Inventor · Winchester, GB

John Brian Pickering

37Patents
17h-index
42Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 23, 1993 → Aug 28, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6594347B1 Speech encoding in a client server system Electricity 241 Expired
US6496799B1 End-of-utterance determination for voice processing Physics 113 Expired
US6704708B1 Interactive voice response system Electricity 109 Expired
US6453020B1 Voice processing system Electricity 83 Expired
US6944592B1 Interactive voice response system Electricity 80 Expired
US6601029B1 Voice processing apparatus Physics 59 Expired
US6282268A Voice processing system Electricity 55 Expired
US5668854A Distributed system for call processing Electricity 49 Expired
US6882973B1 Speech recognition system with barge-in capability Physics 46 Expired
US5471521A Distributed system for call processing Electricity 41 Expired
US8561014B2 Extracting a system modelling meta-model language model for a system from a natural language specification of the system Physics 41 Active
US7716051B2 Distributed voice recognition system and method Physics 36 Active
US5799278A 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. Physics 24 Expired
US7552396B1 Associating screen position with audio location to detect changes to the performance of an application Physics 22 Active
US5878117A Distributed system for call processing Electricity 21 Expired
US7983701B2 Alerts based on significance of free format text messages Electricity 19 Active
US6675143B1 Automatic language identification Physics 18 Expired
US7490040B2 Method and apparatus for preparing a document to be read by a text-to-speech reader Physics 15 Expired
US6738457B1 Voice processing system Electricity 14 Expired
US7953601B2 Method and apparatus for preparing a document to be read by text-to-speech reader Physics 13 Active
US7912721B2 System and method for automatic speech recognition Physics 12 Active
US7725817B2 Generating a parser and parsing a document Physics 11 Active
US7489334B1 Method and system for reducing the cost of sampling a moving image Electricity 10 Active
US8000962B2 Method and system for using input signal quality in speech recognition Physics 6 Active
US7415415B2 Computer generated prompting Physics 4 Active

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