Patent №
US 6,973,427
Granted
2005-12-06
Filed 2000
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
3
ml · nlp · speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09748453
A method and computer-readable medium convert the text of a word and a user's pronunciation of the word into a phonetic description to be added to a speech recognition lexicon. Initially, two possible phonetic descriptions are generated. One phonetic description is formed from the text of the word. The other phonetic description is formed by decoding a speech signal representing the user's pronunciation of the word. Both phonetic descriptions are scored based on their correspondence to the user's pronunciation. The phonetic description with the highest score is then selected for entry in the speech recognition lexicon.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 114030322
Assignors
WEISS, REBECCA C., HWANG, MEI-YUH, ALLEVA, FILENO A.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.