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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Marc D. Tanner, Morgantown, WV (US);
Erin M. Panttaja, Somerville, MA (US);
Marc D. Tanner, Morgantown, WV (US);
Erin M. Panttaja, Somerville, MA (US);
Comverse, Inc., Wakefield, MA (US);
Abstract
Recognition of proper nouns by an automated speech recognition system is improved by augmenting the pronunciation of each proper noun or name in the natural language of the speech recognition system with at least one 'native' pronunciation in another natural language. To maximize recognition, preferably the pronunciations are predicted based on information not available to the speech recognition system. Prediction of pronunciation may be based on a location derived from a telephone number or postal address associated with the name and the language or dialect spoken in the country or region of that location. The 'native' pronunciation(s) may be added to a dictionary of the speech recognition system or directly to the grammar used for recognizing speech.