Patents by Inventor Raymond L. Co

Raymond L. Co 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).

  • Method and system for improved speech recognition
    Patent number: 7680661
    Abstract: A method for speech recognition includes: prompting a user with a first query to input speech into a speech recognition engine; determining if the inputted speech is correctly recognized; wherein in the event the inputted speech is correctly recognized proceeding to a new task; wherein in the event the inputted speech is not correctly recognized, prompting the user repeatedly with the first query to input speech into the speech recognition engine, and determining if the inputted speech is correctly recognized until a predefined limit on repetitions has been met; wherein in the event the predefined limit has been met without correctly recognizing the inputted user speech, prompting speech input from the user with a secondary query for redundant information; and cross-referencing the user's n-best result from the first query with the n-best result from the second query to obtain a top hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond L. Co, Ea-Ee Jan, David M. Lubensky
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED SPEECH RECOGNITION
    Publication number: 20090287483
    Abstract: A method for speech recognition includes: prompting a user with a first query to input speech into a speech recognition engine; determining if the inputted speech is correctly recognized; wherein in the event the inputted speech is correctly recognized proceeding to a new task; wherein in the event the inputted speech is not correctly recognized, prompting the user repeatedly with the first query to input speech into the speech recognition engine, and determining if the inputted speech is correctly recognized until a predefined limit on repetitions has been met; wherein in the event the predefined limit has been met without correctly recognizing the inputted user speech, prompting speech input from the user with a secondary query for redundant information; and cross-referencing the user's n-best result from the first query with the n-best result from the second query to obtain a top hypothesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raymond L. Co, Ee-ee Jan, David M. Lubensky