Patents by Inventor Stefanie Schachtl

Stefanie Schachtl 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).

  • Method and system for providing speech dialogue applications
    Patent number: 8583441
    Abstract: A server for producing at least one speech dialogue application stores a formal description of a speech dialogue programmed into the description language and speech models for dialogue steps of the speech dialogue. A broadcasting transmitter digitally transmits produced speech dialogue applications to a radio set of mobile end terminals which are arranged in the transmission area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: André Berton, Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Peter Regel-Brietzmann, Stefanie Schachtl, Friedrich Schön
  • Method for preparing information for a speech dialogue system
    Patent number: 8190439
    Abstract: In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method is disclosed for preparing information presented in a tabular form for a speech dialogue system so that the information of the table can be consulted in a user dialogue in a targeted manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Svox AG
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Stefanie Schachtl
  • Method and System for Preparing Speech Dialogue Applications
    Publication number: 20100267345
    Abstract: A server for producing at least one speech dialogue application stores a formal description of a speech dialogue programmed into the description language and speech models for dialogue steps of the speech dialogue. A broadcasting transmitter digitally transmits produced speech dialogue applications to a radio set of mobile end terminals which are arranged in the transmission area thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: André Berton, Hans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Peter Regel-Brietzmann, Stefanie Schachtl, Friedrich Schön
  • Three-stage individual word recognition
    Patent number: 7299179
    Abstract: In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its vocabulary, the selected vocabulary entries which are most like the phoneme sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl
  • Three-stage word recognition
    Publication number: 20060074662
    Abstract: In a three-stage speech recognition process, a phoneme sequence is first assigned to a speech unit, then those vocabulary entries which are most similar to the phoneme sequence are sought in a selection vocabulary, and finally the speech unit is recognized using a speech unit recognizer which uses, as its vocabulary, the selected vocabulary entries which are most like the phoneme sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Block, Stefanie Schachtl