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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Hong-Kwang Kuo, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Lidia Mangu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hagen Soltau, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/05 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/083 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for spoken term detection are provided. A method for spoken term detection, comprises receiving phone level out-of-vocabulary (OOV) keyword queries, converting the phone level OOV keyword queries to words, generating a confusion network (CN) based keyword searching (KWS) index, and using the CN based KWS index for both in-vocabulary (IV) keyword queries and the OOV keyword queries.