The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte CHALAPATHY VENKATA NEIL, NITENDRA RAJPUT, VENKATA L. SUBRAMANIAM and ASHISH VERMA __________ Appeal No. 2006-2156 Application No. 09/790,296 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before RUGGIERO, BARRY, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20, which are all of the claims pending in this application. The disclosed invention relates to speech recognition systems in which a speech recognition system for one (new) spoken language is generated based on a speech recognition system originally generated for another (base) spoken language. Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows: 1. A method of aligning speech data of a first language to a phone set associated with the first language using a speech recognition system trained in accordance with a second language, the method comprising the steps of:Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
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