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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, WA (US);
Asela J. Gunawardana, Seattle, WA (US);
Ciprian I. Chelba, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik W. Selberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Frank Torsten B. Seide, Beijing, CN;
Patrick Nguyen, Seattle, WA (US);
Roger Peng Yu, Beijing, CN;
Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, WA (US);
Asela J. Gunawardana, Seattle, WA (US);
Ciprian I. Chelba, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik W. Selberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Frank Torsten B. Seide, Beijing, CN;
Patrick Nguyen, Seattle, WA (US);
Roger Peng Yu, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of indexing a speech lattice for search of audio corresponding to the speech lattice is provided. The method includes identifying at least two speech recognition hypotheses for a word which have time ranges satisfying a criteria. The method further includes merging the at least two speech recognition hypotheses to generate a merged speech recognition hypothesis for the word.