Vladimir Sejnoha

6490555, Dec 3, 2002

Apr 5, 2000

09/543202

Girija Yegnanarayanan - Bedford MA
Vladimir Sejnoha - Cambridge MA
Ramesh Sarukkai - Billerica MA

ScanSoft, Inc. - Peabody MA

G10L 1500

704231

A method of a continuous speech recognition system is given for discriminatively training hidden Markov for a system recognition vocabulary. An input word phrase is converted into a sequence of representative frames. A correct state sequence alignment with the sequence of representative frames is determined, the correct state sequence alignment corresponding to models of words in the input word phrase. A plurality of incorrect recognition hypotheses is determined representing words in the recognition vocabulary that do not correspond to the input word phrase, each hypothesis being a state sequence based on the word models in the acoustic model database. A correct segment of the correct word model state sequence alignment is selected for discriminative training. A frame segment of frames in the sequence of representative frames is determined that corresponds to the correct segment. An incorrect segment of a state sequence in an incorrect recognition hypothesis is selected, the incorrect segment corresponding to the frame segment.

6606594, Aug 12, 2003

Sep 29, 1999

09/408388

Vladimir Sejnoha - Cambridge MA
Tom Lynch - Framingham MA
Ramesh Sarukkai - Billerica MA

ScanSoft, Inc. - Peabody MA

G10L 1506

704250, 704257

A speech recognition system recognizes an input utterance of spoken words. The system includes a set of word models for modeling vocabulary to be recognized, each word model being associated with a word in the vocabulary, each word in the vocabulary considered as a sequence of phones including a first phone and a last phone, wherein each word model begins in the middle of the first phone of its associated word and ends in the middle of the last phone of its associated word; a set of word connecting models for modeling acoustic transitions between the middle of a words last phone and the middle of an immediately succeeding words first phone; and a recognition engine for processing the input utterance in relation to the set of word models and the set of word connecting models to cause recognition of the input utterance.

8239366, Aug 7, 2012

Sep 8, 2010

12/877549

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Paul J. Vozila - Arlington MA, US
Nathan M. Bodenstab - Portland OR, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707707, 707759, 707760, 707767, 707810

Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may speak a search query and speech recognition may be performed on the spoken query to generate a text search query to be provided to a plurality of search engines. This enables a user to speak the search query rather than having to type it, and also allows the user to provide the search query only once, rather than having to provide it separately to multiple different search engines.

8341142, Dec 25, 2012

Sep 8, 2010

12/877440

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Gunnar Evermann - Boston MA, US
Marc W. Regan - Cambridge MA, US
Stephen W. Laverty - Worcester MA, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707707, 707759, 707760, 707767, 707810

Some embodiments relate to performing a search for content via the Internet, wherein user input specifying a search query is supplied to a mobile communications device, such as, for example, a smartphone. The mobile communications device separately issues the search query to a plurality of search engines and can receive the results from each search engine and display the results to the user. Thus, the user does not have to separately issue the query to each of the plurality of search engines.

20120059658, Mar 8, 2012

Sep 8, 2010

12/877690

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Gary B. Clayton - San Francisco CA, US
Victor S. Chen - Saratoga CA, US
Steven Hatch - Danvers MA, US
Gunnar Evermann - Boston MA, US
Marc W. Regan - Somerville MA, US
Stephen W. Laverty - Worcester MA, US
Paul J. Vozila - Arlington MA, US
Nathan M. Bodenstab - Portland OR, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G10L 21/00
G06F 17/30

704270, 707706, 707E17108, 704E15005

Embodiments of the present invention relate to searching for content on the Internet. A user may supply a search query to a device, and the device may issue the search query to a plurality of search engines, including at least one general purpose search engine and at least one site-specific search engine. In this way, the user need not separately issue search queries to each of the plurality of search engines.

20120059814, Mar 8, 2012

Sep 8, 2010

12/877647

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Paul J. Vozila - Arlington MA, US
Nathan M. Bodenstab - Portland OR, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G06F 17/30

707707, 707E17108

Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may issue a search query, and the search engine or engines to which that query is provided may be determined dynamically based on any of a variety of factors. For example, in some embodiments, the search engine or engines to which the query is provided may be determined based on the content of the search query, this historical access patterns of the user that issued the query, or the historical access patterns of other users.

20120060113, Mar 8, 2012

Sep 8, 2010

12/877765

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Victor S. Chen - Saratoga CA, US
Steven Hatch - Danvers MA, US
Gary B. Clayton - San Francisco CA, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G06F 3/048

715783

Some embodiments relate to using a carousel to display content. In some embodiments, a carousel having a plurality of slots may be displayed in a first portion of a display of a display device, and in response to user selection of one of the plurality of slots, content that is dynamically generated based on user input may be displayed in a second portion of the display, separate from the first portion.

20120259636, Oct 11, 2012

Jun 19, 2012

13/527500

Vladimir Sejnoha - Lexington MA, US
Paul J. Vozila - Arlington MA, US
Nathan M. Bodenstab - Portland OR, US

Nuance Communications, Inc. - Burlington MA

G10L 15/26

704235, 704E15043

Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may speak a search query and speech recognition may be performed on the spoken query to generate a text search query to be provided to a plurality of search engines. This enables a user to speak the search query rather than having to type it, and also allows the user to provide the search query only once, rather than having to provide it separately to multiple different search engines.