Appeal No. 1997-3914
Application No. 08/384,457
The invention relates to a method of generating reference
patterns for a new speaker in a speech recognition system.
Representative independent claim 9 is reproduced as
follows:
9. A method of generating reference patterns for a new
speaker in a speech recognition system including a plurality
of existing speakers, where the new speaker’s speech will be
compared with reference patterns obtained in advance from each
of said plurality of existing speakers in order to recognize
the new speaker’s speech, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) generating a plurality of sets of speech recognition
reference pattern data wherein each of said sets contain data
representing more than one sound, one set of reference pattern
data for each of said plurality of existing speakers by using
speech utterance data from each of said plurality of existing
speakers;
(b) analyzing said plurality of sets of reference pattern
data; and
(c) generating a set of reference pattern data for said
new speaker based only on the results of the analysis of said
analyzing step (b) and on special utterance data from said new
speaker which correspond to only a portion of said one set of
reference pattern data, said special utterance data being
substantially less than said speech utterance data from each
of said plurality of existing speakers used in said generating
step (a).
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Gillick 4,914,703 Apr. 3, 1990 (filed Dec. 5,
1986)
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