US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "System and method for adapting natural language understanding (NLU) engines optimized on text to audio input" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,784, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for adapting natural language understanding (NLU) engines optimized on text to audio input" was invented by Jean-Francois Lavallee (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of potential vocalizations of a plurality of text samples. A plurality of phonemes associated with the plurality of potential vocalizations are identified. A plurality of phonetically-related text portions are generated based upon, at least in part, the plurality of ph...