337 results about "S Voice" patented technology

Techniques for granting access on a network having a network service to a user of a mobile device having a microphone includes determining a first identification uniquely associated with a registered user having a registered voiceprint that matches a voiceprint of the user of the mobile device. A second identification uniquely associated with the mobile device is also determined. It is then determined whether to grant access based on the first identification and the second identification. If it is determined to grant access, access is granted on the network to the user. Various aspects of the invention allow a user to be authenticated separately of the mobile device by the voice of the user, and granted access to a network service based on both the user's identity and the identity of the mobile device. Both the user's voice and the device identity are provided using the current capabilities of wireless telephones. Obtaining the first identification and second identification within a specified time interval makes confidently practical the technique of verifying that a certain user controls a certain mobile device, and then allowing access by that device to protected services.

In a mobile device, a bone conduction or vibration sensor is used to detect the user's speech and the resulting output is used as the source for a low power Voice Trigger (VT) circuit that can activate the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) of the host device. This invention is applicable to mobile devices such as wearable computers with head mounted display, mobile phones and wireless headsets and headphones which use speech recognition for the entering of input commands and control. The speech sensor can be a bone conduction microphone used to detect sound vibrations in the skull, or a vibration sensor, used to detect sound pressure vibrations from the user's speech. This VT circuit can be independent of any audio components of the host device and can therefore be designed to consume ultra-low power. Hence, this VT circuit can be active when the host device is in a sleeping state and can be used to wake the host device on detection of speech from the user. This VT circuit will be resistant to outside noise and react solely to the user's voice.

A method for controlling subscription services delivered to a user by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) coupled to an Automated Intelligent Network (AIN) telephone system with at least one central office switching system. An intelligent peripheral subsystem is connected to the central office switching system, via a call connection channel. The intelligent peripheral subsystem providing at least one auxiliary call processing capability via the call connection channel and provides a telephony speaker authentication method for selectively authorizing updates to user subscription services types provided by the ISP, wherein each of the subscription services types include one or more service options. The method for controlling subscription services including: a) prompting for a voice response; b) authenticating a user's voice response pattern by performing a speaker-dependent cepstrum matching algorithm with previously stored samples of the user's voice response, and if the user's voice response pattern is positively authenticated with previously stored samples, then performing the steps of: c) presenting a menu of user subscription types, each with available AIN service options; and d) responding to a user selection of at least one user subscription types, each with service option, by activating a service option selected by the user, wherein the service option is governed by said ISP by regulating one or more Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses received by a user subscriber device from said ISP over a telecommunication line.

A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for performing eye tracking during authentication. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a request to authenticate a user; presenting one or more screen layouts to the user; capturing a sequence of images which include the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are displayed; and (a) performing eye movement detection across the sequence of images to identify a correlation between motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and an expected motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and / or (b) measuring the eye's pupil size to identify a correlation between the effective light intensity of the screen and its effect on the user's eye pupil size; capturing audio of the user's voice; and performing voice recognition techniques to determine a correlation between the captured audio of the user's voice and one or more voice prints.

A cleaning robot that performs cleaning while travelling a space to be cleaned, the cleaning robot including: a travelling unit that moves the cleaning robot; a cleaning unit that cleans the space to be cleaned; an image capturing unit that captures an image viewed from the cleaning robot; a voice input unit to which a user's voice instructions are input; and a controller obtaining the user's motion instructions through the image capturing unit and determining a restricted area in which entry of the cleaning robot is prohibited and / or a focused cleaning area to be intensely cleaned by the cleaning robot based on the user's motion instructions or the user's voice instructions when the user's voice instructions are input through the voice input unit. The restricted area and the focused cleaning area may be input to the cleaning robot through the user's voice and motion.

A system and method for providing a password to a user using voice recognition technology. The user's voice signature is captured and stored in order to identify the user. When the user forgets or otherwise loses a password needed to log into a computer system, he telephones a password reset system. An identifier corresponding to the user is provided by the user by using the telephone keypad or voice commands. One or more random words are requested by the password reset system. The user responds by repeating the words into the telephone receiver. The received words are matched against the user's stored voice signature to authenticate the user. If the user is authenticated, one or more desired passwords are provided to the user using a number of delivery mechanisms. If the user is not authenticated, the intrusion is logged to further maintain system security.

