Patents Examined by Qi Ham
  • Select a recognition error by comparing the phonetic
    Patent number: 6735565
    Abstract: A correction device (4) for a speech recognition device (2) is provided, with which the replacement of incorrectly recognized words (FETI) of the recognized text (ETI) is especially simple to execute. The correction device (4) is based on the recognition that the phoneme sequences of incorrectly recognized words and the spoken words actually to be recognized are very similar, and automatically marks words in the recognized text (ETI) which show a phoneme sequence similar to that of a correction word (KWI) put in by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Gschwendtner
  • Speech synthesis apparatus and selection method
    Patent number: 6725199
    Abstract: A speech synthesizer includes plural synthesis engines each having different characteristics and converting text-form utterances into speech form. One of the synthesis engines is selected as the current operative engine for producing speech-form utterances for a speech application. If the overall quality of the speech-form utterance produced by the text-to-speech converter of the current operative synthesis engine becomes inadequate, a different engine is selected as the current operative synthesis engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul St John Brittan, Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker