Speech processing apparatus and methods
CA 1305256 C · Owner: Smiths Industries Public Limited Company · Inventors: Taylor, Michael R.
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Known speech recognition apparatus for recognising several different, spoken statements comprising several words includes an acoustic recogniser, that compares speech sounds from a microphone with signals stored in a reference vocabulary. When words making up a statement are recognised a, signal is supplied to control equipment associated with that statement. In the present invention the apparatus has a processing unit with groups of several storage locations. Each group is associated with a different statement, each location in that group being associated with an individual word. Signals representing the spoken words are used to mark those locations in every group that has a location …
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- Granted July 14, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 14, 2009.
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