HOMONYM PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF VOICE-ACTIVATED COMMAND SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 7,299,181

Granted

2007-11-20

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10881685

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for creating a grammar to be processed by a speech recognition engine in the context of a voice-activated command system. The method includes receiving a database containing a plurality of terms and identifying a set of terms that are pronounced the same but spelled differently. The method also includes placing a single term within the grammar to represent the set of terms.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Evolutionary computation0.60
Machine learning0.57
AI hardware0.48
Knowledge representation0.48
Planning0.19
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 155370021

Assignors

JU, YUN-CHENG, OLLASON, DAVID G., BHATIA, SIDDHARTH

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

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