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Apparatus and method for distinguishing similar-sounding utterances speech recognition

US6487532B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 24, 1998
Grant dateNov 26, 2002
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Expiry dateSep 24, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2015/226
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Speaker-specified hints are used to establish conditions for a speech recognition system to select a recognition result for a previously provided utterance from among various possible homophones. The hints may characterize the utterance by a linguistic property, such as an orthographic, morphological, or semantic property.

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