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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2003
Francoise Beaufays, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ananth Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mitchel Weintraub, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shaun Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Francoise Beaufays, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ananth Sankar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mitchel Weintraub, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shaun Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A computerized pronunciation system is provided for generating pronunciations for words and storing the pronunciations in a pronunciation dictionary. The system includes a word list including at least one word; transcribed acoustic data including at least one waveform for the word and transcribed text associated with the waveform; a pronunciation-learning module configured to accept as input the word list and the transcribed acoustic data, the pronunciation-learning module including: sets of initial pronunciations of the word, a scoring module configured score pronunciations and to generate phone probabilities, and a set of alternate pronunciations of the word, wherein the set of alternate pronunciations include a highest-scoring set of initial pronunciations with a highest-scoring substitute phone substituted for a lowest-probability phone; and a pronunciation dictionary configured to receive the highest-scoring set of initial pronunciations and the set of alternate pronunciations.