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App. No. 12/870,025

UTILIZING USER TRANSMITTED TEXT TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE MODEL IN MOBILE DICTATION APPLICATION

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Patent No.
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App. No.
12/870,025
Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for utilizing user transmitted text to improve language modeling in converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility; transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility; entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility; monitoring for a user selected transmission of the entered text results through a communications application on the mobile communications facility; and receiving the user selected transmitted text at the speech recognition facility and using it to improve the performance of the speech recognition facility.

Claims (8)

1 . A method of converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising:

capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility;

transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility;

generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility;

transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility;

entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility;

monitoring for a user selected transmission of the entered text results through a communications application on the mobile communications facility; and

receiving the user selected transmitted text at the speech recognition facility and using it to improve the performance of the speech recognition facility.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 12, 2011
From: VLINGO CORPORATION
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 027362/0898 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2010
From: PHILLIPS, MICHAEL S.; NGUYEN, JOHN N.
To: VLINGO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025138/0911 →