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EP0484455 - A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEAKER RECOGNITION [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  18.10.1996
Database last updated on 08.04.2026
Most recent event   Tooltip18.10.1996Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 04.12.1996 [1996/49]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
GUERRERI, Stephen J.
104 Mockingbird Lane
Cary, NC 27511 / US
[1992/20]
Inventor(s)01 / see applicant
...
[1992/20]
Representative(s)Needle, Jacqueline, et al
Beck Greener
Fulwood House
12 Fulwood Place
London WC1V 6HR / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/20]Needle, Jacqueline, et al
W.H. BECK, GREENER & CO 7 Stone Buildings Lincoln's Inn
London WC2A 3SZ / GB
Application number, filing date90913683.020.07.1990
[1992/20]
WO1990US03990
Priority number, dateUS1989038642528.07.1989         Original published format: US 386425
[1992/20]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9102347
Date:21.02.1991
Language:EN
[1991/05]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0484455
Date:13.05.1992
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.02.1991 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1992/20]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:US21.02.1991
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP22.01.1993
ClassificationIPC:G10L5/06
[1992/20]
CPC:
G10L17/02 (EP); G10L17/04 (EP)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   DK,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   LU,   NL,   SE [1992/20]
TitleGerman:VERFAHREN UND GERÄT ZUR SPRACH- UND SPRECHERERKENNUNG[1992/20]
English:A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEAKER RECOGNITION[1992/20]
French:PROCEDE ET APPAREIL D'IDENTIFICATION D'UNE LANGUE ET DE L'INTERLOCUTEUR[1992/20]
File destroyed:20.04.2002
Entry into regional phase03.02.1992National basic fee paid 
03.02.1992Search fee paid 
03.02.1992Designation fee(s) paid 
03.02.1992Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure27.02.1991Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: DE
03.02.1992Examination requested  [1992/20]
30.10.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
10.05.1996Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [1996/49]
10.07.1996Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time  [1996/49]
Fees paidRenewal fee
16.06.1992Renewal fee patent year 03
24.07.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
26.07.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
24.07.1995Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[X]   SYSTEMS & COMPUTERS IN JAPAN, vol. 19, no. 6, June 1988, pages 63-71, Silver Spring, MD, US; K. SHIRAI et al.: "Speaker identification based on frequency distribution of vector-quantized spectra" [X]
 [A]   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. ASSP-35, no. 2, February 1987, pages 133-143, New York, US; D.K. BURTON: "Text-dependent speaker verification using vector quantization source coding" [A]
 [A]   AT & T/TECHNICAL JOURNAL, vol. 66, no. 2, March-April 1987, pages 14-26, Short Hills, NJ, US; F.K. SOONG et al.: "A vector quantization approach to speaker recognition" [A]
 [X]   ICASSP'86 (IEEE-IECEJ-ASJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, Tokyo, 7th - 11th April 1986), vol. 4, pages 2679-2682, IEEE, New York, US; O. WATANUKI et al.: "Speaker-independent isolated word recognition using label histograms" [X]
 [A]   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. ASSP-33, no. 2, April 1985, pages 440-443, New York, US; D.K. BURTON et al.: "Speaker-dependent isolated word recognition using speaker-independent vector quantization codebooks augmented with speaker-specific data" [A]
 [A]   EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, Edinburgh, September 1987, vol. 2, pages 426-427, CEP Consultants, Edinburgh, GB; A. AKTAS et al.: "A selforganizing clustering technique for vector quantization in speech recognition" [A]
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