System for processing a succession of utterances spoken in continuous or discrete form
US5526463A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 9, 1993 |
| Grant date | Jun 11, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The system of the invention relates to continuous speech pre-filtering systems for use in discrete and continuous speech recognition computer systems. The speech to be recognized is converted from utterances to frame data sets, which frame data sets are smoothed to generate a smooth frame model over a predetermined number of frames. A resident vocabulary is stored within the computer as clusters of word models which are acoustically similar over a succession of frame periods. A cluster score is generated by the system, which score includes the likelihood of the smooth frames evaluated using a probability model for the cluster against which the smooth frame model is being compared. Cluster sets having cluster scores below a predetermined acoustic threshold are removed from further consideration. The remaining cluster sets are unpacked for determination of a word score for each unpacked word. These word scores are used to identify those words which are above a second predetermined threshold to define a word list which is sent to a recognizer for a more lengthy word match. Control means enable the system to initialize times corresponding to the frame start time for each frame data set…
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