By asking the recipient of an encrypted received file to read aloud a check text, retrieved from a network server, that address, or URL, is encoded within the file name of the encrypted received file, the system of the invention automatically verifies the identity of the recipient, confirms that the file has been received by the intended recipient, and then decrypts the file. The utterances of text spoken by the recipient are processed by means of an automatic speech recognition component. The system determines whether the spoken text corresponds to the check text presented to the reader, in which case the system applies an automatic speaker recognition algorithm to determine whether the person reciting the check text has voice characteristics matching those of the intended recipient based on a previous enrollment of the intended recipient's voice to the system. When the system confirms the identity of the recipient, the decryption key is transmitted and the encrypted received file is automatically decrypted and displayed to the recipient. In a preferred embodiment, the system records and marks with a time-stamp the recipient's reciting of the voice check text, so that it can later be compared to the intended recipient's voice if the recipient repudiates reception.

The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering, accommodation of PCPV / PCA and / or SCRA signals in audio CODECs, VRA-capable encoders and decoders, and VRA in DVD and other digital audio file formats. The invention facilitates an end-listener's voice-to-remaining audio (VRA) adjustment upon the playback of digital audio media formats by focusing on new configurations of multiple parts of the entire digital audio system, thereby enabling a new technique intended to benefit audio end-users (end-listeners) who wish to control the ratio of the primary vocal / dialog content of an audio program relative to the remaining portion of the audio content in that program. The invention facilitates storage of VRA audio programs on optical storage media, authoring systems for VRA-capable DVDs, playback hardware integrated into VRA-capable optical disc apparatus, and VRA playback hardware for use with non-VRA capable optical disc playback apparatus.

A system for separation of a user's voice from ambient sound, comprising a device to be worn at the user's ear or at least partly in the user's ear canal comprising a first microphone oriented outwardly towards the environment and a second microphone oriented inwardly towards the user's ear canal, and an audio signal processing unit for processing audio signals from the first and second microphone by a blind source separation algorithm adapted to separate the user's voice from ambient sound.

The assembly includes a strap adaptable to a variety of positions. Such a strap is placed directly about the user's head. A light-emitting source spaced from the strap includes a power supply source electrically coupled to the light-emitting assembly. Such a power supply source is rechargeable. A voice-activated mechanism for biasing the light-emitting source is defined from the strap so that the light-emitting assembly can be adapted along an x-axis, y-axis and z-axis. A motor assembly is directly and operably conjoined to the voice-activated mechanism and the light-emitting assembly. The voice-activated mechanism cooperates with the light-emitting source and the motor assembly during operating conditions. Such a voice operating mechanism is power-operated. The voice-activated mechanism is conveniently responsive to a user's voice commands in such a manner that the user can selectively operate the motor assembly and the light-emitting source from a remote location.

A human operator's voice is artificially varied prior to transmission to a remote caller. In one example, the operator indicates target speech content (e.g., actual speech, pre-prepared text, manually entered text) to a speech processing facility, which enunciates the target speech content with an output voice that exhibits prescribed speech characteristics (e.g., accent, dialect, speed, vocabulary, word choice, male / female, timbre, speaker age, fictional character, speech particular to people of a particular geographic region or socioeconomic status or other grouping). Another example is an automated call processing system, where an output voice is selected for each incoming call and information is interactively presented to callers using the output voice selected for their respective calls. In another example, a speech processing facility intercepts the operator's speech, manipulates the waveform representing the operator's intercepted speech to add or remove prescribed characteristics, and transmits an enunciated output of the manipulated waveform to the caller.

A system and method for using a short message service (SMS) of a wireless communication network operates to convert a subscriber's voice to a text message. The system employs offline conversion and verification of the converted text message prior to transmitting the text message over the wireless communication network. The system is implemented within the subscriber unit handset such that no additional infrastructure modifications of the wireless communication network are required.

A headphone apparatus is presented so that a sound image of game sound outputted from an on-line game machine having a communication function is localized at one or more positions out of the head of the listener wearing a headphone while a sound image of an opponent player's voice outputted from the game machine is localized at a position in the head of the listener.

A communication system (e.g., a speakerphone) includes an array of microphones, a speaker, memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to perform acoustic echo cancellation, to track multiple talkers with highly directed beams, to design beams with nulls pointed at noise sources, to generate a 3D model of the physical environment, to compensate for the proximity effect, and to perform dereverberation of a talker's voice signal. The processor may also be configured to use a standard codec in non-standard ways. The processor may perform a virtual broadside scan on the microphone array, analyze the resulting amplitude envelope for acoustic source angles, examine each of the source angles with a directed beam, combine the beam outputs that show the characteristics of intelligence or speech.

