Hybridized automatic speech recognition

Abstract

A system and method of providing speech received in a vehicle to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system includes: receiving speech at the vehicle from a vehicle occupant; providing the received speech to a remotely-located ASR system and a vehicle-based ASR system; and thereafter determining a confidence level for the speech processed by the vehicle-based ASR system; presenting in the vehicle results from the vehicle-based ASR system when the determined confidence level is above a predetermined confidence threshold is not above; presenting in the vehicle results from the remotely-located ASR system when the determined confidence level is not above a predetermined confidence threshold.

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