Acoustic scoring unit implemented on a single FPGA or ASIC

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A hardware acoustic scoring unit for a speech recognition system and a method of operation thereof are provided. Rather than scoring all senones in an acoustic model used for the speech recognition system, acoustic scoring logic first scores a set of ciphones based on acoustic features for one frame of sampled speech. The acoustic scoring logic then scores senones associated with the N highest scored ciphones. In one embodiment, the number (N) is three. While the acoustic scoring logic scores the senones associated with the N highest scored ciphones, high score ciphone identification logic operates in parallel with the acoustic scoring unit to identify one or more additional ciphones that have scores greater than a threshold. Once the acoustic scoring unit finishes scoring the senones for the N highest scored ciphones, the acoustic scoring unit then scores senones associated with the one or more additional ciphones.

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CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY5000 FORBES AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA 15213

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Rutenbar, Rob A Pittsburgh, US 11 106
Yu, Kai Pittsburgh, US 116 1276

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