74 results about "Phoneme recognition" patented technology

A system and method related to a new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech. In its fullest implementation, the system and method 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. This is done by using a probabilistically unbiased multi-phoneme recognition process, 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. The invention can be employed for a myriad of applications, such as 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.

An approach for phoneme recognition is described. A sequence of intermediate output posterior vectors is generated from an input sequence of cepstral features using a first layer perceptron. The intermediate output posterior vectors are then downsampled to form a reduced input set of intermediate posterior vectors for a second layer perceptron. A sequence of final posterior vectors is generated from the reduced input set of intermediate posterior vectors using the second layer perceptron. Then the final posterior vectors are decoded to determine an output recognized phoneme sequence representative of the input sequence of cepstral features.

Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing speech, in which reliability with respect to phoneme-recognized phoneme sequences is calculated and performance of speech recognition is enhanced using the calculated results. The method of recognizing speech includes the steps of: determining a boundary between phonemes included in character sequences that are phonetically input to detect each phoneme interval; calculating reliability according to a probability that a phoneme indicated by the detected phoneme interval corresponds to a phoneme included in a predefined phoneme model; calculating a phoneme alignment cost with respect to the character sequences based on the calculated reliability and a pre-trained and stored phoneme recognition probability distribution; and performing phoneme alignment based on the calculated phoneme alignment cost to perform speech recognition on the input character sequences. As a result, reliability with respect to the phoneme-recognized phoneme sequences can be calculated, and the performance of speech recognition can be enhanced using the calculated results.

Method of the present invention may include receiving speech feature vector converted from speech signal, performing first search by applying first language model to the received speech feature vector, and outputting word lattice and first acoustic score of the word lattice as continuous speech recognition result, outputting second acoustic score as phoneme recognition result by applying an acoustic model to the speech feature vector, comparing the first acoustic score of the continuous speech recognition result with the second acoustic score of the phoneme recognition result, outputting first language model weight when the first coustic score of the continuous speech recognition result is better than the second acoustic score of the phoneme recognition result and performing a second search by applying a second language model weight, which is the same as the output first language model, to the word lattice.

Provided is a method for context independent gender recognition utilizing phoneme transition probability. The method for the context independent gender recognition includes detecting a voice section from a received voice signal, generating feature vectors within the detected voice section, performing a hidden Markov model on the feature vectors by using a search network that is set according to a phoneme rule to recognize a phoneme and obtain scores of first and second likelihoods, and comparing final scores of the first and second likelihoods obtained while the phoneme recognition is performed up to the last section of the voice section to finally decide gender with respect to the voice signal.

The invention discloses a recognition method and device for a voice phoneme, and relates to the technical field of voice recognition. A main purpose is to solve a problem of low phoneme segmentation efficiency or a locally optimal solution during voice recognition. According to the main technical scheme provided in the invention, the recognition method comprises the following steps of inputting ato-be-recognized voice into a phoneme recognition model, and obtaining, according to an output result, an expected result corresponding to the to-be-recognized voice, wherein the phoneme recognition model identifies each phoneme in the to-be-recognized voice through multiple neural network models and a hidden Markov model; training a model parameter in the phoneme recognition model according to the expected result until a rate of change of an output result of a phoneme model is less than a preset threshold value; and determining an output result with a rate of change less than the preset threshold value as a final phoneme recognition result corresponding to the to-be-recognized voice. The recognition method is mainly applied to a process of recognizing a sound.

The invention discloses a cross-language timbre conversion system and method based on zero-order learning. The system sequentially comprises a mixed phoneme recognition module, a timbre conversion module, a speaker coding module and a vocoder module. According to the system, a voice signal Mel spectrum serves as an input signal, bottleneck features of the voice signal Mel spectrum are extracted through the phoneme recognition module, the features are normalized and then transmitted to an acoustic model, the Mel spectrum synthesized by the acoustic model is controlled by controlling a speaker reference vector, and finally audio is synthesized through a vocoder. The system can convert the voice of a common speaker into the timbre of a specified speaker, is suitable for accent corpora which do not appear in a training database, can be suitable for voice change of dialects in multiple regions, and has a wide application prospect.

The invention discloses an interactive language learning system and a method thereof. The interactive language learning system comprises a voice reference module, a characteristic extracting module, aphoneme associating module, a voice learning module, a phoneme correction module, a correction suggestion module, a phoneme evaluating module, a voice feedback module and a corpus, wherein the voicelearning module is used for collecting voice data designated by aloud reading of a learner; the phoneme correction module is used for synthesizing feedback voice having reference voice rhythm and learner's tone, and rhythm corrected voice can guide the learner to simulate rhythm of the reference voice; the correction suggestion module, the phoneme evaluating module and the voice feedback module are used for saving results in a data collection module; and the corpus is used for transmitting random spoken language information to the learner, and learner's learning is fed back to a database via the correction suggestion module. The interactive language learning system and the method provided by the invention, besides usual pronunciation evaluation, also provide an error detection function based on phoneme associating and phoneme recognition; and in combination with standard voice improvement suggestions and phoneme correction voice in the corpus, the learner can be helped timely, and mostunintentional errors of learners having certain basis can be corrected.

The present invention discloses a spoken language pronunciation evaluation method based on a deep neural network posterior probability algorithm. The method comprises the following steps of: selectinga certain amount of voice frequencies from voice, wherein the number of words of each voice frequency is in a certain range, calculating the average likelihood of the phoneme of one word, the averageEGOP of the phoneme of one word and the average duration probability of the phoneme of one word in each voice frequency; and taking the average likelihood of the phoneme of one word, the average EGOPof the phoneme of one word and the average duration probability of the phoneme of one word in each voice frequency as input items, inputting the average likelihood of the phoneme of one word, the average EGOP of the phoneme of one word and the average duration probability of the phoneme of one word in each voice frequency into a neural network, and outputting scores of words. The spoken languagepronunciation evaluation method based on a deep neural network posterior probability algorithm starts from an acoustic model, the LSTM modeling is employed to improve the phoneme recognition rate, theFA likelihood and all the similar phoneme likelihoods are compared, a GOP method is extended to an EGOP method, an artificial neural network scoring model is employed to perform scoring so as to obtain an accurate voice evaluation result.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a lip language combination method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps of: performing automatic speech recognition, performing phoneme recognition according to a recognition result, determining a time interval of the phonemes in the speech signals to achieve conversion of original speech signals to phonemeswith period information (namely pronunciation duration of the phonemes in the speech signals), and finally, combining a lip language through a corresponding relation of preset phonemes and a mouth shape. The method is employed to combine the lip language to improve the matching degree of the dynamic rhythms of the lip language and the rhythms of the speech, improve the mouth shape accuracy and achieve the combination of the lip language with high vividness while automatic combination of the lip language.

Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing continuous speech using search space restriction based on phoneme recognition. In the apparatus and method, a search space can be primarily reduced by restricting connection words to be shifted at a boundary between words based on the phoneme recognition result. In addition, the search space can be secondarily reduced by rapidly calculating a degree of similarity between the connection word to be shifted and the phoneme recognition result using a phoneme code and shifting the corresponding phonemes to only connection words having degrees of similarity equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value. Therefore, the speed and performance of the speech recognition process can be improved in various speech recognition services.

A system and method are disclosed for capturing a segment of speech audio, performing phoneme recognition on the segment of speech audio to produce a segmented phoneme sequence, comparing the segmented phoneme sequence to stored phoneme sequences that represent incorrect pronunciations of words to determine if there is a match, and identifying an incorrect pronunciation for a word in the segment of speech audio. The system builds a library based on the data collected for the incorrect pronunciations.