公开(公告)号：US20250104714A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18975587

申请日：2024-12-10

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G10L25/60 ,  H04M1/247 ,  H04M3/42

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of hypothesis transcriptions of a voice signal generated by a speech recognition system, determining consistent words that are included in at least first and second of the plurality of hypothesis transcriptions, in response to determining the consistent words, providing the consistent words to a device for presentation of the consistent words to an assisted user, and presenting the consistent words via a display screen on the device, wherein a rate of the presentation of the words on the display screen is variable.

公开(公告)号：US20250037719A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18911427

申请日：2024-10-10

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G10L25/60 ,  H04M1/247 ,  H04M3/42

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of hypothesis transcriptions of a voice signal generated by a speech recognition system, determining consistent words that are included in at least first and second of the plurality of hypothesis transcriptions, in response to determining the consistent words, providing the consistent words to a device for presentation of the consistent words to an assisted user, and presenting the consistent words via a display screen on the device, wherein a rate of the presentation of the words on the display screen is variable.

公开(公告)号：US12035070B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17984445

申请日：2022-11-10

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Christopher Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Robert M. Engelke

IPC: H04N5/278 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/488

CPC classification number: H04N5/278 ,  H04M3/42042 ,  H04M3/42382 ,  H04M3/42391 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04N21/2393 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/4884 ,  H04N21/4316

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating communication between an assisted user (AU) and a hearing user (HU) includes receiving an HU voice signal as the AU and HU participate in a call using AU and HU communication devices, transcribing HU voice signal segments into verbatim caption segments, processing each verbatim caption segment to identify an intended communication (IC) intended by the HU upon uttering an associated one of the HU voice signal segments, for at least a portion of the HU voice signal segments (i) using an associated IC to generate an enhanced caption different than the associated verbatim caption, (ii) for each of a first subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting the verbatim captions via the AU communication device display for consumption, and (iii) for each of a second subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting enhanced captions via the AU communication device display for consumption.

公开(公告)号：US20240127822A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-18

申请号：US18396138

申请日：2023-12-26

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  H04M1/247

CPC classification number: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  H04M1/2475 ,  H04M3/42391

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of hypothesis transcriptions of a voice signal generated by a speech recognition system, determining consistent words that are included in at least first and second of the plurality of hypothesis transcriptions, in response to determining the consistent words, providing the consistent words to a device for presentation of the consistent words to an assisted user, and presenting the consistent words via a display screen on the device, wherein a rate of the presentation of the words on the display screen is variable.

公开(公告)号：US20240119940A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US18545214

申请日：2023-12-19

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  H04M1/247

CPC classification number: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/01 ,  H04M1/2475 ,  H04M3/42391

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of hypothesis transcriptions of a voice signal generated by a speech recognition system, determining consistent words that are included in at least first and second of the plurality of hypothesis transcriptions, in response to determining the consistent words, providing the consistent words to a device for presentation of the consistent words to an assisted user, and presenting the consistent words via a display screen on the device, wherein a rate of the presentation of the words on the display screen is variable.

公开(公告)号：US20230066793A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17984445

申请日：2022-11-10

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Christopher Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Robert M. Engelke

IPC: H04N5/278 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04M11/00 ,  H04M3/42

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating communication between an assisted user (AU) and a hearing user (HU) includes receiving an HU voice signal as the AU and HU participate in a call using AU and HU communication devices, transcribing HU voice signal segments into verbatim caption segments, processing each verbatim caption segment to identify an intended communication (IC) intended by the HU upon uttering an associated one of the HU voice signal segments, for at least a portion of the HU voice signal segments (i) using an associated IC to generate an enhanced caption different than the associated verbatim caption, (ii) for each of a first subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting the verbatim captions via the AU communication device display for consumption, and (iii) for each of a second subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting enhanced captions via the AU communication device display for consumption.

公开(公告)号：US11368581B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US17018634

申请日：2020-09-11

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: H04M3/42 ,  H04M1/247 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W4/16 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04M1/72478 ,  H04M3/533 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L21/10 ,  H04M1/72433

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes obtaining an audio message from a first device during a voice communication session with a second device including a display screen, providing the message to a first speech recognition system to generate a first message transcript, providing the transcript to the second device for presentation on the screen, obtaining an indication that a transcript quality is below a threshold, providing, in response, the message to a second system to generate a second transcript while still providing it to the first system to generate the first transcript and providing the first transcript to the second device for presentation on the display screen, and in response to an event occurring that indicates the second transcript is to be provided to the second device instead of the first transcript, providing the second transcript to the second device for presentation on the screen instead of the first transcript.

公开(公告)号：US20220014622A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-13

申请号：US17486053

申请日：2021-09-27

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: H04M3/42 ,  H04M1/247 ,  G10L15/183 ,  G10L25/60 ,  G10L15/26 ,  H04M1/72433 ,  H04M1/72478

Abstract: A captioning relay for captioning hearing user (HU) voice signals comprising a plurality of separate captioning resources and a captioning administrator module that receives HU voice signal segments corresponding to a plurality of separate ongoing calls between HUs and AUs and provides the voice signal segments in a first in, first out order to the captioning resources, the administrator module providing each voice signal segment from each call to any one of the captioning resources to be captioned without regard to which captioning resource captioned prior voice signal segments generated during the call and, the administrator module further receiving caption segments back from the captioning resources and providing those captioning segments to AU devices associated with the calls that generated corresponding HU voice signal segments, and wherein the number of captioning resources is less than the number of ongoing calls.

公开(公告)号：US20210266473A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17180702

申请日：2021-02-19

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Christopher Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Robert M. Engelke

IPC: H04N5/278 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/439

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating communication between an assisted user (AU) and a hearing user (HU) includes receiving an HU voice signal as the AU and HU participate in a call using AU and HU communication devices, transcribing HU voice signal segments into verbatim caption segments, processing each verbatim caption segment to identify an intended communication (IC) intended by the HU upon uttering an associated one of the HU voice signal segments, for at least a portion of the HU voice signal segments (i) using an associated IC to generate an enhanced caption different than the associated verbatim caption, (ii) for each of a first subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting the verbatim captions via the AU communication device display for consumption, and (iii) for each of a second subset of the HU voice signal segments, presenting enhanced captions via the AU communication device display for consumption.

公开(公告)号：US20200153957A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16740574

申请日：2020-01-13

Applicant: Ultratec, Inc.

Inventor： Robert M. Engelke ,  Kevin R. Colwell ,  Christopher Engelke

IPC: H04M3/42 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L25/48 ,  H04M1/247

Abstract: A method to transcribe communications includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of hypothesis transcriptions of a voice signal generated by a speech recognition system, determining consistent words that are included in at least first and second of the plurality of hypothesis transcriptions, in response to determining the consistent words, providing the consistent words to a device for presentation of the consistent words to an assisted user, and presenting the consistent words via a display screen on the device, wherein a rate of the presentation of the words on the display screen is variable.