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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Philip Neil Garner, Guildford, GB;
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Guildford, GB;
Asako Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Philip Neil Garner, Guildford, GB;
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Guildford, GB;
Asako Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system is provided for matching two or more sequences of phonemes both or all of which may be generated from text or speech. A dynamic programming matching technique is preferably used having constraints which depend upon whether or not the two sequences are generated from text or speech and in which the scoring of the dynamic programming paths is weighted by phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme deletion scores where appropriate.