James D Talley

US Patent:

7181397, Feb 20, 2007

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/118670

Inventors:

Changxue C. Ma - Barrington IL, US
Yan M. Cheng - Inverness IL, US
Chen Liu - Lisle IL, US
Ted Mazurkiewicz - Lake Zurich IL, US
Steven J. Nowlan - South Barrington IL, US
James R. Talley - Austin TX, US
Yuan-Jun Wei - Hoffman Estates IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 15/14

US Classification:

704251

Abstract:

An electronic device () for speech dialog includes functions that receive () a speech phrase that comprises a request phrase that includes an instantiated variable (), generate () pitch and voicing characteristics () of the instantiated variable, and performs speech recognition () of the instantiated variable to determine a most likely set of acoustic states (). The electronic device may generate () a synthesized value of the instantiated variable using the most likely set of acoustic states and the pitch and voicing characteristics of the instantiated variable. The electronic device may use a table of previously entered values of variables that have been determined to be unique, and in which the values are associated with a most likely set of acoustic states and the pitch and voicing characteristics determined at the receipt of each value to disambiguate () a newly received instantiated variable.

US Patent:

7818166, Oct 19, 2010

Filed:

Jan 31, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/669865

Inventors:

Changxue C Ma - Barrington IL, US
Michael E. Groble - Lake Zurich IL, US
James R. Talley - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

704 9, 704254

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for intention based communications in a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input from a user of the mobile communication device, converting speech portions in the user's input into linguistic representations, generating a phoneme lattice based on the linguistic representations, scoring stored intention n-grams against the generated phoneme lattice, scoring intentions from the intention n grams, determining the highest scoring intention, determining whether the highest scoring intention is above a predetermined threshold, wherein if the highest scoring intention is above the predetermined threshold, executing the determined intention.

US Patent:

20110145214, Jun 16, 2011

Filed:

Dec 16, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/639176

Inventors:

Fan Zhang - Cambridge, CA
Yan-Ming Cheng - Inverness IL, US
Changxue Ma - Barrington IL, US
James R. Talley - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

MOTOROLA, INC. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707706, 707E17108, 707E17015

Abstract:

A search system will receive a voice query and use speech recognition with a predefined vocabulary to generate a textual transcription of the voice query. Queries are sent to a text search engine, retrieving multiple web page results for each of these initial text queries. The collection of the keywords is extracted from the resulting web pages and is phonetically indexed to form a voice query dependent and phonetically searchable index database. Finally, a phonetically-based voice search engine is used to search the original voice query against the voice query dependent and phonetically searchable index database to find the keywords and/or key phrases that best match what was originally spoken. The keywords and/or key phrases that best match what was originally spoken are then used as a final text query for a search engine. Search results from the final text query are then presented to the user.

US Patent:

20140089967, Mar 27, 2014

Filed:

Sep 27, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/628161

Inventors:

- Horsham PA, US
Mir F. Ali - Rolling Meadows IL, US
Santosh S. Basapur - Hanover Park IL, US
Anthony J. Braskich - Palatine IL, US
Paul C. Davis - Arlington Heights IL, US
Faisal Ishtiaq - Chicago IL, US
Crysta J. Metcalf - Cary IL, US
Ashley B. Novak - Chicago IL, US
Loren J. Rittle - Lake Zurich IL, US
Dale W. Russell - Palatine IL, US
James R. Talley - Austin TX, US
Narayanan Venkitaraman - Palatine IL, US

Assignee:

GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION - Horsham PA

International Classification:

H04N 21/43

US Classification:

725 34

Abstract:

While a user views a primary content item (for example, a movie on a television screen), secondary content items are selected and presented to the user, either on the same screen or on a screen of the user's companion device. To choose selections that are relevant to the user's current interests, the selection process considers information beyond the realm of primary and secondary content. Over time, the selection process learns to make more relevant selections by monitoring selection choices made by other systems.