Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Predicting pronunciation in speech recognition
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Application No.: US14196055Application Date: 2014-03-04
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Publication No.: US10339920B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Jeffrey Penrod Adams , Alok Ulhas Parlikar , Jeffrey Paul Lilly , Ariya Rastrow
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Pierce Atwood LLP
- Main IPC: G10L15/187
- IPC: G10L15/187 ; G10L13/08 ; G10L15/02 ; G10L15/08

Abstract:
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) device may be configured to predict pronunciations of textual identifiers (for example, song names, etc.) based on predicting one or more languages of origin of the textual identifier. The one or more languages of origin may be determined based on the textual identifier. The pronunciations may include a hybrid pronunciation including a pronunciation in one language, a pronunciation in a second language and a hybrid pronunciation that combines multiple languages. The pronunciations may be added to a lexicon and matched to the content item (e.g., song) and/or textual identifier. The ASR device may receive a spoken utterance from a user requesting the ASR device to access the content item. The ASR device determines whether the spoken utterance matches one of the pronunciations of the content item in the lexicon. The ASR device then accesses the content when the spoken utterance matches one of the potential textual identifier pronunciations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150255069A1 PREDICTING PRONUNCIATION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION Public/Granted day:2015-09-10
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