Patents by Inventor Eric William Janke
Eric William Janke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8463608Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating a speech model on a multi-user speech recognition system with a personal speech model for a single user. A speech recognition system, for instance in a car, can include a generic speech model for comparison with the user speech input. A way of identifying a personal speech model, for instance in a mobile phone, is connected to the system. A mechanism is included for receiving personal speech model components, for instance a BLUETOOTH connection. The generic speech model is updated using the received personal speech model components. Speech recognition can then be performed on user speech using the updated generic speech model.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Barry Neil Dow, Eric William Janke, Daniel Lee Yuk Cheung, Benjamin Terrick Staniford
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Patent number: 8369492Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product and service for directory dialer name recognition. The directory dialer has a directory of names and a first name grammar and a second name grammar representing phonetic baseforms of first names and second names respectively. The method includes: receiving voice data for a spoken name after requesting a user to speak the required name; extracting a set of phonetic baseforms for the voice data; and finding the best matches between the extracted set of phonetic baseforms voice data and any combination of the first name grammar and the second name grammar. The method can further include: checking the best match against the directory of names; if the best match does not exist in the directory, informing the user and prompting the next best match as an alternative; and if the best match does exist in the directory, forwarding the call to that best match.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Eric William Janke, Keith Sloan
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Patent number: 8275621Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native (foreign) words which are automatically derived from non-native phonetic transcriptions of the non-native words.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Neal J. Alewine, Eric William Janke, Paul Sharp, Robert Sicconi
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Publication number: 20120173237Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating a speech model on a multi-user speech recognition system with a personal speech model for a single user. A speech recognition system, for instance in a car, can include a generic speech model for comparison with the user speech input. A way of identifying a personal speech model, for instance in a mobile phone, is connected to the system. A mechanism is included for receiving personal speech model components, for instance a BLUETOOTH connection. The generic speech model is updated using the received personal speech model components. Speech recognition can then be performed on user speech using the updated generic speech model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Barry Neil Dow, Eric William Janke, Daniel Lee Yuk Cheung, Benjamin Terrick Staniford
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Patent number: 8160876Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating a speech model on a multi-user speech recognition system with a personal speech model for a single user. A speech recognition system, for instance in a car, can include a generic speech model for comparison with the user speech input. A way of identifying a personal speech model, for instance in a mobile phone, is connected to the system. A mechanism is included for receiving personal speech model components, for instance a BLUETOOTH connection. The generic speech model is updated using the received personal speech model components. Speech recognition can then be performed on user speech using the updated generic speech model.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Barry Neil Dow, Eric William Janke, Daniel Lee Yuk Cheung, Benjamin Terrick Staniford
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Patent number: 8027836Abstract: A speech processing system includes a multiplexer that receives speech data input as part of a conversation turn in a conversation session between two or more users where one user is a speaker and each of the other users is a listener in each conversation turn. A speech recognizing engine converts the speech data to an input string of acoustic data while a speech modifier forms an output string based on the input string by changing an item of acoustic data according to a rule. The system also includes a phoneme speech engine for converting the first output string of acoustic data including modified and unmodified data to speech data for output via the multiplexer to listeners during the conversation turn.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: David Robert Baker, Mark Richard Barnard, Richard John Gadd, Eric William Janke
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Publication number: 20080267364Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product and service for directory dialer name recognition. The directory dialer has a directory of names and a first name grammar and a second name grammar representing phonetic baseforms of first names and second names respectively. The method includes: receiving voice data for a spoken name after requesting a user to speak the required name; extracting a set of phonetic baseforms for the voice data; and finding the best matches between the extracted set of phonetic baseforms voice data and any combination of the first name grammar and the second name grammar. The method can further include: checking the best match against the directory of names; if the best match does not exist in the directory, informing the user and prompting the next best match as an alternative; and if the best match does exist in the directory, forwarding the call to that best match.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eric William Janke, Keith Sloan
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Patent number: 7412386Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product and service for directory dialer name recognition. The directory dialer has a directory of names and a first name grammar and a second name grammar representing phonetic baseforms of first names and second names respectively. The method includes: receiving voice data for a spoken name after requesting a user to speak the required name; extracting a set of phonetic baseforms for the voice data; and finding the best matches between the extracted set of phonetic baseforms voice data and any combination of the first name grammar and the second name grammar. The method can further include: checking the best match against the directory of names; if the best match does not exist in the directory, informing the user and prompting the next best match as an alternative; and if the best match does exist in the directory, forwarding the call to that best match.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric William Janke, Keith Sloan
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Publication number: 20080133241Abstract: A speech processing system includes a multiplexer that receives speech data input as part of a conversation turn in a conversation session between two or more users where one user is a speaker and each of the other users is a listener in each conversation turn. A speech recognizing engine converts the speech data to an input string of acoustic data while a speech modifier forms an output string based on the input string by changing an item of acoustic data according to a rule. The system also includes a phoneme speech engine for converting the first output string of acoustic data including modified and unmodified data to speech data for output via the multiplexer to listeners during the conversation turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: David Robert Baker, Mark Richard Barnard, Richard John Gadd, Eric William Janke