Patent Document ID: 9922654
Application ID: 15377267

Base Claim:
1. A method for accurately decoding spoken utterances with a plurality of utterance decoders, the method comprising: determining a first utterance decoder based on word error rate; calculating a system diversity metric value for each of the plurality of other utterance decoders based on each individual utterance decoder's word error rate and likelihood of agreement with a result of the first utterance decoder; ordering the plurality of utterance decoders into a series, the plurality of utterance decoders ordered according to the calculated system diversity metric values; decoding a spoken utterance with the first utterance decoder in the series and a second utterance decoder in the series; and merging results from the first utterance decoder and the second utterance decoder.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: evaluating an accuracy level of the merged results; and upon determining that the accuracy level of the merged results is acceptable, terminating decoding of the spoken utterance.