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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Christopher Austin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Peter Vincent de Souza, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L / ; G01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395-265 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for constructing a hidden Markov model comprised of multiple fenones characterized by their duration and a set of acoustic properties. The present invention provides a sequence of fenones to model a speech event. The sequence may undergo modifications to improve the overall performance of the model.