Predicting pronunciation in speech recognition
US10339920B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 4, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jul 2, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 23, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/025
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) device may be configured to predict pronunciations of textual identifiers (for example, song names, etc.) based on predicting one or more languages of origin of the textual identifier. The one or more languages of origin may be determined based on the textual identifier. The pronunciations may include a hybrid pronunciation including a pronunciation in one language, a pronunciation in a second language and a hybrid pronunciation that combines multiple languages. The pronunciations may be added to a lexicon and matched to the content item (e.g., song) and/or textual identifier. The ASR device may receive a spoken utterance from a user requesting the ASR device to access the content item. The ASR device determines whether the spoken utterance matches one of the pronunciations of the content item in the lexicon. The ASR device then accesses the content when the spoken utterance matches one of the potential textual identifier pronunciations.
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