US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Method and system of detecting and improving real-time mispronunciation of words" (Chinese, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,569, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of detecting and improving real-time mispronunciation of words" was invented by Runnan Li (Beijing), Sheng Zhao (Beijing), Amit Srivastava (San Jose, Calif.), Huakai (Angelo) Liao (Vancouver, Canada), Ana Parra (San Jose, Calif.), Tapan Bohra (San Jose, Calif.), Akshay Mallipeddi (Cupertino, Calif.), Siliang Kang (Redwood City, Calif.), Lisha Ma (Beijing) and Yinhe Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for enhancing pronunciation during a speech, the method including receiving audio data, the audio...