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Laurence S. Gillick
Also filed as: GILLICK LAURENCE · GILLICK LAURENCE S · Gillick Laurence Steven
36 granted patents·16 pending applications·3,940 citations·filing 1986–2019
98Inventor score
Files withDRAGON SYSTEMS INC17VOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC13SEMANTIC MACHINES INC6MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC3NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC3
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52 records- 0198US9818400B2Method and apparatus for discovering trending terms in speech requestsAPPLE INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 14, 2017·185 cites·32 claims
- 0297US4903305AMethod for representing word models for use in speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1989·Granted Feb 20, 1990·378 cites·34 claims
- 0396US7467087B1Training and using pronunciation guessers in speech recognitionGILLICK LAURENCE S·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 16, 2008·428 cites·50 claims
- 0496US5680511ASystems and methods for word recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 21, 1997·411 cites·43 claims
- 0596US5202952ALarge-vocabulary continuous speech prefiltering and processing systemDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1990·Granted Apr 13, 1993·313 cites·27 claims
- 0694US4837831AMethod for creating and using multiple-word sound models in speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1986·Granted Jun 6, 1989·262 cites·24 claims
- 0792US5822730ALexical tree pre-filtering in speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 13, 1998·245 cites·30 claims
- 0891US6167377ASpeech recognition language modelsDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 26, 2000·265 cites·28 claims
- 0991US6052657AText segmentation and identification of topic using language modelsDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 18, 2000·241 cites·45 claims
- 1090US5946654ASpeaker identification using unsupervised speech modelsDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 31, 1999·184 cites·29 claims
- 1189US6029124ASequential, nonparametric speech recognition and speaker identificationDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 22, 2000·204 cites·27 claims
- 1285US10319381B2Iteratively updating parameters for dialog statesSEMANTIC MACHINES INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 11, 2019·6 cites·20 claims
- 1385US7120582B1Expanding an effective vocabulary of a speech recognition systemDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 10, 2006·169 cites·43 claims
- 1483US5715367AApparatuses and methods for developing and using models for speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 3, 1998·138 cites·16 claims
- 1581US4805219AMethod for speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1987·Granted Feb 14, 1989·84 cites·20 claims
- 1680US7676367B2Method of producing alternate utterance hypotheses using auxiliary information on close competitorsVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 9, 2010·39 cites·30 claims
- 1780US6151575ARapid adaptation of speech modelsDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 21, 2000·104 cites·25 claims
- 1879US10276160B2Automated assistant for user interaction via speechSEMANTIC MACHINES INC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 30, 2019·4 cites·20 claims
- 1978US7716050B2Multilingual speech recognitionVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 11, 2010·27 cites·48 claims
- 2077US10402488B2Automatic spoken dialogue script discoverySEMANTIC MACHINES INC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 3, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 2175US7003456B2Methods and systems of routing utterances based on confidence estimatesSCANSOFT INC·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 21, 2006·32 cites·35 claims
- 2274US5526463ASystem for processing a succession of utterances spoken in continuous or discrete formDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1993·Granted Jun 11, 1996·61 cites·27 claims
- 2373US11289085B2Automatic turn delineation in multi-turn dialogueMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 29, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 2472US7133827B1Training speech recognition word models from word samples synthesized by Monte Carlo techniquesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 7, 2006·23 cites·33 claims
- 2568US10431204B2Method and apparatus for discovering trending terms in speech requestsAPPLE INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 1, 2019·1 cites·39 claims
- 2666US10824798B2Data collection for a new conversational dialogue systemSEMANTIC MACHINES INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 3, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 2765US8065144B1Multilingual speech recognitionGILLICK LAURENCE S·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 22, 2011·3 cites·20 claims
- 2864US11133001B2Generating dialogue events for natural language systemMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 28, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 2963US4805218AMethod for speech analysis and speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1987·Granted Feb 14, 1989·38 cites·18 claims
- 3061US8447592B2Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice systemsEDGINGTON MICHAEL D·Filed 2005·Granted May 21, 2013·3 cites·27 claims
- 3161US4914703AMethod for deriving acoustic models for use in speech recognitionDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1986·Granted Apr 3, 1990·34 cites·24 claims
- 3260US6224636B1Speech recognition using nonparametric speech modelsDRAGON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted May 1, 2001·41 cites·24 claims
- 3360US2010298010A1Method and apparatus for back-up of customized application informationNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 3459US8706488B2Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice synthesisNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 22, 2014·1 cites·27 claims
- 3559US8577681B2Pronunciation discovery for spoken wordsROTH DANIEL L·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 5, 2013·9 cites·30 claims
- 3657US11188297B2Automatic spoken dialogue script discoveryMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 30, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 3755US2012164612A1Identification and detection of speech errors in language instructionGILLICK LAURENCE·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 3853US7797157B2Automatic speech recognition channel normalization based on measured statistics from initial portions of speech utterancesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 14, 2010·1 cites·23 claims
- 3953US2008153465A1Voice search-enabled mobile deviceVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4052US2005164692A1Method and apparatus for back-up of customized application informationVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4150US2014032216A1Pronunciation Discovery for Spoken WordsNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC·Filed 2013·Application pending·0 cites
- 4248US2008154870A1Collection and use of side information in voice-mediated mobile searchVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4347US2008154611A1Integrated voice search commands for mobile communication devicesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4447US2005137878A1Automatic voice addressing and messaging methods and apparatusVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4546US2004260547A1Signal-to-noise mediated speech recognition algorithmVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4644US2008154608A1On a mobile device tracking use of search results delivered to the mobile deviceVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4743US2008154612A1Local storage and use of search results for voice-enabled mobile communications devicesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4843US2004073428A1Apparatus, methods, and programming for speech synthesis via bit manipulations of compressed databaseFiled 2002·Application pending·0 cites
- 4941US2006161433A1Codec-dependent unit selection for mobile devicesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 5040US2005203729A1Methods and apparatus for replaceable customization of multimodal embedded interfacesVOICE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
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