Patents by Inventor Ralf Meermeier

Ralf Meermeier 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).

  • One-step repair of misrecognized recognition strings
    Patent number: 7809566
    Abstract: A method for use in automatic speech recognition corrects erroneous recognition elements within a recognition hypothesis. A user input is recognized as a correction hypothesis which contains various recognition elements. A non-deterministic alignment is performed to align at least a portion of the correction hypothesis with an earlier recognition hypothesis which also contains various recognition elements such that the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis are determined to most likely, correspond to a range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypotheses. The recognition elements in the range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypothesis are replaced with the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Ralf Meermeier
  • One-Step Repair of Misrecognized Recognition Strings
    Publication number: 20070213979
    Abstract: A method for use in automatic speech recognition corrects erroneous recognition elements within a recognition hypothesis. A user input is recognized as a correction hypothesis which contains various recognition elements. A non-deterministic alignment is performed to align at least a portion of the correction hypothesis with an earlier recognition hypothesis which also contains various recognition elements such that the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis are determined to most likely, correspond to a range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypotheses. The recognition elements in the range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypothesis are replaced with the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Ralf Meermeier