Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Kim Silverman

35Patents
20h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 18, 1997 → Nov 10, 2016

Most-cited inventions

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US8645137B2 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Physics 387 Active
US8355919B2 Systems and methods for text normalization for text to speech synthesis Physics 357 Active
US8352268B2 Systems and methods for selective rate of speech and speech preferences for text to speech synthesis Physics 355 Active
US8352272B2 Systems and methods for text to speech synthesis Physics 352 Active
US8396714B2 Systems and methods for concatenation of words in text to speech synthesis Physics 350 Active
US6208971A Method and apparatus for command recognition using data-driven semantic inference Physics 273 Expired
US9218809B2 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Physics 268 Active
US6064960A Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes Physics 265 Expired
US6366884B1 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes Physics 240 Expired
US6553344B2 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes Physics 236 Expired
US7076527B2 Method and apparatus for filtering email Electricity 225 Expired
US6836760B1 Use of semantic inference and context-free grammar with speech recognition system Physics 197 Expired
US9646614B2 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Physics 189 Active
US7313523B1 Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or previous information in speech synthesis Physics 174 Expired
US7849141B1 Training a computer storage system for automatic filing of data using graphical representations of storage locations Electricity 153 Active
US6670970B1 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Physics 115 Expired
US8775442B2 Semantic search using a single-source semantic model Physics 85 Active
US8712776B2 Systems and methods for selective text to speech synthesis Physics 49 Active
US8103505B1 Method and apparatus for speech synthesis using paralinguistic variation Physics 22 Active
US6697779B1 Combined dual spectral and temporal alignment method for user authentication by voice Physics 20 Expired
US7640305B1 Filtering of data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US8583418B2 Systems and methods of detecting language and natural language strings for text to speech synthesis Physics 16 Active
US7343562B2 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Physics 14 Expired
US8036894B2 Multi-unit approach to text-to-speech synthesis Physics 10 Active
US6785652B2 Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes Physics 9 Expired

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