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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. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yu-Hung Kao, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/514 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/514 ;
Abstract
A method for N-best search for continuous speech recognition with limited storage space includes the steps of Viterbi pruning word level (same word, different time alignment, thus non-output differentiation) states and keeping the N-best sub-optimal paths for sentence level (output differentiation) states.