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System and method for speech recognition using an enhanced phone set

US7139708B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 4, 1999
Grant dateNov 21, 2006
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Expiry dateAug 4, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2015/025
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for speech recognition using an enhanced phone set comprises speech data, an enhanced phone set, and a transcription generated by a transcription process. The transcription process selects appropriate phones from the enhanced phone set to represent acoustic-phonetic content of the speech data. The enhanced phone set includes base-phones and composite-phones. A phone dataset includes the speech data and the transcription. The present invention also comprises a transformer that applies transformation rules to the phone dataset to produce a transformed phone dataset. The transformed phone dataset may be utilized in training a speech recognizer, such as a Hidden Markov Model. Various types of transformation rules may be applied to the phone dataset of the present invention to find an optimum transformed phone dataset for training a particular speech recognizer.

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