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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2008
Hiroaki Kashima, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinori Tahara, Yamato, JP;
Daisuke Tomoda, Yokohama, JP;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include a specific sentence generator for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in a grammar storing unit and correction information stored in a correction information storing unit and then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit, a topic shift unit for shifting a general topic stored in a general topic storing unit to a topic specific to an application on the basis of the piece of sentence data and then storing the topic in a shifted topic storing unit, a natural speech recognition unit for recognizing speech by dictation with a shifted topic and then storing the recognition result in a recognition result storing unit, a candidate sentence generator for generating candidate sentences from a grammar and then storing the sentences in a candidate sentence storing unit, and a matching unit for determining a final recognition result by matching candidate sentences with a recognition result.