Method and system for voice recognition through dialect identification

• US 20040107097A1
• Filed: 12/02/2002
• Published: 06/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Fox, Michelle A., Lenane, Timothy D.
• Application Number:
  US10/307,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20040107097A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/231
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

The invention presents a method for automated speech recognition by accessing a customer voice recognition profile and selecting a voice recognition attribute. A modified customer voice recognition profile is created as a function of the voice recognition attribute and a voice recognition engine is amended as a function of the modified customer voice recognition profile.

Claims

1. A method for automated speech recognition comprising:

accessing a customer voice recognition profile;

selecting a voice recognition attribute;

creating a modified customer voice recognition profile as a function of the voice recognition attribute; and

amending a voice recognition engine as a function of the modified customer voice recognition profile.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the voice recognition attribute is selected from a group consisting of a gender, a dialect, and an ethnicity.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the dialect is selected from a group consisting of a western region, an upper midwestern region, a Great Lakes region, a New England region, a New York region, a midland region, a mountain southern region, and a coastal southern region.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the modified customer voice recognition profile to the voice recognition engine wherein the modified customer voice recognition profile and the voice recognition engine are not in physical communication.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating a customer voice recognition profile if the customer voice recognition profile is nonexistent.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a voice recognition engine parameter as a function of the voice recognition attribute;

and amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the voice recognition engine parameter.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising replacing the customer voice recognition profile with the modified customer voice recognition profile.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the customer voice recognition profile wherein no voice recognition attribute is selected.

9. A system for automated speech recognition comprising:

means for accessing a customer voice recognition profile;

means for selecting a voice recognition attribute;

means for creating an modified customer voice recognition profile as a function of the voice recognition attribute; and

means for amending a voice recognition engine as a function of the modified customer voice recognition profile.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for transmitting the modified customer voice recognition profile to the voice recognition engine wherein the modified customer voice recognition profile and the voice recognition engine are not in physical communication.

11. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for creating a customer voice recognition profile if the customer voice recognition profile is nonexistent.

12. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for providing a voice recognition engine parameter as a function of the voice recognition attribute;

and means for amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the voice recognition engine parameter.

13. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for replacing the customer voice recognition profile with the modified customer voice recognition profile.

14. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the customer voice recognition profile wherein no voice recognition attribute is selected.

15. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for automated speech recognition comprising:

computer readable code for accessing a customer voice recognition profile;

computer readable code for selecting a voice recognition attribute;

computer readable code for creating an modified customer voice recognition profile as a function of the voice recognition attribute; and

computer readable code for amending a voice recognition engine as a function of the modified customer voice recognition profile.

16. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising computer readable code for transmitting the modified customer voice recognition profile to the voice recognition engine wherein the modified customer voice recognition profile and the voice recognition engine are not in physical communication.

17. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising computer readable code for creating a customer voice recognition profile if the customer voice recognition profile is nonexistent.

18. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising computer readable code for providing a voice recognition engine parameter as a function of the voice recognition attribute;

and computer readable code for amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the voice recognition engine parameter.

19. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising computer readable code for replacing the customer voice recognition profile with the modified customer voice recognition profile.

20. The computer program of claim 15 further comprising computer readable code for amending the voice recognition engine as a function of the customer voice recognition profile wherein no voice recognition attribute is selected.