Patent Document ID: 7529668
Application ID: 10910394

Base Claim:
1. A system for performing a speech recognition dictionary refinement procedure, comprising: a database analyzer that identifies first vocabulary words that are present in a training database and identifies second vocabulary words that are not present in said training database, said first vocabulary words and said second vocabulary words being from an initial dictionary; a relevance module that separates first pronunciations of said first vocabulary words into initial short word pronunciations and initial long word pronunciations, said relevance module performing a cumulative threshold procedure upon said initial short word pronunciations to create final short word pronunciations that are used to populate a refined dictionary, said relevance module performing a standardized distance threshold procedure upon said initial long word pronunciations to create final long word pronunciations that are used to populate said refined dictionary; and a consensus module that computes plurality pronunciations for second pronunciations of said second vocabulary words, said consensus module comparing said plurality pronunciations to said second pronunciations to identify final consensus pronunciations that are used to populate said refined dictionary, said consensus module determining whether said plurality pronunciations are validly represented in said second pronunciations.

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Claim 14:
14. The system of claim 1 wherein said consensus module performs multiple sequence alignment procedures by aligning corresponding phonemes from said second pronunciations for each of said second vocabulary words.