Patent Document ID: 20040122671
Application ID: 10683495
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for recognizing speech, wherein a speech input (SI) is received (S 1 ) from at least one speaker, wherein a process of recognizing speech (S 2 ) is performed for said speech input (SI), so as to obtain at least one recognition result (RR) for said speech input (SI), wherein at least one confidence measure (CM) is obtained and/or generated from said speech input (SI) and/or from parts thereof for said recognition result (RR) and/or for parts thereof, said confidence measure (CM) being descriptive for the reliability of said recognition result (RR) and/or for parts thereof for said speech input (SI), wherein at least one sub-word unit boundary verification measure (SBVM) and in particular at least one phone boundary verification measure (PBVM) is obtained and/or generated from said speech input (SI), said sub-word unit boundary verification measure (SBVM) being descriptive for boundaries of sub-word units or the like and/or for sub-word unit segmentations and in particular said phone boundary verification measure (PBVM) being descriptive for boundaries of phones or the like and/or for phone segmentations of said speech input (SI) and/or for their reliability, and wherein the process of obtaining and/or generating (S 3 - 1 ) said confidence measure (CM) at least partially employs and/or is at least partially based on said sub-word unit boundary verification measure (SBVM) and in particular on said phone boundary verification measure (PBVM).