Patent ID: 7200555
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A speech correction method for correcting misrecognized text in a speech recognition application comprising the steps of: receiving audio speech input and speech-to-text converting said received audio speech input to speech recognized text; audibly confirming said speech-to-text conversion of said speech recognized text, wherein audibly confirming comprises audibly playing back of said speech recognized text using a speech synthesis engine so that it can be determined if said recorded speech recognized text had been misrecognized in said speech-to-text converting step, determining whether a word of said speech recognized text is a homonym, and if so audibly spelling the homonym using said speech synthesis engine; detecting in said speech recognized text a first speech correction command for performing a correction operation on speech recognized text stored in a text buffer; if a first speech correction command is not detected in said speech recognized text, adding said speech recognized text to said text buffer; and, if a first speech correction command is detected in said speech recognized text, performing said detected speech correction command on speech recognized text stored in said text buffer.