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Method and apparatus for obtaining transcriptions from multiple training utterances

US5983177A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 18, 1997
Grant dateNov 9, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 18, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/187
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for adding a new entry to a speech recognition dictionary, more particularly to a system and method for generating transcriptions from multiple utterances of a given word. The novel method and apparatus automatically transcribes several training utterances into transcriptions without knowledge of the orthography of the word being added. It also provides a method and apparatus for transcribing multiple utterances into a single transcription that can be added to a speech recognition dictionary. In a first step, each utterance is analyzed individually to get their respective acoustic characteristics. Following this, these characteristics are combined to generate a set of the most likely transcriptions using the acoustic information obtained from each of the training utterances.

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