Patent 10490183 was granted and assigned to Amazon on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques for automated speech recognition (ASR) are described. A user can upload an audio file to a storage location. The user then provides the ASR service with a reference to the audio file. An ASR engine analyzes the audio file, using an acoustic model to divide the audio data into words, and a language model to identify the words spoken in the audio file. The acoustic model can be trained using audio sentence data, enabling the transcription service to accurately transcribe lengthy audio data. The results are punctuated and normalized, and the resulting transcript is returned to the user.