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Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2017
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas Kibre, Redwood City, CA (US);

Umut Ozertem, San Carlos, CA (US);

Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ziad Al Bawab, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/187 (2013.01); G10L 15/07 (2013.01); G10L 15/01 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/187 (2013.01); G10L 15/075 (2013.01); G10L 15/01 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

A new pronunciation learning system for dynamically learning new pronunciations assisted by user correction logs. The user correction logs provide a record of speech recognition events and subsequent user behavior that implicitly confirms or rejects the recognition result and/or shows the user's intended words by via subsequent input. The system analyzes the correction logs and distills them down to a set of words which lack acceptable pronunciations. Hypothetical pronunciations, constrained by spelling and other linguistic knowledge, are generated for each of the words. Offline recognition determines the hypothetical pronunciations with a good acoustical match to the audio data likely to contain the words. The matching pronunciations are aggregated and adjudicated to select new pronunciations for the words to improve general or personalized recognition models.


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