Speaker-dependent connected speech word recognition method
US4989248A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 3, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jan 29, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 3, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/12
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A cost-effective word recognizer. Each frame of spoken input is compared to a set of reference frames. The comparison is equivalent to embodying the reference frame as an LPC inverse filter, and is preferably done in the autocorrelation domain. To avoid the instability and computational difficulties which can be caused by a high-gain LPC inverse filter, a noise floor is introduced into each reference frame sample. Thus, for each input speech frame, a scalar measures its similarity to each of the vocabulary of reference frames. To achieve connected word recognition based on this similarity measurement, a dynamic programming algorithm is used in which time warping to match a sample to a reference is in effect permitted, and in which matching is performed with unconstrained endpoints. Thus, the word boundary decisions are made on the basis of a local maximum in similarity, and, since no separate word division decision is required, the error which can be introduced by even the best preliminary decision as to word boundaries is avoided.
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