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Speech recognition apparatus using neural network and fuzzy logic

US5040215A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 1989
Grant dateAug 13, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S706/90
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A speech recognition apparatus has a speech input unit for inputting a speech; a speech analysis unit for analyzing the inputted speech to output the time series of a feature vector; a candidates selection unit for inputting the time series of a feature vector from the speech analysis unit to select a plurality of candidates of recognition result from the speech categories; and a discrimination processing unit for discriminating the selected candidates to obtain a final recognition result. The discrimination processing unit includes three components in the form of a pair generation unit for generating all of the two combinations of the n-number of candidates selected by said candidate selection unit, a pair discrimination unit for discriminating which of the candidates of the combinations is more certain for each of all .sub.n C.sub.2 -number of combinations (or pairs) on the basis of the extracted result of the acoustic feature intrinsic to each of said candidate speeches, and a final decision unit for collecting all the pair discrimination results obtained from the pair discrimination unit for each of all the .sub.n C.sub.2 -number of combinations (or pairs) to decide the final r…

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