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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:
Dec. 24, 2002

Filed:

Sep. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Bernd Souvignier, Aachen, DE;

Andreas Kellner, Aachen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/506 ; G10L 1/502 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/506 ; G10L 1/502 ;
Abstract

Method and apparatus are disclosed for adapting linguistic speech models in automatic speech recognition systems using speech recognition results obtained during operation of such systems, in which, during the adaptation, a list of N-best recognition result alternatives with N>1 for a speech utterance to be recognized is evaluated. To improve such an on-line adaptation of the linguistic speech models, a combination of a plurality of recognition result alternatives of the list is included in the adaptation.


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