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Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

US8566094B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 10, 2011
Grant dateOct 22, 2013
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Expiry dateDec 15, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/19
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus, method and program for performing a speech recognition process utilizing contextual information that comprises an estimation of the intention of an utterance of a user. The recognition process includes calculating a pre-score based on observed contextual information according intention models which correspond to a plurality of types of intention information and combining the pre-scoring results with acoustic and linguistic scores to obtain an improved recognition or comprehension of the intent of a user utterance.

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