Augmentation of alternate word lists by acoustic confusability criterion

摘要

There is provided a method for augmenting an alternate word list generated by a speech recognition system. The alternate word list includes at least one potentially correct word for replacing a wrongly decoded word. The method includes the step of identifying at least one acoustically confusable word with respect to the wrongly decoded word. The alternate word list is augmented with the at least one acoustically confusable word.