A method, medium, and system for masking voice information of a communication device. The method of masking a user's voice through an output of a masking signal similar to a formant of voice data may include dividing the voice data received into frames of a predetermined size, transforming the frames on a frequency axis thereof, regarded as a domain, obtaining formant information of intensive signal regions in the transformed frames, generating a sound signal disturbing the formant information with reference to the formant information, and outputting the sound signal in accordance with a time point when the voice signal is output.

A user communicates with a companion with his or her portable telephone attached to a telephone attachment pocket of a robot. The robot acts in accordance with a voice signal which is outputted from the portable telephone, thereby behaving as if it were speaking to the user. The robot outputs a voice in response to the user's voice which is picked up by a microphone, thereby behaving as if it were listening to the user. Owing to this robot or a robot system using the same, the user feels less odd in his or her communication using the portable telephone.

A voice recognition system comprises an analyzer for converting an input voice signal to an input pattern including cepstrum, a reference pattern for storing reference patterns, an elongation / contraction estimating unit for outputting an elongation / contraction parameter in frequency axis direction by using the input pattern and the reference patterns, and a recognizing unit for calculating the distances between the converted input pattern from the converter and the reference patterns and outputting the reference pattern corresponding to the shortest distance as result of recognition. The elongation / contraction unit estimates an elongation / contraction parameter by using cepstrum included in the input pattern. The elongation / contraction unit does not have various values in advance for determining the elongation / contraction parameter, nor is it necessary for the elongation / contraction unit have to execute distance calculation for various values.

This invention relates to the untethered multiple user interaction of large information displays using laser pointers coordinated with voice commands. A projection system projects application windows onto a large information display. One or more users may command their respective window applications using laser pointers and / or voice commands. A registration program assigns a unique identification to each user that associates a particular users's voice and a particular laser pointer pattern chosen by that user, with that particular user. Cameras scan the information display and process the composite of the application windows and any laser pointer images thereon. A sequence of computer decisions checks each laser pointer command so as to correctly associate respective users with their commands and application windows. Users may speak voice commands. The system will then perform speech recognition of the user's voice command. If the command is recognized, the system performs the speech-recognized command as a window operation.

A human operator's voice is artificially varied prior to transmission to a remote caller. In one example, the operator indicates target speech content (e.g., actual speech, pre-prepared text, manually entered text) to a speech processing facility, which enunciates the target speech content with an output voice that exhibits prescribed speech characteristics (e.g., accent, dialect, speed, vocabulary, word choice, male / female, timbre, speaker age, fictional character, speech particular to people of a particular geographic region or socioeconomic status or other grouping). Another example is an automated call processing system, where an output voice is selected for each incoming call and information is interactively presented to callers using the output voice selected for their respective calls. In another example, a speech processing facility intercepts the operator's speech, manipulates the waveform representing the operator's intercepted speech to add or remove prescribed characteristics, and transmits an enunciated output of the manipulated waveform to the caller.

A method for marketing and promotion by marketing & purveying a general Text-To-Speech (TTS) voice system, which uses the voice of a famous person, as ancillary merchandise. First, procure a general-TTS voice system that uses the voice of a famous person known for something. In one embodiment, this system is a product that itself is marketed to customers; in another embodiment, the TTS voice system is incorporated into an other product to form a composite product, then the composite product is marketed to customers. Second, market & purvey the TTS to fans and customers as ancillary merchandise featuring the famous personality. This thus enables a wide range of venues, such as concerts, movie launches, charity auctions, sports events, etc. In one aspect, the act of marketing & purveying the ancillary TTS system thus creates or augments an overall marketing / sales promotion campaign. In another aspect, since a general TTS system is useful, it will likely be received favorably and used indefinitely. So the customer will continue to hear the famous personality's voice during everyday usage, and thus receive potentially hundreds of personal, favorable, high-quality marketing impressions over years of enjoyment. Costly marketing is thus reversed into a profit center when a TTS is marketed as ancillary merchandise using this method.

