Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xiaoqiang Wang

Jinyu Li

Sheng Zhao

Yanqing Liu

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 and the context list, performing spelling correction to produce an output text sequence. A contextual spelling correction (CSC) model is used on top of an ASR model, precluding the need for changing the original ASR model. This permits run-time user customization based on contextual data, even for large-size context lists. Some examples include filtering ASR hypotheses for the audio stream and, based on at least the ASR hypotheses filtering, determining whether to trigger spelling correction for the ASR hypothesis. Some examples include generating text to speech (TTS) audio using preprocessed transcriptions with context phrases to train the CSC model.

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Xiaoqiang Wang