UTILIZING USER TRANSMITTED TEXT TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE MODEL IN MOBILE DICTATION APPLICATION

• US 20110054895A1
• Filed: 08/27/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N.
• Application Number:
  US12/870,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20110054895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/063 Training
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/075 supervised, i.e. under machine guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for utilizing user transmitted text to improve language modeling in converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility; transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility; entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility; monitoring for a user selected transmission of the entered text results through a communications application on the mobile communications facility; and receiving the user selected transmitted text at the speech recognition facility and using it to improve the performance of the speech recognition facility.

Claims

1. A method of converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising:

capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility;

transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility;

generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility;

transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility;

entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility;

monitoring for a user selected transmission of the entered text results through a communications application on the mobile communications facility; and

receiving the user selected transmitted text at the speech recognition facility and using it to improve the performance of the speech recognition facility.