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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Devang K. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Devang K. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A speech recognition system uses, in one embodiment, an extended phonetic dictionary that is obtained by processing words in a user's set of databases, such as a user's contacts database, with a set of pronunciation guessers. The speech recognition system can use a conventional phonetic dictionary and the extended phonetic dictionary to recognize speech inputs that are user requests to use the contacts database, for example, to make a phone call, etc. The extended phonetic dictionary can be updated in response to changes in the contacts database, and the set of pronunciation guessers can include pronunciation guessers for a plurality of locales, each locale having its own pronunciation guesser.