Memory management in search phase of a speech recognizer

摘要

A memory management method is described for reducing the size of memory required in speech recognition searching. The searching involves parsing the input speech and building a dynamically changing search tree. The basic unit of the search network is a slot. The present invention describes ways of reducing the size of the slot and therefore the size of the required memory. The slot size is reduced by removing the time index, by the model_index and state_index being packed and by a coding for last_time field where one bit represents a slot is available for reuse and a second bit is for backtrace update. <IMAGE>