Genetic Evolution for Speech Transcription Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing speech and text recognition systems face challenges in accurately transcribing uncertain inputs due to probabilistic nature, leading to a large number of possible combinations that are computationally infeasible to process, often resulting in missed accurate transcriptions when limiting alternatives.

Innovation Solution

A method using a genetic evolution technique that generates and refines transcription variations based on probabilistic and plausibility scores, employing syntactic, semantic, and redundancy analyses, to efficiently explore a wide search space and identify accurate transcriptions without exhaustive search complexity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the number of input alternatives is limited to keep combinations manageable, then computational complexity is reduced, but the probability of missing good answers increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputational complexityVSAvoidaccuracy of transcription
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary semantic analysis to score and rank word alternatives before combination generation. By pre-evaluating each word option's semantic compatibility with the sentence context, the system prepares a prioritized list of alternatives that guides subsequent combination exploration, allowing focused computation on most promising candidates while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the number of alternatives considered for each input based on semantic analysis results. Rather than using a fixed limit, the system adapts the search space size according to the confidence scores and semantic coherence of available alternatives, exploring more options when semantic analysis indicates high confidence and fewer options when uncertainty is high.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If semantic analysis is used to score words, then transcription accuracy improves, but the number of inputs must be limited to low numbers

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetranscription accuracyVSAvoidnumber of hypotheses per word
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the evaluation process into independent word-level semantic analyses. Each word alternative is scored separately based on its semantic compatibility with the sentence context, allowing the system to maintain multiple hypotheses per word while managing computational load through modular, independent evaluation of each position in the sentence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of alternative selection from a fixed low number to a dynamic number based on semantic analysis confidence. By adjusting the number of alternatives considered at each word position according to semantic scoring results, the system maintains versatility to explore multiple hypotheses while adapting the search space size to computational constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If probabilistic inputs with many alternatives are processed, then the search space becomes large, but finding a solution becomes infeasible

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of hypothesesVSAvoidcomputation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary semantic analysis to score word alternatives before combination generation. By pre-evaluating each word option's semantic compatibility with the sentence context, the system prepares a prioritized list of alternatives that guides subsequent combination exploration, allowing focused computation on most promising candidates while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses semantic analysis to identify and focus computation on the most promising subset of alternatives rather than exhaustively processing all possible combinations. By applying partial action to only the most likely candidates based on semantic scoring, the system achieves sufficient accuracy without the excessive computational burden of complete enumeration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10629205B2Identifying an accurate transcription from probabilistic inputs
Publication Date: 2020.04.21 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

An approach is provided for identifying an accurate transcription of a sentence. Options for transcriptions of each word in the sentence are determined. Probabilistic scores of the options are determined. Variations of a transcription of the sentence are generated by randomly selecting from the options with the probabilistic scores weighting the selections. Plausibility scores for the variations are generated by performing syntactic, semantic, and redundancy analyses of the variations. Based on the plausibility scores, the probabilistic scores, and the variations, tentative transcriptions of the sentence are determined and refined repeatedly by employing a genetic evolution technique until a final refined tentative transcription is the accurate transcription of the sentence.