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Frank Kao-Ping Soong
Also filed as: SOONG FRANK · SOONG FRANK K · SOONG FRANK K-P · SOONG FRANK KAO-PING
35 granted patents·23 pending applications·1,910 citations·filing 1994–2022
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58 records- 0197US7983478B2Hidden markov model based handwriting/calligraphy generationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 19, 2011·288 cites·19 claims
- 0297US7689421B2Voice persona service for embedding text-to-speech features into software programsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 30, 2010·307 cites·18 claims
- 0396US8224652B2Speech and text driven HMM-based body animation synthesisWANG LIJUAN·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 17, 2012·107 cites·16 claims
- 0496US7689408B2Identifying language of origin for words using estimates of normalized appearance frequencyMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 30, 2010·283 cites·11 claims
- 0593US5377301ATechnique for modifying reference vector quantized speech feature signalsAT & T CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 27, 1994·244 cites·21 claims
- 0692US8077975B2Handwriting symbol recognition accuracy using speech inputMA LEI·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 13, 2011·64 cites·18 claims
- 0792US5675704ASpeaker verification with cohort normalized scoringLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 7, 1997·215 cites·17 claims
- 0890US8244534B2HMM-based bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS techniquesQIAN YAO·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 14, 2012·31 cites·14 claims
- 0989US9613450B2Photo-realistic synthesis of three dimensional animation with facial features synchronized with speechWANG LIJUAN·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 4, 2017·22 cites·20 claims
- 1086US7860716B2Speech model refinement with transcription error detectionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 28, 2010·19 cites·20 claims
- 1185US7848917B2Common word graph based multimodal inputMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 7, 2010·15 cites·14 claims
- 1283US7890325B2Subword unit posterior probability for measuring confidenceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 15, 2011·16 cites·10 claims
- 1380US6009390ATechnique for selective use of Gaussian kernels and mixture component weights of tied-mixture hidden Markov models for speech recognitionLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 28, 1999·93 cites·32 claims
- 1477US8594993B2Frame mapping approach for cross-lingual voice transformationQIAN YAO·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 26, 2013·7 cites·20 claims
- 1577US7496513B2Combined input processing for a computing deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 24, 2009·8 cites·12 claims
- 1676US7977562B2Synthesized singing voice waveform generatorMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 12, 2011·8 cites·17 claims
- 1776US7844457B2Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 30, 2010·10 cites·9 claims
- 1872US6138095ASpeech recognitionLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 24, 2000·65 cites·7 claims
- 1971US7805004B2Radical set determination for HMM based east asian character recognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 28, 2010·9 cites·18 claims
- 2070US8355917B2Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identificationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 15, 2013·3 cites·20 claims
- 2170US7885456B2Symbol graph generation in handwritten mathematical expression recognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 8, 2011·5 cites·16 claims
- 2267US8751228B2Minimum converted trajectory error (MCTE) audio-to-video engineWANG LIJUAN·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 10, 2014·3 cites·20 claims
- 2365US6701291B2Automatic speech recognition with psychoacoustically-based feature extraction, using easily-tunable single-shape filters along logarithmic-frequency axisLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 2, 2004·13 cites·60 claims
- 2462US8542927B2Character auto-completion for online east asian handwriting inputLIU PENG·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 24, 2013·2 cites·20 claims
- 2561US8340965B2Rich context modeling for text-to-speech enginesYan zhi-jie·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 25, 2012·5 cites·23 claims
- 2661US7805301B2Covariance estimation for pattern recognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 28, 2010·2 cites·8 claims
- 2760US2024420588A1Error Diagnosis And FeedbackMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 2858US7903877B2Radical-based HMM modeling for handwritten East Asian charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 8, 2011·3 cites·15 claims
- 2957US10319363B2Audio human interactive proof based on text-to-speech and semanticsQIAN YAO·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 11, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 3057US9728203B2Photo-realistic synthesis of image sequences with lip movements synchronized with speechWANG LIJUAN·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 8, 2017·1 cites·20 claims
- 3157US8719027B2Name synthesisCHEN YINING·Filed 2007·Granted May 6, 2014·4 cites·15 claims
- 3257US2009177601A1Status-aware personal information managementMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3356US8135590B2Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identificationLIU PENG·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 13, 2012·1 cites·5 claims
- 3456US5680506AApparatus and method for speech signal analysisLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 21, 1997·32 cites·41 claims
- 3553US2012276504A1Talking Teacher Visualization for Language LearningCHEN GANG·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 3652US8239332B2Constrained line search optimization for discriminative training of HMMSLIU PENG·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 7, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 3749US5995926ATechnique for effectively recognizing sequence of digits in voice dialingLUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 30, 1999·23 cites·28 claims
- 3849US2010166314A1Segment Sequence-Based Handwritten Expression RecognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3947US2009228273A1Handwriting-based user interface for correction of speech recognition errorsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 4047US2010066742A1Stylized prosody for speech synthesis-based applicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 4146US8583438B2Unnatural prosody detection in speech synthesisZHAO YONG·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 12, 2013·0 cites·15 claims
- 4246US2010198577A1State mapping for cross-language speaker adaptationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4345US2024203431A1Robust authentication of digital audioMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4445US2011231193A1Synthesized singing voice waveform generatorMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 4545US2009099847A1Template constrained posterior probabilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4644US2011071835A1Small footprint text-to-speech engineMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4744US2008215318A1Event recognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4844US2008195381A1Line Spectrum pair density modeling for speech applicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4944US2008243503A1Minimum divergence based discriminative training for pattern recognitionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 5044US2008189109A1Segmentation posterior based boundary point determinationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
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