Apple gets patent for speech recognition system
Apple has been granted patent for their new speech recognition system by the US Patent & Trademark Office. On Oct 24 US Patent office published a brief of the patent.
The patent relates to the generation of language model and the interpretation of speech based upon specified sets of these language model.
The patent grant discusses the use of this system in relation to the user calling up a document or a memo.
It looks apparent that this will be accommodated in the future iPhones.
Apple's Abstract
Assigning meanings to spoken utterances in a speech recognition system. A plurality of speech rules is generated, each of the of speech rules comprising a language model and an expression associated with the language model. At one interval (e.g. upon the detection of speech in the system), a current language model is generated from each language model in the speech rules for use by a recognizer. When a sequence of words is received from the recognizer, a set of speech rules which match the sequence of words received from the recognizer is determined. Each expression associated with the language model in each of the set of speech rules is evaluated, and actions are performed in the system according to the expressions associated with each language model in the set of speech rules.
Via: MACNN
