Patents by Inventor Shao-Chuan SHEN

Shao-Chuan SHEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20220189462
    Abstract: A method of training a speech recognition model of an extended language by speech in a source language includes the following steps: creating a phonetic reference table of the source language, wherein the phonetic reference table includes a source language audio file and a source language phonetic transcription corresponding to each other; obtaining an extended language text file of the extended language; marking the extended language text file with an extended language phonetic transcription to create a text reference table of the extended language; training an acoustic model of the extended language by the phonetic reference table and the text reference table; and training a language model of the extended language by the extended language text file of the extended language; wherein the speech recognition model of the extended language includes the acoustic model and the language model of the extended language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wen-Hsiang LU, Shao-Chuan SHEN, Ching-Jui LIN
  • Patent number: 11341961
    Abstract: A multi-lingual speech recognition and theme-semanteme analysis method comprises steps executed by a speech recognizer: obtaining an alphabet string corresponding to a voice input signal according to a pronunciation-alphabet table, determining that the alphabet string corresponds to original words according to a multi-lingual vocabulary, and forming a sentence according to the multi-lingual vocabulary and the original words, and comprises steps executed by a sematic analyzer: according to the sentence and a theme vocabulary-semantic relationship data set, selectively executing a correction procedure to generate a corrected sentence, an analysis state determining procedure or a procedure of outputting the sentence, outputting the corrected sentence when the correction procedure successes, and executing the analysis state determining procedure to selectively output a determined result when the correction procedure fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wen-Hsiang Lu, Chun-Yu Chien, Shao-Chuan Shen, Wei-Cheng Yeh
  • Publication number: 20210166681
    Abstract: A multi-lingual speech recognition and theme-semanteme analysis method comprises steps executed by a speech recognizer: obtaining an alphabet string corresponding to a voice input signal according to a pronunciation-alphabet table, determining that the alphabet string corresponds to original words according to a multi-lingual vocabulary, and forming a sentence according to the multi-lingual vocabulary and the original words, and comprises steps executed by a sematic analyzer: according to the sentence and a theme vocabulary-semantic relationship data set, selectively executing a correction procedure to generate a corrected sentence, an analysis state determining procedure or a procedure of outputting the sentence, outputting the corrected sentence when the correction procedure successes, and executing the analysis state determining procedure to selectively output a determined result when the correction procedure fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wen-Hsiang LU, Chun-Yu CHIEN, Shao-Chuan SHEN, Wei-Cheng YEH