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US5267345:
Speech recognition apparatus which predicts word classes from context and words from word classes
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US United States of America
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Brown, Peter F.; New York, NY
Della Pietra, Stephen A.; Pearl River, NY
Della Pietra, Vincent J.; Blauvelt, NY
Mercer, Robert L.; Yorktown Heights, NY
Resnik, Philip S.; Philadelphia, PA
Chen, Stanley S.; Cambridge, MA
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International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY
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| Published / Filed: |
1993-11-30
/ 1992-02-10
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| Application Number: |
US1992000834063
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| IPC Code: |
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G06F 9/44;
G06F 17/27;
G10L 15/10;
G10L 15/18;
G10L 15/28;
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G10L 15/00;
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G10L 9/00;
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Current:
704/255;
704/E15.023;
Original:
395/002.64;
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| Field of Search: |
381/041-46
395/2.64
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| Government Interest: |
This invention was made with Government support under Contract Number N00014-91-C-0135 awarded by the Office of Naval Research. The Government has certain rights in this invention.
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US1992000834063 |
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| Abstract: |
A language generator for a speech recognition apparatus scores a word-series hypothesis by combining individual scores for each word in the hypothesis. The hypothesis score for a single word comprises a combination of the estimated conditional probability of occurrence of a first class of words comprising the word being scored, given the occurrence of a context comprising the words in the word-series hypothesis other than the word being scored, and the estimated conditional probability of occurrence of the word being scored given the occurrence of the first class of words, and given the occurrence of the context. An apparatus and method are provided for classifying multiple series of words for the purpose of obtaining useful hypothesis scores in the language generator and speech recognition apparatus.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Schechter, Marc D. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Fleming, Michael R.; Doerrler, Michelle
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First Claim:
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We claim:
1. A language generator comprising:
- means for generating two or more word-series hypothesis signals, each word-series hypothesis signal representing a word-series hypothesis comprising a series of linguistic units, each linguistic unit comprising one or more words selected from a language;
- means for generating a single-unit hypothesis score signal for each linguistic unit in each word-series hypothesis, each single-unit hypothesis score signal representing a single-unit hypothesis score comprising an estimate of the probability of occurrence of the individual linguistic unit in the word-series hypothesis;
- means for generating a word-series hypothesis score signal for each word-series hypothesis, each word-series hypothesis score signal comprising a combination of the single-unit hypothesis scores for the linguistic units in the word-series hypothesis;
- means for storing one or more word-series hypothesis signals representing candidate word-series hypotheses having the best word-series hypothesis scores; and
- means for outputting at least one word signal representing at least one word in at least one best candidate word-series hypothesis;
- characterized in that the means for generating a single-unit hypothesis score signal for a first individual linguistic unit comprises:
- means for estimating the conditional probability of occurrence of a first class of linguistic units comprising the first individual linguistic unit, given the occurrence of a context comprising the linguistic units in the word-series hypothesis other than the first individual linguistic unit;
- means for estimating the conditional probability of occurrence of the first individual linguistic unit given the occurrence of the first class of linguistic units, and given the occurrence of the context; and
- means for generating a single-unit hypothesis score signal for the first individual linguistic unit comprising a first component score comprising a combination of the estimated conditional probability of occurrence of the first class of linguistic units given the occurrence of the context, and the estimated conditional probability of occurrence of the first individual linguistic unit given the occurrence of the first class and given the occurrence of the context.
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| Other Abstract Info: |
DERABS G93-259913
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Bahl, L. R., et al. "A Maximum Likeihood Approach to Continuous Speech Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume PAMI-5, No. 2, pp. 179-180, Mar. 1983.
(12 pages)
Cited by 42 patents
Bahl, L. R., et al. "A Tree-Based Statistical Language Model for Natural Language Speech Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 37, No. 7, Jul. 1989, pp. 1001-1008.
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Cited by 7 patents
Bahl, L. R., et al. "Vector Quantization Procedure For Speech Recognition Systems Using Discrete Parameter Phoneme-Based Markov Word Models." , IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 34, No. 7, Dec. 1989, pp. 340 and 341.
Brown, P. F., et al. "A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation." Computational Lignuistics, vol. 16, No. 2, Jun. 1990, pp. 79-85.
Mays, E., et al. "Context Based Spelling correction." Information Processing & Management, vol. 27, No. 5, 1991, pp. 517-522.
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