Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jon Hamaker

Julian James Odell

Michael D Plumpe

Christopher Dac Le

Rob Chambers

Onur Domanic

Nikko Strom

Michael V Calcagno

Michael P Wilson

Keith Coleman Herold

Travis Wilson

David Notario

Tom Millet

Tom Millett

Michael Calcagno

The present disclosure describes an exemplary hybrid client/server architecture that may be utilized leverage the unique capabilities of both remote and local services. Data may be processed in parallel by remote and local processes. Results generated during the parallel processing may be exchanged between remote and local services and used to update results generated by the separate services. The hybrid client/server architecture may be utilized to generate enhanced inferences, hybrid subscriptions base upon local and remote subscriptions, and enhance natural language expression evaluation services.

Hybrid client/server architecture for parallel processing

A local feedback mechanism for customizing training models based on user data and directed user feedback is provided in speech recognition applications. The feedback data is filtered at different levels to address privacy concerns for local storage and for submittal to a system developer for enhancement of generic training models.

Local and remote aggregation of feedback data for speech recognition

A speech recognition system is provided with iteratively refined multiple passes through the received data to enhance the accuracy of the results by introducing constraints and adaptation from initial passes into subsequent recognition operations. The multiple passes are performed on an initial utterance received from a user. The iteratively enhanced subsequent passes are also performed on following utterances received from the user increasing an overall system efficiency and accuracy.

Progressive application of knowledge sources in multistage speech recognition

Textual preview of a voicemail is generated and provided through email or similar media to users along with the audio version. Transcription of the textual version, as well as additional capabilities such as actionable terms, playback-jump, switching between text and audio versions, direct or metadata based searchability, and enhanced response capabilities are provided based on contextual data obtained from voicemail metadata and user associated data stores such as contact list, email history.

Enhanced voicemail usage through automatic voicemail preview

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