Universal Language Model for Accurate Speech Captioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices face challenges in accurately recognizing and displaying speech data as captions without relying on specific language models, especially when dealing with diverse domains and content types.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus equipped with a communication interface, memory, and processor that extracts objects and characters from image data, generates a bias keyword list based on identified names and relationships, and converts speech data to text using a language contextual model, allowing for accurate captioning without requiring individual language models for each domain.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If individual language models are created for each domain to improve speech recognition accuracy, then recognition precision improves, but device complexity and development time increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeech recognition accuracyVSAvoidlanguage model complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a single universal language model that can handle multiple domains (news, weather, sports, etc.) by training on diverse datasets. This model serves all domains simultaneously through domain identification and adaptive processing, eliminating the need for separate models for each domain while maintaining high recognition accuracy across all areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary domain identification and keyword extraction before speech recognition. By pre-processing the input to identify the domain and extract relevant keywords, the system prepares the universal language model in advance to handle domain-specific terminology accurately, improving recognition precision without requiring domain-specific models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If a universal language model is used to reduce complexity, then device complexity decreases, but speech recognition accuracy deteriorates due to inability to handle domain-specific terminology

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelanguage model complexityVSAvoidspeech recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts domain-specific keywords and identifies the domain before processing speech recognition. This preliminary action allows the universal language model to be adaptively tuned to domain-specific terminology, maintaining high accuracy without requiring separate models for each domain.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different processing strategies to different parts of the speech input based on domain identification. Domain-specific keywords receive specialized handling with adjusted recognition parameters, while general speech uses standard processing. This localized adaptation maintains high accuracy across diverse domains using a single universal model.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If speech data is processed without domain-specific optimization, then processing speed increases, but caption accuracy decreases due to misrecognition of domain-specific terms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecaptioning speedVSAvoidcaption accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs rapid domain identification and keyword extraction as preliminary steps before speech recognition. This quick pre-processing enables the universal language model to be efficiently adapted to domain-specific terms, achieving both high processing speed and accurate recognition of domain-specific terminology in the final caption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240127805A1Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
Publication Date: 2024.04.18 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive content comprising image data and speech data; a memory configured to store a language contextual model trained with relevance between words; a display; and a processor configured to: extract an object and a character included in the image data, identify an object name of the object and the character, generate a bias keyword list comprising an image-related word that is associated with the image data, based on the identified object name and the identified character, convert the speech data to a text based on the bias keyword list and the language contextual model, and control the display to display the text that is converted from the speech data, as a caption.