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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2001
Applicants:
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Haslemere, GB;
Philip Neil Garner, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Haslemere, GB;
Philip Neil Garner, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system is provided for determining a sequence of sub-word units representative of at least two words output by a word recognition unit in response to an input word to be recognized. In a preferred embodiment, the word alternatives output by the recognition unit are converted into sequences of phonemes. An optimum alignment between these sequences is then determined using a dynamic programming alignment technique. The sequence of phonemes representative of the input sequences is then determined using this optimum alignment.