Patent Document ID: 9984685
Application ID: 14535764
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for accepting or rejecting hypothesis words in a hypothesis part using an adjustable acceptance threshold as part of a speech recognition system, the method comprising: receiving a single speech input from a user, the speech input comprising a first speech input part and a second speech input part, the first speech input part and the second speech input part each having information independent from the other speech input part; processing the single speech input to generate a single hypothesis comprising a sequence of a first hypothesis part corresponding to the first input part and a second hypothesis part corresponding to the second input part, each of the first hypothesis part and the second hypothesis part having one or more hypothesis words, and each hypothesis word having a corresponding confidence score; independently comparing each of the first hypothesis part and the second hypothesis part with a first expected response part and a second expected response part, respectively, the first expected response part and the second expected response part having information different and independent from the other expected response part, and the first expected response part being independently compared with the first hypothesis part and the second expected response part being independently compared with the second hypothesis part, and using boundaries between the first or the second expected response parts to determine boundaries between the first or the second hypothesis parts respectively; adjusting an acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the first hypothesis part if the first hypothesis part matches word-for-word the first expected response part, otherwise not adjusting the acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the first hypothesis part, and independently adjusting an acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the second hypothesis part if the second hypothesis part matches word-for-word the second expected response part, otherwise not adjusting the acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the second hypothesis part; comparing the confidence score for each hypothesis word in each of the first hypothesis part and second hypothesis part to its acceptance threshold; and accepting or rejecting each hypothesis word in each of the first hypothesis part and the second hypothesis part based on the results of the comparison.