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)
01/1999
01/19/1999US5862232 For shifting a pitch of sound signal by a predetermined rate
01/14/1999WO1999001942A2 A method of noise reduction in speech signals and an apparatus for performing the method
01/14/1999WO1999001863A1 Method and apparatus for speech enhancement in a speech communication system
01/14/1999WO1999001862A1 Method for searching a noise model in noisy sound signals
01/13/1999EP0890171A1 Automated synchronization of video image sequences to new soundtracks
01/13/1999EP0890168A1 Image synthesis
01/13/1999EP0725963B1 Language analysis instrument
01/13/1999CN1204834A Device for wave envelope aggravation treatment
01/05/1999US5857167 Combined speech coder and echo canceler
01/02/1999CA2235455A1 Method and apparatus for speech enhancement in a speech communication system
12/1998
12/30/1998WO1998059431A1 Methods and apparatus for echo suppression
12/30/1998EP0886852A1 Noise suppressor circuit and associated method for suppressing periodic interference component portions of a communication signal
12/30/1998EP0797822A4 Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals
12/29/1998US5854999 Method and system for speech recognition with compensation for variations in the speech environment
12/23/1998WO1998058450A1 Methods and apparatus for blind signal separation
12/23/1998WO1998058448A1 Method and apparatus for low complexity noise reduction
12/23/1998WO1998043236A3 Method of speech synthesis
12/23/1998WO1998043235A3 Device and method for prosody generation at visual synthesis
12/23/1998EP0886263A2 Environmentally compensated speech processing
12/23/1998EP0847559A4 Methods and systems for designing and making signal-processor circuits with internal companding, and the resulting circuits
12/23/1998CA2294262A1 Methods and apparatus for blind signal separation
12/22/1998CA2138698C Telephone set with background noise suppression function
12/17/1998WO1998057436A2 Source coding enhancement using spectral-band replication
12/16/1998EP0884926A1 Method and device for optimized processing of an interfering signal when recording sound
12/16/1998EP0884886A2 Echo canceler employing multiple step gains
12/16/1998EP0883959A1 Telecommunications system
12/16/1998CN1202064A Voice recognition rate increasing method in call initation of voice recognition calling device
12/16/1998CN1202051A Echo canceler employing multiple step gains
12/16/1998CN1041266C Public address intelligibility system
12/16/1998CA2239357A1 Environmentally compensated speech processing
12/10/1998WO1998055991A1 Method and apparatus for reproducing a recorded voice with alternative performance attributes and temporal properties
12/09/1998EP0883130A2 Voice data processing control device and recording medium recording a control program for controlling voice data processing
12/09/1998EP0883107A1 Sound source vector generator, voice encoder, and voice decoder
12/09/1998EP0883106A1 Sound reproducing speed converter
12/09/1998EP0882337A1 Voice messaging system and method making efficient use of orthogonal modulation components
12/09/1998CN1201547A System for adaptively filtering audio signals to enhance speech intelligibility in noisy environmental conditions
12/08/1998US5848392 Audio signal processing circuit for changing the pitch of recorded speech
12/08/1998US5848163 Method and apparatus for suppressing background music or noise from the speech input of a speech recognizer
12/08/1998US5848130 System and method for enhanced intelligibility of voice messages
12/08/1998US5847303 Voice processor with adaptive configuration by parameter setting
12/03/1998WO1998054696A1 Improvements in, or relating to, visual speech synthesis
12/02/1998EP0860003A4 Inverse transform narrow band/broad band sound synthesis
12/02/1998CN1041042C Noise cancellation apparatus, and telephone set having same
12/01/1998US5845247 Reproducing apparatus
12/01/1998US5844996 Active electronic noise suppression system and method for reducing snoring noise
11/1998
11/25/1998EP0880246A2 Compressed code decoding device and audio decoding device
11/24/1998US5842172 Method and apparatus for modifying the play time of digital audio tracks
11/19/1998WO1998052187A1 Audio coding systems and methods
11/19/1998WO1998035340A3 Voice conversion system and methodology
