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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Paul Maergner, Braunschweig, DE;
Paul Vozila, Arlington, MA (US);
Stefan Hahn, Cologne, DE;
Nathan Bodenstab, Houlton, ME (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for improving speech recognition of multilingual named entities. In some embodiments, a list comprising a plurality of named entities may be accessed by a computing device. A first named entity represented in the native language may be compared with the first named entity represented in the foreign language. One or more words that appear in both the first named entity represented in the native language and the first named entity represented in the foreign language may be identified as one or more foreign words. A grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion may be applied to the one or more foreign words, wherein graphemes of the one or more foreign words are mapped to phonemes in the native language. The G2P conversion may result in a native pronunciation for each of the one or more foreign words, which are added to a recognition dictionary along with the native pronunciations.