Constructing markov models of words from multiple utterances

Details Constructing markov models of words from multiple utterances Constructing markov models of words from multiple utterances

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G10L 15/14 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1241751

ABSTRACT The present invention addresses the problem of constructing fenemic baseforms which take into account variations in pronunciation of words from one utterance thereof to another. Specifically, the invention relates to a method of constructing a fenemic baseform for a word in a vocabulary of word segments including the steps of: (a) transforming multiple utterances of the word into respective strings of fenemes; (b) defining a set of fenemic Markov model phone machines; (c) determining the best single phone machine P1 for producing the multiple feneme strings; (d) determining the best two phone baseform of the form P1P2 or P2P1 for producing the multiple feneme strings; (e) aligning the best two phone baseform against each feneme string; (f) splitting each feneme string into a left portion and a right portion with the left portion corresponding to the first phone machine of the two phone baseform and the right portion corresponding to the second phone machine of the two phone baseform; (g) identifying each left portion as a left substring and each right portion as a right substring; (h) processing the set of left substrings and the set of right substrings in the same manner as the set of feneme strings corresponding to the multiple utterances including the further step of inhibiting further splitting of a substring when the single phone baseform thereof has a higher probability of producing the substring than does the best two phone baseform; and (k) concatenating the unsplit single phones in an order corresponding to the order of the feneme substrings to which they correspond.

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