Apparatus and method to train operators of speech recognition system
CA 2083769 A1 · Owner: Hirsh, Hanavi M. · Inventors: Hirsh, Hanavi M.
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In a continuous speech recognition system of my design which employs operator-generated word-marker signals this invention, provides an improvement in the form of a system which trains operators to send signals which coincide in time with the onset of speech production for each word. Those signals act as markers which explicitly delimit the individual words in an utterance. The problem of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition is extremely difficult, if not intractable given the current state, of recognition technology. The recognition of utterances composed of words separated by pauses, however, is a much simpler problem which can be readily handled by available methods and …
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