Patent Document ID: 8666745
Application ID: 13786973

Base Claim:
1. A speech recognition system for identifying words from a sound block, the speech recognition system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: determine word scores for words in a word graph by applying a phonemic language model to at least one phoneme of the words in the word graph; derive a best path through the word graph based, at least in part, on the word scores determined for the words in the word graph; and output a speech recognition result including the words in the word graph corresponding to the best path.

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Claim 3:
3. The speech recognition system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further programmed to extract from the sound block a phoneme graph, the phoneme graph assigning a phoneme to each edge, and wherein a phonetic transcription of at least one word in the word graph is based on the phoneme graph.