Nuance Communications, Inc.

Stijn Verschaeren

Markus Buck

Tim Haulick

Timo Matheja

Martin Roessler

Josef Anastasiadis

Jan Vlietinck

Stephan Kanthak

Christophe Ris

Julien Premont

Rudi Vuerinckx

Hakan Ari

Andreas Kirbach

Dieter Ranz

Johan Vantieghem

There is provided a speech dialog system that includes a first microphone, a second microphone, a processor and a memory. The first microphone captures first audio from a first spatial zone, and produces a first audio signal. The second microphone captures second audio from a second spatial zone, and produces a second audio signal. The processor receives the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and the memory contains instructions that control the processor to perform operations of a speech enhancement module, an automatic speech recognition module, and a speech dialog module that performs a zone-dedicated speech dialog.

Multi-microphone speech dialog system for multiple spatial zones

Techniques are described for updating an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that, prior to the update, is configured to perform ASR using a first finite-state transducer (FST) comprising a first set of paths representing recognizable speech sequences. A second FST may be accessed, comprising a second set of paths representing speech sequences to be recognized by the updated ASR system. By analyzing the second FST together with the first FST, a patch may be extracted and provided to the ASR system as an update, capable of being applied non-destructively to the first FST at the ASR system to cause the ASR system using the first FST with the patch to recognize speech using the second set of paths from the second FST. In some embodiments, the patch may be configured such that destructively applying the patch to the first FST creates a modified FST that is globally minimized.

Techniques for updating an automatic speech recognition system using finite-state transducers

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