Patent ID: 8548808
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A speech understanding apparatus comprising: a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of an utterance using multiple language models, and outputs multiple speech recognition results for the utterance obtained by using the multiple language models; a language understanding unit which uses multiple language understanding models to perform language understanding for each of the multiple speech recognition results output from the speech recognition unit, and outputs multiple speech understanding results for each of the multiple speech recognition results for the utterance obtained from using the multiple language models; and an integrating unit which calculates, based on values representing features of the speech understanding results, utterance batch confidences that numerically express accuracy of the speech understanding results for each of the multiple speech understanding results output from the language understanding unit, and selects one of the speech understanding results with a highest utterance batch confidence among the calculated utterance batch confidences.