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Method for processing initially recognized speech in a speech recognition session

  • US 7,072,837 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2001
  • Issued: 07/04/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a speech recognition session, a method of speech processing utilizing a plurality of grammars, said method comprising:

  • spawning a separate thread of execution corresponding to each one of said plurality of grammars;

    allocating a speech recognition task to each separate thread of execution for processing a user-spoken utterance to support a pre-selected application, each said speech recognition task producing a possible recognition result using said corresponding grammar;

    assigning to each of said plurality of grammars a unique priority code based on a contextual relevance of each grammar to the pre-selected application, said unique priority code being an ordinal measure of the likelihood that a particular word accurately reflects a corresponding user-spoken utterance; and

    identifying a possible recognition result produced by one of said speech recognition tasks.

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