System operable as an automaton for recognizing continuously spoken words with reference to demi-word pair reference patterns
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1. A continuous speech recognition system for recognizing a succession of continuously spoken words with reference to a plurality of preselected reference words, each reference word having an intra-word characteristic point approximately at a point of bisection of said reference word, said system comprising:
- means for memorizing a plurality of discrete demi-word pair reference patterns, each reference pattern being given by a sequence of parameters characteristic of a demi-word pair which lies between the intra-word characteristic point of a preceding reference word and the intra-word characteristic point of a succeeding reference word, said preceding and said succeeding reference words being continuously pronounced; and
means connected to said reference pattern memorizing means to be operable as a finite-state automaton to recognize said succession by using a pattern concatenation of optimum demi-word pair reference patterns which are selected from said discrete demi-word pair reference patterns and concatenated at least at an interface, said automaton being for controlling said concatenation so that no contradiction occurs at every interface.
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Abstract
A system for recognizing a continuously spoken word sequence with reference to preselected reference words with the problem of coarticulation removed, comprises a pattern memory for memorizing demi-word pair reference patterns consisting of a former and a latter reference pattern segment for each reference word and a word pair reference pattern segment for each permutation with repetition of two words selected from the preselected reference words. A recognition unit is operable as a finite-state automaton on concatenating the demi-word pair reference patterns so that no contradiction occurs at each interface of the reference patterns in every concatenation. It is possible to use the automaton in restricting the number of reference patterns in each concatenation either to an odd or an even positive integer.
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1. A continuous speech recognition system for recognizing a succession of continuously spoken words with reference to a plurality of preselected reference words, each reference word having an intra-word characteristic point approximately at a point of bisection of said reference word, said system comprising:
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means for memorizing a plurality of discrete demi-word pair reference patterns, each reference pattern being given by a sequence of parameters characteristic of a demi-word pair which lies between the intra-word characteristic point of a preceding reference word and the intra-word characteristic point of a succeeding reference word, said preceding and said succeeding reference words being continuously pronounced; and means connected to said reference pattern memorizing means to be operable as a finite-state automaton to recognize said succession by using a pattern concatenation of optimum demi-word pair reference patterns which are selected from said discrete demi-word pair reference patterns and concatenated at least at an interface, said automaton being for controlling said concatenation so that no contradiction occurs at every interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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