Appeal No. 2006-2156
Application No. 09/790,296
applying a mapping to a phonetic vocabulary built using the first
language phone set to generate a first language phonetic vocabulary
mapped to a phone set associated with the second language;
aligning speech data, input in the first language, to the first
language phonetic vocabulary mapped to the second language phone set
using the speech recognition system trained in accordance with the
second language; and
realigning the aligned speech data to the first language phone set.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art reference:1
Ma Chi Yuen and Pascale Fung (Yuen), “Using English Phoneme Models for
Chinese Speech Recognition,” International Symposium on Chinese Spoken
Processing, pages 1-3 (manually numbered), 1998.
Claims 1-20, all of the appealed claims, stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness, the Examiner offers Yuen
alone with respect to claims 1-5, 7-13, 15-17, 19, and 20, and adds Appellants’
admitted prior art to Yuen with respect to claims 6, 14, and 18.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the Examiner,
reference is made to the Briefs and Answer for the respective details.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection
advanced by the Examiner and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by the
Examiner as support for the rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken
into consideration, in reaching our decision, Appellants’ arguments set forth in
the Briefs along with the Examiner’s rationale in support of the rejection and
arguments in rebuttal set forth in the Examiner’s Answer.
1 In addition, the Examiner relies upon Appellants’ admission as to the prior art as
discussed in Appellants’ specification.
2
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