Patent Document ID: 8374866
Application ID: 13545360

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a request to generate or modify a target acoustic model for a target language; accessing, by the computer system, a source acoustic model for a source language, wherein the source acoustic model includes information that maps acoustic features of the source language to phonemes in a transformed feature space; aligning, using the source acoustic model in the transformed feature space, untransformed voice data in the target language with phonemes in a corresponding textual transcript to obtain aligned voice data, wherein the untransformed voice data is in an untransformed feature space; transforming the aligned voice data according to a particular transform operation using the source acoustic model to obtain transformed voice data; adapting the source acoustic model to the target language using the untransformed voice data in the target language to obtain an adapted acoustic model; and training, by the computer system, a target acoustic model for the target language using the transformed voice data and the adapted acoustic model; and providing the target acoustic model in association with the target language.

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Claim 5:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the source acoustic model is adapted to the target language by performing a maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation operation on the source acoustic model using the untransformed voice data in the target language.