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`Jordan R. Cohen
`209A North 4th Avenue, Kure Beach, North Carolina 28449 Phone: 339-298-1008
`E-mail: jordan@spelamode.com; www.spelamode.com
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`FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY
`Practical Applications of Technology
` As independent SPELAMODE consultant
`o Created a research organization at Cisco and a support group for Audience
`o Solved speech recognition signal processing issues for Audience and Telenav.
`o Testified as expert witness for Vlingo (Nuance vs Vlingo, Boston, 2011),
`o Retained for Intellectual Property search and analysis by several firms
`o Serve as CTO of Kextil and as Chief Scientist of Speech Morphing
` As Principal Investigator for GALE at SRI
`o Applied speech and language technology to military applications ($12M annual budget with 14
`sub-contractors).
`o Advised the SRI Commercialization Board speech technology applications to mobile devices.
` As CTO of Voice Signal
`o Developed and managed intellectual property program, including patent production, pursuit,
`litigation, and strategy, which created more than 40 patents in 3 years.
`o Co-authored 13 granted patents, several more pending.
` As a staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses
`o Designed, funded, and co-chaired two summer workshops in the application of speech recognition
`techniques to realistic environments at CAIP/Rutgers in Summers, 1993 and 1994. (DARPA
`funded, 30 researchers for 6 weeks). Program continues annually at Johns Hopkins.
`o Developed Vocal Tract Length Normalization, now used in all major speech systems.
` While a staff member at IBM
`o Developed the first successful auditory front end for a large scale speech recognition system.
`Speech, Signals, and Algorithm Development in Department of Defense and related industries
` 24 years experience at NSA and IDA
`o Areas of expertise: Hillclimbing, Dynamic Programming, Signal Processing, Probabilistic
`Analysis, Speech and Language Technology
`o Two Letters of Commendation and NSA Special Achievement Award
`o Four awards for development and application of novel cryptanalytic techniques at IDA
`Corporate Advice and Governance
` Reviewed papers and proposals for DARPA, NSF, IEEE, Eurospeech, European Union Framework 6
` Serve on the Industrial Advisory Committee, IDIAP (Swiss Government Research Institute)
` Serve on the Industrial Advisory Board of Sensory, Santa Clara, CA
` Serve on the Technical Advisory Board, Center of Excellence in Human Language Technology, JHU
` Former consultant advisor to Yap (now part of Amazon), a speech recognition company in Charlotte, NC
` Past member of Board of Directors at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
` Served as advisor to CLSP (Center for Speech and Language Processing, JHU) and CAIP at Rutgers
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`EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
`2009- SPELAMODE (SPEech, LAnguage, and MObile DEvices) Consulting, Kure Beach NC
`Title: Founder and Technologist
` With Patti Price, created a research organization for Cisco in Speech and Language Technology.
` Created robust signal processing solutions for Audience to enhance Speech Recognition performance.
` Resolved performance problems in Telenav speech processing systems.
` Advised and managed Automatic Speech Recognition portion of a potential multi-million dollar proposal for
`Basis Technologies.
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` Currently serving as Chief Scientist of Voice Morphing, a California start-up, and co-CTO of Kextil, engaged
`in voice-centric interfaces for the field service industry.
` Continuing with legal prior art and expert witness work for various customers in speech recognition and human
`interfaces, including successful defense against patent infringement in Nuance vs Vlingo in Boston, 2011.
`SRI International, Menlo Park CA
`2006-2009
`Title: Senior Scientist
` Principal Investigator for GALE‚ Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, DARPA program.
` Created new business opportunities, including BALTIC, a virtual institute for language innovation which
`required negotiations with the staff of the House Armed Services Committee and various representatives.
` Technical Advisor to the STAR laboratory for speech and language processing.
` Advisor to the SRI Commercialization Board on embedded speech systems.
` Created new algorithms for machine translation.
`2000 - 2006 Voice Signal Technology, Woburn MA
`Title: Chief Technology Officer
` Recruited technical members of core technology team.
` Guided speech, language, and user interface technology and business development in cell phones and other
`mobile devices. Tracked emerging opportunities.
` Presented Voice Signal technology and marketing strategy at conferences and in popular articles.
`1999 - 2000 Dragon Systems, Newton, MA
`Title: Director of Business Relations
` Developed business opportunities in Audio Mining.
` Identified and negotiated government contracts, including $6M of research from DARPA.
`1985 – 1999+ Institute for Defense Analyses CCR, Princeton NJ - continuing relationship as adjunct
`Title: Member of the Technical Staff
` Developed novel signal processing and speech algorithms.
` Developed cryptanalytic techniques and applications.
` Assisted DARPA in bringing speech technology to use in government applications, including founding
`Summer Workshops in Speech Recognition (now JHU CLSP summer program in speech and language).
