ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,057, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for visual context aware automatic speech recognition" was invented by Chayan Sarkar (Kolkata, India), Pradip Pramanick (Kolkata, India) and Ruchira Singh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accuracy of transcript is of foremost importance in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). State of the art system mostly rely on spelling correction based contextual improvement in ASR, which is generally a static vocabulary based biasing approach. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for visual context ...