US 11,735,186 B2
Hybrid live captioning systems and methods
Roger S. Zimmerman, Boston, MA (US); Christopher S. Antunes, Winchester, MA (US); Stephanie A. Laing, Somerville, MA (US); John W. Slocum, Newton, MA (US); Nicholas R. Moutis, Somerville, MA (US); and Theresa M. Kettelberger, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to 3Play Media, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed by 3Play Media, Inc., Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/467,764.
Prior Publication US 2023/0077037 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/01 (2013.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G10L 15/28 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/26 (2013.01) [G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/56 (2020.01); G10L 15/01 (2013.01); G10L 15/285 (2013.01)] 48 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer system configured to generate captions, the computer system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to
access a first buffer configured to store text generated by an automated speech recognition (ASR) process;
access a second buffer configured to store text generated by a captioning client process;
arbitrate between the first buffer and the second buffer to identify either the first buffer or the second buffer as a source buffer of caption text;
generate caption text from the source buffer; and
communicate the caption text to a target process.