Process for the multilingual use of a hidden markov sound model in a speech recognition system

Patent 6212500 Issued on April 3, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 9, 2019. 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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Inventor

Kohler, Joachim

Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Application

No. 254775 filed on 03/09/1999

US Classes:

704/256, Markov704/1, LINGUISTICS704/2, Translation machine704/9, Natural language704/10, Dictionary building, modification, or prioritization704/243, Creating patterns for matching704/244, Update patterns704/245Clustering

Examiners

Primary: Knepper, David D.
Assistant: Sax, Robert Louis

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Schiff Hardin & Waite

International Classes

G10L 005/06
G10L 009/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-09-10 DE

Abstract

In a method for determining the similarities of sounds across different languages, hidden Markov modelling of multilingual phonemes is employed wherein language-specific as well as language-independent properties are identified by combining of the probability densities for different hidden Markov sound models in various languages.

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