Pronunciation generation in speech recognition

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PATENT NO 6092044
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08825141

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A method of adding a word to a speech recognition vocabulary includes creating a collection of possible phonetic pronunciations from a spelling of the word and using speech recognition to find a pronunciation from the collection that best matches an utterance of the word. The collection is created by comparing the spelling to a rules list of letter strings with associated phonemes. The list is searched for a letter string from the spelling of length greater than one letter. The collection is limited to phonetic pronunciations containing phonemes associated with the letter string of length greater than one. In another method, a net of possible phonetic pronunciations of the word is created from the spelling and speech recognition is used to find the pronunciation from the net that best matches the utterance of the word. The invention also features methods of assigning a pre-filtering class to a word.

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NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC1 WAYSIDE ROAD BURLINGTON MA 01803

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baker, James K West Newton, MA 113 5353
Even, Stijn Van Jamaica Plain, MA 3 249
Gadbois, Gregory J Amesbury, MA 3 386
Ingold, Charles E Bedford, MA 4 1291
Parke, Joel W Marlborough, MA 7 1352

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