Patents by Inventor Jeff B. Lindborg

Jeff B. Lindborg 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).

  • Speech recognition tuning tool
    Patent number: 9183834
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning a dictionary of a speech recognition system includes accessing a voice mail record of a user, accessing a recorded audio file of a name of the user in the voice mail record spoken by the user, providing the audio file to a speech recognition system, processing the audio file in the speech recognition system and obtaining a text result, determining whether a confidence score of the text result is below a predetermined threshold, and adding, at least, the name of the user to a list of low confidence names. Alternate spellings for the low confidence names can then be added to the dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan D. Gatzke, Michael T. Maas, Ryan L. Bloom, Jeff B. Lindborg
  • SPEECH RECOGNITION TUNING TOOL
    Publication number: 20110022386
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning a dictionary of a speech recognition system includes accessing a voice mail record of a user, accessing a recorded audio file of a name of the user in the voice mail record spoken by the user, providing the audio file to a speech recognition system, processing the audio file in the speech recognition system and obtaining a text result, determining whether a confidence score of the text result is below a predetermined threshold, and adding, at least, the name of the user to a list of low confidence names. Alternate spellings for the low confidence names can then be added to the dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Alan D. Gatzke, Michael T. Maas, Ryan L. Bloom, Jeff B. Lindborg