Language context dependent data labeling

Patent 7295979 Issued on November 13, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 22, 2021. 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

International Business Machines Corporation

Application

No. 09790296 filed on 02/22/2001

US Classes:

704/243, Creating patterns for matching704/254, Subportions704/255, Specialized models704/277, Translation704/244, Update patterns704/9, Natural language704/256.2, Training of HMM (EPO)704/256, Markov704/238, Distance704/220Analysis by synthesis

Examiners

Primary: Edouard, Patrick N.
Assistant: Wozniak, James S.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G10L 15/06
G10L 15/00

Abstract

Bootstrapping of a system from one language to another often works well when the two languages share the similar acoustic space. However, when the new language has sounds that do not occur in the language from which the bootstrapping is to be done, bootstrapping does not produce good initial models and the new language data is not properly aligned to these models. The present invention provides techniques to generate context dependent labeling of the new language data using the recognition system of another language. Then, this labeled data is used to generate models for the new language phones.

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