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International Business Machines Corporation

Clearplay, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Vlingo Corporation

Colvard Learning Systems, LLC

Oipenn, Inc.

William Stuart Meisel

Michael Alan Picheny

Michael Stuart Phillips

Mark Edward Epstein

John N Nguyen

Raimo Bakis

Matthew T Jarman

Miroslav Novak

Ridley M Whitaker

Mark Anikst

Apparatus and methods conforming to the present invention comprise a method of controlling playback of an audio signal through analysis of a corresponding close caption signal in conjunction with analysis of the corresponding audio signal. Objection text or other specified text in the close caption signal is identified through comparison with user identified objectionable text. Upon identification of the objectionable text, the audio signal is analyzed to identify the audio portion corresponding to the objectionable text. Upon identification of the audio portion, the audio signal may be controlled to mute the audible objectionable text.

Method and apparatus for controlling play of an audio signal

In embodiments of the present disclosure, capabilities are described for interacting with a mobile communication facility, which may include receiving a switch activation from a user to initiate a speech recognition recording session, recording the speech recognition recording session using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility, recognizing a portion of the voice command as an indication that user speech for recognition will begin following the end of the portion of the voice command, recognizing the recorded speech using a speech recognition facility to produce an external output, and using the selected output to perform a function on the mobile communication facility. The speech recognition recording session may include a voice command from the user followed by the speech to be recognized from the user.

Dealing with switch latency in speech recognition

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition. In one aspect, a computer-based method includes receiving a speech corpus at a speech management server system that includes multiple speech recognition engines tuned to different speaker types; using the speech recognition engines to associate the received speech corpus with a selected one of multiple different speaker types; and sending a speaker category identification code that corresponds to the associated speaker type from the speech management server system over a network. The speaker category identification code can be used by any one of speech-interactive applications coupled to the network to select one of an appropriate one of multiple application-accessible speech recognition engines tuned to the different speaker types in response to an indication that a user accessing the application is associated with a particular one of the speaker category identification codes.

Speech recognition accuracy improvement through speaker categories

Methods, systems and apparatus for a computer based grapheme-to-speech conversion using a pointing device. In one aspect the method of grapheme-to-speech conversion comprises the steps of presenting a plurality of grapheme-labeled regions and touchscreen, receiving an indication that at least one grapheme-labeled region has been touched by a pointing device, producing a phoneme corresponding to the grapheme via an audio speaker, and setting an audible duration of the phoneme corresponding to the amount of time the grapheme has been touched.

Computer-based grapheme-to-speech conversion using a pointing device

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for interacting with a mobile communication facility comprising receiving a switch activation from a user to initiate a speech recognition recording session, wherein the speech recognition recording session comprises a voice command from the user followed by the speech to be recognized from the user; recording the speech recognition recording session using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility; recognizing at least a portion of the voice command as an indication that user speech for recognition will begin following the end of the at least a portion of the voice command; recognizing the recorded speech using a speech recognition facility to produce an external output; and using the selected output to perform a function on the mobile communication facility.

A machine-implemented method includes enabling a script writer to enter a line of dialog for use by a call center in a connection with a machine-implemented, speech-based, caller-interaction, assigning a line type to the line of dialog, determining, based on the assigned line type, information to incorporate the line into the user-interaction and enabling the script writer to provide the information anytime after the line is entered, and, an integrated database and delivery system that can automatically make the results available to callers.

System and method of writing and using scripts in automated, speech-based caller interactions

When a message is to be transmitted to an intended recipient, a validation code may be incorporated into the message. The validation code, which may include, for example, a random string of alphanumeric characters or a time of day, also is transmitted to a central facility in a secure manner. A query that incorporates the validation code may be extracted from the message and sent to the central facility either by equipment associated with the intended recipient of the message or by a service provider that intercepts the message. The central facility can use the validation code to verify, with a relatively high degree of likelihood, whether the message was sent by the particular entity associated with the identification code. The central facility then can inform the intended recipient (or the service provider) whether the message was properly verified. To ensure that the central facility will be able to verify, with a relatively high degree of likelihood, that the message was sent by a valid holder of the identification code, the validation code may be encrypted before being sent to the central facility or it may be transmitted to the central facility, for example, over a virtual private network.

Use of identification codes in the handling and management of communications

A multi-lingual translation system that provides multiple output sentences for a given word or phrase. Each output sentence for a given word or phrase reflects, for example, a different emotional emphasis, dialect, accents, loudness or rates of speech. A given output sentence could be selected automatically, or manually as desired, to create a desired effect. For example, the same output sentence for a given word or phrase can be recorded three times, to selectively reflect excitement, sadness or fear. The multi-lingual translation system includes a phrase-spotting mechanism, a translation mechanism, a speech output mechanism and optionally, a language understanding mechanism or an event measuring mechanism or both. The phrase-spotting mechanism identifies a spoken phrase from a restricted domain of phrases. The language understanding mechanism, if present, maps the identified phrase onto a small set of formal phrases. The translation mechanism maps the formal phrase onto a well-formed phrase in one or more target languages. The speech output mechanism produces high-quality output speech. The speech output may be time synchronized to the spoken phrase using the output of the event measuring mechanism.

Method and apparatus for translating natural-language speech using multiple output phrases

A multi-lingual time-synchronized translation system and method provide automatic time-synchronized spoken translations of spoken phrases. The multi-lingual time-synchronized translation system includes a phrase-spotting mechanism, optionally, a language understanding mechanism, a translation mechanism, a speech output mechanism and an event measuring mechanism. The phrase-spotting mechanism identifies a spoken phrase from a restricted domain of phrases. The language understanding mechanism, if present, maps the identified phrase onto a small set of formal phrases. The translation mechanism maps the formal phrase onto a well-formed phrase in one or more target languages. The speech output mechanism produces high-quality output speech using the output of the event measuring mechanism for time synchronization. The event-measuring mechanism measures the duration of various key events in the source phrase. Event duration could be, for example, the overall duration of the input phrase, the duration of the phrase with interword silences omitted, or some other relevant durational features. The present invention recognizes the quality improvements can be achieved by restricting the task domain under consideration.

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William Stuart Meisel