Barbara A Stanley

US Patent:

56849249, Nov 4, 1997

Filed:

May 19, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/444391

Inventors:

Barbara Ann Stanley - Lexington MA
Susan Rousmaniere Avery - Westford MA
Vladimir Sejnoha - Cambridge MA

Assignee:

Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. - Waltham MA

International Classification:

G10L 500

US Classification:

395 242

Abstract:

A speech recognition system is disclosed which comprises a core speech recognition program and a plurality of utility program modules for adjusting various recognition parameters such as gain, sensitivity and acceptance threshold and for improving the training of word models. The system further provides a decision tree and utility controlling program module which can be invoked by a user confronting problems during the running of the core program. The system utilizes user input to traverse the decision tree and to initiate appropriate ones of the utility program modules thereby to alter the on-going behavior of the core recognition program.