Recent advances in the automatic recognition of audiovisual speech

G Potamianos, C Neti, G Gravier, A Garg… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual speech information from the speaker's mouth region has been successfully shown to
improve noise robustness of automatic speech recognizers, thus promising to extend their …

Automatic sign language analysis: A survey and the future beyond lexical meaning

SCW Ong, S Ranganath - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research in automatic analysis of sign language has largely focused on recognizing the
lexical (or citation) form of sign gestures as they appear in continuous signing, and …

Multilingual processing of speech via web services

T Kisler, U Reichel, F Schiel - Computer Speech & Language, 2017 - Elsevier
A new software paradigmSoftware as a Service'based on web services is proposed for
multilingual linguistic tools and exemplified with the BAS CLARIN web services. Instead of …

Intelligent device arbitration and control

KW Piersol, RM Orr, DJ Mandel - US Patent 10,089,072, 2018 - Google Patents
This relates to systems and processes for using a virtual assistant to arbitrate among and/or
control electronic devices. In one example process, a first electronic device samples an …

Intelligent automated assistant for TV user interactions

M Van Os, HJ Saddler, LT Napolitano… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
2015-03-25 Assigned to APPLE INC. reassignment APPLE INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: NAPOLITANO, LIA …

Digital assistant providing whispered speech

TJ Raitio, MJ Hunt, HB Richards… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
2016-10-25 Assigned to APPLE INC. reassignment APPLE INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: HUNT, MELVYN J …

Intelligent automated assistant in a messaging environment

P Karashchuk, TAV GALVEZ, TR Gruber - US Patent 10,691,473, 2020 - Google Patents
H04L51/02—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to
store-and-forward or real-time protocols, eg e-mail using automatic reactions or user …

Multi-command single utterance input method

TR Gruber, HJ Saddler, JR Bellegarda… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and processes are disclosed for handling a multi-part voice command for a
virtual assistant. Speech input can be received from a user that includes multiple actionable …

Competing devices responding to voice triggers

BJ Newendorp, ES DiBiase - US Patent 9,721,566, 2017 - Google Patents
G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of
being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing …

Audio-visual speech recognition using deep learning

K Noda, Y Yamaguchi, K Nakadai, HG Okuno… - Applied intelligence, 2015 - Springer
Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) system is thought to be one of the most promising
solutions for reliable speech recognition, particularly when the audio is corrupted by noise …