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Horacio E. Franco
Also filed as: FRANCO HORACIO · FRANCO HORACIO E · FRANCO HORACIO F
25 granted patents·3 pending applications·1,459 citations·filing 1992–2024
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28 records- 0197US9575964B2Generic virtual personal assistant platformSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 21, 2017·229 cites·29 claims
- 0295US9082402B2Generic virtual personal assistant platformYADGAR OSHER·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 14, 2015·271 cites·28 claims
- 0394US7308404B2Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabularySTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 11, 2007·212 cites·49 claims
- 0494US7016849B2Method and apparatus for providing speech-driven routing between spoken language applicationsSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 21, 2006·164 cites·60 claims
- 0591US9501743B2Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a userSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 22, 2016·10 cites·18 claims
- 0691US7013275B2Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic speech-driven control and remote service access systemSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 14, 2006·94 cites·31 claims
- 0790US6226611B1Method and system for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instructionSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2000·Granted May 1, 2001·74 cites·11 claims
- 0887US7610199B2Method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applicationsSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 27, 2009·33 cites·39 claims
- 0986US7533020B2Method and apparatus for performing relational speech recognitionNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2005·Granted May 12, 2009·21 cites·23 claims
- 1086US6055498AMethod and apparatus for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instructionSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 25, 2000·164 cites·39 claims
- 1185US7756710B2Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applicationsSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 13, 2010·23 cites·20 claims
- 1280US10163440B2Generic virtual personal assistant platformSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 25, 2018·2 cites·38 claims
- 1379US9213558B2Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a userTUR GOKHAN·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 15, 2015·9 cites·18 claims
- 1477US5317673AMethod and apparatus for context-dependent estimation of multiple probability distributions of phonetic classes with multilayer perceptrons in a speech recognition systemSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 1992·Granted May 31, 1994·80 cites·20 claims
- 1575US8527270B2Method and apparatus for conducting an interactive dialoguePRECODA KRISTIN·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 3, 2013·10 cites·17 claims
- 1670US7324945B2Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition systemSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 29, 2008·19 cites·35 claims
- 1770US7120580B2Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environmentSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 10, 2006·24 cites·12 claims
- 1868US6996519B2Method and apparatus for performing relational speech recognitionSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 7, 2006·16 cites·17 claims
- 1966US10366336B2Method and apparatus for exploiting human feedback in an intelligent automated assistantTUR GOKHAN·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 30, 2019·3 cites·24 claims
- 2057US10755713B2Generic virtual personal assistant platformSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 25, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2153US7571095B2Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environmentSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 4, 2009·1 cites·20 claims
- 2252US2017061316A1Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a userSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 2350US2024304175A1Speech modification using accent embeddingsSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 2442US9928832B2Method and apparatus for classifying lexical stressSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 27, 2018·0 cites·26 claims
- 2542US2005125224A1Method and apparatus for fusion of recognition results from multiple types of data sourcesFiled 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 2639US11217228B2Systems and methods for speech recognition in unseen and noisy channel conditionsSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 4, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2737US10777188B2Time-frequency convolutional neural network with bottleneck architecture for query-by-example processingSTANFORD RES INST INT·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 15, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2836US9576570B2Method and apparatus for adding new vocabulary to interactive translation and dialogue systemsPRECODA KRISTIN·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 21, 2017·0 cites·20 claims
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