The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2007
Jun Ogata, Ibaraki, JP;
Masataka Goto, Ibaraki, JP;
Jun Ogata, Ibaraki, JP;
Masataka Goto, Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
An unknown word is additionally registered in a speech recognition dictionary by utilizing a correction result, and a new pronunciation of the word that has been registered in a speech recognition dictionary is additionally registered in the speech recognition dictionary, thereby increasing the accuracy of speech recognition. The start time and finish time of each phoneme unit in speech data corresponding to each phoneme included in a phoneme sequence acquired by a phoneme sequence converting sectionare added to the phoneme sequence. A phoneme sequence extracting sectionextracts from the phoneme sequence a phoneme sequence portion composed of phonemes existing in a segment corresponding to the period from the start time to the finish time of the word segment of the word corrected by a word correcting sectionand the extracted phoneme sequence portion is determined as the pronunciation of the corrected word. An additional registration sectioncombines the corrected word with the pronunciation determined by a pronunciation determining sectionand additionally registers the combination as new word pronunciation data in the speech recognition dictionaryif it is determined that a word obtained after correction has not been registered in the speech recognition dictionary. The additional registration sectionadditionally registers the pronunciation determined by the pronunciation determining sectionas another pronunciation of the corrected word if it is determined that the corrected word has been registered.