METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SEMI-LITERAL TRANSCRIPTS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS

A method for generating a semi-literal transcript from a partial transcript of recorded speech. The method includes augmenting the partial transcript with words from one of a filled pause model and a background model to build an augmented probabilistic finite state model for the partial transcript, inputting the recorded speech and the augmented probabilistic finite state model to a speech recognition system, and generating a hypothesized output for the recorded speech using the speech recognition system, whereby the hypothesized output may be used as the semi-literal transcript.