Language independent speech recognition

Patent 6085160 Issued on July 4, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 10, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V.

Application

No. 113589 filed on 07/10/1998

US Classes:

704/256, Markov704/2, Translation machine704/277Translation

Examiners

Primary: Hudspeth, David
Assistant: Wieland, Susan

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Bromberg & Sunstein LLp

Foreign Patent References

DE 196 34 138 DE. 02/13/1998
WO 98/11534 WO. 03/13/1998

International Class

G10L 005/04

Abstract

A speech recognition system uses language independent acoustic models derived from speech data from multiple languages to represent speech units which are concatenated into words. In addition, the input speech signal which is compared to the language independent acoustic models may be vector quantized according to a codebook which is derived from speech data from multiple languages.

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