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7613615 Circuits, systems, and methods for real-time de-shuffling of shuffled audio data  
A data de-shuffler includes a buffer having a set of addressable locations for storing data and control circuitry for de-shuffling a sequence of shuffled data samples. The control circuitry stores...
7613613 Method and system for converting text to lip-synchronized speech in real time  
A method and system for presenting lip-synchronized speech corresponding to the text received in real time is provided. A lip synchronization system provides an image of a character that is to be...
7603280 Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program  
A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output...
7574361 Radio audio indicator  
A user interface for a communication device includes a light emitting diode (LED) ( 200 ) providing both a transmit-carrier indicator and transmit-audio feedback to the user. By varying the...
RE40841 Sound recording and reproduction system for model train using integrated digital command control  
A system is provided for recording, storing and reproducing sound for playing back in an environment requiring simulated sounds, voices, and/or sound effects. Sounds are recorded on a chip and...
7542956 Autonomic computing method and apparatus  
The disparate data and commands from are received from a managed resource ( 102 ) and have potentially different semantics. The disparate data and commands are processed according to rules received...
7523037 Data synthesis apparatus and program  
A data synthesis apparatus detects the start of a period of voice waveform data, stores the voice waveform data in a first storage device, starting with its part indicative of the start of the...
7519537 Method and apparatus for a verbo-manual gesture interface  
An interface system including a manipulandum adapted to be moveable according to a manual gesture imparted by the user; a sensor adapted to detect a characteristic of the manual gesture imparted to...
7512537 NLP tool to dynamically create movies/animated scenes  
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates integrating natural language input and graphics in a cooperative manner. In particular, as natural language input is...
7472062 Efficient recursive clustering based on a splitting function derived from successive eigen-decompositions  
Methods and arrangements for facilitating data clustering. From a set of input data, a predetermined number of non-overlapping subsets are created. The input data is split recursively to create the...
7464034 Voice converter for assimilation by frame synthesis with temporal alignment  
A voice converting apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice into an output voice according to a target voice. The apparatus includes a storage section, an analyzing section including...
7451090 Information processing device and information processing method  
In a system implementing image retrieval by performing speech recognition on voice information added to an image, the speech recognition is triggered by an event, such as an image upload event,...
7426467 System and method for supporting interactive user interface operations and storage medium  
There is provided a system for supporting interactive operations for inputting user commands to a household electric apparatus such as a television set/monitor and information apparatuses....
7415407 Information transmitting system, information encoder and information decoder  
The invention relates to an information transmission system capable of transmitting target information via voice, as well as to an information encoding apparatus and an information decoding...
7392192 Method of and apparatus for improving research and/or communication interaction with animals such as dolphins and the like, and providing more facile communication with humans lacking speaking capability  
A novel method and microprocessor-controlled apparatus are provided for improving research and/or communication interaction between human and animals, such as dolphins and the like, or between...
7379871 Speech synthesizing apparatus, speech synthesizing method, and recording medium using a plurality of substitute dictionaries corresponding to pre-programmed personality information  
Various sensors detect conditions outside a robot and an operation applied to the robot, and output the results of detection to a robot-motion-system control section. The robot-motion-system...
7376564 Stored-value card with audio capabilities  
A stored-value card includes an audio circuit, a speaker, a housing, decorative indicia, and a button. The audio circuit stores an audio file, and the speaker is coupled to the audio circuit. The...
7340393 Emotion recognizing method, sensibility creating method, device, and software  
An object of the invention is to provide an emotion detecting method capable of detecting emotion of a human accurately, and provide sensibility generating method capable of outputting sensibility...
7324943 Voice tagging, voice annotation, and speech recognition for portable devices with optional post processing  
A media capture device has an audio input receptive of user speech relating to a media capture activity in close temporal relation to the media capture activity. A plurality of focused speech...
7313227 Animated/digitally depicted interactive voice session services over an IP network  
A telecommunications service application. The application includes associating, each of a plurality of subscribers with at least one respective avatar, where the at least one avatar includes at...
7310604 Statistical sound event modeling system and methods  
Complex sound events are created by generating multiple different kinds of simpler sounds with randomly varying repetition rates. The average repetition rate can also be variable. The values of...
7310603 Voice control apparatus of vacuum cleaner and method thereof  
A voice control apparatus of a vacuum cleaner includes: a sense signal detector for detecting a sense signal provided from a user to provide a voice recognizable environment in an ambience; a voice...
7277765 Interactive sound reproducing  
An audio system attachable to a computer includes a sound reproduction device for producing audible sound from audio signals. The sound reproduction device includes a radio tuner and a powered...
7251606 Robot device with changing dialogue and control method therefor and storage medium  
Sentences corresponding to internal statuses of a robot device or the like are created and uttered, thereby expressing the internal statuses. The robot device or the like comprise means for...
