VOCABULARY-INDEPENDENT SEARCH OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH

Patent №

US 7,584,098

Granted

2009-09-01

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10998451

A method of identifying a location of a query string in an audio signal is provided. Under the method, a segment of the audio signal is selected. A score for a query string in the segment of the audio signal is determined by determining the product of probabilities of overlapping sequences of tokens. The score is then used to decide if the segment of the audio signal is likely to contain the query string.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning0.99
Knowledge representation0.76
AI hardware0.54
Evolutionary computation0.07
Vision0.01
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 414850889

Assignors

YU, ROGER PENG, SEIDE, FRANK TORSTEN

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

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