Patent ID: 8527272

Claim:
A method for aligning texts, said method comprising: acquiring a target text and a reference text, said target text comprising recognized text acquired by performing speech recognition on speech data, and said reference text being associated with said speech data; and aligning said target text and said reference text at a word level based on phoneme similarity between phonemes in words in said target text and corresponding phonemes in corresponding words in said reference text, said aligning comprising: parsing said phonemes of said words in said target text and said corresponding phonemes of said corresponding words in said reference text; and computing a path penalty value by using a dynamic time warping DTW algorithm with said phoneme similarity, and finding a best path matching said target text and said reference text with said path penalty value, said aligning of said target text and said reference text being based on said best path, and said acquiring and said aligning being performed by a programmed data processing system.