METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT SPOKEN TERM DETECTION USING CONFUSION NETWORKS

Patent №

US 9,734,823

Granted

2017-08-15

Filed 2015

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14837876

Systems and methods for spoken term detection are provided. A method for spoken term detection, comprises receiving phone level out-of-vocabulary (OOV) keyword queries, converting the phone level OOV keyword queries to words, generating a confusion network (CN) based keyword searching (KWS) index, and using the CN based KWS index for both in-vocabulary (IV) keyword queries and the OOV keyword queries.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationG10L 15/083G10L 15/02G10L 13/08G10L 2015/025G10L 2015/085

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.40
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 364410858

Assignors

KINGSBURY, BRIAN E.D., KUO, HONG-KWANG, MANGU, LIDIA, SOLTAU, HAGEN

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