US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 28 for "Diagnostic service in speech recognition" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,865, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Diagnostic service in speech recognition" was invented by Haoxuan Li (Beijing), Rui Jiang (Beijing), Yang Liu (Beijing), Edward C Lin (Beijing), Lei Sun (Beijing) and Che Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying targeted datasets that are configured to facilitate an improvement in the accuracy of an acoustic model included in the automatic speech recognition system. Systems obtain a obtain a test dataset comprising (i) audio data having natural speech utterances and (ii) a transcription of...