` Chair of Arpa workshop in Spoken Language Technology, Barton Creek, TX.
` Received four special awards for development and application of novel cryptanalytic techniques.
`International Business Machines, Yorktown Heights NH
`1982 - 1985
`Title: Member of the Technical Staff
` Developed practical applications for discrete recognition.
` Wrote front end for TANGORA, the IBM Recognizer (auditory model)
`1974 - 1982 National Security Agency, Fort Meade MD
`Title: Research Engineer
` Developed novel statistical processes for signal analysis.
` Created new applications of mathematical search algorithms.
` Certified as Cryptanalytic Mathematician and Engineer.
`1970-1974 US Air Force, Served at Chanute Air Force Base and at Fort Meade MD and at NSA (from 1971)
`Final Rank: Captain
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`EDUCATION  
`1975 - 1982
`1968 - 1970
`1964 - 1968
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`University of Connecticut Storrs, CT
`University of Illinois Urbana, IL
`University of Massachusetts Amherst
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`PhD, Linguistics (PhD Dissertation not-in-residence)
`MSEE, Electrical Engineering
`BSEE, Electrical Engineering
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`MEMBERSHIPS
`Member, Acoustical Society of America
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`Member, ISCA
`Senior Life Member, IEEE
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`REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
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`B. Erol, J Cohen, M Etoh, HW Hon, J Luo, J. Schalkwyk, “Mobile media search,” ICASSP, 2009-9,
`4897-4900
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`J. Wilpon, ME Gilbert, J Cohen, “The Business of Speech Technologies,” Springer Handbook of Speech
`Processing, 2008, p. 681-704
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`H. Hermansky, J.R. Cohen, and R.M. Stern, “Perceptual Properties of Current Speech Recognition
`Technology,” Proceedings of the IEEE, September, 2013, Vol. 101 No. 9, p. 1968
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` Gilbert, A Acero, J Cohen, H. Bourlard, SF Chang, M Etoh, “Media Search in Mobile Devices”,
`Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE 28(4), 2011, 12-13
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`M. Harper, A Acero, S Bangalore, J Carbonell, J. Cohen, B. Cuthill, C. Espy, “Report on the Sponsored
`Human Language Technology Workshop on Industrial Centers, 2007/6/22, pdf available from umd.edu
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`Jordan Cohen1, Terri Kamm2, and Andreas G. Andreou, “Vocal tract normalization in speech recognition:
`Compensating for systematic speaker variability”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 97, Issue 5, pp. 3246-3247 (1995)
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`J. Cohen, J Flanagan, "A Welcome to the Special Edition on Robust Speech Recognition, A Summer workshop -
`1993", IEEE Trans on Speech and Audio Processing, 2, 4, 551-553.
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`J. Cohen, "Application of an auditory model to speech recognition", JASA, 85, June 1989
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`J. Cohen, "Segmenting speech using dynamic programming", JASA, 69, 1980
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`J. Cohen, T. Crystal, A. House and E. Neuburg, "Weighty voices and shaky evidence", JASA, 68, 1980
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`Many popular short articles and presentations
`More than 20 Classified Publications
`Co-author of more than 13 Patents granted
`Clearance: TSSI
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`PATENTS:
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`13/779,644
`February 27, 2013
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`Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice synthesis
`Edgington, Michael D.; Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan
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`13/755,386
`January 31, 2013
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`Systems and methods for voice-guided operations
`Berman, Jonathan R.; Cohen, Jordan; Rudnicky, Alexander I.
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`WO 2,012,135,293 Methods and Systems for Searching Utilizing Acoustical Context
`Goldstein, Steven; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
`October 5, 2012
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`8,160,884
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`Methos and apparatus for automatically extending the voice vocabulary of mobile
`communications devices
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`April 17, 2012
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`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan; Behrakis, Elias P.
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`8,019,324
`September 13, 2011
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`Extendable voice commands
`Roth; Daniel L., Reiner; Chris, Furnari; Mark, Cohen; Jordan
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`EP 1,774,516
`March 16, 2011
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`Normalization of cepstral features for speech recognition
`Zlokarnik, Igor; Gillick, Laurence S.; Cohen, Jordan
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`EP 1,751,741
`February 14, 2007
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`Automated Testing of Voice Recognition Software
`Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William; Ploumis, John; Ely, Douglas J.
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`7,873,390
`January 18, 2011
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`Provider-activated software for mobile communication devices
`Cohen; Jordan, Roth; Daniel L.
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`7,809,574
`October 5, 2010
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`Word recognition using choice lists
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F. , Porter; Edward W.
