APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING SIMILAR-SOUNDING UTTERANCES SPEECH RECOGNITION

Patent №

US 6,487,532

Granted

2002-11-26

Filed 1998

Owner

LERNOUT & HAUSPIE SPEECH PRODUCTS N.V.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09159838

Speaker-specified hints are used to establish conditions for a speech recognition system to select a recognition result for a previously provided utterance from among various possible homophones. The hints may characterize the utterance by a linguistic property, such as an orthographic, morphological, or semantic property.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechG10L 15/1815G10L 15/063G10L 2015/0631G10L 2015/226

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning0.96
AI hardware0.27
Knowledge representation0.03
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

LERNOUT & HAUSPIE SPEECH PRODUCTS N.V.

assignment · 98360524

Assignors

SCHOOFS, KOEN, GALLOPYN, GUIDO

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

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