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Method and apparatus for generating a speech-recognition-based call-routing system

US7206389B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 7, 2004
Grant dateApr 17, 2007
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Expiry dateMar 28, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2201/40
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computerized method is provided for electronically directing a call to a class, such that an utterance spoken by a speaker and received by a call-routing system is classified by the call-routing system as being associated with the class, such that the call-routing system includes a speech-recognition module, a feature-extraction module, and a classification module. The method includes extracting features from recognized speech; weighting elements of a feature vector with respective speech-recognition scores, wherein each weighting element is associated with one of the features; ranking classes to which the features are associated; and electronically directing the call to a highest-ranking class.

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