Patent ID: 9431012
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G10L

Claim Text:
1. A post-processing automated speech recognition system comprising: a natural language-based speech recognition system that compares a spoken utterance to a natural language vocabulary comprising words in one or more active grammars to generate a natural language speech recognition result and a natural language confidence score; a master conversation module engine that post processes the natural language speech recognition result by comparing the natural language speech recognition result generated by the natural language-based speech processing system to lists of words and phrases from a plurality of active sub-grammars that are mapped to a plurality of domain specific words and phrases, and generates a post processed natural language speech recognition result confidence score for each of the listed words and phrases from the plurality of active sub-grammars based on a likelihood that the respective listed words and phrases from the plurality of active sub-grammars match the natural language speech recognition result; a voting module engine that is interfaced to the master conversation module engine and that is operable to select a word or a phrase from the list of words and phrases from the plurality of active sub-grammars, based on the post processed natural language speech recognition result confidence scores; wherein: where the natural language-based speech recognition system, the master conversation module engine, and the voting module engine are executed by one or more processors.