Apparatus and method for recognizing spoken words.

摘要

A speech recognition technique is disclosed for recognizing words that are spoken at speeds that approach the speed of continuous speech.

The characteristic form of each vocabulary word spoken by a user is stored in a reference array (110). The process of input speech recognition then includes the steps of. detecting pauses in the speech so as to define strings of words or syllables, and segments within each string: extracting (60) features from the input speech and using them to compare each segment and each combination of adjacent segments with the stored words (130) to obtain the best match; and finally determining (140) the optimum sequence of vocabulary words for each word string.