Patent ID: 8515757
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method of indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech, the method implemented with a multimodal digital audio editor operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal digital audio editor, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal digital audio editor operatively coupled to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, the method comprising: providing, by the multimodal digital audio editor to the ASR engine, digitized speech for recognition; receiving, in the multimodal digital audio editor from the ASR engine, recognized user speech including a recognized word, and information indicating where, in the digitized speech, representation of the recognized word begins; inserting, by the multimodal digital audio editor, the recognized word into a speech recognition grammar used by the multimodal digital audio editor in recognizing user interface commands via the voice mode; and inserting, by the multimodal digital audio editor, into the speech recognition grammar in association with the recognized word, the information indicating where, in the digitized speech, representation of the recognized word begins.