Patent Document ID: 20020173945
Application ID: 09432697
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1 ) A computer readable storage medium comprising a data structure containing a speech recognition dictionary suitable for use in a speech recognizer, said speech recognition dictionary comprising a set of vocabulary items, the set of vocabulary items including a sub-set of vocabulary items, each vocabulary item in the sub-set being associated to a group of transcriptions belonging to languages selected from a pool of available languages, each vocabulary item in said sub-set of vocabulary items having characteristics allowing to divide the pool of available languages in a first sub-group and a second sub-group, the vocabulary item manifesting a higher probability of belonging to any one of the languages in the first sub-group than belonging to any language in the second sub-group, the group of transcriptions associated with each vocabulary item from the sub-set of vocabulary items being characterized by the absence of at least one transcription belonging to a language in the second sub-group of languages established for the vocabulary item.