Appeal No. 2004-0847
Application No. 09/246,412
monitoring the speech recognizer for success of the
first operation.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Spoltman et al. (Spoltman) 5,715,369 Feb. 3, 1998
Hirayama 5,854,999 Dec. 29, 1998
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method and
device for testing and training a speech recognizer, i.e., a
speech-enabled device such as a wireless telephone. The method
entails storing a plurality of voiced utterances, e.g., spoken
words, receiving a prompt from the speech recognizer for a first
operation, responding to the prompt with a first selection,
providing audio input to the speech recognizer corresponding to
the first selection, and monitoring the recognizer for success of
the first operation. According to the present specification,
many speech recognition products in the art undergo limited
testing prior to extensive testing in the marketplace by
consumers and, therefore, "there is a need for a low-cost,
repeatable, non-intrusive testing paradigm for testing and
improving speech-enabled products and speech-enabled services"
(page 3 of specification, first paragraph).
Appealed claims 1-8, 10-18, 20-28 and 30 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Spoltman in
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