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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 18, 2007
Applicants:
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Mark Fallat, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Mark Fallat, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
QNX Software Systems Limited, Kanata, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/20 (2006.01); G10L 15/04 (2006.01); G10L 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An end-pointer determines a beginning and an end of a speech segment. The end-pointer includes a voice triggering module that identifies a portion of an audio stream that has an audio speech segment. A rule module communicates with the voice triggering module. The rule module includes a plurality of rules used to analyze a part of the audio stream to detect a beginning and an end of the audio speech segment. A consonant detector detects occurrences of a high frequency consonant in the portion of the audio stream.