System and method for Mandarin Chinese speech recogniton using an optimized phone set
First Claim
1. A system for performing a speech recognition procedure, comprising:
- a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized phone set, said optimized phone set being implemented with a phonetic technique to separately provide consonantal phones and vocalic phones, said optimized phone set being implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of said consonantal phones and said vocalic phones; and
a processor configured to control said recognizer to thereby perform said speech recognition procedure.
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Abstract
The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set. The optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set may be implemented with a phonetic technique to separately include consonantal phones and vocalic phones. For reasons of system efficiency, the optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set may preferably be implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of consonantal phones and vocalic phones to accurately represent Mandarin Chinese speech during the speech recognition procedure.
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42 Claims
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1. A system for performing a speech recognition procedure, comprising:
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a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized phone set, said optimized phone set being implemented with a phonetic technique to separately provide consonantal phones and vocalic phones, said optimized phone set being implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of said consonantal phones and said vocalic phones; and
a processor configured to control said recognizer to thereby perform said speech recognition procedure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for performing a speech recognition procedure, comprising the steps of:
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configuring a recognizer to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized phone set, said optimized phone set being implemented with a phonetic technique to separately provide consonantal phones and vocalic phones, said optimized phone set being implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of said consonantal phones and said vocalic phones; and
controlling said recognizer with a processor to thereby perform said speech recognition procedure. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A computer-readable medium comprising program instructions for performing a speech recognition, by performing the steps of:
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configuring a recognizer to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized phone set, said optimized phone set being implemented with a phonetic technique to separately provide consonantal phones and vocalic phones, said optimized phone set being implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of said consonantal phones and said vocalic phones; and
controlling said recognizer with a processor to thereby perform said speech recognition procedure.
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42. A system for performing a speech recognition procedure, comprising:
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means for comparing input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized phone set, said optimized phone set being implemented with a phonetic technique to separately provide consonantal phones and vocalic phones, said optimized phone set being implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of said consonantal phones and said vocalic phones; and
means for controlling said means for comparing to thereby perform said speech recognition procedure.
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