Patent ID: 7076429
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for presenting images representative of one or more words in an utterance with corresponding decoded speech, the apparatus comprising: a visual detector, the visual detector capturing images of body movements substantially concurrently from the one or more words in the utterance; a visual feature extractor coupled to the visual detector, the visual feature extractor receiving time information from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and operatively processing the captured images into one or more image segments based on the time information relating to one or more words, decoded by the ASR system, in the utterance, each image segment comprising a plurality of successive images in time corresponding to a decoded word in the utterance; and an image player operatively coupled to the visual feature extractor, the image player receiving and presenting decoded word with each image segment generated therefrom; wherein the image player repeatedly presents one or more image segments with the corresponding decoded word by looping on a time sequence of successive images correspondina to the decoded word, wherein the image player displays each image segment in a separate window on a display in close proximity to the decoded speech text corresponding to the image segment.