Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Roland Kuhn

45Patents
25h-index
49Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 29, 1998 → Feb 5, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6643620B1 Voice activated controller for recording and retrieving audio/video programs Electricity 439 Expired
US6415257B1 System for identifying and adapting a TV-user profile by means of speech technology Electricity 280 Expired
US6141644A Speaker verification and speaker identification based on eigenvoices Physics 271 Expired
US6029132A Method for letter-to-sound in text-to-speech synthesis Physics 268 Expired
US6016471A Method and apparatus using decision trees to generate and score multiple pronunciations for a spelled word Physics 258 Expired
US6324512A System and method for allowing family members to access TV contents and program media recorder over telephone or internet Electricity 238 Expired
US6343267B1 Dimensionality reduction for speaker normalization and speaker and environment adaptation using eigenvoice techniques Physics 222 Expired
US6895257B2 Personalized agent for portable devices and cellular phone Electricity 211 Expired
US6901366B1 System and method for assessing TV-related information over the internet Physics 205 Expired
US6970820B2 Voice personalization of speech synthesizer Physics 185 Expired
US7046139B2 Method and parental control and monitoring of usage of devices connected to home network Electricity 160 Expired
US6553345B1 Universal remote control allowing natural language modality for television and multimedia searches and requests Electricity 144 Expired
US6233561A Method for goal-oriented speech translation in hand-held devices using meaning extraction and dialogue Physics 126 Expired
US6615567B2 Vertical tubular bagging machine Performing Operations; Transporting 65 Expired
US6363342B1 System for developing word-pronunciation pairs Physics 60 Expired
US6697778B1 Speaker verification and speaker identification based on a priori knowledge Physics 60 Expired
US8612203B2 Statistical machine translation adapted to context Physics 57 Active
US6230131A Method for generating spelling-to-pronunciation decision tree Physics 54 Expired
US6330537A Automatic filtering of TV contents using speech recognition and natural language Electricity 50 Expired
US6233553A Method and system for automatically determining phonetic transcriptions associated with spelled words Physics 50 Expired
US6684185B1 Small footprint language and vocabulary independent word recognizer using registration by word spelling Physics 41 Expired
US8594992B2 Method and system for using alignment means in matching translation Physics 40 Active
US6571208B1 Context-dependent acoustic models for medium and large vocabulary speech recognition with eigenvoice training Physics 30 Expired
US7349758B2 Interactive personalized robot for home use Physics 29 Expired
US6711541B1 Technique for developing discriminative sound units for speech recognition and allophone modeling Physics 29 Expired

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