Arrangement for real-time automatic recognition of accented speech
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1. A method of effecting accented-speech recognition, comprising:
- identifying an accent of speech from signals representing the speech;
using the identified accent to select a corresponding one of a plurality of stored clusters of speech-recognition data, each cluster corresponding to a different accent; and
using the selected cluster to effect automatic speech recognition of the signals.
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An automatic speech recognition (ASR) apparatus (100) has a database (108) of a plurality of clusters (110) of speech-recognition data each corresponding to a different accent and containing words and phonemes spoken with the corresponding accent, an accent identifier (104) that identifies the accent of incoming speech signals, and a speech recognizer that effects ASR of the speech signals by using the cluster that corresponds to the identified accent.
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1. A method of effecting accented-speech recognition, comprising:
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identifying an accent of speech from signals representing the speech;
using the identified accent to select a corresponding one of a plurality of stored clusters of speech-recognition data, each cluster corresponding to a different accent; and
using the selected cluster to effect automatic speech recognition of the signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus for effecting accented-speech recognition, comprising:
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a database storing a plurality of clusters of speech-recognition data, each cluster corresponding to a different accent;
an accent identifier that identifies an accent of speech from signals representing the speech; and
a speech recognizer that responds to identification of the accent by the accent identifier by using the cluster corresponding to the identified accent to effect automatic speech recognition of the signals. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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