Patent Document ID: 8442831
Application ID: 12262242
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying words in a speech segment, said method comprising: obtaining, by a device, a speech segment; and determining, by the device, one or more words of the speech segment, said determining, for a word, comprising: identifying one or more soundlets within the word, wherein a soundlet of the one or more soundlets has a sound wave associated therewith, the sound wave having a sound wave contour, and the identifying for the soundlet comprises: analyzing the sound wave contour of at least a portion of the sound wave of the soundlet to determine one or more variations within the sound wave contour; assigning one or more features to the one or more variations; and mapping the one or more features to one or more sound constructs, wherein the one or more sound constructs are at least part of the word.