Nuance Communications, Inc.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nuance Communications Austria Gmbh

Kresimir Rajic

Matthias Helletzgruber

Heinrich Franz Bartosik

Wolfgang Gschwendtner

An assignment device () assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with background information (HI) relating to words in the text information (TT).

Method to assign word class information

Method to assign world class information

Classifying text via topical analysis, for applications to speech recognition

An assignment device () assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with background information (HI) relating to words in the text information (TI).

In a transcription device () for transcribing a spoken text (GT) into a recognized text (ET) and for editing incorrectly recognized parts of the recognized text (ET), marking means () are provided that are arranged for the partly automatic and partly manual marking of parts of the spoken text (GT) and/or of the recognized text (ET) that have a common characteristic. As a result, subsequent unified processing of marked parts of the text that have common characteristics becomes possible.

Speech recognition device to mark parts of a recognized text

In a correction device ( ) for correcting a text (ET) recognized by a speech recognition device ( ) from a spoken text (GT), marking means ( ) are provided for storing marking information (WMI) in memory means ( ), which marking information (WMI) flags those parts of the recognized text (ET) and/or of the spoken text (GT) that were reproduced at least once by reproduction means ( ) in a synchronous reproduction mode. In this way, parts of the recognized text (ET) and the spoken text (GT) that have already been reproduced once can be acoustically or visually marked, and different parts can be reproduced depending on whether reproduction takes place for the first time or is repeated.

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Kresimir Rajic