Speech-recognition circuitry employing phoneme estimation
US5027408A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 9, 1987 |
| Grant date | Jun 25, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2007 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/025
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A phoneme estimator (12) in a speech-recognition system (10) includes trigger circuitry (18, 22) for identifying the segments of speech that should be analyzed for phoneme content. Speech-element processors (24, 26, and 28) calculate the likelihoods that currently received speech contains individual phonemes, but they operate only when the trigger circuitry identifies such segments. The computation-intensive processing for determining phoneme likelihoods is thus performed on only a small subset of the received speech segments. The accuracy of the speech-element processors (24, 26, and 28) is enhanced because these processors operate by recognition of patterns not only in elements of the data-reduced representations of the received speech but also in higher-ordered products of those elements; that is, these circuits employ non-linear modeling for phoneme identification.
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