Intelligent text-to-speech conversion

CB Fleizach, RD Hudson - US Patent 8,996,376, 2015 - Google Patents
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Multi-language speech recognition system

TA Bordeaux - US Patent 5,758,023, 1998 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The prior art includes many systems and methods for transcribing speech.
One of the major differences between them is the level of difficulty of the speech recognition …

Partial speech processing device and method for use in distributed systems

IM Bennett - US Patent 7,729,904, 2010 - Google Patents
A client device incorporates partial speech recognition for recognizing a spoken query by a
user. The full recognition process is distributed over a client/server architecture, so that the …

Method of weighting speech recognition grammar responses using knowledge base usage data

D Allison, A Solpietro - US Patent App. 11/162,420, 2006 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0004. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, busi nesses are
continually searching for methods of reducing expenses while maintaining, or possibly …

Speech recognition system with network accessible speech processing resources

WR Hutchison - US Patent 6,785,647, 2004 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of Speech recognition including receiving speech Signals into a
front-end processor and Storing at least Some Meador et al........... 379/88.01 resources used …

Response generator for mimicking human-computer natural language conversation

RJ Rosser, SB Sturges - US Patent 7,783,486, 2010 - Google Patents
The present invention is an autonomous response engine and method that can more
successfully mimic a human conversa tional exchange. In an exemplary, preferred …

Telephone-based speech recognition for data collection

SJ Boyce, LS Brotman, DW Brown… - US Patent …, 2000 - Google Patents
A production Script for interactions between participants and an automated data collection
System is created by Selectively tuning an experimental Script through Successive trials …