Speech recognition technology has attained maturity such that the most likel y speech recognition result has been reached and is available before an energy based termination of speech has been made. The present invention innovatively uses therapidly available speech recognition results to prov ide intelligent barge-in forvoice-response systems and, to count words to ou tput sub-sequences to provide paralleling and/or pipelining of tasks related to the entire word sequence to increase p rocessing throughput.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORD COUNTING IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION USEFUL FOR RELIABLE BARGE-IN AND EARLY END OF SPEECH DETECTION