Patent ID: 8498857
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A system for porting a speech recognition solution in a source language to recognize a target language, said speech recognition solution consisting of a speech recognition engine, pronunciation lexicon in the source language, speech grammar file for the source language, prompts in the source language, said system comprising: lexicon conversion means adapted to convert the pronunciation lexicon of the source language to an equivalent lexicon to be used in the target language, said lexicon conversion means having: grammar conversion means adapted to modify the speech grammar file of the source language to handle free speech based speech recognition solutions in the target language, said grammar conversion means having: prompt generation means adapted to convert voice prompts in the source language to the target language, said prompt generation means having: prompting means co-operating with said prompt generation means adapted to output said generated speech corresponding to a prompt in the target language to guide users to submit their query; receiving means adapted to receive a speech based query from users in the target language, said query adapted to be received and converted into source language text and source language representation using said lookup table and said transliterated grammar file for the target language by the speech recognition engine; processing means adapted to process said source language text and perform pre-determined operation and further adapted to provide a processed output; compiling means co-operating with said lexicon conversion means, said speech grammar conversion means, said prompt generation means and said processing means and adapted to compile the final output in the target language; and playback means adapted to play said final output in the target language.