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ACERO ALEJANDRO

US158 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP

42 patents
US6959276B2Oct 25, 2005

Including the category of environmental noise when processing speech signals

MICROSOFT CORP190 citations99
US6163769ADec 19, 2000

Text-to-speech using clustered context-dependent phoneme-based units

MICROSOFT CORP285 citations99
US8385557B2Feb 26, 2013

Multichannel acoustic echo reduction

MICROSOFT CORP296 citations98
US7640272B2Dec 29, 2009

Using automated content analysis for audio/video content consumption

MICROSOFT CORP85 citations98
US7634407B2Dec 15, 2009

Method and apparatus for indexing speech

MICROSOFT CORP60 citations98
US7107210B2Sep 12, 2006

Method of noise reduction based on dynamic aspects of speech

MICROSOFT CORP92 citations98
US7080004B2Jul 18, 2006

Grammar authoring system

MICROSOFT CORP65 citations98
US6985858B2Jan 10, 2006

Method and apparatus for removing noise from feature vectors

MICROSOFT CORP180 citations98
US5913193AJun 15, 1999

Method and system of runtime acoustic unit selection for speech synthesis

MICROSOFT CORP421 citations98
US7548847B2Jun 16, 2009

System for automatically annotating training data for a natural language understanding system

MICROSOFT CORP51 citations97
US8005238B2Aug 23, 2011

Robust adaptive beamforming with enhanced noise suppression

MICROSOFT CORP86 citations96
US7478038B2Jan 13, 2009

Language model adaptation using semantic supervision

MICROSOFT CORP70 citations96
US7117148B2Oct 3, 2006

Method of noise reduction using correction vectors based on dynamic aspects of speech and noise normalization

MICROSOFT CORP40 citations96
US7047047B2May 16, 2006

Non-linear observation model for removing noise from corrupted signals

MICROSOFT CORP50 citations96
US7028325B1Apr 11, 2006

Annotating programs for automatic summary generation

MICROSOFT CORP47 citations96
US6505152B1Jan 7, 2003

Method and apparatus for using formant models in speech systems

MICROSOFT CORP46 citations96
US6226606B1May 1, 2001

Method and apparatus for pitch tracking

MICROSOFT CORP91 citations96
US5604839AFeb 18, 1997

Method and system for improving speech recognition through front-end normalization of feature vectors

MICROSOFT CORP86 citations96
US9519859B2Dec 13, 2016

Deep structured semantic model produced using click-through data

MICROSOFT CORP32 citations94
US7634406B2Dec 15, 2009

System and method for identifying semantic intent from acoustic information

MICROSOFT CORP54 citations94
US6879952B2Apr 12, 2005

Sound source separation using convolutional mixing and a priori sound source knowledge

MICROSOFT CORP44 citations94
US8351589B2Jan 8, 2013

Spatial audio for audio conferencing

MICROSOFT CORP26 citations93
US7725314B2May 25, 2010

Method and apparatus for constructing a speech filter using estimates of clean speech and noise

MICROSOFT CORP23 citations93
US7383181B2Jun 3, 2008

Multi-sensory speech detection system

MICROSOFT CORP24 citations93
US7289955B2Oct 30, 2007

Method of determining uncertainty associated with acoustic distortion-based noise reduction

MICROSOFT CORP20 citations93
US7266494B2Sep 4, 2007

Method and apparatus for identifying noise environments from noisy signals

MICROSOFT CORP40 citations93
US7181390B2Feb 20, 2007

Noise reduction using correction vectors based on dynamic aspects of speech and noise normalization

MICROSOFT CORP27 citations93
US7174292B2Feb 6, 2007

Method of determining uncertainty associated with acoustic distortion-based noise reduction

MICROSOFT CORP30 citations93
US7165026B2Jan 16, 2007

Method of noise estimation using incremental bayes learning

MICROSOFT CORP22 citations93
US7139703B2Nov 21, 2006

Method of iterative noise estimation in a recursive framework

MICROSOFT CORP50 citations93
US7103540B2Sep 5, 2006

Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty

MICROSOFT CORP24 citations93
US7003455B1Feb 21, 2006

Method of noise reduction using correction and scaling vectors with partitioning of the acoustic space in the domain of noisy speech

MICROSOFT CORP16 citations93
US6944590B2Sep 13, 2005

Method of iterative noise estimation in a recursive framework

MICROSOFT CORP40 citations93
US6708154B2Mar 16, 2004

Method and apparatus for using formant models in resonance control for speech systems

MICROSOFT CORP27 citations93
US6253182B1Jun 26, 2001

Method and apparatus for speech synthesis with efficient spectral smoothing

MICROSOFT CORP52 citations93
US8005237B2Aug 23, 2011

Sensor array beamformer post-processor

MICROSOFT CORP22 citations92
US7941316B2May 10, 2011

Combined speech and alternate input modality to a mobile device

MICROSOFT CORP28 citations92
US7856351B2Dec 21, 2010

Integrated speech recognition and semantic classification

MICROSOFT CORP32 citations92
US7565288B2Jul 21, 2009

Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array

MICROSOFT CORP25 citations92
US7451083B2Nov 11, 2008

Removing noise from feature vectors

MICROSOFT CORP14 citations92
US7447630B2Nov 4, 2008

Method and apparatus for multi-sensory speech enhancement

MICROSOFT CORP27 citations92
US7379867B2May 27, 2008

Discriminative training of language models for text and speech classification

MICROSOFT CORP37 citations92

APPLE INC

3 patents

APPLE COMPUTER

2 patents

TASHEV IVAN J

1 patent

TASHEV IVAN

1 patent

ZHANG ZHENGYOU

1 patent

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