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Keyword detection with international phonetic alphabet by foreground model and background model

US9466289B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 11, 2013
Grant dateOct 11, 2016
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Expiry dateSep 9, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2015/088
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic device with one or more processors and memory trains an acoustic model with an international phonetic alphabet (IPA) phoneme mapping collection and audio samples in different languages, where the acoustic model includes: a foreground model; and a background model. The device generates a phone decoder based on the trained acoustic model. The device collects keyword audio samples, decodes the keyword audio samples with the phone decoder to generate phoneme sequence candidates, and selects a keyword phoneme sequence from the phoneme sequence candidates. After obtaining the keyword phoneme sequence, the device detects one or more keywords in an input audio signal with the trained acoustic model, including: matching phonemic keyword portions of the input audio signal with phonemes in the keyword phoneme sequence with the foreground model; and filtering out phonemic non-keyword portions of the input audio signal with the background model.

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