Patent ID: 6408271
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A method for generating a set of phrasal transcriptions suitable for use in a speech recognition dictionary, said method comprising:providing an orthographic phrase comprising a set of vocabulary items; generating a group of word transcriptions for each vocabulary item in the orthographic phrase, each word transcription in the group of word transcriptions for a given vocabulary item being associated to an ordering data element, the ordering data elements establishing a relationship between the word transcriptions in the group of word transcriptions; permuting the word transcriptions to generate a plurality of phrasal transcriptions, each word transcription of a phrasal transcription in the plurality of phrasal transcriptions being selected from the group of word transcriptions associated to the corresponding vocabulary item; computing a score data element for each phrasal transcription in said plurality of phrasal transcriptions on a basis of ordering data elements associated to the word transcriptions in a phrasal transcription; selecting the set of phrasal transcriptions from said plurality of phrasal transcriptions at least in part on a basis of the score data elements; storing the set of phrasal transcriptions in a format suitable for use by a speech recognition dictionary.