FAST VOCABULARY INDEPENDENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPOTTING WORDS IN SPEECH

Patent №

US 6,073,095

Granted

2000-06-06

Filed 1997

Owner

IBM CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08950621

A fast vocabulary independent method for spotting words in speech utilizes a preprocessing step and a coarse-to-detailed search strategy for spotting a word/phone sequence in speech. The preprocessing includes a Viterbi-beam phone level decoding using a tree-based phone language model. The coarse search matches phone-ngrams to identify regions of speech as putative word hits, and the detailed search performs an acoustic match at the putative hits with a model of the given word included in the vocabulary of the recognizer.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechAI hardwareG10L 15/08G10L 15/187G10L 15/197G10L 2015/088

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.97
Machine learning0.90
Vision0.02
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

IBM CORPORATION

assignment · 87770464

Assignors

EIDE, ELLEN M., ROUKOS, SALIM E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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