Patent Document ID: 6073099
Application ID: 08964023

Base Claim:
1. A method of determining the likelihood of confusing a first word for a second word, comprising the steps of: phonemically transcribing first and second orthographies of the first and second words into first and second phonemic transcriptions; calculating a Levinstein distance between the first and second phonemic transcriptions, wherein the Levinstein distance corresponds to edit operations required to transform the first phonemic transcription into the second phonemic transcription; obtaining a phonematic transformation weight for each edit operation of the Levinstein distance; and summing the obtained phonemic transformation weights to generate a value indicating the likelihood of confusion between the first and second words.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1, further including the step of using a generated value as part of a speech recognition algorithm to translate a spoken word into a computer representation of the spoken word.