speech component in an audio signal
Inventor: Vierthaler, et al. | Patent Number: 8005672

Discriminative training of multi-state barge-in models for speech processing
Inventor: Ljolje | Patent Number: 8000971

Recognition of voice-activated commands
Inventor: Rodriguez, et al. | Patent Number: 7996232

Correction of matching results for speech recognition
Inventor: Washio, et al. | Patent Number: 7991614

Test signalling
Inventor: Gray, et al. | Patent Number: 7978613

Electronic devices and methods that adapt filtering of a microphone signal responsive to recognition of a targeted speaker's voice
Inventor: Bengtsson | Patent Number: 7974841

Method and apparatus for detecting voice region
Inventor: Oh, et al. | Patent Number: 7966179

Device and method for voice activity detection based on the direction from which sound signals emanate
Inventor: Gustavsson | Patent Number: 7966178

Methods and apparatus for enhancing wireless data network telephony including a personal router in a client
Inventor: Kikinis | Patent Number: 7965742

Acoustic signal classification system
Inventor: Zakarauskas | Patent Number: 7957967

Method of denoising a noisy signal including speech and noise components
Inventor: Pinto | Patent Number: 7953596

Active labeling for spoken language understanding
Inventor: Hakkani-Tur, et al. | Patent Number: 7949525

Speech modeling and enhancement based on magnitude-normalized spectra
Inventor: Zhang, et al. | Patent Number: 7930178

Componentized voice server with selectable internal and external speech detectors
Inventor: Creamer, et al. | Patent Number: 7925510

System, method, device, and program for removing one or more signals incoming from one or more directions
Inventor: Tsujikawa | Patent Number: 7925504

Methods and apparatus for voice activity detection
Inventor: Huang, et al. | Patent Number: 7921008

Ambient noise injection for use in speech recognition
Inventor: Chengalvarayan, et al. | Patent Number: 7881929

Method for processing speech signal data with reverberation filtering
Inventor: Fukuda, et al. | Patent Number: 7856353

Method and apparatus for robust speaker localization and automatic camera steering system employing the same
Inventor: Choi, et al. | Patent Number: 7835908

Method and apparatus for identifying conversing pairs over a two-way speech medium
Inventor: Amini, et al. | Patent Number: 7822604

Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition program
Inventor: Hitotsumatsu, et al. | Patent Number: 7818171

Voice conversion training and data collection
Inventor: Nurminen, et al. | Patent Number: 7813924

Calibration based beamforming, non-linear adaptive filtering, and multi-sensor headset
Inventor: Acero, et al. | Patent Number: 7813923

Speech signal classification system and method
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 7809555

Speech recognition apparatus for determining final word from recognition candidate word sequence corresponding to voice data
Inventor: Washio | Patent Number: 7805304

Classification-based frame loss concealment for audio signals
Inventor: Chen | Patent Number: 7805297

Cognitive signal separation and classification system
Inventor: Owechko | Patent Number: 7778950

System and method of voice activity detection in noisy environments
Inventor: Wahab | Patent Number: 7769585

Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty
Inventor: Droppo, et al. | Patent Number: 7769582

Speech distinction method
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 7761294

Signal processing apparatus and method
Inventor: Garner, et al. | Patent Number: 7756707

Block-diagonal covariance joint subspace tying and model compensation for noise robust automatic speech recognition
Inventor: Rigazio, et al. | Patent Number: 7729909

Joint signal and model based noise matching noise robustness method for automatic speech recognition
Inventor: Rigazio, et al. | Patent Number: 7729908

Clicking noise detection in a digital audio signal
Inventor: Saffer | Patent Number: 7729906

Minimization of transient noises in a voice signal
Inventor: Hetherington, et al. | Patent Number: 7725315

Method and apparatus for constructing a speech filter using estimates of clean speech and noise
Inventor: Wu, et al. | Patent Number: 7725314

Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition apparatus and program thereof
Inventor: Ichikawa, et al. | Patent Number: 7720679

Autonomous integrated headset and sound processing system for tactical applications
Inventor: McCune | Patent Number: 7707035

Voice detecting method and apparatus using a long-time average of the time variation of speech features, and medium thereof
Inventor: Murashima | Patent Number: 7698135

