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Recognizing accented speech

  • US 10,347,239 B2
  • Filed: 03/21/2017
  • Issued: 07/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, by an automated speech recognition system that is configured to perform speech recognition on received audio data using a selected linguistic library and one or more selected accent libraries, audio data of an utterance that was spoken while focus is set on a field of a form;

    based at least on a field type associated with the field of the form, determining to select at least two accent libraries for the automated speech recognition system to use in combination with a linguistic library to perform speech recognition on the audio data of the utterance;

    based on determining to select at least two accent libraries for the automated speech recognition system to use in combination with the linguistic library to perform speech recognition on the audio data of the utterance, selecting, from among multiple accent libraries, a first accent library and a second, different accent library;

    obtaining a transcription of the utterance by performing speech recognition on the audio data of the utterance using the first accent library, the second, different accent library, and the linguistic library; and

    providing, for output to the field of the form, the transcription of the utterance.

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