Nuance Communications

About: Nuance Communications is a company organization based out in Vienna, Austria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Speech processing & Voice activity detection. The organization has 1518 authors who have published 1701 publications receiving 54891 citations. The organization is also known as: ScanSoft & ScanSoft Inc..

Method and apparatus for processing spoken search queries

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method of performing a search for content on the Internet, in which a user may speak a search query and speech recognition may be performed on the spoken query to generate a text search query to be provided to a plurality of search engines. This enables a user to speak the search query rather than having to type it, and also allows the user to provide the search query only once, rather than having to provide it separately to multiple different search engines.

Systems and methods to index and search voice sites

Abstract: A method comprises crawling and indexing voice sites and storing results in an index; receiving a search request in voice from a user via a telephone; performing speech recognition on the voice search request and converting the request from voice to text; parsing the query; and performing a search on the index and ranking the search results. Search results may be filtered based on attributes such as location and context. Filtered search results may be presented to the user in categories to enable easy voice browsing of the search results by the user. Computer program code and systems are also provided.

Message intercept methods, such as for customer self-support on a mobile device

Abstract: A method for intercepting calls from a remote or mobile device (100) for customer self-support detects when users or subscribers send messages, such as text messages. If the message contains an address that corresponds to a predetermined address (such as a customer support address), the phone may intercept the message and display a list of potential solutions to the subscriber's problems. Various other features and embodiments are disclosed.

Using description logics for RDF constraint checking and closed-world recognition

Abstract: RDF and Description Logics work in an open-world setting where absence of information is not information about absence Nevertheless, Description Logic axioms can be interpreted in a closed-world setting and in this setting they can be used for both constraint checking and closed-world recognition against information sources When the information sources are expressed in well-behaved RDF or RDFS (ie, RDF graphs interpreted in the RDF or RDFS semantics) this constraint checking and closed-world recognition is simple to describe Further this constraint checking can be implemented as SPARQL querying and thus effectively performed

Data Entry System and Method of Entering Data

Abstract: A method and apparatus for entering words into a computer system. Letters contained in a desired word are entered by giving approximate location and directional information relative to any specified keyboard layout. The inputs need not correspond to specific keys on the keyboard, a sequence of ambiguous key entries corresponding to individual words can be used to retrieve a word from the dictionary. The system tracks directional information of movement relative to a/the specific keyboard layout, reducing it to predetermined primary directions and translates this seemingly ambiguous information into accurate words from the dictionary. The system may also capture the user's intention (with regard to text entry) by observing the movements on the keyboard.