Patents Examined by Jesse Scott Pullias
  • Patent number: 7983912
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a generation unit generating a recognition candidate associated with a speech utterance and a likelihood; a storing unit storing the one recognition; a selecting unit selecting the recognition candidate as a recognition result of a first speech utterance; an utterance relation determining unit determining whether a second speech utterance which is input after the input of the first speech utterance is a speech re-utterance of a whole of the first speech utterance or a speech re-utterance of a part of the first speech utterance; a whole correcting unit correcting the recognition candidate of the whole of the first speech utterance when the second speech utterance is the whole of the first speech utterance; and a part correcting unit correcting the recognition candidate for the part of the first speech utterance when the second speech utterance is the part of the first speech utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Hirakawa, Tetsuro Chino