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`7,797,157
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`September 14, 2010
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`Automatic speech recognition channel normalization based on measured statistics from
`initial portions of speech utterances
`Zlokarnik; Igor, Gillick; Laurence S., Cohen; Jordan
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`7,716,058
`May 11, 2010
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`Speech recognition using automatic recognition turn off
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F.
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`12/644,652
`December 22, 2009
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`Method and apparatus for back-up of customized application information
`Gillick, Laurence S.; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`7,634,403
`December 15, 2009
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`Word recognition using word transformation commands
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F.
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`7,577,569
`August 18, 2009
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`Combined speech recognition and text-to-speech generation
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F., Grabherr; Manfred G., Porter;
`Edward W.
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`7,562,019
`July 14, 2009
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`7,526,431
`April 28, 2009
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`Automated testing of voice recognition software
`Cohen; Jordan, Barton; William, Ploumis; John, Ely; Douglas J.
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`Speech recognition using ambiguous or phone key spelling and/or filtering
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F.
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`7,505,911
`March 17, 2009
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`Combined speech recognition and sound recording
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F., Porter; Edward W.
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`7,444,286
`October 28, 2008
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`Speech recognition using re-utterance recognition
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R.
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`7,313,526
`December 25, 2007
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`Speech recognition using selectable recognition modes
`Roth; Daniel L., Cohen; Jordan R., Johnston; David F., Grabherr; Manfred G.
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`EP 1,844,464
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`October 17, 2007
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`Methods and apparatus for automatically extending the voice-recognizer vocabulary of
`mobile communications devices
`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan; Behrakis, Elias P.
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`7,225,130
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`Methods, systems, and programming for performing speech recognition
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`May 29, 2007
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`WO 2,007,033,147
`March 23, 2007
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`Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice synthesis
`Edgington, Michael; Gillick, Lawrence; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`EP 1,687,961
`August 9, 2006
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`Installing language modules in a mobile communication device
`Barton, William; Cohen, Jordan; Roth, Daniel L.
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`WO 2,006,002,308
`January 6, 2006
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`Extendable voice commands
`Roth, Daniel; Reiner, Chris; Furnari, Mark; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`EP 1,604,350
`December 14, 2005
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`Methods, systems, and programming for performing speech recognition
`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan; Johnson, David F.; Grabherr, Manfred G.; Franzosa,
`Paul A.; Porter, Edward W., et al.
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`DE 112,004,000,187 Verfahren und Vorrichtung der prosodischen Simulations-Synthese
`December 1, 2005
`Cohen, Jordan; Zlokarnik, Igor; Roth, Daniel L.
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`10/988,994
`November 15, 2004
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`Installing language modules in a mobile communication device
`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William
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`11/225,524
`September 13, 2005
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`Methods and apparatus for formant-based voice systems
`Edgington, Michael D.; Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan R.
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`WO 2,005,070,130
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`August 5, 2005
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`Speech recognition channel normalization utilizing measured energy values from speech
`utterance
`Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`WO 2,005,070,092
`August 5, 2005
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`Automated testing of voice recognition software
`Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William; Ploumis, John; Ely, Douglas J., et al.
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`EP 1,559,095
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`August 3, 2005
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`Apparatus, methods and programming for speech synthesis via bit manipulations of
`compressed data base
`Zlokarnik, Igor; Gillick, Laurence S.; Cohen, Jordan
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`WO 2,005,050,958
`June 3, 2005
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`Installing language modules in a mobile communication device
`Roth, Daniel; Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William, et al.
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`WO 2,005,027,482
`March 25, 2005
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`Text messaging via phrase recognition
`Roth, Daniel; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`WO 2,005,027,479
`March 25, 2005
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`Phone number and name pronunciation interchange via mobile phone
`Barton, William; Cohen, Jordan
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`WO 2,005,027,478
`March 25, 2005
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`Automatic voice addressing and messaging methods and apparatus
`Roth, Daniel; Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William, et al.
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`WO 2,005,027,477
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`March 25, 2005
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`Voice enabled phone book interface for speaker dependent name recognition and phone
`number categorization
`Funari, Mark; Cohen, Jordan
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`WO 2,005,027,475
`March 25, 2005
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`Method and apparatus for using audio prompts in mobile communication devices
`Lazay, Thomas; Cohen, Jordan; Mather, Tracy; Barton, William, et al.
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`March 25, 2005
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`Method and apparatus for back-up of customized application information
`Roth, Daniel; Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`WO 2,004,102,527
`November 26, 2004
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`A signal-to-noise mediated speech recognition method
`Roth, Daniel; Gillick, Laurence; Cohen, Jordan, et al.
