APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION

• US 20130297304A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Seung Hi, KIM, Sang Hun
• Granted Patent: US 10,019,991 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/231
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus for speech recognition and automatic translation operated in a PC or a mobile device. The apparatus for speech recognition according to the present invention includes a display unit that displays a screen for selecting a domain as a unit for a speech recognition region previously sorted for speech recognition to a user; a user input unit that receives a selection of a domain from the user; and a communication unit that transmits the user selection information for the domain. According to the present invention, the apparatus for speech recognition using an intuitive and simple user interface is provided to a user to enable the user to easily select/correct a designation domain of a speech recognition system and improve accuracy and performance of speech recognition and automatic translation by the designated system for speech recognition.

Claims

1. An apparatus for speech recognition, comprising:

a display unit that displays a screen for selecting a domain for speech recognition to a user;

a user input unit that receives a selection of a domain from the user; and

a communication unit that transmits the user selection information for the domain.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a domain selected by the user or a domain previously selected and deselected by the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit classifies and displays a domain representing the domain into a layer according to a speech recognition level.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the display unit displays a domain for the domain selected by the user among the domains classified and displayed into a layer.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the layer according to the speech recognition level classifies a general region providing a basic speech recognition region according to a generation situation of speech and the generation situation is re-classified according to generation places.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the display unit displays a domain indicating the domain corresponding to a lower layer of the selected domain according to the domain selection of the user.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit uses user information collected by the user terminal to check the user situation and displays a domain recommended according to the checked situation information to the user.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit displays at least one exemplified recognition data to a user for exemplifying a speech recognition level designated according to the domain selection to the user.

9. A method for speech recognition, comprising:

displaying a screen for selecting a domain as a unit for a speech recognition region of a predetermined classification for speech recognition to a user;

receiving a selection of a domain from the user; and

transmitting the user selection information for the domain.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, a domain selected by the user or a domain previously selected and deselected by the user is displayed.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, a domain representing the domain is classified into a layer according to a speech recognition level and is displayed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, a domain for the domain selected by the user among the domains sorted and displayed into a layer is displayed.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the layer according to the speech recognition level has a hierarchical structure in which a general region providing a basic speech recognition region is sorted according to a generation situation of speech and the generation situation is resorted according to generation places.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, a domain indicating the domain corresponding to a lower layer of the selected domain is displayed according to the domain selection of the user.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, the user situation is checked using user information collected by the user terminal and a domain recommended according to the checked situation information is displayed to the user.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein in the displaying of the screen for selecting the domain, at least one exemplified recognition data for exemplifying a speech recognition level designated according to the domain selection to the user is displayed to the user.

17. A computer readable recording medium in which programs executed on a computer are stored, comprising:

displaying a screen for selecting a domain for speech recognition to a user;

receiving a selection of a domain from the user; and

transmitting selection information of the user for the domain.

18. An apparatus for speech recognition, comprising:

an interface module that displays a screen for selecting a domain for speech recognition to a user to receive a selection of a domain from the user and transmit the selection information of the user for the domain; and

a speech recognition module that refers to data corresponding to the domain selected by the user among reference data for speech recognition through the received selection information of the user to perform the speech recognition.