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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
Jeong MI Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Byung-kwan Kwak, Yongin-si, KR;
Nam Hoon Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Ick Sang Han, Yongin-si, KR;
Jeong Mi Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Byung-Kwan Kwak, Yongin-si, KR;
Nam Hoon Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Ick Sang Han, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A voice query extension method and system. The voice query extension method includes: detecting voice activity of a user from an input signal and extracting a feature vector from the voice activity; converting the feature vector into at least one phoneme sequence and generating the at least one phoneme sequence; matching the at least one phoneme sequence with words registered in a dictionary, extracting a string of the matched words with a linguistic meaning, and selecting the string of the matched words as a query; determining whether the query is in a predetermined first language, and when the query is not in the first language as a result of the determining, converting the query using a phoneme to grapheme rule, and generating a query in the first language; and searching using the query in the first language.