Patents by Inventor Avi Faizakof

Avi Faizakof has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fast out-of-vocabulary search in automatic speech recognition systems
    Patent number: 9542936
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, on a computer system, a text search query, the query including one or more query words; generating, on the computer system, for each query word in the query, one or more anchor segments within a plurality of speech recognition processed audio files, the one or more anchor segments identifying possible locations containing the query word; post-processing, on the computer system, the one or more anchor segments, the post-processing including: expanding the one or more anchor segments; sorting the one or more anchor segments; and merging overlapping ones of the one or more anchor segments; and searching, on the computer system, the post-processed one or more anchor segments for instances of at least one of the one or more query words using a constrained grammar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Lev-Tov, Avi Faizakof, Yochai Konig
  • FAST OUT-OF-VOCABULARY SEARCH IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20140188475
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, on a computer system, a text search query, the query including one or more query words; generating, on the computer system, for each query word in the query, one or more anchor segments within a plurality of speech recognition processed audio files, the one or more anchor segments identifying possible locations containing the query word; post-processing, on the computer system, the one or more anchor segments, the post-processing including: expanding the one or more anchor segments; sorting the one or more anchor segments; and merging overlapping ones of the one or more anchor segments; and searching, on the computer system, the post-processed one or more anchor segments for instances of at least one of the one or more query words using a constrained grammar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Lev-Tov, Avi Faizakof, Yochai Konig