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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

May. 07, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Fadi Biadsy, New York, NY (US);

Lidia Mangu, New York, NY (US);

Hagen Soltau, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for automatic speech recognition and methods and systems for training acoustic language models are disclosed. In accordance with one automatic speech recognition method, an acoustic input data set is analyzed to identify portions of the input data set that conform to a general language and to identify portions of the input data set that conform to at least one dialect of the general language. In addition, a general language model and at least one dialect language model is applied to the input data set to perform speech recognition by dynamically selecting between the models in accordance with each of the identified portions. Further, speech recognition results obtained in accordance with the application of the models is output.


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