Abstract: An apparatus for generating the interrupt information includes an addressing device for generating the specified address information for specifying the desired information stored in a memory device, a readout address generating device for generating the readout address information of the desired information stored in the memory device, and a comparator device for comparing the specified address information from the addressing device and the readout address information from the readout address generating device and for generating the interrupt information in case of coincidence of the specified address information and the readout address information and supplying the interrupt information to a central processing unit.

Abstract: Power normalization parts calculate the average powers of input signals of a plurality of channels for each frame and divide the signals by the calculated average powers to generate normalized signals and, at the same time, generate weights corresponding to the normalization gains. The normalized signals of the plurality of channels are combined in a combining part into predetermined sequences and outputted therefrom as one or more interleaved signal vectors. The combining part combines the weights from the power normalization part into the same sequences of the normalized signal and outputs one or more interleaved weight vectors. In a vector quantization part the signal vectors are vector quantized by the interleaved weight vectors corresponding thereto, respectively, and quantization indexes and normalization indexes are outputted as results of coding.

Abstract: In methods and apparatus for at least partially automating a telephone directory assistance function, directory assistance callers are prompted to speak locality or called entity names associated with desired directory listings. A speech recognition algorithm is applied to speech signals received in response to prompting to determine spoken locality or called entity names. Desired telephone numbers are released to callers, and released telephone numbers are used to confirm or correct at least some of the recognized locality or called entity names. Speech signal representations labelled with the confirmed or corrected names are used as labelled speech tokens to refine prior training of the speech recognition algorithm. The training refinement automatically adjusts for deficiencies in prior training of the speech recognition algorithm and to long term changes in the speech patterns of directory assistance callers served by a particular directory assistance installation.