Brett Louis Lindsley

Template generation method in a speech recognition system

Disclosed is a method for generating word templates for a speech recognition system. It is used where speech is represented by data in frames of equal time intervals. The method includes generating an interim template, generating a time alignment path between the interim template and a token, mapping frames from the interim template and the token along the time alignment path onto an averaged time axis, and combining data associated with the mapped frames to produce composite frames representative of the final word template. The method realizes advantages of reduced memory usage and a realistic data average from each contributing averaged word.

Method of data reduction in a speech recognition

The present invention describes a method and arrangement for reducing a sequence of initial frames into a reduced set of representative frames by combining the initial frames into a plurality of representative frames, the combining process including generating a distortion measure associated with each representative frame and comparing each distortion measure to a distortion threshold. From these representative frames, a set of mutually exclusive frames is determined to minimize the number of representative frames, whereby each representative frame in the set represents a unique set of contiguous initial frames and has an associated distortion measure which does not exceed the distortion threshold.

Verifiable Credit Based Transfers in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Encouraging cooperation between users of mobile devices operating in ad hoc mode is a difficult task mostly because the scarce battery and bandwidth resources of devices suggest that selfish behavior may be most beneficial. The insecure usage of credits to reward cooperation can easily provide an incentive for cheating, thus, on the long term only leading to selfishness. In this paper we propose several secure credit based mechanisms enforcing fairness in a hybrid wireless content retrieval system operating both in cellular and ad hoc connectivity modes. Our solution consists of mechanisms for securely and privately discovering desired content on neighboring devices, simultaneously exchanging credit and content shares in a verifiable manner and for generating and expiring non-forgeable credits. We present experimental results of a partial prototype of our system implemented on MPx and E680i cellular phones and HP iPaq hx4700 PDAs, along with extensive simulation results showing that our solution significantly reduces the effectiveness of selfish behavior, making it an unattractive strategy.