Patent Document ID: 9159318
Application ID: 14468375

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: performing, via a processor, automatic speech recognition using a bootstrap model on utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription, to produce automatically transcribed utterances, wherein the bootstrap model is based on text data mined from a website relevant to a specific domain; selecting, via the processor, a predetermined number of utterances not having a corresponding manual transcription based on a geometrically computed n-tuple confidence score; receiving transcriptions of the predetermined number of utterances, wherein the transcriptions are made by a human being; and generating a language model based on the automatically transcribed utterances, the predetermined number of utterances, and the transcriptions.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined number of utterances used in generating the language model are equal in number to the automatically transcribed utterances.