Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation for Automated Speech Scoring
- Author(s):
- Xie, Shasha; Chen, Lei
- Patent Issued:
- Dec 29, 2015
- Patent Number:
- 9,224,383
- Source:
- ETS Patent
- Document Type:
- Patent
- Family ID:
- 49236217
- Subject/Key Words:
- Patent, Active Patent, Language Models, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing, Speech Scoring, Speech Sample, Data Analysis, Speech Transcription
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for generating a transcript of a speech sample response to a test question. The speech sample response to the test question is provided to a language model, where the language model is configured to perform an automated speech recognition function. The language model is adapted to the test question to improve the automated speech recognition function by providing to the language model automated speech recognition data related to the test question, Internet data related to the test question, or human-generated transcript data related to the test question. The transcript of the speech sample is generated using the adapted language model.