Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1981-10-05
1984-11-06
Kemeny, E. S. Matt
Boots, shoes, and leggings
381 43, G10L 100
Patent
active
044815930
ABSTRACT:
An improved speech recognition method and apparatus for recognizing keywords in a continuous audio signal are disclosed. The keywords, generally either a word or a string of words, are each represented by an element template defined by a plurality of target patterns. Each target pattern is represented by a plurality of statistics describing the expected behavior of a group of spectra selected from plural short-term spectra generated by processing of the incoming audio. The incoming audio spectra are processed to enhance the separation between the spectral pattern classes during later analysis. The processed audio spectra are grouped into multi-frame spectral patterns and are compared, using likelihood statistics, with the target patterns of the element templates. Each multi-frame pattern is forced to contribute to each of a plurality of pattern scores as represented by the element templates. The method and apparatus use speaker independent word models during the training stage to generate, automatically, improved target patterns. The apparatus and method further employ grammatical syntax during the training stage for identifying the beginning and ending boundaries of unknown keywords. Recognition is further improved by use of a plurality of templates representing "silence" or non-speech signals, for example, hum. Also, memory and computation load is reduced by use of modified (collapsed or folded) syntax flow graph logic, implemented by additional (augment) control numbers. A concatenation technique is employed, using dynamic programming techniques, to determine the correct identity of the word string.
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Kemeny E. S. Matt
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