Speech Morphing Systems, Inc.

Neomagic Corporation

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Speech Morphing, Inc.

Fathy Yassa

Philippe Raffy

Benjamin K Reaves

Dan Schonfeld

Karthik Hariharakrishnan

Ben Reaves

Steve Pearson

Caroline Henton

Nima Ferdosi

Wei-Ping Lu

Meir Friedlander

Sandeep Mohan

Yaron Serfaty

A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. The communication system further includes a translator coupled with the automatic speech recognizer. The translator configured to convert the text sequence from a first language to a second language. In addition, the communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer and the speech analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics.

Speech morphing communication system

A networked communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal from a client over a network and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer and the speech analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics.

A method and apparatus designed to permit content providers to insert personalized content into a television signal based upon the user preferences or viewing habits.

Method and apparatus to synchronize personalized co-cast content with user viewing habits

A soundalike system to improve speech synthesis by training a text to speech engine on a voice like the target speakers voice.

Method and apparatus for designating a soundalike voice to a target voice from a database of voices

An exemplary computer system configured to train an ASR using the output from a TTS engine.

Method and apparatus for an exemplary automatic speech recognition system

Method and apparatus for reducing a size of databases required for recorded speech data.

Method and apparatus for exemplary morphing computer system background

Delivery of programming from a content provider to one or more hand held devices is effected via a set-top box (STB). The STB receives a transport stream, recognizes and de-multiplexes out a co-cast content association table containing a list of all available co-cast programming, and broadcasts table to the one or more hand held devices. Each hand held device displays the list and a program therefrom is selected. The selection is transmitted to the STB, which de-multiplexes out the selection from the delivered programming, and re-multiplexes the requested co-cast programming into a transport stream for broadcast to the requesting hand held device.

Method and apparatus to broadcast content to handheld wireless devices via digital set-top receivers

A method for determining the prosody of a tag question in human speech and preserving said prosody as the human speech is translated into a different language.

Method and apparatus to model and transfer the prosody of tags across languages

Method and apparatus for diphone or concatenative synthesis to compensate for insufficient or missing diphones.

Method and apparatus for exemplary diphone synthesizer

An exemplary computer system configured to user multiple automatic speech recognizers (ASRs) with a plurality of language and acoustic models to increase the accuracy of speech recognition.

Method and apparatus for segmenting speech by detecting the pauses between the words and/or phrases, and to determine whether a particular time interval contains speech or non-speech, such as a pause.

Method and apparatus for exemplary segment classification

A method of transferring the prosody of tag questions across languages includes extracting prosodic parameters of speech in a first language having a tag question and mapping the prosodic parameters to speech segments in a second language corresponding to the tag question. Accordingly, semantic and pragmatic intent of the tag question in the first language may be correctly conveyed in the second language.

A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication system also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a voice analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The voice analyzer configured to generate one or more phonemes based on the speech signal. The communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer, the speech analyzer and the voice analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics and said one or more phonemes.

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Fathy Yassa