Speech recognition assistant for human call center operator
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1. A method for interpreting information provided over a telephone line from a customer, comprising:
- a) providing at least a portion of an utterance made by the customer to a speech recognizer, at a same time the utterance is being heard on the telephone line by a call center operator;
b) processing, by the speech recognizer, the portion of the utterance made by the customer, in order to obtain a speech recognition result; and
c) providing the speech recognition result to the call center operator, to assist the call center operator in discerning the utterance made by the customer.
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A method for interpreting information provided over a telephone line from a customer includes providing at least a portion of an utterance made by the customer to a speech recognizer, at a same time the utterance is being heard on the telephone line by a call center operator. The method also includes processing, by the speech recognizer, the portion of the utterance made by the customer, in order to obtain a speech recognition result. The method further includes providing the speech recognition result to the call center operator, to assist the call center operator in discerning the utterance made by the customer.
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1. A method for interpreting information provided over a telephone line from a customer, comprising:
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a) providing at least a portion of an utterance made by the customer to a speech recognizer, at a same time the utterance is being heard on the telephone line by a call center operator;
b) processing, by the speech recognizer, the portion of the utterance made by the customer, in order to obtain a speech recognition result; and
c) providing the speech recognition result to the call center operator, to assist the call center operator in discerning the utterance made by the customer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for deciphering an utterance made by a caller over a telephone line, comprising:
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recording an utterance of the caller made over the telephone line;
performing speech recognition processing on the caller'"'"'s recorded utterance, in order to obtain a speech recognition result; and
providing the recorded caller'"'"'s utterance to a human call center operator, along with the speech recognition result, as a set of information, in order to allow the human call center operator to decipher the utterance made by the caller based on the set of information. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for deciphering an utterance made by a caller over a telephone line, comprising:
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a recording unit configured to record an utterance of the caller;
a speech recognition processing unit configured to receive the recorded caller'"'"'s utterance form the recording unit and to perform speech recognition processing on the caller'"'"'s recorded utterance, in order to obtain a speech recognition result; and
providing means for providing the recorded caller'"'"'s utterance and the speech recognition result, as a set of information, to a human call center operator, in order to allow the human call center operator to correctly decipher the caller'"'"'s utterance. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A program product having machine readable code for deciphering an utterance made by a caller over a telephone line, the program code, when executed, causing a machine to perform the following steps:
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recording an utterance made by the caller over the telephone line;
performing speech recognition processing on the caller'"'"'s recorded utterance, in order to obtain a speech recognition result; and
providing the recorded caller'"'"'s utterance to a human call center operator, along with the speech recognition result, as a set of information, in order to allow the human call center operator to correctly decipher the caller'"'"'s utterance. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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