US 11,676,607 B2
Contextual denormalization for automatic speech recognition
Assaf Hurwitz Michaely, Long Island City, NY (US); Petar Aleksic, Jersey City, NJ (US); and Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Jersey City, NJ (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/652,923.
Application 17/652,923 is a continuation of application No. 17/009,494, filed on Sep. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,282,525.
Application 17/009,494 is a continuation of application No. 16/192,953, filed on Nov. 16, 2018, granted, now 10,789,955, issued on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0277749 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 15/26 (2013.01) [G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 2015/228 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method when executed on data processing hardware of causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising
receiving a speech input from a user;
obtaining context metadata associated with the speech input, the context metadata indicating that the speech input comprises dictated speech directed to a messaging application that is currently executing on a user device for inclusion in an electronic message;
generating, using a speech recognizer, a raw speech recognition result corresponding to the speech input, the raw speech recognition result comprising an explicit punctuation term spoken by the user;
based on the context metadata indicating that the speech input comprises dictated speech directed to the messaging application, denormalizing the generated raw speech recognition result into denormalized text by applying an explicit punctuation denormalizer to convert the explicit punctuation term in the raw speech recognition result into a corresponding punctuation symbol; and
displaying, on a display screen of the user device, the denormalized text including the corresponding punctuation symbol.