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Method and apparatus including parallell processes for voice recognition

  • US 9,542,947 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2013
  • Issued: 01/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • defining, in an automated speech recognizer in which audio data is processed by a signal conditioning stage followed by a noise suppression stage followed by a language modeling stage, the signal conditioning stage including quantity i processing alternatives, the noise suppression stage including quantity j processing alternatives, and the language modeling stage including quantity k processing alternatives, quantity (i*j*k) alternative paths for processing the audio data through the multiple stages of the automated speech recognizer, i, j, and k being greater than one;

    generating, for each of the quantity (i*j*k) alternative paths, a transcription of particular audio data based on processing the particular audio data through each of the stages of the automated speech recognizer according to the alternative path; and

    selecting a particular transcription from among the respective transcriptions that are generated for the quantity (i*j*k) alternative paths; and

    providing the particular transcription for output.

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