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Unsupervised and active learning in automatic speech recognition for call classification

  • US 9,159,318 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2014
  • Issued: 10/13/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • performing, via a processor, automatic speech recognition using a bootstrap model on utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription, to produce automatically transcribed utterances, wherein the bootstrap model is based on text data mined from a website relevant to a specific domain;

    selecting, via the processor, a predetermined number of utterances not having a corresponding manual transcription based on a geometrically computed n-tuple confidence score;

    receiving transcriptions of the predetermined number of utterances, wherein the transcriptions are made by a human being; and

    generating a language model based on the automatically transcribed utterances, the predetermined number of utterances, and the transcriptions.

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