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Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

May. 10, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ryan Brink, Raleigh, NC (US);

Andrew R. Freed, Cary, NC (US);

Marco Noel, Quebec, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/4936 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04M 3/5166 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods, computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: determining, in performance of an interactive voice response (IVR) session, prompting data for presenting to a user, and storing text based data defining the prompting data into a data repository; presenting the prompting data to the user; receiving return voice string data from the user in response to the prompting data; generating a plurality of candidate text strings associated to the return voice string of the user; examining the text based data defining the prompting data; augmenting the plurality of candidate text strings in dependence on a result of the examining to provide a plurality of augmented candidate text strings associated to the return voice string data; and evaluating respective ones of the plurality of augmented candidate text strings associated to the return voice string data; and selecting one of the augmented candidate text strings as a returned transcription associated to the return voice string data.


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