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Speech recognition of a list entry

  • US 8,532,990 B2
  • Filed: 02/16/2010
  • Issued: 09/10/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating a candidate list from a list of entries in accordance with a string of subword units corresponding to a speech input in a speech recognition system, the list of entries including plural list entries each comprising at least one fragment having one or more subword units, the method comprising:

  • for each list entry, comparing fragments of the list entry with the string of subword units;

    determining in the speech recognition system a matching score for each of the compared fragments based on the comparison, the matching score for a fragment being further based on a comparison of at least one other fragment of the same list entry with the string of subword units;

    determining a total score for each list entry on the basis of the matching scores for the compared fragments of the respective list entry; and

    generating the candidate list with the best matching entries from the list of entries based on the total scores of the list entries.

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