11/19/1998WO1998035339A3 A system and methodology for prosody modification
11/18/1998EP0878790A1 Voice coding system and method
11/17/1998US5839103 Speaker verification system using decision fusion logic
11/17/1998US5839101 Noise suppressor and method for suppressing background noise in noisy speech, and a mobile station
11/12/1998DE19753454A1 Text-speech conversion system for multimedia
11/11/1998EP0877498A2 RDS-TMC broadcast receiver with a memory for speech segments
11/10/1998US5835608 Signal separating system
11/05/1998WO1998049670A1 Targeted vocal transformation
11/05/1998WO1998049666A1 Method and system for making an audio-visual work with a series of visual word symbols coordinated with oral word utterances and such audio-visual work
11/05/1998CA2287315A1 Method and system for making an audio-visual work with a series of visual word symbols coordinated with oral word utterances and such audio-visual work
11/03/1998US5832437 Continuous and discontinuous sine wave synthesis of speech signals from harmonic data of different pitch periods
10/1998
10/29/1998WO1998048527A2 Echo cancellation mechanism
10/28/1998CN1197526A Speaker verification system
10/27/1998US5828997 Method for converting a source signal to a symbolic signal
10/27/1998US5828995 Method and apparatus for intelligible fast forward and reverse playback of time-scale compressed voice messages
10/27/1998US5828994 Non-uniform time scale modification of recorded audio
10/22/1998WO1998047276A1 Method for cancelling multichannel acoustic echo and multichannel acoustic echo canceller
10/22/1998WO1998022935A3 Formant extraction using peak-picking and smoothing techniques
10/20/1998US5826234 Device and method for dubbing an audio-visual presentation which generates synthesized speech and corresponding facial movements
10/20/1998US5826231 Method and device for vocal synthesis at variable speed
10/20/1998US5825897 Noise cancellation apparatus
10/20/1998US5825320 Gain control method for audio encoding device
10/15/1998WO1998045997A1 Radiotelephone voice control device, in particular for use in a motor vehicle
10/14/1998EP0871293A2 Audio processing for audio visual equipment
10/14/1998EP0870300A1 Speaker verification system
10/14/1998EP0870299A1 A communication system and method using a speaker dependent time-scaling technique
10/14/1998EP0870298A2 Noise cancellation and noise reduction apparatus
10/14/1998EP0640237B1 Method of converting speech
10/13/1998US5822732 Filter for speech modification or enhancement, and various apparatus, systems and method using same
10/08/1998WO1998044483A1 Time scale modification of audiovisual playback and teaching listening comprehension
10/07/1998EP0869476A1 Comfort noise generation device and speech codec including elements of such device
10/07/1998EP0807307A4 A pitch post-filter
10/01/1998WO1998043239A1 A method for enhancing 3-d localization of speech
10/01/1998WO1998043236A2 Method of speech synthesis
10/01/1998WO1998043235A2 Device and method for prosody generation at visual synthesis
09/1998
09/30/1998EP0867860A2 Method and device for voice-operated remote control with interference compensation of appliances
09/30/1998CN1194507A Device for producing confortable noise and voice coding and decoding device including said device
09/29/1998US5813862 Method and device for enhancing the recognition of speech among speech-impaired individuals
09/29/1998CA2137300C Speech recognition using bio-signals
09/24/1998WO1998041976A1 Speaking speed changing method and device
09/22/1998US5812970 Method based on pitch-strength for reducing noise in predetermined subbands of a speech signal
09/22/1998US5812969 Process for balancing the loudness of digitally sampled audio waveforms
09/22/1998US5811707 Effect adding system
09/22/1998CA2100154C Switched signal processing circuit
09/16/1998EP0865033A2 Normalization of speech signals
09/16/1998EP0865026A2 Method for modifying speech speed
09/15/1998US5809460 Speech decoder having an interpolation circuit for updating background noise
09/15/1998US5809454 Audio reproducing apparatus having voice speed converting function
09/15/1998US5808575 Gain varying device capable of varying each gain of analog and digital signals
09/11/1998WO1998039946A1 Device and method for processing speech
09/11/1998WO1998039768A1 A high resolution post processing method for a speech decoder