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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:
Oct. 17, 2000

Filed:

Jan. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jeffrey Arthur Meunier, Chicago, IL (US);

Edward Srenger, Schaumburg, IL (US);

Steven Albrecht, Glenview, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704247 ; 704240 ; 704243 ; 704241 ; 704239 ;
Abstract

A method of testing a new vocabulary word is performed using any set of enrollment utterances provided by the user or from an available database. The present method preferably does not use separate training and similarity test utterances. This allows any or all available repetitions of a vocabulary word being enrolled to be used for training (204), therefore improving the robustness of the trained models. Likewise, any or all training repetitions can also be utilized for similarity analysis (212), providing additional test samples which should further improve the detection of acoustically similar words. Additionally, the similarity analysis progresses incrementally and does not need to continue if a confusable word is found. Finally, first and second thresholds could be employed (212, 302) to provide greater flexibility for a user training a speech recognition system.


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