Abstract: The transmission couples a cam shaft to an output shaft through a plurality of sets of specialized linkages.

Abstract: Speech recognition calculations are decreased by deactivating (or activating) a word in a grammar graph at the "kernel" level. A word is a sequence of acoustic kernels, each kernel a phoneme spectral vector with min-max duration data on a template.

Abstract: A speech recognition method and apparatus employ a speech processing circuitry for repetitively deriving from a speech input, at a frame repetition rate, a plurality of acoustic parameters. The acoustic parameters represent the speech input signal for a frame time. A plurality of template matching and cost processing circuitries are connected to a system bus, along with the speech processing circuitry, for determining, or identifying, the speech units in the input speech, by comparing the acoustic parameters with stored template patterns. The apparatus can be expanded by adding more template matching and cost processing circuitry to the bus thereby increasing the speech recognition capacity of the apparatus. Template pattern generation is advantageously aided by using a "joker" word to specify the time boundaries of utterances spoken in isolation, by finding the beginning and ending of an utterance surrounded by silence.

Abstract: In a speech recognition system, the beginning of speech versus non-speech (a cough or noise) is distinguished by reverting to a non-speech decision process whenever the liklihood cost of template (vocabulary) patterns, including silence, is worse than a predetermined threshold, established by a Joker Word which represents a non-vocabulary word score and path in the grammar graph.