237 results about "Speech Processor" patented technology

An electronic apparatus includes a voice acquirer which receives a first voice, a voice processor which processes a voice signal, a communication unit which communicates with at least one external electronic apparatus and receives information on at least one second voice, and a controller which determines whether the first voice is a user's command based on the information on at least one second voice transmitted by the communication unit, and if the first voice is not the user's command, does not perform an operation according to the first voice.

Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for controlling a speech recognition system on board an automobile. The automobile has one or more voice activated accessories and a passenger cabin with a number of seating locations. The speech recognition system has a plurality of microphones and push-to-talk controls corresponding to the seating locations for inputting speech commands and location identifying signals, respectively. The speech recognition system also includes multiple speech engines recognizing speech commands for operating the voice activated accessories. A selector is coupled to the speech engines and push-to-talk controls for selecting the speech engine best suited for the current speaking location. A speech processor coupled to the speech engine selector is used to recognize the speech commands and transmit the commands to the voice activated accessory.

An interactive interface of an embodiment of the present invention comprises a mirror surface; a sensor configured to receive an input from a user; a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor; the processor configured to identify a user identification based on the input, retrieve user specific content associated with the user identification; and identify one or more interactions with the user, wherein the processor comprises a speech processor and a video processor; and an output configured to display content associated with the user identification and responsive to the interactions on the mirror surface.

A hands-free circuit (10) and method produces audio information (90) corresponding to voice tag information (60) stored either in the hands-free circuit (10) or in a wireless device (320). The hands-free circuit includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver (20), memory (40) and a speech processor (30). For example, the wireless local area network transceiver (20) may be a Bluetooth transceiver that communicates with the wireless device (320) and receives wireless device information (80). The wireless device information (80) may represent caller identification information, call processing information relating to the status of a call, phone status information or any suitable information. The speech processor (30) produces audio information (90) corresponding to the voice tag information (60). According to one embodiment, the speech processor (30) produces speech synthesized wireless device information (80), in-band ring tone information or any suitable information.

A speech processor module is disclosed. The speech processor module is configured to be implemented in more than one mode of operation of a hearing prosthesis including as a component of a stand-alone speech processing unit, and as a component of a body-worn speech processing unit, wherein said body-worn speech processing unit comprises a case that protects the speech processor module from environmental conditions which can damage said speech processor module implemented in said stand-alone operating mode.

A mechanism for attaching a component, such as a speech processor unit (29) of a cochlear implant, to the clothing (40) of a user of that component. The attaching mechanism is operable by an unlocking device, such as a magnet (44), that can be held in the possession of a person other than the person wearing the clothing (40) to which the component is mounted. The attachment device can comprise an elongate pin member (33) that is adapted to pass through at least a portion of an item of clothing (40) and be received in a chamber (38) and held by frictional engagement therein.

A method and apparatus of dynamically customizing a virtual world. A first user and a second user engage in a conversation with respect to a location in the virtual world. A speech processor monitors the conversation and detects that a sound made matches a key sound. The virtual world is altered to include a virtual world customization based on the key sound. The virtual world customization may also be based on user information associated with the user in the conversation that made the sound.

A totally implantable cochlear implant system forming a single implantable unit (40). The unit (40) has an implantable power source (43) that provides the power requirements of the implantable unit (40). The unit (40) also has an on-board microphone (42) that detects external sounds, such as speech, and outputs acoustic signals representative of the detected sounds. The unit further includes speech processor circuitry (44) that directly receives the acoustic signals from the microphone (42) and converts the signals into stimulation signals representative of the detected sounds. An electrode array (20) suitable for insertion of the cochlea (12) of an implantee receives the stimulation signals and transmits electrical stimulations to the implantee'auditory nerve (9).

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of adjusting an established initial operational settings profile, the profile having two or more operational setting values for a speech processor of a recipient's cochlear implant, comprising: setting one or more profile adjustment functions with one or more function parameters; and modifying concurrently said two or more operational setting values in said operational settings profile using each of said set profile adjustment functions.

A mobile object, such as a hollow ball containing an electronic circuitry system is proposed. The circuitry includes a speech processor and a controller, an integrated circuit for a speech recorder, an integrated circuit for an audio amplifier, a microphone and a power supply and an impact switch and push button switches. In response to impact, the circuitry generates a randomly chosen multiple choice questions. According to the answer chosen by the player, he / she presses a push button switch representing the answer. The electronic system then verifies whether the answer is correct or incorrect and generates a signal accordingly.

