Patent
1978-05-08
1980-01-01
Brown, Thomas W.
179 1SM, G10L 100
Patent
active
041818130
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for speech recognition provides a means of printing phonemes in response to received speech signals utilizing inexpensive components. The speech signals are inputted into an amplifier which provides negative feedback to normalize the amplitude of the speech signals. The normalized speech signals are delta modulated at a first sampling rate to produce a corresponding first sequence of digital pulses. The negative feedback signal of the amplifier is delta modulated at a second sampling rate to produce a second sequence of digital pulses corresponding to amplitude information of the speech signals. The speech signals are filtered and utilized to produce a digital pulse corresponding to high frequency components of the speech signals having magnitudes in excess of a threshold voltage. A microprocessor contains an algorithm for detecting major slope transitions of the analog speech signals in response to the first sequence of digital signals by detecting information corresponding to presence and absence of predetermined numbers of successive slope reversals in the delta modulator producing the first sequence of digital pulses. The algorithm computes cues from the high frequency digital pulse and the second sequence of pulses. The algorithm computes a plurality of speech waveform characteristic ratios of time intervals between various slope transitions and compares the speech waveform characteristic ratios with a plurality of stored phoneme ratios representing a set of phonemes to detect matching therebetween. The order of comparing is determined on the basis of the cues and a configuration of a phoneme decision tree contained in the algorithm. When a matching occurs, a signal corresponding to the matched phoneme is produced and utilized to cause the phoneme to be printed. In one embodiment of the invention, the speech signals are produced by the earphone of a standard telephone headset.
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patent: 3416080 (1968-12-01), Wright et al.
J. Flanagan, "Computers That Talk and Listen," Proc. IEEE, Apr. 1976, pp. 405-415.
G. Clapper, "Connected Word Recognition System," IBM Tech. Discl. Bull., Dec. 1969, pp. 1123-1126.
Brown Thomas W.
Kemeny E. S.
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