By using the Aculab site, you agree with our use of cookies.
right  Talk To Us!

word hint

  Available in REST API Version 2 and later.

An object that contains one or more hints, which are provided to the speech recogniser in order to improve accuracy by using its speech adaptation feature.

It may be used:
  • to improve the recognition of words or phrases expected to be spoken often.
  • to expand the recogniser's vocabulary, for example with unusual names or domain specific words.
  • with class tokens to improve the recognition of common concepts such as times, phone numbers and postal codes.

Please see Speech Adaptation for further information.

Used in class speech recognition options

language wrappers and examples

It has the following properties:

PropertyRequired/OptionalDefaultDescription
wordsrequiredAn array of strings each containing a word, phrase or class token. See above.
priorityoptional0An integer. Sets the boost for this group of words, phrases or class tokens. The priority value is 100 times the boost required. For example, a boost of 12.5 has a priority of 1250.

  • Examples:


    • Create a word hint object:

          {
             "words": 
      		[ 
      			"England", "Wales", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland"
      		]
          }