Philippe Roy

US Patent:

7509258, Mar 24, 2009

Filed:

Aug 18, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/840934

Inventors:

Philippe Roy - Lake Worth FL, US

Assignee:

Conceptual Speech LLC - Vero Beach FL

International Classification:

G10L 15/04
G10L 15/14
G10L 15/28

US Classification:

704256, 704251, 704255

Abstract:

A new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech, which shifts the balance of power in speech recognition from straight sound recognition and statistical models to a more powerful and complete approach determining and addressing conveyed concepts. A probabilistically unbiased multi-phoneme recognition process is employed, followed by a phoneme stream analysis process that builds the list of candidate words derived from recognized phonemes, followed by a permutation analysis process that produces sequences of candidate words with high potential of being syntactically valid, and finally, by processing targeted syntactic sequences in a conceptual analysis process to generate the utterance's conceptual representation that can be used to produce an adequate response. Applications include improving accuracy or automatically generating punctuation for transcription and dictation, word or concept spotting in audio streams, concept spotting in electronic text, customer support, call routing and other command/response scenarios.

US Patent:

7844466, Nov 30, 2010

Filed:

Aug 18, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/840933

Inventors:

Philippe Roy - Lake Worth FL, US

Assignee:

Conceptual Speech, LLC - Vero Beach FL

International Classification:

G10L 15/00

US Classification:

704275, 704200, 704251

Abstract:

A new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech, which shifts the balance of power in speech recognition from straight sound recognition and statistical models to a more powerful and complete approach determining and addressing conveyed concepts. A probabilistically unbiased multi-phoneme recognition process is employed, followed by a phoneme stream analysis process that builds the list of candidate words derived from recognized phonemes, followed by a permutation analysis process that produces sequences of candidate words with high potential of being syntactically valid, and finally, by processing targeted syntactic sequences in a conceptual analysis process to generate the utterance's conceptual representation that can be used to produce an adequate response. Applications include improving accuracy or automatically generating punctuation for transcription and dictation, word or concept spotting in audio streams, concept spotting in electronic text, customer support, call routing and other command/response scenarios.