Patents by Inventor Zheng-Hao Lin

Zheng-Hao Lin 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 of generating and detecting confusing phones of pronunciation
    Patent number: 7996209
    Abstract: A method of generating and detecting confusing phones/syllables is disclosed. The method includes a generating stage and a detecting stage. The generating stage includes: (a) input a Mandarin utterance; (b) partition the Mandarin utterance into segmented phones/syllables and generate the most likely route in a recognition net via Forced Alignment of Viterbi decoding; (c) compare the segmented phones/syllables with a Mandarin acoustic model; (d) determine whether a confusing phone/syllable exists; (e) add the confusing phone/syllable into the recognition net and repeat step (b), (c), and (d) when the confusing phone/syllable exists; (f) stop and output all generated confusing phones/syllables to a confusing phone/syllable file when a confusing phone/syllable does not exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Jyh-Shing Jang, Pai-Pin Wang, Jiang-Chun Chen, Zheng-Hao Lin
  • Method and system of generating and detecting confusing phones of pronunciation
    Publication number: 20090150154
    Abstract: A method of generating and detecting confusing phones/syllables is disclosed. The method includes a generating stage and a detecting stage. The generating stage includes: (a) input a Mandarin utterance; (b) partition the Mandarin utterance into segmented phones/syllables and generate the most likely route in a recognition net via Forced Alignment of Viterbi decoding; (c) compare the segmented phones/syllables with a Mandarin acoustic model; (d) determine whether a confusing phone/syllable exists; (e) add the confusing phone/syllable into the recognition net and repeat step (b), (c), and (d) when the confusing phone/syllable exists; (f) stop and output all generated confusing phones/syllables to a confusing phone/syllable file when a confusing phone/syllable does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Jyh-Shing Jang, Pai-Pin Wang, Jiang-Chun Chen, Zheng-Hao Lin