Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100217582 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION IN THE FIELD - A field maintainable class-based translation system and apparatus with components that ease use by linguistically untrained users is disclosed. The apparatus includes modules for recovering errors, extending and customizing language coverage and increasing the speed of effective communication. | 08-26-2010 |
20110307241 | ENHANCED SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS - A speech translation system and methods for cross-lingual communication that enable users to improve and modify content and usage of the system and easily abort or reset translation. The system includes a speech recognition module configured for accepting an utterance, a machine translation module, an interface configured to communicate the utterance and proposed translation, a correction module and an abort action unit that removes any hypotheses or partial hypotheses and terminates translation. The system also includes modules for storing favorites, changing language mode, automatically identifying language, providing language drills, viewing third party information relevant to conversation, among other things. | 12-15-2011 |
20130238312 | DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM A DIALOG - Computer-implemented systems and methods for extracting information during a human-to-human mono-lingual or multi-lingual dialog between two speakers are disclosed. Information from either the recognized speech (or the translation thereof) by the second speaker and/or the recognized speech by the first speaker (or the translation thereof) is extracted. The extracted information is then entered into an electronic form stored in a data store. | 09-12-2013 |
20140337007 | HYBRID, OFFLINE/ONLINE SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM - A hybrid speech translation system whereby a wireless-enabled client computing device can, in an offline mode, translate input speech utterances from one language to another locally, and also, in an online mode when there is wireless network connectivity, have a remote computer perform the translation and transmit it back to the client computing device via the wireless network for audible outputting by client computing device. The user of the client computing device can transition between modes or the transition can be automatic based on user preferences or settings. The back-end speech translation server system can adapt the various recognition and translation models used by the client computing device in the offline mode based on analysis of user data over time, to thereby configure the client computing device with scaled-down, yet more efficient and faster, models than the back-end speech translation server system, while still be adapted for the user's domain. | 11-13-2014 |
20140365202 | TRANSLATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRESENTATION MATERIALS IN CROSS-LINGUAL LECTURE SUPPORT - Computer-based systems and methods are disclosed for translation of a spoken presentation (e.g., a lecture) along with the accompanying presentation materials. Translation and delivery of the presentation materials to a listener is annotated and aligned with the lecture, so that the listener can follow both the lecture and the presentation material. The content of the presentation materials can be used to improve lecture translation and transcription, as it extracts supportive material from the presentation materials as they relate to the lecturer's speech. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365203 | TRANSLATION AND INTEGRATION OF PRESENTATION MATERIALS IN CROSS-LINGUAL LECTURE SUPPORT - An improved lecture support system integrates presentation materials with spoken content so that the listener can follow with both the speech and the supporting materials that accompany the lecture to provide additional understanding. Computer-based systems and methods are disclosed for translation of a spoken presentation (e.g., a lecture) along with the accompanying presentation materials. The content of the presentation materials can be used to improve lecture translation and transcription, as it extracts supportive material from the presentation materials as they relate to the lecturer's speech. | 12-11-2014 |
20150046147 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A speech translation system and methods are disclosed for cross-lingual communication that enable users to improve and modify content and usage of the system and easily abort or reset translation. The system includes a speech recognition module configured for accepting an utterance, a machine translation module, an interface configured to communicate the utterance and proposed translation, a correction module and an abort action unit that removes any hypotheses or partial hypotheses and terminates translation. The system also includes modules for information extraction based on keywords in the received or translated speech. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051897 | TRAINING STATISTICAL SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEMS FROM SPEECH - An iterative language translation system includes multiple communicatively connected statistical speech translation systems. The system includes an automatic speech recognition component adapted to recognize spoken language in a source language and to create a source language hypothesis. A machine translation component is adapted to translate the source language hypothesis into a target language. The system also includes a second automatic speech recognition component and second machine translation component. The translation results are used to adapt the automatic speech recognition components and the language hypotheses are used to adapt the machine translation components. | 02-19-2015 |