Patent ID: 6804645
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
An arrangement for producing a speech recognition phoneme dictionary for use in active speech recognition use by an application, comprising:a first memory continuously storing, while the dictionary is active for speech recognition use by the application, standard words and phoneme sequences corresponding to the standard words; a first means for the selection and read-in of arbitrary electronic documents to which the arrangement has access, where one of the documents is selected when the application requires access to the one of the electronic documents; a text-phoneme converter forming phoneme sequences corresponding to the added words from the one of the documents selected, where the converter is coupled to the first means and a second memory; the second memory temporarily maintaining storage of the added words and of the phoneme sequences of the added words formed by the text-phoneme converter until no longer needed by the application, whereby at least the standard words, the added words and the phoneme sequences are contained in the digital dictionary; and a second means used by the application for continuous speech recognition that employs the content of the digital dictionary as a search range for the continuous speech recognition, both before and after the second memory maintains storage of the added words.