Patent ID: 9697835
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G10L

Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: one or more computer processors; one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising instructions to perform: receiving a channel recording corresponding to a conversation; receiving a transcription for the conversation; generating a conversation-specific language model for the conversation using the transcription; conducting speech recognition on the channel recording using the conversation-specific language model to provide time boundaries and written language corresponding to utterances within the channel recording; determining sentence or phrase boundaries for the transcription; aligning written language within the one or more transcriptions with the written language corresponding to the utterances with the channel recording to provide sentence or phrase boundaries for the channel recording; and training a speech recognizer according to the sentence or phrase boundaries for the transcription and the sentence or phrase boundaries for the channel recording.