Patent ID: 6249763
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A speech recognition apparatus for recognizing words from speech data representing one or more words contained in speech, comprising:candidate word correlating means for correlating each of one or more speech data items of words to one or more sets of candidates comprising a combination of one or more of said words obtained by recognizing each of one or more of said speech data items, the one or more of said words obtained by recognizing each of one or more of said speech data items being candidate words;analogous word correlating means for correlating each of said candidate words correlated to each of one or more of the speech data items of said words to null or more sets of a combination of one or more of said words which may correspond to a pronunciation of each of said candidate words, the one or more of said words which may correspond to a pronunciation of each of said candidate words being analogous words; andspeech data recognition means for selecting either said candidate word correlated to each of one or more of said speech data items of words or said analogous word correlated to each of said candidate words as a recognition of each of said speech data items of words.