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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
David Mowatt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ricky Loynd, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Edward Dewar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rachel Imogen Morton, Seattle, WA (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Robert Ian Brown, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael D. Plumpe, Sammamish, WA (US);
Philipp Heinz Schmid, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David Mowatt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ricky Loynd, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Edward Dewar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rachel Imogen Morton, Seattle, WA (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Robert Ian Brown, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael D. Plumpe, Sammamish, WA (US);
Philipp Heinz Schmid, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Intelligent speech recognition is used to provide users with the ability to utter more user friendly commands. Satisfaction is increased when a user can vocalize a subset of a formal command name and still have the intended command identified and processed. Moreover, greater accuracy in identifying a command application from a user's utterance can be achieved by ignoring command choices associated with unlikely user utterances. An intelligent speech recognition system can identify differing acceptable verbal command phrase forms, e.g., but not limited to, complete commands, command subsequences and command subsets, for different commands supported by the system. Subset blocking words are identified for assistance in reducing the ambiguity in matching user verbal command phrases with valid commands supported by the intelligent speech recognition system.