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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2004
Norikazu Endo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin K. Reaves, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramon E. Prieto, Mountain View, CA (US);
John R. Brookes, Belmont, CA (US);
Norikazu Endo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin K. Reaves, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramon E. Prieto, Mountain View, CA (US);
John R. Brookes, Belmont, CA (US);
Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A speech recognition method and system for use in a vehicle navigation system utilize grammar weighted based upon geographical information regarding the locations corresponding to the tokens in the grammars and/or the location of the vehicle for which the vehicle navigation system is used, in order to enhance the performance of speech recognition. The geographical information includes the distances between the vehicle location and the locations corresponding to the tokens, as well as the size, population, and popularity of the locations corresponding to the tokens.