Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – One-way audio signal program distribution – Public address system
Patent
1989-03-14
1991-07-16
Harkcom, Gary V.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
One-way audio signal program distribution
Public address system
G01L 708
Patent
active
050330870
ABSTRACT:
A continuous speech recognition system includes an automatic phonological rules generator which determines variations in the pronunciation of phonemes based on the context in which they occur. This phonological rules generator associates sequences of labels derived from vocalizations of a training text with respective phonemes inferred from the training text. These sequences are then annotated with their pheneme context from the training text and clustered into groups representing similar pronunciations of each phoneme. A decision tree is generated using the context information of the sequences to predict the clusters to which the sequences belong. The training data is processed by the decision tree to divide the sequences into leaf-groups representing similar pronunciations of each phoneme. The sequences in each leaf-group are clustered into sub-groups representing respectively different pronunciations of their corresponding phoneme in a give context. A Markov model is generated for each sub-group. The various Markov models of a leaf-group are combined into a single compound model by assigning common initial and final states to each model. The compound Markov models are used by a speech recognition system to analyze an unknown sequence of labels given its context.
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Bahl Lalit R.
Brown Peter F.
deSouza Peter V.
Mercer Robert L.
Harkcom Gary V.
International Business Machines Corp.
Merecki John A.
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