7246064 Single control message device  
A message device records and plays messages. In a first aspect, actuation is effected by way of a single control. The control generally corresponds to the whole cover. Relatedly, in a second aspect...
7212873 Audio/video transcription system  
A computer based digital transcription system employs audio and video inputs of a court proceeding, and stores the digital signals in a memory in the form of distinct file segments of a...
7203642 Robot control apparatus and method with echo back prosody  
The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphone 15 is subjected to speech recognition by a...
7171364 Voice assistant apparatus inputting a key  
In a key-input voice assistant apparatus of the present invention, a mode switching key is used to switch the operation mode between a normal mode in which a function assigned to a key is executed...
7162426 Computer motherboard architecture with integrated DSP for continuous and command and control speech processing  
The invention is essentially a motherboard design for personal computers which uses DSP hardware in conjunction with a general or specific purpose CPU to process command and continuous speech. The...
7149692 Method, apparatus and system for a single chip audio solution controller and DSP  
An audio device comprising a single chip memory controller and digital signal processor is provided for playing audio files from or recording voice to a computer or electronic device which is in a...
7139716 Electronic automation system  
A home automation system, for controlling a plurality of uniquely identifiable appliances within a dwelling having several rooms, each room designated as a zone, using a zone controller located...
7103552 Multi-message audio recorder and memento  
A combination memento and voice recorder. A box includes a mount removably holding a memento. A voice recorder is mounted within a box to record a message thereon. An internal cover mounted in the...
7094995 Oven system with automated customer messages  
In an in-store oven system audible customer messages are automatically generated based upon a food product cooked in an oven within the store.
7080013 Categorization and recall methodology for physical media in large carousel systems  
A method and system allowing a user to associate media elements (such as CDs or DVDs) with unique identification tags and channel groupings. A user can cause a given element to be played by voice...
7076429 Method and apparatus for presenting images representative of an utterance with corresponding decoded speech  
Apparatus for presenting images representative of one or more words in an utterance with corresponding decoded speech includes, in one aspect, a visual detector for capturing images of body...
7065417 MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a reproducing method thereof  
Disclosed is an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing sound data compressed using the MPEG method. The inventive system includes power supply means for supplying...
7039589 Interactive multimedia book  
An interactive multimedia book provides hands-on multimedia instruction to the user in response to voiced commands. The book is implemented on a computer system and includes both text and...
7024367 Biometric measuring system with detachable announcement device  
A measuring system according to the present invention includes a biosensor 2 , and a measuring device 1 capable of assaying a specified component in a biological sample applied to the sensor 2...
7012593 Glove-type data input device and sensing method thereof  
A glove-type data input device and a sensing method thereof. In the data input device shaped into a glove, a sensor unit senses the change of a glove shape or a position change, and the resulting...
RE38965 Apparatus, system and method for recording and/or retrieving audio information  
An apparatus, system and method is provided for recording and retrieving voice information into a label attachable to a product. The voice information provides a more readily identifiable indicator...
6980956 Machine apparatus and its driving method, and recorded medium  
Drive means for performing a behavior based on a behavioral model prescribing a behavior is controlled, and the behavioral model is changed depending on a predetermined stimulus. Therefore, by...
6973430 Method for outputting voice of object and device used therefor  
The present invention detects a voice tone of a player based on input voice information, and then outputs voice data having a voice tone corresponded to the detected voice tone as voice data of an...
6963839 System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application  
A method for customizing a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message comprises a text message from the sender to be delivered by an...
6947893 Acoustic signal transmission with insertion signal for machine control  
The acoustic signal transmission includes electrically synthesizing an audible sound signal and an insertion signal to generate a synthesized sound electrical signal at the sending side,...
6915261 Matching a synthetic disc jockey's voice characteristics to the sound characteristics of audio programs  
A system and method for matching voice characteristics of a synthetic disc jockey are presented. A first segment of audio signal and a second segment of audio signal are received by a sound...
6912500 Facilitation of speech recognition in user interface  
Items are represented to a user through a user interface with each item having a respective perceivable range value and associated label by which the item can be addressed. To address a particular...
6879865 Structure and method for selecting, controlling and sending internet-based or local digital audio to an AM/FM radio or analog amplifier  
A system and method that allows a host PC to provide an analog audio signal for a radio or amplifier without interfering with the operation of the host PC. This invention also allows the audio...
6871185 Method and apparatus for determining whether a verbal message was spoken during a transaction at a point-of-sale terminal  
A point-of-sale terminal initiates a transaction and provides a prompt to be spoken to an operator (e.g. a cashier) of the POS terminal. The prompt indicates a verbal message that is to be spoken...
6871107 Digital audio transcription system  
A digital audio transcription system includes at least one source of audio signals to be recorded and a computer for storing digital signals corresponding to the audio signals for allowing the...
6832197 Machine interface  
A machine interface for interfacing a user to a machine receives input words from a user. Scores for at least some of the input words are determined using scores for words appearing in each...
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