Speech Recognition Context Modeling for Long-Tail Word Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing speech recognition technologies suffer from low accuracy in recognizing long-tail words due to insufficient training on these less frequently used words, leading to inadequate contextual information.

Innovation Solution

A speech recognition method that obtains a first speech and text, constructs a set with text identifications and features associated with subsequent texts, and determines text content based on this set to improve prediction accuracy by incorporating more long-tail word information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional speech recognition models are used, then the recognition process is simple, but the accuracy for long-tail words is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeech recognition accuracyVSAvoidmodel structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent embeds a text feature extraction module within the speech recognition model. This nested structure allows the model to incorporate text features (including long-tail word information) as additional input features, enhancing recognition accuracy without requiring a complete redesign of the speech recognition architecture

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary extraction of text features from historical speech data before the actual speech recognition process. By pre-processing and storing text features (especially for long-tail words) in advance, the model can directly utilize these features during recognition, improving accuracy while avoiding complex real-time processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If more training data is collected to improve long-tail word recognition, then the contextual information improves, but the data collection and processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelong-tail word recognition accuracyVSAvoiddata collection and processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and stores text features from historical speech data in advance, creating a pre-processed feature database. This preliminary action eliminates the need for real-time data collection and processing during speech recognition, significantly reducing time loss while maintaining improved accuracy for long-tail words

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates feature representations (copies) of historical speech data in the form of text features. Instead of processing raw historical data during recognition, the system uses these pre-extracted feature copies, which contain essential information about long-tail words and contextual patterns, thereby avoiding time-consuming re-processing of original data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20250384878A1Speech recognition method and apparatus, and electronic device
Publication Date: 2025.12.18 LEMON INC(GB)
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AI summary

A speech recognition method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises: obtaining a first speech; obtaining a first text corresponding to a previous segment of speech of the first speech; obtaining a first set, the first set comprising a plurality of text identifications and a text feature corresponding to each of the plurality of text identifications, the text feature being a feature associated with a plurality of subsequent texts of a text corresponding to the text identification, the text feature being associated with frequencies of the plurality of subsequent texts of the text in a text set, and the first set being determined based on the text set; and determining, based on the first text and the first set, text content associated with the first speech.