Pronunciation generation in speech recognition
US6092044A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 28, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jul 18, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/063
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of adding a word to a speech recognition vocabulary includes creating a collection of possible phonetic pronunciations from a spelling of the word and using speech recognition to find a pronunciation from the collection that best matches an utterance of the word. The collection is created by comparing the spelling to a rules list of letter strings with associated phonemes. The list is searched for a letter string from the spelling of length greater than one letter. The collection is limited to phonetic pronunciations containing phonemes associated with the letter string of length greater than one. In another method, a net of possible phonetic pronunciations of the word is created from the spelling and speech recognition is used to find the pronunciation from the net that best matches the utterance of the word. The invention also features methods of assigning a pre-filtering class to a word.
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