Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Langzhou Chen

Roberto Cipolla

Vincent Ping Leung Wan

Ioannis Stylianou

Javier Latorre-Martinez

Kayoko Yanagisawa

Norbert Braunschweiler

Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru

Robert Arthur Blokland

Bjorn Dietmar Rafael Stenger

Ranniery Da Silva Maia

Bjorn Stenger

Ranniery Maia

Robert Anderson

Neil Baker

A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice;

Computer generated emulation of a subject

A method of training an acoustic model for a text-to-speech system,

Text to speech processing system and method, and an acoustic model training system and method

A method of animating a computer generation of a head and displaying the text of an electronic book, such that the head has a mouth which moves in accordance with the speech of the text of the electronic book to be output by the head and a word or group of words from the text is displayed while simultaneously being mimed by the mouth, wherein input text is divided into a sequence of acoustic units, which are converted to a sequence of image vectors and into a sequence of text display indicators. The sequence of image vectors is outputted as video such that the mouth of said head moves to mime the speech associated with the input text with a selected expression, and the sequence of text display indicators is output as video which is synchronized with the lip movement of the head.

Synthetic audiovisual storyteller

A method of searching a plurality of data files, wherein each data file includes a plurality of features. The method: determines a plurality of feature groups, wherein each feature group includes n features and n is an integer of 2 or more; expresses each data file as a file vector, wherein each component of the vector indicates the frequency of a feature group within the data file, wherein the n features which constitute a feature group do not have to be located adjacent to one another; expresses a search query using the feature groups as a vector; and searches the plurality of data files by comparing the search query expressed as a vector with the file vectors.

Data retrieval and indexing method and apparatus

A system for calculating the look ahead probabilities at the nodes in a language model look ahead tree, wherein the words of the vocabulary of the language are located at the leaves of the tree,

Automatic speech recognition method and apparatus

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Langzhou Chen