The invention discloses a booking method and a system for electrical household appliance linkage, wherein the method comprises the following steps: 1) creating a virtual household environment; 2) creating new scenarios in the virtual household environment; and 3) identifying a user's voice control instructions and converting the voice control instructions into the corresponding scenario configuration instructions wherein the configuration instructions contain the booking information. The system comprises the following elements in wireless network connections: an intelligent terminal and at least two electrical household appliances. The intelligent terminal comprises an environment creating module, a new scenario creating module, and a voice recognizing module. According to the invention, an electrical household appliance linkage booking configuration scheme based on voice recognition is provided, and the voice of a user could be recognized and processed through the intelligent terminal by being converted into the booking instructions configured for the household electrical appliance linkage so that linkage configuration can be possible among the related household electrical appliances. Therefore, the purposes of convenient and intelligent household electrical appliance linkage configuration could be realized and the user's intelligent experience is increased.

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by selectably mixing one or more sound files with a telephone caller's voice message, either as background for that message or embedded within the message. Or, the mixing may occur within a telephone conversation between parties. The disclosed techniques enable alleviating some of the problems that result from distance communication (as contrasted to face-to-face communication). In particular, context information (such as emotional context) can be provided through appropriate use of background sound and / or embedded audio files. The disclosed techniques may also make communication through voice mail exchange more enjoyable and / or increase its productivity.

An apparatus and method for transmitting audio signals in a mobile terminal receiving digital multimedia broadcast signals. The apparatus includes a broadcast reception process part for receiving a digital multimedia broadcast signal having at least an audio signal, separating the audio signal from the received digital multimedia broadcast signal, and outputting the separated audio signal; a Digital-to-Analog Converter for converting the separated audio signal into an analog audio signal; a controller for determining whether a predetermined request for transmitting the audio signal contained in the digital multimedia broadcast signal is entered during a voice call time; a synthesizer for receiving a control signal from the controller, and synthesizing the analog audio signal received from the DAC and a user's voice signal to create a synthesized signal; and a communication part for wirelessly transmitting the synthesized signal.

There is provided a voice Interactive system for inputting user's voice information, conducting voice recognition with respect to the voice information, analyzing the contents of the voice information, controlling a transmission path of the voice information in accordance with the contents of the voice information, outputting a synthesized voice, extracting the contents of a response corresponding to the voice information by referring to a knowledge database, and creating the synthesized voice in accordance with the contents of a response, wherein in the case where it is monitored at all times whether or not use's interaction is being smoothly conducted, and when it is determined that the user's interaction is not being smoothly conducted, a third-party user is allowed to participate,as a helper, in the users interaction.

A method for providing a telematics service by using voice recognition is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) a telematics server, if a text command signal converted from a voice command signal for a control of a vehicle from a voice input device and a user's voice sample are acquired from a voice recognition service-providing device, analyzing the user's voice sample; and (b) the telematics server, if the user's voice sample satisfies at least one preset condition, allowing the vehicle to be controlled according to the voice command signal by supporting a telematics device placed in the vehicle to run a telematics API corresponding to the text command signal.

A communication system is provided having at least one earpiece (14, 114, 214) including a loudspeaker (26) for stimulating a user's hearing according to audio signals supplied to the earpiece; a voice microphone arrangement (28, 58, 60, 62, 258, 260) for picking up the user's voice; a configurable audio interface (22, 32, 34, 36, 38) for exchanging audio signals with an external wireless communication device (24) selected from a plurality of different types of external wireless communication devices; and a configuration interface (40) for adapting the configuration of the audio interface to the selected type of the external wireless communication device by an external configuration device (18).

Disclosed are a method and a system for voice recognition based on environmental parameter and group trend data. The method includes the steps of firstly, acquiring user's voice information and environmental parameter and identification information relative to the voice information and identifying the user according to the identification information; secondly, extracting personal voice and behavior habit characteristic data which are stored in a personal voice and behavior habit characteristic libratory while extracting group voice and habit characteristic data, of a similar group, stored in a group voice and habit characteristic libratory, and judging which functional semantic analysis modules are adaptable to the voice information and sending the relative information to the semantic analysis modules to do individual or combined semantic analysis to obtain a semantic analysis result; and thirdly, storing the semantic analysis result and sending the semantic analysis result and the relative information to the personal voice and behavior habit characteristic libratory and the group voice and habit characteristic libratory to classify and file. By the method and the system, accuracy of voice recognition is improved greatly.

A display apparatus includes a display, a voice collector configured to collect a user's voice, a communication interface configured to provide the collected voice and the filtering information of the display apparatus to the interactive server, and a controller configured to receive response information corresponding to the voice and to the filtering information from the interactive server, and to control the display to display the response information.