Inventor
PICKERING JOHN BRIAN
GB28 patents
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IBM
18 patentsUS6704708B1Mar 9, 2004
Interactive voice response system
IBM173 citations99
US6496799B1Dec 17, 2002
End-of-utterance determination for voice processing
IBM157 citations99
US6944592B1Sep 13, 2005
Interactive voice response system
IBM138 citations98
US6882973B1Apr 19, 2005
Speech recognition system with barge-in capability
IBM80 citations98
US6601029B1Jul 29, 2003
Voice processing apparatus
IBM95 citations98
US6594347B1Jul 15, 2003
Speech encoding in a client server system
IBM280 citations96
US5668854ASep 16, 1997
Distributed system for call processing
IBM74 citations95
US6453020B1Sep 17, 2002
Voice processing system
IBM108 citations94
US6282268B1Aug 28, 2001
Voice processing system
IBM82 citations94
US5799278AAug 25, 1998
Speech recognition system and method using a hidden markov model adapted to recognize a number of words and trained to recognize a greater number of phonetically dissimilar words.
IBM39 citations92
US5878117AMar 2, 1999
Distributed system for call processing
IBM35 citations91
US6738457B1May 18, 2004
Voice processing system
IBM32 citations90
US7983701B2Jul 19, 2011
Alerts based on significance of free format text messages
IBM27 citations88
US7725817B2May 25, 2010
Generating a parser and parsing a document
IBM22 citations88
US6675143B1Jan 6, 2004
Automatic language identification
IBM31 citations86
US7415415B2Aug 19, 2008
Computer generated prompting
IBM8 citations71
US11956300B2Apr 9, 2024
Message switching
IBM0 citations62
US7865176B2Jan 4, 2011
Alerts based on significance of fixed format SMS text messages
IBM4 citations58
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC
4 patentsUS7716051B2May 11, 2010
Distributed voice recognition system and method
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC55 citations93
US8000962B2Aug 16, 2011
Method and system for using input signal quality in speech recognition
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC12 citations84
US7912721B2Mar 22, 2011
System and method for automatic speech recognition
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC17 citations78
US9502024B2Nov 22, 2016
Methods, apparatus and computer programs for automatic speech recognition
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC2 citations60