Systems and methods for dynamically improving user intelligibility of synthesized speech in a work environment

J Hendrickson, DD Stiffey, D Littleton… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus that dynamically adjust operational parameters of
a text-to-speech engine in a speech-based system are disclosed. A voice engine or other …

Systems and methods for dynamically improving user intelligibility of synthesized speech in a work environment

J Hendrickson, DD Scott, D Littleton, J Pecorari… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
Method and apparatus that dynamically adjusts operational parameters of a text-to-speech
engine in a speech-based system. A voice engine or other application of a device provides a …

Methods and systems for identifying errors in a speech recognition system

KP Braho, JP Pike, LA Pike - US Patent 9,928,829, 2018 - Google Patents
Methods are disclosed for identifying possible errors made by a speech recognition system
without using a transcript of words input to the system. A method for model adaptation for a …

Method and system for mitigating delay in receiving audio stream during production of sound from audio stream

K Braho, RA Barr, GJ Karabin - US Patent 9,978,395, 2018 - Google Patents
A communication component modifies production of an audio waveform at determined
modification segments to thereby mitigate the effects of a delay in processing and/or …

Method and system for considering information about an expected response when performing speech recognition

K Braho, J Pike - US Patent 10,068,566, 2018 - Google Patents
A speech recognition system receives and analyzes speech input from a user in order to
recognize and accept a response from the user. Under certain conditions, information about …

Method and system for considering information about an expected response when performing speech recognition

K Braho, A El-Jaroudi, J Pike - US Patent 8,756,059, 2014 - Google Patents
A speech recognition system receives and analyzes speech input from a user in order to
recognize and accept a response from the user. Under certain conditions, information about …

Methods and systems for identifying errors in a speech recognition system

KP Braho, JP Pike, LA Pike - US Patent 8,868,421, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for model adaptation for a speech recognition system includes
determining an error rate, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or …

Language model speech endpointing

B Hoffmeister, A Rastrow, B Liu - US Patent 10,121,471, 2018 - Google Patents
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system detects an endpoint of an utterance using
the active hypotheses under consideration by a decoder. The ASR system calculates the …

Methods and systems for considering information about an expected response when performing speech recognition

K Braho, A El-Jaroudi - US Patent 8,200,495, 2012 - Google Patents
A speech recognition system receives and analyzes speech input from a user in order to
recognize and accept a response from the user. Under certain conditions, information about …

Methods and systems for optimizing model adaptation for a speech recognition system

K Braho, J Pike - US Patent 7,895,039, 2011 - Google Patents
A method for efficient use of resources of a speech recognition system includes determining
a recognition rate, corresponding to either recognition of instances of a word or recognition …