Patent Document ID: 8731920
Application ID: 13691249

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by a computer processor executing computer program instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method for use with a system, the system including a first document, the first document containing at least some information in common with a spoken audio stream, the method comprising: (A) identifying text in the first document, wherein the text represents a concept; (B) identifying, based on the identified text and a repository of finite state grammars, a plurality of spoken forms of the concept, including at least one spoken form not contained in the first document, wherein all of the plurality of spoken forms have the same content as each other; (C) replacing the identified text with a finite state grammar specifying the plurality of spoken forms of the concept to produce a second document; (D) generating a document-specific language model based on the second document, comprising generating at least some of the document-specific language model based on the finite state grammar.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: (E) using the document-specific language model in a speech recognition process to recognize the spoken audio stream and thereby to produce a third document.