Patent ID: 8880400
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A voice recognition device, comprising: a voice recognition section configured to apply voice recognition to an input voice by using a language model and an acoustic model, and output a predetermined number of recognition results each including a set of a recognition score and a text representation; a morpheme dictionary memory configured to hold morpheme dictionaries each obtained by dividing a representation of vocabulary to be recognized into morphemes; and an N-best candidate rearrangement section configured to compare the text representation of the recognition result from the voice recognition section to a content of the morpheme dictionary memory, check whether the text representation of the recognition result can be expressed by any one of combinations of the morphemes of the vocabulary to be recognized in the morpheme dictionary memory, correct the recognition score when the text representation can be expressed, and rearrange an order of the recognition results according to the corrected recognition score so as to acquire recognition results.