Speech and language translation of an utterance
US8914277B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 20, 2011 |
| Grant date | Dec 16, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 18, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/34
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
According to example configurations, a speech-processing system parses an uttered sentence into segments. The speech-processing system translates each of the segments in the uttered sentence into candidate textual expressions (i.e., phrases of one or more words) in a first language. The uttered sentence can include multiple phrases or candidate textual expressions. Additionally, the speech-processing system translates each of the candidate textual expressions into candidate textual phrases in a second language. Based at least in part on a product of confidence values associated with the candidate textual expressions in the first language and confidence values associated with the candidate textual phrases in the second language, the speech-processing system produces a confidence metric for each of the candidate textual phrases in the second language. The confidence metric can indicate degree to which the candidate textual phrase in the second language is an accurate translation of a respective segment in the utterance.
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