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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:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alexandros Potamianos, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Richard Cameron Rose, Watchung, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp, Middletown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704256 ;
Abstract
Frequency warping approaches to speaker normalization have been proposed and evaluated on various speech recognition tasks. In all cases, frequency warping was found to significantly improve recognition performance by reducing the mismatch between test utterances presented to the recognizer and the speaker independent HMM model. This invention relates to a procedure which compensates utterances by simultaneously scaling the frequency axis and reshaping the spectral energy contour. This procedure is shown to reduce the error rate in a telephone based connected digit recognition task by 30%.