Patent Document ID: 8719016
Application ID: 12755549

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining structured speech, the method comprising: translating an audio recording into text using a text-to-speech communication processing system; receiving a transcript of the audio recording; analyzing text in the transcript to determine repetitions within the text, the repetitions being indicative of structured speech, wherein the text is analyzed using Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR); determining a duration distribution of the repetitions to ascertain a first type of structured speech; and determining a length of the repetitions to ascertain a second type of structured speech; comparing probability of correct translation of the text-to-speech communication for each word in the text to an appropriate occurrence table, wherein the occurrence table is selected based upon dialect or language of the speech, and domain in which the speech was obtained; and modifying the occurrence table based on the probability of correct translation for each word in the text.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising applying a distance threshold to determine contacts that contain the second type of structured speech.