# US 2016/0253993 A1 · Method, apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium for improving at least one semantic unit set by using phonetic sound

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- Number: US 2016/0253993 A1
- Document ID: US20160253993A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/859,433
- Filed: 2015-09-21
- Published: 2016-09-01
- Earliest claimed: 2015-02-26
- Assignees: Keukey Inc.
- Applicants: Keukey Inc.
- Inventors: Min Chul KIM; Hyun Geun JO
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160253993A1

## CPC

- G10L 15/1815: {Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning}
- G10L 15/065: Adaptation
- G10L 15/187: Phonemic context, e.g. pronunciation rules, phonotactical constraints or phoneme n-grams
- G10L 2015/025: {Phonemes, fenemes or fenones being the recognition units}
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING

## Abstract

The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium for improving at least one semantic unit set by using a phonetic sound. The method for improving a set including at least one semantic unit, in which the set including at least one semantic unit is a captured semantic unit set, includes: receiving an improvement phonetic sound according to utterance of a user; specifying an improvement semantic unit set on the basis of the improvement phonetic sound; specifying a semantic unit set as a target to be actually improved within the captured semantic unit set, as a matched semantic unit set, on the basis of correlation thereof with the improvement semantic unit set; and replacing the matched semantic unit set within the captured semantic unit set with the improvement semantic unit set.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for improving a set including at least one semantic unit, in which the set including the at least one semantic unit is a captured semantic unit set, the method comprising:
receiving an improvement phonetic sound according to utterance of a user;
specifying an improvement semantic unit set on the basis of the improvement phonetic sound;
specifying, as a matched semantic unit set, a semantic unit set to be actually improved within the captured semantic unit set, on the basis of correlation thereof with the improvement semantic unit set; and
replacing the matched semantic unit set within the captured semantic unit set with the improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the improvement semantic unit set is specified on the further basis of additional information.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the additional information is according to the utterance of the user.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the additional information is partial spelling information for a correct improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the partial spelling information is information regarding a predetermined number of characters which sequentially coincide with a portion of the correct improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the partial spelling information is information regarding a predetermined number of military phonetic alphabets which sequentially coincide with a portion of the correct improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the additional information includes information regarding a hint word or a hint character as to the correct improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the hint word corresponds to at least one of a word having a spelling at least partially identical or similar to that of a word in the correct improvement semantic unit set, a word for stressing a character to be included in the correct improvement semantic unit set, a word having a synonymic relationship with a word in the correct improvement semantic unit set, a word having a superordinate-subordinate relationship with a word in the correct improvement semantic unit set, and a word having an associative relationship with a word in the correct improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the additional information further includes a reserved word.

### Claim 10

An apparatus for improving a set including at least one semantic unit, in which the set including the at least one semantic unit is a captured semantic unit set, the apparatus comprising:
a voice sensing unit configured to receive an improvement phonetic sound according to utterance of a user; and
a semantic unit improving unit configured to specify an improvement semantic unit set on the basis of the improvement phonetic sound, to specify, as a matched semantic unit set, a semantic unit set to be actually improved within the captured semantic unit set, on the basis of correlation thereof with the improvement semantic unit set, and to replace the matched semantic unit set within the captured semantic unit set with the improvement semantic unit set.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method according to claim 1.