US Patent 9299347 Speech recognition using associative mapping

Methods, systems, and apparatus are described that receive audio data for an utterance. Association data is accessed that indicates associations between data corresponding to uncorrupted audio segments, and data corresponding to corrupted versions of the uncorrupted audio segments, where the associations are determined before receiving the audio data for the utterance. Using the association data and the received audio data for the utterance, data corresponding to at least one uncorrupted audio segment is selected. A transcription of the utterance is determined based on the selected data corresponding to the at least one uncorrupted audio segment.