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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
May. 13, 1999
Apparatus and method for automatically generating punctuation marks in continuous speech recognition
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for automatically generating punctuation marks in a continuous speech recognition system, comprises means ( ) for recognizing user speech and converting the user speech into words, characterized in that means ( ) for recognizing user speech is further used to recognize pseudo noises in the user speech; and the apparatus characterized by further comprising: means ( ) for marking pseudo noises in output results of means ( ) for recognizing user speech; means ( ) for generating punctuation marks by finding most likely pseudo punctuation marks at locations of pseudo noises marked by the means ( ) for marking pseudo noises based on a language model containing pseudo punctuation marks.