Continuous automatic speech segmentation and recognition systems and methods are described that include a detector coupled to a neural network. The neural network performs speech recognition processing on feature vectors sequentially extracted from an audio data stream to attempt to recognize a word from a set of words of a predetermined vocabulary. The neural network has word neural paths to each output a respective word output signal to the detector for each of the set of words. The neural network also has a trigger neural path to output a trigger signal to the detector to control when the detector reviews the word output signals to recognize the word.
NEURAL NETWORK FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION