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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2011
Katsuki Minamino, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuo Hiroe, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuki Minamino, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuo Hiroe, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus, method and program for performing a speech recognition process utilizing contextual information that comprises an estimation of the intention of an utterance of a user. The recognition process includes calculating a pre-score based on observed contextual information according intention models which correspond to a plurality of types of intention information and combining the pre-scoring results with acoustic and linguistic scores to obtain an improved recognition or comprehension of the intent of a user utterance.