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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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