US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Contextual spelling correction (CSC) for automatic speech recognition (ASR)" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,413, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Contextual spelling correction (CSC) for automatic speech recognition (ASR)" was invented by Xiaoqiang Wang (Beijing), Yanqing Liu (Beijing), Sheng Zhao (Beijing) and Jinyu Li (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel solutions for speech recognition provide contextual spelling correction (CSC) for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Disclosed examples include receiving an audio stream; performing an ASR process on the audio stream to produce an ASR hypothesis; receiving a context list; and, based on at least the ASR hypothesis a...