Inventor
Michael A. Picheny
Inventor
White Plains, NY, US
Overview
Patents· 63 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G10Lprimary
G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis74%
G06FElectric digital data processing12%
G16HHealthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical or healthcare data4%
H04MTelephonic communication4%
H03MCoding2%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models1%
G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer1%
H03LAutomatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses1%
PatentTitleYear
11,094,322Optimizing speech to text conversion and text summarization using a medical provider workflow model202110,902,843Using recurrent neural network for partitioning of audio data into segments that each correspond to a speech feature cluster identifier202110,839,792Recognition of out-of-vocabulary in direct acoustics-to-word speech recognition using acoustic word embedding202010,726,844Smart medical room optimization of speech recognition systems202010,546,575Using recurrent neural network for partitioning of audio data into segments that each correspond to a speech feature cluster identifier202010,510,348Smart medical room optimization of speech recognition systems201910,249,292Using long short-term memory recurrent neural network for speaker diarization segmentation20199,704,482'Method and system for order-free spoken term detection'20179,697,830'Method and system for order-free spoken term detection'20179,195,650'Translating between spoken and written language'20158,924,210'Text processing using natural language understanding'20148,856,004'Text processing using natural language understanding'20148,145,491'Techniques for enhancing the performance of concatenative speech synthesis'20127,996,211'Method and apparatus for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation'20117,716,052'Method, apparatus and computer program providing a multi-speaker database for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis'20107,702,510'System and method for dynamically selecting among TTS systems'20107,610,191'Method for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation'20097,490,042'Methods and apparatus for adapting output speech in accordance with context of communication'20097,475,015'Semantic language modeling and confidence measurement'20097,464,031'Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features'20087,054,810'Feature vector-based apparatus and method for robust pattern recognition'20067,043,432'Method and system for text-to-speech caching'20066,925,154'Methods and apparatus for conversational name dialing systems'20056,859,778'Method and apparatus for translating natural-language speech using multiple output phrases'20056,850,888'Methods and apparatus for training a pattern recognition system using maximal rank likelihood as an optimization function'20056,754,625'Augmentation of alternate word lists by acoustic confusability criterion'20046,615,170'Model-based voice activity detection system and method using a log-likelihood ratio and pitch'20036,556,972'Method and apparatus for time-synchronized translation and synthesis of natural-language speech'20036,493,667'Enhanced likelihood computation using regression in a speech recognition system'20026,275,801'Non-leaf node penalty score assignment system and method for improving acoustic fast match speed in large vocabulary systems'20016,219,638'Telephone messaging and editing system'20016,199,041'System and method for sampling rate transformation in speech recognition'20016,073,096'Speaker adaptation system and method based on class-specific pre-clustering training speakers'20006,023,673'Hierarchical labeler in a speech recognition system'20005,995,590'Method and apparatus for a communication device for use by a hearing impaired/mute or deaf person or in silent environments'19995,963,905'Method and apparatus for improving acoustic fast match speed using a cache for phone probabilities'19995,864,805'Method and apparatus for error correction in a continuous dictation system'19995,806,021'Automatic segmentation of continuous text using statistical approaches'19985,751,905'Statistical acoustic processing method and apparatus for speech recognition using a toned phoneme system'19985,680,509'Method and apparatus for estimating phone class probabilities a-posteriori using a decision tree'19975,649,060'Automatic indexing and aligning of audio and text using speech recognition'19975,615,299'Speech recognition using dynamic features'19975,544,277'Speech coding apparatus and method for generating acoustic feature vector component values by combining values of the same features for multiple time intervals'19965,522,011'Speech coding apparatus and method using classification rules'19965,497,447'Speech coding apparatus having acoustic prototype vectors generated by tying to elementary models and clustering around reference vectors'19965,455,889'Labelling speech using context-dependent acoustic prototypes'19955,333,236'Speech recognizer having a speech coder for an acoustic match based on context-dependent speech-transition acoustic models'19945,280,562'Speech coding apparatus with single-dimension acoustic prototypes for a speech recognizer'19945,278,942'Speech coding apparatus having speaker dependent prototypes generated from nonuser reference data'19945,276,766'Fast algorithm for deriving acoustic prototypes for automatic speech recognition'19945,233,681'Context-dependent speech recognizer using estimated next word context'19935,222,146'Speech recognition apparatus having a speech coder outputting acoustic prototype ranks'19935,195,167'Apparatus and method of grouping utterances of a phoneme into context-dependent categories based on sound-similarity for automatic speech recognition'19935,182,773'Speaker-independent label coding apparatus'19935,165,007'Feneme-based Markov models for words'19925,129,001'Method and apparatus for modeling words with multi-arc markov models'19925,072,452'Automatic determination of labels and Markov word models in a speech recognition system'19914,977,599'Speech recognition employing a set of Markov models that includes Markov models representing transitions to and from silence'19904,882,759'Synthesizing word baseforms used in speech recognition'19894,833,712'Automatic generation of simple Markov model stunted baseforms for words in a vocabulary'19894,819,271'Constructing Markov model word baseforms from multiple utterances by concatenating model sequences for word segments'19894,817,158'Normalization of speech signals'19894,759,068'Constructing Markov models of words from multiple utterances'1988Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1988–2021Patents assigned to IBM (55)· patent assignee history
1988–2021Based in White Plains, NY, US· patent location history
2003–2005Patents assigned to OIPENN INC (2)· patent assignee history
2009–2015Patents assigned to NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC (8)· patent assignee history
2014Patents assigned to BASSON SARA H (1)· patent assignee history
2014Patents assigned to HAMILTON RICK (1)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| IBM | 55 | 1988–2021 |
| NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC | 8 | 2009–2015 |
| OIPENN INC | 2 | 2003–2005 |
| BASSON SARA H | 1 | 2014 |
| HAMILTON RICK | 1 | 2014 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| White Plains, New York, US | 63 | 1988–2021 |