Patents
Patents for G10L 21 - Processing of the speech or voice signal to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility (18,985)
06/2000
06/14/2000EP1008141A1 Reducing sparseness in coded speech signals
06/14/2000EP1008138A1 System for fourier transform-based modification of audio
06/13/2000US6076052 Message playback device and message playback method
06/13/2000CA2147772C Method of and apparatus for signal recognition that compensates for mismatching
06/07/2000EP1006511A1 Sound processing method and device for adapting a hearing aid for hearing impaired
06/07/2000EP1006510A2 Signal encoding and decoding system
06/07/2000CN1256000A Method and device forr emphasizing pitch
06/06/2000US6073103 Display accessory for a record playback system
06/06/2000US6073101 Text independent speaker recognition for transparent command ambiguity resolution and continuous access control
06/06/2000US6073100 Method and apparatus for synthesizing signals using transform-domain match-output extension
06/06/2000US6071123 Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals
05/2000
05/31/2000EP0970466A4 Voice conversion system and methodology
05/30/2000US6070137 Integrated frequency-domain voice coding using an adaptive spectral enhancement filter
05/30/2000US6070135 Method and apparatus for discriminating non-sounds and voiceless sounds of speech signals from each other
05/25/2000WO2000030287A1 Processing received data in a distributed speech recognition process
05/25/2000WO2000030264A1 Signal processing apparatus and method
05/25/2000DE19844223A1 Telephone-based information retrieval device by voice input recognises input speech, searches local database and connects to different information source if information is not present
05/24/2000CN1254433A A high resolution post processing method for speech decoder
05/24/2000CN1254221A Method and device for producing wide-band signal based on narrow-band signal and its technical equipment
05/24/2000CN1254160A Electronic equipment with recording and playback function
05/23/2000US6067519 Waveform speech synthesis
05/23/2000US6067518 Linear prediction speech coding apparatus
05/23/2000US6067095 Method for generating mouth features of an animated or physical character
05/22/2000WO2000030404A1 Binaural signal processing techniques
05/18/2000WO2000027284A1 System and method for processing low signal-to-noise ratio signals
05/18/2000CA2362357A1 System and method for processing low signal-to-noise ratio signals
05/17/2000EP1001541A1 Sound decoder and sound decoding method
05/17/2000CN1253353A By using intrinsic tone technique to make speaker standardization and conform with circumstances
05/16/2000US6064964 Data processing apparatus having breath detecting function and image display control method using breath detection
05/10/2000EP0998741A2 Transmission system with improved speech encoder
05/09/2000US6061648 Speech coding apparatus and speech decoding apparatus
05/09/2000US6061456 Noise cancellation apparatus
05/04/2000WO2000025489A1 Signal separation method and device for non-linear mixing of unknown signals
05/04/2000DE19859174C1 Method of signal processing a noisy acoustic signal determining the correlation between signal profiles using non linear noise reduction in deterministic systems
05/03/2000EP0998166A1 Device for audio processing,receiver and method for filtering the wanted signal and reproducing it in presence of ambient noise
05/03/2000EP0997003A2 A method of noise reduction in speech signals and an apparatus for performing the method
05/02/2000US6058362 System and method for masking quantization noise of audio signals
05/02/2000US6056552 Language analysis instrument
04/2000
04/27/2000WO2000023984A1 Speech processing
04/27/2000CA2346967A1 Speech processing
04/26/2000EP0996111A2 Speech processing apparatus and method
04/26/2000EP0995189A1 Combined speech coder and echo canceler
04/26/2000EP0995188A1 Methods and apparatus for measuring signal level and delay at multiple sensors
04/26/2000EP0713597B1 Method for recognizing a spoken word in the presence of interfering speech
04/20/2000WO2000022743A1 Method and apparatus for digital signal compression without decoding
04/20/2000WO2000022611A1 Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works
04/20/2000WO2000022605A1 Efficient watermark method and apparatus for digital signals
04/20/2000WO2000022444A1 A method and system for updating noise estimates during pauses in an information signal
04/20/2000DE19948038A1 Device for playing back a waveform applies a phase vocoder for smooth compression and expansion of a sound signal without thinning out or repeating a sound signal's specified segments enabling compression of variable sound signals.
