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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2003
Michael Emonts, San Jose, CA (US);
Xavier Menendez-pidal, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lex Olorenshaw, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Michael Emonts, San Jose, CA (US);
Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lex Olorenshaw, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Cantonese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized Cantonese phone set. The optimized Cantonese phone set may be implemented with a phonetic technique to separately include consonantal phones and vocalic phones. For reasons of system efficiency, the optimized Cantonese phone set may preferably be implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of consonantal phones and vocalic phones to accurately represent Cantonese speech during the speech recognition procedure.