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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2000
Volker Fischer, Leimen, DE;
Siegfried Kunzmann, Heidelberg, DE;
Claire Waast-Ricard, Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Computer-based methods and systems are provided for automatically generating, from a first speech recognizer, a second speech recognizer such that the second speech recognizer is tailored to a certain application and requires reduced resources compared to the first speech recognizer. The invention exploits the first speech recognizer's set of states s and set of probability density functions (pdfs) assembling output probabilities for an observation of a speech frame in said states s . The invention teaches a first step of generating a set of states of the second speech recognizer reduced to a subset of states of the first speech recognizer being distinctive of the certain application. The invention teaches a second step of generating a set of probability density functions of the second speech recognizer reduced to a subset of probability density functions of the first speech recognizer being distinctive of the certain application.