Patent ID: 8626506
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method for dynamic nametag scoring comprising: receiving at a speech recognition engine at least one confusion table stored in at least one of a mobile vehicle telematics unit or a remote server and being sorted by phoneme misrecognition and including at least one circumstantial condition including at least one of a user gender, a user dialect, a vehicle type, or a vehicle operating condition, and wherein the confusion table is based on a plurality of phonetically balanced utterances; determining a plurality of templates for a nametag based on the received at least one confusion table by using the speech recognition engine; selecting templates from the determined plurality of templates; and determining a global nametag score for the nametag based on a weighting indicative of a template selection frequency, wherein more frequently selected templates are assigned higher weights and less frequently selected templates are assigned lower weights.