N-BEST LIST RESCORING IN SPEECH RECOGNITION

Patent №

US 7,747,437

Granted

2010-06-29

Filed 2005

Owner

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11305825

A method of speech recognition processing is described based on an N-best list of recognition hypotheses corresponding to a spoken input. Each hypothesis on the N-best list is rescored based on its rank in the rescored N-best list. The rescoring may be based on a Statistical Language Model (SLM) or Dynamic Semantic Model (DSM). One or more rescoring categories may be associated with each recognition hypotheses to affect or bias the rescoring.

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
Vision0.39
Evolutionary computation0.04
Planning0.02
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

assignment · 175410240

Assignors

VERHASSELT, JAN, DERCKS, HELMUT

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

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