Speech recognition with feedback from natural language processing for adaptation of acoustic models

A speech processing method comprising:

• a speech recognition step of performing speech recognition on input speech to produce a speech recognition result using acoustic models;
• and
• a natural-language processing step of performing natural language processing on said speech recognition result, said natural-language processing step including
• a feedback step of feeding back information obtained as a result of the natural language processing performed on the speech recognition result to said speech recognition step, said feedback information including adaptation zones,
• wherein said speech recognition step comprises
• an adaptation process step of processing the information fed back from said feedback step to adapt the acoustic models so that said speech recognition step produces the speech recognition result with higher precision than when said adaptation process step is not performed.

A recording medium for recording a program which causes a computer to perform speech recognition processing, said program comprising:

• a speech recognition step of performing speech recognition on input speech to produce a speech recognition result using acoustic models;
• and
• a natural-language processing step of performing natural language processing on said speech recognition result, said natural-language processing step including
• a feedback step of feeding back information obtained as a result of the natural language processing performed on the speech recognition result to said speech recognition step, said feedback information including adaptation zones,
• wherein said speech recognition step comprises
• an adaptation process step of processing the information fed back from said feedback step to adapt the acoustic models so that said speech recognition step produces the speech recognition result with higher precision than when said adaptation process step is not performed.