Ellen M. Eide
27Patents
10h-index
24Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 12, 1997 → Apr 3, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7761296B1 | System and method for rescoring N-best hypotheses of an automatic speech recognition system | Physics | 280 | Expired |
| US6101470A | Methods for generating pitch and duration contours in a text to speech system | Physics | 242 | Expired |
| US7472065B2 | Generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech synthesis | Physics | 228 | Active |
| US6535852B2 | Training of text-to-speech systems | Physics | 168 | Expired |
| US6073095A | Fast vocabulary independent method and apparatus for spotting words in speech | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US5884259A | Method and apparatus for a time-synchronous tree-based search strategy | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US7401020B2 | Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US7490042B2 | Methods and apparatus for adapting output speech in accordance with context of communication | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7016835B2 | Speech and signal digitization by using recognition metrics to select from multiple techniques | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7280969B2 | Method and apparatus for producing natural sounding pitch contours in a speech synthesizer | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US8909528B2 | Method and system for prompt construction for selection from a list of acoustically confusable items in spoken dialog systems | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US8725513B2 | Providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7966185B2 | Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US8065150B2 | Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US7716052B2 | Method, apparatus and computer program providing a multi-speaker database for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7702510B2 | System and method for dynamically selecting among TTS systems | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6823305B2 | Apparatus and method for speaker normalization based on biometrics | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US8046213B2 | On demand TTS vocabulary for a telematics system | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8886538B2 | Systems and methods for text-to-speech synthesis using spoken example | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7337114B2 | Speech recognition using discriminant features | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US7415413B2 | Methods for conveying synthetic speech style from a text-to-speech system | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8355484B2 | Methods and apparatus for masking latency in text-to-speech systems | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7747440B2 | Methods and apparatus for conveying synthetic speech style from a text-to-speech system | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8849669B2 | System for tuning synthesized speech | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8401861B2 | Generating a frequency warping function based on phoneme and context | Physics | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.