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Speech recognition accuracy improvement through speaker categories

US9305553B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 28, 2011
Grant dateApr 5, 2016
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Expiry dateSep 29, 2034

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/30
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition. In one aspect, a computer-based method includes receiving a speech corpus at a speech management server system that includes multiple speech recognition engines tuned to different speaker types; using the speech recognition engines to associate the received speech corpus with a selected one of multiple different speaker types; and sending a speaker category identification code that corresponds to the associated speaker type from the speech management server system over a network. The speaker category identification code can be used by any one of speech-interactive applications coupled to the network to select one of an appropriate one of multiple application-accessible speech recognition engines tuned to the different speaker types in response to an indication that a user accessing the application is associated with a particular one of the speaker category identification codes.

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