Patent Document ID: 8374868
Application ID: 12545148

Base Claim:
1. A method of recognizing speech, comprising: reciting, into a speech recognition system, an utterance including a numeric sequence, the numeric sequence containing a digit string including a plurality of tokens; detecting a co-articulation problem related to at least two potentially co-articulated tokens in the digit string; and identifying the numeric sequence using one of i) a dynamically generated possible numeric sequence that potentially corresponds with the numeric sequence, or ii) at least one supplemental acoustic model.

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Claim 2:
2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein prior to the detecting of the co-articulation problem, the method further comprises: developing a base acoustic model including a plurality of words or expressions each assigned with a statistical numeric value; testing the base acoustic model to recognize at least one co-articulation issue with the plurality of words or expressions; and generating the at least one supplemental acoustic model based on results from the testing of the base acoustic model.