The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
LI Deng, Redmond, WA (US);
Jian-iai Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Frank Torsten Bernd Seide, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of speech recognition is provided that determines a production-related value, vocal-tract resonance frequencies in particular, for a state at a particular frame based on the production-related values associated with two preceding frames using a recursion. The production-related value is used to determine a probability distribution of the observed feature vector for the state. A probability for an observed value received for the frame is then determined from the probability distribution. Under one embodiment, the production-related value is determined using a noise-free recursive definition for the value. Use of the recursion substantially improves the decoding speed. When the decoding algorithm is applied to training data with known phonetic transcripts, forced alignment is created which improves the phone segmentation obtained from the prior art.
Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile