Horacio E. Franco
25Patents
12h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 22, 1992 → Dec 21, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US9082402B2 | Generic virtual personal assistant platform | Physics | 261 | Active |
| US9575964B2 | Generic virtual personal assistant platform | Physics | 222 | Active |
| US7308404B2 | Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary | Physics | 190 | Expired |
| US7016849B2 | Method and apparatus for providing speech-driven routing between spoken language applications | Physics | 121 | Expired |
| US6055498A | Method and apparatus for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instruction | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US5317673A | Method and apparatus for context-dependent estimation of multiple probability distributions of phonetic classes with multilayer perceptrons in a speech recognition system | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US7013275B2 | Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic speech-driven control and remote service access system | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US6226611A | Method and system for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instruction | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7610199B2 | Method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US7756710B2 | Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7533020B2 | Method and apparatus for performing relational speech recognition | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7120580B2 | Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7324945B2 | Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition system | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6996519B2 | Method and apparatus for performing relational speech recognition | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US9501743B2 | Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8527270B2 | Method and apparatus for conducting an interactive dialogue | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US9213558B2 | Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US10366336B2 | Method and apparatus for exploiting human feedback in an intelligent automated assistant | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10163440B2 | Generic virtual personal assistant platform | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7571095B2 | Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US11217228B2 | Systems and methods for speech recognition in unseen and noisy channel conditions | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10777188B2 | Time-frequency convolutional neural network with bottleneck architecture for query-by-example processing | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US9576570B2 | Method and apparatus for adding new vocabulary to interactive translation and dialogue systems | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US9928832B2 | Method and apparatus for classifying lexical stress | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10755713B2 | Generic virtual personal assistant platform | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.