Patent ID: 11967319
Assignee: DIRECT CURSUS TECHNOLOGY L.L.C
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of processing a spoken utterance associated with a user, the method executable by an electronic device, the electronic device executing a Machine Learned Algorithm (MLA) for performing automatic speech recognition of the spoken utterance, the electronic device having access to a plurality of grammars, a given one of the plurality of grammars being representative of a respective user intent and associated with an action, the method comprising:
acquiring, by the electronic device, an indication of the spoken utterance;
generating, by the electronic device using the MLA, a textual representation of the spoken utterance having words;
identifying, by the electronic device, a nonce word and a non-normalized word amongst the words,
generating, by the electronic device, a plurality of candidate textual representations based on the textual representation,
the plurality of candidate textual representations having at least one of a first set of candidate textual representations and a second set of candidate textual representations,
candidate textual representations from the first set missing the nonce word from the words of the textual representation,
candidate textual representations from the second set having the non-normalized word from the words of the textual representation replaced by a normalized version thereof;

comparing, by the electronic device, the plurality of candidate textual representations against one of the plurality of grammars; and
in response to a given candidate textual representation matching the one of the plurality of grammars, triggering, by the electronic device, an action associated with the one of the plurality of grammars.