A hands-free circuit (10) and method produces audio information (90) corresponding to voice tag information (60) stored either in the hands-free circuit (10) or in a wireless device (320). The hands-free circuit includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver (20), memory (40) and a speech processor (30). For example, the wireless local area network transceiver (20) may be a Bluetooth transceiver that communicates with the wireless device (320) and receives wireless device information (80). The wireless device information (80) may represent caller identification information, call processing information relating to the status of a call, phone status information or any suitable information. The speech processor (30) produces audio information (90) corresponding to the voice tag information (60). According to one embodiment, the speech processor (30) produces speech synthesized wireless device information (80), in-band ring tone information or any suitable information.

A voice processing system comprises a processing device that processes and receives a stream of voice input as a user is speaking. A software program executes program steps for determining a predetermined pattern of speech and silence during processing of stream of voice input so as to play or present the predetermined backchannel response to the user. A method provides an audible backchannel response between the voice processing system and the user, while the user is speaking, in particular, recording a message. The method includes monitoring the message to determine a predetermined pattern of speech and silence based on timing between the speech and silence periods. Then, the method produces the audible backchannel response based on the predetermined pattern. An audible user interface includes a speech processor that processes or classifies an audio message in the telecommunication device as speech and silence frame while a calling party is speaking, in particular, recording the audio message to a called party. A control circuitry cooperates with the speech processor and responds to a predetermined pattern of the speech and silence segments so as to play the preset backchannel response in audible form to the calling party.

A device and method of detecting a mode of inputting speech to a wireless device includes a processor (220) communicatively coupled to a user input (218), an audio input (206), a timer (211), and a speech processor (230). The processor (220) monitors the user input (218) and, upon detection of a first change in state of the user input (218), opens an input channel from the audio input (206) to the speech processor (230), monitors the timer (211) for an elapsed time, and monitors the user input (218) for a second change of state. Upon detection of the second change of state after a predetermined amount of time elapses, the input channel is closed. Upon detection of the second change of state before a predetermined amount of time elapses, the user input is monitored for a third change of state and upon detecting the third change of state, the input channel is closed.

A cochlear implant system comprising a first unit (5) adapted to be worn on or in one ear of an implantee. The first unit has a case housing componentry including a microphone (27), and a speech processor means (29). A second unit or accessory (30) is adapted to be worn on or in the other ear of the implantee. The second unit or accessory (30) has a case (31) housing a second power source. An electrical conduction means (58) for transmitting power from the second power source to the componentry of the first unit extends between the first and second units. Such a conduction means (58) can extend around the back of the head of the implantee.

A distributed speech recognition system includes a speech processor linked to a plurality of speech recognition engines. The speech processor includes an input for receiving speech files from a plurality of users and storage means for storing the received speech files until such a time that they are forwarded to a selected speech recognition engine for processing. The speech processor further includes a dispatch system linked to the storage means for controlling the transmission of speech files to the plurality of speech recognition engines in a controlled manner.

A terminal includes a speech acquisition unit that acquires first speech information, a first speech processor that removes noise contained in the first speech information using a first removal method and outputs the noise-removed speech information as second speech information, a first speech recognition unit that performs speech recognition on the second speech information and outputs the speech recognition result as first speech recognition result information, a communication unit that receives a speech recognition result as second speech recognition result information from a server, the speech recognition result being a result obtained by performing speech recognition on third speech information, the third speech information being obtained by removing noise contained in the first speech information using a second removal method that removes a larger amount of noise than the amount of noise removed from the first speech information using the first removal method, and a determination unit that makes a selection as to which of the first speech recognition result information and the second speech recognition result information should be outputted.

An artificial inner ear includes a speech processor that operates based on electricity generated by a thermoelectric transducer module, in which numerous thermoelectric elements join between oppositely arranged upper and lower substrates each having numerous electrodes. A heat absorption layer composed of a heat conductive material such as a resin, rubber, and metal is attached to the upper substrate of the thermoelectric transducer module. The heat absorption layer has deformability in shape in conformity with a prescribed part of the human body and is heated using human body temperature so as to cause a temperature difference between the upper and lower substrates, thus generating electricity in the thermoelectric transducer module. A heat-dissipation member composed of aluminum can be attached to the lower substrate so as to increase the temperature difference.

The present invention relates to biomedicine engineering and bionics, and is especially one new type of implanted artificial cochlea and its making process. The implanted artificial cochlea consists of one implanted piezoelectric or fiber type microphone, one signal amplifier, one phonetic processor and one decoding stimulator. It has optimized MSPR mixed coding mode and multiple stimulating modes. Experiment shows that the implanted artificial cochlea has high sensitivity and good frequency characteristic, and is suitable for sufferer, especially children sufferer, of deafness.

The invention relates to a system comprising a speech processor for controlling an apparatus (101) with speech commands. The system according to the invention includes a remote control (102) having a microphone (104) for the input speech commands. The system also includes a further microphone (107) for enabling other users of the system to issue speech commands too. The system may have input designation means (105) for user operably designating said microphone (104) and / or said further microphone (170) as a signal source to the speech processor.

