Patent Document ID: 20160133253
Application ID: 14535764
Patent Flag: 0

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 speech input from a user with a speech recognition system comprising a microphone, processor, and memory; processing the speech input to generate a hypothesis; determining a hypothesis part corresponding to an expected response part stored in the memory, the hypothesis part having at least one hypothesis word, each hypothesis word having a corresponding confidence score; adjusting an acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the hypothesis part if the hypothesis part matches word-for-word the expected response part, otherwise not adjusting the acceptance threshold for each hypothesis word in the hypothesis part; comparing the confidence score for each hypothesis word in the hypothesis part to its acceptance threshold; and accepting or rejecting each hypothesis word in the hypothesis part based on the results of the comparison.