Inventors:
Lynette Melnar - Austin TX, US
Jim Talley - Austin TX, US
Yuan-Jun Wei - Hoffman Estates IL, US
Chen Liu - Lisle IL, US
International Classification:
H04Q007/20
H04M011/00
H04M003/42
Abstract:
Acoustic phones (preferably drawn from a plurality of spoken languages) are provided A hierarchically-organized polyphone network () organizes views of these phones of varying resolution and phone categorization as a function, at least in part, of phonetic similarity () and at least one language-independent phonological factor (). In a preferred approach, a unique transcription system serves to represent the phones using only standard, printable ASCII characters, none of which comprises a special character (such as those characters that have a command significance for common script interpreters such as the UNIX command line).