Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech...

Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application

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ABSTRACT:
Conversational dialog with a computer or other processor-based device without requiring push-to-talk functionality. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first determines that a user desires to engage in a dialog. Based thereon the method turns on a speech recognition functionality for a period of time referred to as a listening horizon. Upon the listening horizon expiring, the method turns off the speech recognition functionality.

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