04/19/2000EP0994464A1 Method and apparatus for generating a wide-band signal from a narrow-band signal and telephone equipment comprising such an apparatus
04/19/2000EP0994462A1 Excitation vector generator, speech coder & speech decoder
04/19/2000EP0993671A1 Method for searching a noise model in noisy sound signals
04/19/2000EP0993670A1 Method and apparatus for speech enhancement in a speech communication system
04/19/2000CN1251195A Method for enhancing 3-D localization of speech
04/19/2000CN1251192A Audio processing arrangement with multiple sources
04/18/2000US6052665 Speech input terminal and speech synthesizing terminal for television conference system
04/18/2000US6052659 Nonlinear filter for noise suppression in linear prediction speech processing devices
04/13/2000DE19845560A1 Virtual call partner method, e.g. for call centres, involves using PC, speech recognition algorithm, image and sound documents, media for inputting/outputting them, telephone connection
04/12/2000EP0993197A2 A method and an apparatus for the animation, driven by an audio signal, of a synthesised model of human face
04/12/2000EP0992982A2 Vector quantization codebook generation method
04/12/2000EP0992981A2 Vector quantization codebook generation method
04/12/2000EP0992978A1 Noise reduction device and a noise reduction method
04/12/2000EP0992933A2 Method for generating realistic facial animation directly from speech utilizing hidden markov models
04/12/2000EP0912974B1 Method of reducing voice signal interference
04/12/2000CN1051393C Method and apparatus for reducing an undesirable characteristic of a spectral estimate of a noise signal between occurrences of voice signals
04/11/2000US6049766 Time-domain time/pitch scaling of speech or audio signals with transient handling
04/06/2000WO2000019407A1 Method and device of sampling pitch period of voice signal and device for time-axis compression/decompression of voice signal
04/06/2000CA2345712A1 Method of sampling pitch period of voice signal and device for time-axis compression/decompression of voice signal
04/05/2000EP0991054A2 Vector quantisation codebook generation method
04/05/2000EP0990306A1 Methods and apparatus for blind signal separation
04/05/2000CN1249889A Device and method for processing speech
04/05/2000CN1249517A System for insertion of additional information in audio data
04/04/2000CA2180065C Noise cancelling method and noise canceller
03/2000
03/30/2000WO2000017859A1 Noise suppression for low bitrate speech coder
03/30/2000WO2000017855A1 Noise suppression for low bitrate speech coder
03/30/2000CA2344695A1 Noise suppression for low bitrate speech coder
03/30/2000CA2310491A1 Noise suppression for low bitrate speech coder
03/28/2000US6044340 Accelerated convolution noise elimination
03/28/2000US6044338 Signal processing method and apparatus and signal recording medium
03/22/2000EP0986807A1 Method and apparatus for reproducing a recorded voice with alternative performance attributes and temporal properties
03/22/2000CN1248339A Apparatus and method for rate determination in commuincation system
03/16/2000WO2000014731A1 Apparatus and method for transmitting an improved voice signal over a communications device located in a vehicle with adaptive vibration noise cancellation
03/16/2000WO2000014725A1 Speech detection with noise suppression based on principal components analysis
03/16/2000WO2000014724A1 Method for reducing noise distortions in a speech recognition system
03/16/2000WO2000014649A1 Signal processing
03/16/2000WO1999062189A3 System and method for masking quantization noise of audio signals
03/14/2000US6038532 Signal processing device for cancelling noise in a signal
03/09/2000WO1999062253A3 Scalable audio coder and decoder
03/09/2000WO1999062052A3 System and method for entropy encoding quantized transform coefficients of a signal
03/08/2000EP0984433A2 Noise suppresser speech communications unit and method of operation
03/08/2000EP0984429A2 Dimensionality reduction for speaker normalization and speaker and environment adaption using eigenvoice techniques
03/08/2000EP0984354A2 Method for creating dictation macros
03/08/2000EP0983575A1 Improvements in, or relating to, visual speech synthesis
03/08/2000EP0807305B1 Spectral subtraction noise suppression method
03/08/2000EP0797824B1 Speech processing
03/08/2000CN1246686A Method for forming dictation macro
03/07/2000US6035009 Apparatus for processing audio signal
03/02/2000WO2000011781A1 Methods for adjusting audio signals responsive to changes in a power supply level and related communications devices
03/02/2000WO2000011662A1 Method and apparatus for separation of impulsive and non-impulsive components in a signal
03/02/2000WO2000011661A1 Adaptive gain reduction to produce fixed codebook target signal