Continuous speech processing using heterogeneous and adapted transfer function
Inventor: Gaeta, et al. | Patent Number: 7693712

Speech recognition apparatus and vehicle incorporating speech recognition apparatus
Inventor: Shikano, et al. | Patent Number: 7684983

Auto segmentation based partitioning and clustering approach to robust endpointing
Inventor: Shi, et al. | Patent Number: 7680657

Multi-sensory speech enhancement using a speech-state model
Inventor: Zhang, et al. | Patent Number: 7680656

Method and apparatus for measuring the quality of speech transmissions that use speech compression
Inventor: Canniff, et al. | Patent Number: 7680655

Apparatus and method for segmentation of audio data into meta patterns
Inventor: Goronzy, et al. | Patent Number: 7680654

Automated speech recognition using normalized in-vehicle speech
Inventor: Chengalvarayan, et al. | Patent Number: 7676363

Speech recognition method for determining missing speech
Inventor: Fukada | Patent Number: 7634401

Apparatus and method for extracting syllabic nuclei
Inventor: Campbell, et al. | Patent Number: 7627468

Method of noise reduction based on dynamic aspects of speech
Inventor: Deng, et al. | Patent Number: 7617098

Systems and methods for detecting silences in audio signals
Inventor: Stella, et al. | Patent Number: 7617095

Method and circuit for noise estimation, related filter, terminal and communication network using same, and computer program product therefor
Inventor: Bollano, et al. | Patent Number: 7613608

Voice activity detection apparatus and method
Inventor: Jabloun | Patent Number: 7596496

Method of detecting voice activity in a signal, and a voice signal coder including a device for implementing the method
Inventor: Gass, et al. | Patent Number: 7596487

Speech compression system and method
Inventor: Gao, et al. | Patent Number: 7593852

Method and apparatus for reducing noise corruption from an alternative sensor signal during multi-sensory speech enhancement
Inventor: Zhang, et al. | Patent Number: 7590529

Method and apparatus for noise suppression
Inventor: Kato, et al. | Patent Number: 7590528

Correlating video images of lip movements with audio signals to improve speech recognition
Inventor: Seshadri | Patent Number: 7587318

System and method for noisy automatic speech recognition employing joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions
Inventor: Yao | Patent Number: 7584097

Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment
Inventor: Graciarena, et al. | Patent Number: 7571095

Harmonic structure based acoustic speech interval detection method and device
Inventor: Suzuki, et al. | Patent Number: 7567900

Music detection for enhancing echo cancellation and speech coding
Inventor: Benyassine, et al. | Patent Number: 7558729

Speech recognition system and method utilizing adaptive cancellation for talk-back voice
Inventor: Matsumoto, et al. | Patent Number: 7552050

Audio restoration apparatus and audio restoration method
Inventor: Yoshizawa, et al. | Patent Number: 7536303

Signal decomposition of voiced speech for CELP speech coding
Inventor: Gao | Patent Number: 7529664

System and method for noise cancellation with noise ramp tracking
Inventor: Chamberlain | Patent Number: 7526428

Method and apparatus using harmonic-model-based front end for robust speech recognition
Inventor: Seltzer, et al. | Patent Number: 7516067

Feature extraction apparatus and method and pattern recognition apparatus and method
Inventor: Iwahashi, et al. | Patent Number: 7509256

In-the-field adaptation of a large vocabulary automatic speech recognizer (ASR)
Inventor: Zimmerman, et al. | Patent Number: 7505905

Energy feature extraction method for noisy speech recognition
Inventor: Huang | Patent Number: 7480614

Estimation of speech spectral parameters in the presence of noise
Inventor: Preuss | Patent Number: 7478043

Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition apparatus and program thereof
Inventor: Ichikawa, et al. | Patent Number: 7478041

Signal detection using maximum a posteriori likelihood and noise spectral difference
Inventor: Garner, et al. | Patent Number: 7475012

Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features
Inventor: Axelrod, et al. | Patent Number: 7464031

Robust separation of speech signals in a noisy environment
Inventor: Visser, et al. | Patent Number: 7464029

Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty
Inventor: Droppo, et al. | Patent Number: 7460992

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