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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Daniel L. Roth, Brookline, MA (US);
Jordan R. Cohen, Gloucester, MA (US);
David F. Johnston, Arlington, MA (US);
Manfred G. Grabherr, Medford, MA (US);
Edward W. Porter, Exeter, NH (US);
Daniel L. Roth, Brookline, MA (US);
Jordan R. Cohen, Gloucester, MA (US);
David F. Johnston, Arlington, MA (US);
Manfred G. Grabherr, Medford, MA (US);
Edward W. Porter, Exeter, NH (US);
Voice Signal Technologies, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
Text-to-speech (TTS) generation is used in conjunction with large vocabulary speech recognition to say words selected by the speech recognition. The software for performing the large vocabulary speech recognition can share speech modeling data with the TTS software. TTS or recorded audio can be used to automatically say both recognized text and the names of recognized commands after their recognition. The TTS can automatically repeats text recognized by the speech recognition after each of a succession of end of utterance detections. A user can move a cursor back or forward in recognized text, and the TTS can speak one or more words at the cursor location after each such move. The speech recognition can be used to produces a choice list of possible recognition candidates and the TTS can be used to provide spoken output of one or more of the candidates on the choice list.