Apparatus and methods for converting one type of speech processor unit into another type of speech processor unit. A behind the ear (BTE) speech processor is converted to a body-worn device by means of a container that encloses the BTE and allows for device operations and charging. The body-worn device is worn in one embodiment on a belt of a patient.

The invention provides an artificial cochlea speech processing method based on frequency modulation information and an artificial cochlea speech processor. The artificial cochlea speech processing method comprises the following steps: pre-emphasizing a speech signal; decomposing the speech signal by an analysis filter into a plurality of sub frequency bands; then, extracting the time-domain envelope information of each sub frequency band signal; adopting a Hilbert transform method to extract the frequency modulation information of a low-frequency part to multiple by time-domain envelopes so asto acquire a synthetic time-domain envelope containing the frequency modulation information; utilizing various acquired time-domain envelopes of the sub frequency bands to modulate a pulse sequence by a pulse generator; adding modulated pulses of various sub frequency bands to acquire a finally synthesized stimulus signal; and sending the stimulus signal to an electrode to generate an electric pulse to stimulate the auditory nerve. The artificial cochlea speech processor is suitable for deafness patients speaking Chinese as a native language to recognize speeches in a noise environment and has noise robustness, thereby enabling the deafness patients to feel more fine speech structure information, enhancing the speech recognition abilities of the deafness patients in the noise environmentand benefiting the tone recognition.

A communication system includes a communication apparatus having memory, telephone controller, voice processor, network interface, display drive, and key interface. The communication system also includes a door intercom home apparatus, a door intercom with a camera, a TV, a video recorder, and a home gateway. The communication apparatus executes voice communication with the door intercom with camera while TV 4 executes an image display function that is not provided in the communication apparatus.

A speech processor module is disclosed. The speech processor module is configured to be implemented in more than one mode of operation of a hearing prosthesis including as a component of a stand-alone speech processing unit, and as a component of a body-worn speech processing unit, wherein said body-worn speech processing unit comprises a case that protects the speech processor module from environmental conditions which can damage said speech processor module implemented in said stand-alone operating mode.

A communications system includes an automated voice processor such as an IVR (interactive voice response system) that can control a display associated with an end user calling the automated voice processor over a data network such as the Internet. In a preferred embodiment, the automated voice processor collects speech inputs from the end user, translates them into machine-readable symbols, stores the speech inputs in a specified format in a designated location, and generates DTMF tones which are detected by the end user terminal and cause the end user terminal to initiate a process to identify a web page to be downloaded based on the stored and translated speech inputs, and then to download desired web page. The web pages may be static (that is, the web pages may be predefined and contain static information), or may be dynamic web pages that are modified, possibly on a per-call basis.

Apparatus and methods for converting one type of speech processor unit into another type of speech processor unit.

In one embodiment of the present invention, an acoustic prosthesis is disclosed. The acoustic prosthesis comprises: an external speech processor unit comprising electronic components and a power source contained within a housing, wherein the power source provides power to the electronic components via a power line; and a magnetically-responsive switch disposed along the power line to switchingly connect the power source to the electronic components in response to the presence of a magnetic field.

A system and method are presented for the encapsulation of a protocol stack in a voice telephony processor. Utilizing the system and method disclosed herein, digital voice telephony signals received in TDM frame-based format are converted to packet-based or cell-based format for transmission on a network, and vice-versa. The system and method may be embodied as a functional block within a specialized high-density integrated circuit voice processor. The voice processor employs on-chip digital signal processors (DSPs) to perform echo cancellation, dynamic range compression / expansion, and other processing on voice data. Advantageously, the encapsulation process of the disclosed herein does not impact the throughput of the DSPs. Instead, voice data is reformatted and prefixed with a header for the appropriate protocol layers using a dedicated on-chip packet control processor and linked list data structures managed by indexed direct memory access (DMA) controllers. Thus, data encapsulation has no impact on the signal processing activities.

An artificial inner ear includes a speech processor that operates based on electricity generated by a thermoelectric transducer module, in which numerous thermoelectric elements join between oppositely arranged upper and lower substrates each having numerous electrodes. A heat absorption layer composed of a heat conductive material such as a resin, rubber, and metal is attached to the upper substrate of the thermoelectric transducer module. The heat absorption layer has deformability in shape in conformity with a prescribed part of the human body and is heated using human body temperature so as to cause a temperature difference between the upper and lower substrates, thus generating electricity in the thermoelectric transducer module. A heat-dissipation member composed of aluminum can be attached to the lower substrate so as to increase the temperature difference.