Appeal No. 1998-2974
Application No. 08/524,106
sustain the anticipation rejection of claims 14, 18, 22, and
24.
Regarding claims 17, 19, and 21, Hanle and Larkey fail to
cure the deficiency of Darden. Specifically, Hanle is
directed to a caller identification system which displays
information about a caller to the person being called. Hanle
does not disclose a voice recognition system which outputs
plural approximations of an input signal. Larkey discloses a
voice recognition system in which during speech recognition,
the user modifies the content of stored representations by
changing a quality score for each of plural candidates which
approximate the input speech to indicate or confirm which
candidate should be stored as the best. Although Larkey
appears to disclose the claimed method steps of providing an
input signal (though not on a telecommunications network),
transmitting an output signal comprising more than one
approximation of the input signal, and confirming one of the
approximations, it is unclear how or why one would combine
Larkey's method of modifying stored representations of speech
with Darden's phone directory retrieval system to arrive at
the claimed invention of a speech recognition system in a
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