Abstract: A system and method for out-of-vocabulary compound word handling is provided. Embodiments may include storing a plurality of compound word rules and compound word dictionaries in a database. Embodiments may also include evaluating membership criteria associated with a received compound word, wherein membership criteria includes at least one of dictionary based or part of speech (POS) based criteria. Embodiments may further include applying one or more filtering rules to the received compound word.

Abstract: A system and method for out-of-vocabulary compound word handling is provided. Embodiments may include storing a plurality of compound word rules and compound word dictionaries in a database. Embodiments may also include evaluating membership criteria associated with a received compound word, wherein membership criteria includes at least one of dictionary based or part of speech (POS) based criteria. Embodiments may further include applying one or more filtering rules to the received compound word.

Abstract: Techniques for predicting prosody in speech synthesis may make use of a data set of example text fragments with corresponding aligned spoken audio. To predict prosody for synthesizing an input text, the input text may be compared with the data set of example text fragments to select a best matching sequence of one or more example text fragments, each example text fragment in the sequence being paired with a portion of the input text. The selected example text fragment sequence may be aligned with the input text, e.g., at the word level, such that prosody may be extracted from the audio aligned with the example text fragments, and the extracted prosody may be applied to the synthesis of the input text using the alignment between the input text and the example text fragments.

Abstract: Techniques for predicting prosody in speech synthesis may make use of a data set of example text fragments with corresponding aligned spoken audio. To predict prosody for synthesizing an input text, the input text may be compared with the data set of example text fragments to select a best matching sequence of one or more example text fragments, each example text fragment in the sequence being paired with a portion of the input text. The selected example text fragment sequence may be aligned with the input text, e.g., at the word level, such that prosody may be extracted from the audio aligned with the example text fragments, and the extracted prosody may be applied to the synthesis of the input text using the alignment between the input text and the example text fragments.

Abstract: Remote data transfer is achieved via a data transfer network. To allow a user to transfer data at a higher data transfer rate in a cellular network, a user experiences the problem that the bandwidth available to him may vary, and in particular, may not be sufficient to allow the user to download information from the internet. To address this problem, a registered user is allowed to transfer identified data, for example, data identified by a particular url, by a user of a cellular network to a remote location, for example, the user's home computer.

Abstract: Applets can obtain parameters from the HTML of the pages in which they are embedded. These parameters are created dynamically in dependence on the capabilities of, and/or other constraints relating to, the user agent (1, 2) requesting an applet-containing page. In this way, suitably written applets can adapt themselves to their environment.

Abstract: Text-to-speech conversion uses pattern-matching to predict the position of phrase boundaries in spoken output. Text input to the is analyzed to identify groups of words (known as “chunks”) which are unlikely to contain internal phrase boundaries. Both the chunks and individual words are labeled with their syntactic characteristics. Access is made to a database of sentences which also contains such syntactic labels, together with indications of where a human reader would insert minor and major phrase boundaries. The parts of the database which have the most similar syntactic characteristics are found and phrase boundaries are predicted based on the phrase boundaries found in those parts. Other characteristics may also be used in the pattern-matching process.

Abstract: Applets can obtain parameters from the HTML of the pages in which they are embedded. These parameters are created dynamically in dependence on the capabilities of, and/or other constraints relating to, the user agent (1, 2) requesting an applet-containing page. In this way, suitably written applets can adapt themselves to their environment.

Abstract: To allow a user to transfer data at a higher data transfer rate in a cellular network allocates a user experiences the problem that the bandwidth available to him may vary, and in particular, may not be sufficient to allow the user to download information from the internet. The invention is a system which allows a registered user to transfer identified data, for example, data identified by a particular url, by a user of a cellular network to a remote location, for example, the user's home computer.