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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1995
Takashi Komori, Kyoto, JP;
Shigeru Katagiri, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A speech recognition apparatus includes a data input portion to which input data which is a speech pattern is applied, a score calculation portion calculating a score indicating a possibility of recognition of a partial pattern of the speech pattern based on the estimate of a posteriori odds, an optimization design portion designing optimized parameters for calculating the estimate of the a posteriori odds in the score calculation portion and/or optimized parameters of pruning functions controlling calculation amount in the pruning processing portion, a pruning processing portion pruning the score for making operation efficient, an accumulated score calculating portion accumulating pruned scores to calculate an accumulated score, a recognition result decision portion classifying input data for every class based on the accumulated score and deciding a recognition result, and a recognition result output portion providing the recognition result.