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Method and system for efficient spoken term detection using confusion networks

US9734823B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 27, 2015
Grant dateAug 15, 2017
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Expiry dateAug 27, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2015/085
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for spoken term detection are provided. A method for spoken term detection, comprises receiving phone level out-of-vocabulary (OOV) keyword queries, converting the phone level OOV keyword queries to words, generating a confusion network (CN) based keyword searching (KWS) index, and using the CN based KWS index for both in-vocabulary (IV) keyword queries and the OOV keyword queries.

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