Data driven word pronunciation learning and scoring with crowd sourcing based on the word's phonemes pronunciation scores
US9741339B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 28, 2013 |
| Grant date | Aug 22, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09B17/006
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining pronunciations for particular terms. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining audio samples of speech corresponding to a particular term and obtaining candidate pronunciations for the particular term. Further actions include generating, for each candidate pronunciation for the particular term and audio sample of speech corresponding to the particular term, a score reflecting a level of similarity between of the candidate pronunciation and the audio sample, wherein the said score for the particular term is obtained by using a minimum of individual scores of phonemes comprising the term. Additional actions include aggregating the scores for each candidate pronunciation and adding one or more candidate pronunciations for the particular term to a pronunciation lexicon based on the aggregated scores for the candidate pronunciations.
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