Patent Document ID: 6101467
Application ID: 08939548

Base Claim:
1. A method of recognizing a spoken text, comprising the steps of: converting spoken text uttered by a speaker into first digital data; converting the first digital data which represent the spoken text, into second digital data which represent recognized text in a speech recognition process depending on conversion data including: available lexicon data which represent a lexicon, available language model data which represent a language model, and available reference data which represent phonemes; communicating the recognized text; obtaining third digital data which represent corrections to the recognized text, depending on the communication of recognized text; correcting the second digital data using the third digital data to generate fourth digital data which represent corrected text; adapting the speech recognition process to the speaker depending on the fourth digital data; converting the first digital data into fifth digital data which represent additionally recognized text using the adapted speech recognition process; and adapting the available reference data to the speaker depending on the fifth digital data and the first digital data.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 in which: the step of communicating includes displaying the recognized text to the speaker; the step of communicating includes communicating by sound; the step of correcting includes replacing portions of the second digital data with portions of the third digital data; the step of adapting the speech recognition process includes the steps of: adapting the available lexicon data to the speaker depending on the fourth digital data; and adapting the available language model data to the speaker depending on the fourth digital data; and generating fifth digital data in the speech recognition process depending on the adapted lexicon data, adapted language model data, and the first digital data; and the step of adapting the available reference data depends on the fifth digital data which depends on the first digital data.