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Method and apparatus for error correction in a continuous dictation system

  • US 5,864,805 A
  • Filed: 12/20/1996
  • Issued: 01/26/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of correcting incorrectly decoded speech in a continuous speech recognition system comprising the steps of:

  • affording a user a means to select a portion of text representation of the speech as being misrecognized;

    displaying a list of a multiplicity of likely alternative sequences of words to the user, wherein the list of alternative sequences is generated by including at least a word preceding said selected portion of text and/or at least a word following said selected portion of text and by decoding an interval of user speech under a constraint that a decoding of either and/or both a preceding or a following word remains unchanged;

    affording the user a means to select an alternative sequence;

    replacing the selected portion of text representation with a selected alternative sequence.

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