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20090174761 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Responding to Media Conference Deficiencies - A method for responding to media conference deficiencies, the method includes: monitoring, by at least one receiver, a quality of media conference signals being received by at least one receiver during the media conference; sending, in response to the monitoring, to at least an end user transmitter that transmitted the media conference signals, a quality indication representative of a quality of the received media conference signals; recording inadequately received media conference signals that were inadequately received by a certain end user receiver and participating in an activity related to a transmission, to the certain end user receiver, of the inadequately received media conference signals or of a representation of the inadequately received media conference signals. | 07-09-2009 |
20100031146 | Parallel Visual Radio Station Selection - A computer implemented method in a data processing system and a computer program product enable visual selection of a media signal. A set of media signals is received from a set of media providers. A subject matter and a performer of the subject matter are then identified for at least one of the set of media signals. A set of icons is then identified. Each of the set of icons corresponds to at least one of media signals. The set of icons and the set of media providers are then forwarded to a client media player. | 02-04-2010 |
20100042412 | SKIPPING RADIO/TELEVISION PROGRAM SEGMENTS - Techniques for notifying at least one entity of an occurrence of an event in an audio signal are provided. At least one preference is obtained from the at least one entity. An occurrence of an event in the audio signal is determined. The event is related to at least one of at least one speaker and at least one topic. The at least one entity is notified of the occurrence of the event in the audio signal, in accordance with the at least one preference. | 02-18-2010 |
20110144990 | RATING SPEECH NATURALNESS OF SPEECH UTTERANCES BASED ON A PLURALITY OF HUMAN TESTERS - A method that includes: generating an utterance-specific scoring model for each one of a plurality of obtained speech utterances, each scoring model usable to estimate a level of speech naturalness for a respective one of the obtained speech utterances; presenting a plurality of human-testers with some of the obtained speech utterances; receiving, for each presented speech utterance, a plurality of human tester generated speech utterances being at least one human repetition of the presented speech utterance; updating the scoring model for each presented speech utterance, based on respective human-tester generated speech utterances; and obtaining a speech naturalness score for each presented speech utterance by respectively applying the updated utterance-specific scoring model to each presented speech utterance. | 06-16-2011 |
20110313762 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by altering one or more parameters of the speech proportionally to the confidence score. | 12-22-2011 |
20120191459 | SKIPPING RADIO/TELEVISION PROGRAM SEGMENTS - Techniques for notifying at least one entity of an occurrence of an event in an audio signal are provided. At least one preference is obtained from the at least one entity. An occurrence of an event in the audio signal is determined. The event is related to at least one of at least one speaker and at least one topic. The at least one entity is notified of the occurrence of the event in the audio signal, in accordance with the at least one preference. | 07-26-2012 |
20120239746 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Responding to Media Conference Deficiencies - A method for responding to media conference deficiencies, the method includes: monitoring, by at least one receiver, a quality of media conference signals being received by at least one receiver during the media conference; sending, in response to the monitoring, to at least an end user transmitter that transmitted the media conference signals, a quality indication representative of a quality of the received media conference signals; recording inadequately received media conference signals that were inadequately received by a certain end user receiver and participating in an activity related to a transmission, to the certain end user receiver, of the inadequately received media conference signals or of a representation of the inadequately received media conference signals. | 09-20-2012 |
20130041669 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by altering one or more parameters of the speech proportionally to the confidence score. | 02-14-2013 |
20140136197 | ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT OF SPOKEN QUERIES TRANSCRIPTION USING CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for voice-enabled searching. Techniques include a co-occurrence based approach to improve accuracy of the 1-best hypothesis for non-phrase voice queries, as well as for phrased voice queries. A co-occurrence model is used in addition to a statistical natural language model and acoustic model to recognize spoken queries, such as spoken queries for searching a search engine. Given an utterance and an associated list of automated speech recognition n-best hypotheses, the system rescores the different hypotheses using co-occurrence information. For each hypothesis, the system estimates a frequency of co-occurrence within web documents. Combined scores from a speech recognizer and a co-occurrence engine can be combined to select a best hypothesis with a lower word error rate. | 05-15-2014 |
20150025891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS WITH PERSONALIZED VOICE - A method and system are provided for text-to-speech synthesis with personalized voice. The method includes receiving an incidental audio input ( | 01-22-2015 |