Method of optimizing a composite speech recognition expert
US5280563A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 20, 1991 |
| Grant date | Jan 18, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 2011 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/197
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a continuous speech recognizer which includes at least, one acoustic expert and one linguistic expert which generate respective scores, a method is disclosed for adjusting the relative weighting to be applied to those scores employing training data utilizing the words to be recognized in multiple word phrases. Multiple word test phrases are applied to the acoustic expert to determine, for each phrase, plural multi-word hypotheses each having corresponding cumulative scores. The linguistic expert generates corresponding cumulative linguistic scores. An objective function is calculated for each test phrase having a value which is variable as a function of the difference between the combined score of any correct hypothesis and that of the most easily confused incorrect hypothesis. The objective function values are cumulated and a gradient descent procedure is used to adjust the relative weighting of the acoustic and linguistic scores in obtaining a combined score.
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