115 results about "Speech interface" patented technology

An interface which allows a surgeon to operate multiple surgical devices from a single input device. The input device may be a foot pedal that provides output signals to actuate a number of different surgical devices. The surgical devices may include a robotic arm, a laser, an electrocautery device, or an operating table. The interface has an input channel that is coupled to the input device and a plurality of output channels that are coupled to the surgical devices. The interface also has a select input channel which can receive input commands to switch the input channel to one of the output channels. The select channel may be coupled to a speech interface that allows the surgeon to select one of the surgical devices with a voice command. The surgeon can operate any device by providing an input command which switches the input channel to the desired output channel.

A system for creating and hosting speech-enabled applications having a speech interface that can be customised by a user is disclosed. The system comprises a customisation module that manages the components, e.g. templates, needed to enable the user to create a speech-enabled application. The customisation module allows a non-expert user rapidly to design and deploy complex speech interfaces. Additionally, the system can automatically manage the deployment of the speech-enabled applications once they have been created by the user, without the need for any further intervention by the user or use of the user's own computer processing resources.

A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.

A speech processing system which exploits statistical modeling and formal logic to receive and process speech input, which may represent data to be received, such as dictation, or commands to be processed by an operating system, application or process. A command dictionary and dynamic grammars are used in processing speech input to identify, disambiguate and extract commands. The logical processing scheme ensures that putative commands are complete and unambiguous before processing. Context sensitivity may be employed to differentiate data and commands. A multi faceted graphic user interface may be provided for interaction with a user to speech enable interaction with applications and processes that do not necessarily have native support for speech input.

A dynamic voice user interface system is provided. The dynamic voice user interface system interacts with a user at a first level of formality. The voice user interface system then monitors history of user interaction and adjusts the voice user interface to interact with the user with a second level of formality based on the history of user interaction.

The wireless data communication system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile computing device, a WLAN infrastructure, a server, and a database. The mobile computing device includes voice interface functionality that enables the device to receive voice signals and generate voice commands for wireless transmission to the WLAN infrastructure. The server includes a voice command interpreter that processes received voice commands to identify the data requested by the user of the wireless mobile computing device. Once the requested data is identified, the server obtains the requested data from the database and generates a reply for the wireless mobile computing device. The reply is formatted such that it initiates a response at the wireless mobile computing device, where the response conveys at least a portion of the requested data.

The wireless data communication system described herein generally includes a wireless mobile computing device, a WLAN infrastructure, a server, and a database. The mobile computing device includes voice interface functionality that enables the device to receive voice signals and generate voice commands for wireless transmission to the WLAN infrastructure. The server includes a voice command interpreter that processes received voice commands to identify the data requested by the user of the wireless mobile computing device. Once the requested data is identified, the server obtains the requested data from the database and generates a reply for the wireless mobile computing device. The reply is formatted such that it initiates a response at the wireless mobile computing device, where the response conveys at least a portion of the requested data.

The invention relates to a non-native speech recognition system based on mixed model state correction and a method thereof. The non-native speech recognition system comprises a non-native speech interface, a native model module, a non-native model module, a native state decoding module, a non-native state forced alignment module, a native-non-native state similarity matrix computation module, a native-non-native state mapping table computation module and a non-native state correction model decoding module. In the system and the method thereof, a non-native acoustic model is corrected at statelevels based on a native acoustic model of a speaker and state mapping among different models, thus obtaining a model that better meets non-native pronunciation characteristics. The system and the method thereof have the advantages of obvious improvement of recognition performance compared with that of a recognition system which is not corrected by the method on the premise of only the native training data without increase of any non-native speech training data, no obvious speed fall of the recognition speech of the system and very high practicability.

A system receives a voice search query from a user, derives recognition hypotheses from the voice search query, and determines scores associated with the recognition hypotheses, the scores being based on a comparison of the recognition hypotheses to previously received search queries. The system discards at least one of the recognition hypotheses that is associated with a first score that is less than a threshold value, and constructs a first query using at least one non-discarded recognition hypothesis, where the at least one first non-discarded recognition hypothesis is associated with a second score that at least meets the threshold value. The system forwards the first query to a search system, receives first results associated with the first query, and provides the first results to the user.