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`10/938,419
`September 10, 2004
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`Automatic voice addressing and messaging methods and apparatus
`Roth, Daniel L.; Gillick, Laurence S.; Cohen, Jordan; Barton, William
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`10/937,890
`September 9, 2004
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`Phone number and name pronunciation interchange via cell phone
`Barton, William; Cohen, Jordan
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`10/936,882
`September 9, 2004
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`Method and apparatus for back-up of customized application information
`Roth, Daniel L.; Gillick, Laurence S.; Cohen, Jordan
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`10/935,691
`September 7, 2004
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`Text messaging via phrase recognition
`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan
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`10/935,690
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`September 7, 2004
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`Voice enabled phone book interface for speaker dependent name recognition and phone
`number categorization
`Funari, Mark; Cohen, Jordan
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`10/932,341
`September 1, 2004
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`Method and apparatus for using earcons in mobile communication devices
`Lazay, Thomas; Cohen, Jordan; Zlatkova, Tracy Mather; Barton, William
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`WO 2,004,068,466
`August 13, 2004
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`Prosodic mimic synthesis method and apparatus
`Cohen, Jordan; Roth, Daniel; Zlokarnik, Igor, et al.
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`WO 2,004,054,217
`June 25, 2004
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`Provider-activated software for mobile communication devices
`Cohen, Jordan; Roth, Daniel, et al.
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`10/842,333
`May 10, 2004
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`Signal-to-noise mediated speech recognition algorithm
`Cohen, Jordan; Roth, Daniel L.; Gillick, Laurence S., et al.
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`WO 2,004,034,377
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`April 23, 2004
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`Apparatus, methods and programming for speech synthesis via bit manipulations of
`compressed data base
`Cohen, Jordan; Gillick, Laurence S.; Zlokarnik, Igor, et al.
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`WO 2,004,023,455
`March 19, 2004
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`Methods, systems, and programming for performing speech recognition
`Roth, Daniel; Cohen, Jordan; Johnson, David; Grabherr, Manfred; Franzosa, Paul; Porter,
`Edward, et al.
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`10/657,421
`September 8, 2003
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`Prosidic mimic method and apparatus
`Cohen, Jordan; Roth, Daniel L.; Zlokarnik, Igor
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`10/268,612
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`October 10, 2002
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`Apparatus, methods, and programming for speech synthesis via bit manipulations of
`compressed database
`Cohen, Jordan; Gillick, Laurence S.; Zlokarnik, Igor
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`09/779,426
`February 8, 2001
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`Feedback for unrecognized speech
`Roth, Daniel L.; Cohen, Jordan
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`EP 0,179,280
`April 25, 1990
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`Nonlinear signal processing in a speech recognition system
`Bakis, Raimo; Cohen, Jordan
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`SELECTED INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS AND ARTICLES
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`“Simple Speech Morphing: A Story” presented to the Boston chapter of AVIOS and Brandeis University, October
`17, 2013.
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`“OUCH (Outing Unfortunate Characteristics of HiddenMarkovModels) or What's Wrong with Speech Recognition and What
`Can We Do About it?”, Johns Hopkins University, Sep 14, 2012 (see http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/seminars/1335/)
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`“Embedded speech recognition applications in mobile phones: Status, trends and challenges”, in Proceedings of
`the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing 2008, April, 2008, p. 5352 – 5355
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`“The GALE Project: a description and an update”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech
`Recognition and Understanding, 9-13 December, 2007
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`“Handheld Multimodal Interfaces Technology, Markets, and Opportunities” Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 2005
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`“Is Embedded Speech Recognition Disruptive Technology?” in Information Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 5,
`2004, p. 14-17
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`“Practical Manipulation of Local Data – An Update”, At Wireless Internet Data and Enterprise Applications,
`UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, September 2003
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`“Putting Speech Technologies in your Hands”, LangTech 2003, Paris, 24-5 November 2003
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`“Voice Signal Overview: The Case for Embedded Speech Recognition”, VOX 2002, Kelsey Group, San
`Francisco, CA (July, 2002)
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`“Speech recognition in the real world: An Embedded Viewpoint” Center for Language and Speech Processing
`Workshop at Johns Hopkins, July 26, 2001
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`“Some musings on systematic variability and speech recognition”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 105, Issue 2, pp.
`1158-1158 (1999)
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`“The Challenge of Spoken Language Systems: Research Directions for the Nineties”, Co-author, IEEE
`Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol 3, No. 1 1-20 Jan 1995.
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`“The hub and spoke paradigm for CSR evaluation” (co-author), Proceedings of the 1994 Human Language
`Technology Workshop, Plainsboro, NJ, March, 1994
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`“Robust speech processing”, Jordan Cohen, Chair “The Summers of our Discontent”, a talk In Speech and
`Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Harriman, New York, February 23-26, 1992
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`“A Pitch measurement algorithm for speech” Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International
`Conference on ICASSP '82
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`"The Summers of Our Discontent," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language
`Processing, 1996
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