Patent Document ID: 20090150152
Application ID: 11941947
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for detecting an at least one word in an at least one audio signal, the apparatus comprising a computing platform executing: a phonetic and text decoding component for generating from the at least one audio signal a combined lattice, the combined lattice comprising an at least one text part and an at least one phoneme part; and a search component for searching for the at least one word within the combined lattice, the search component comprising: a text search component for searching for the at least one word within the at least one text part of the combined lattice and generating an at least one first search result; a grapheme to phoneme converter for extracting an at least one phoneme from the at least one word; a phonetic sequence search component for searching for the at least one phoneme within the at least one phoneme part of the combined lattice and generating an at least one second search result; and a fusion component for fusing the at least one first search result with the at least one second search result.