Patent Document ID: 9484031
Application ID: 14027664

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of correcting text being performed on a computing device, the method comprising: determining a target text unit to be corrected in the text by selecting the target text unit from a plurality of recognized text units, wherein the target text unit is selected based on a lowest confidence value corresponding to the target text unit; displaying the text to a user on a display of the computing device and indicating the target text unit to be corrected on the display; receiving, via graphical user interface of the computing device, a reference voice segment of the user, wherein the reference voice segment comprises a sentence or phrase; performing automatic voice recognition on the reference voice segment to obtain a reference text segment, wherein the reference text segment comprises a plurality of reference text units; determining that one of the plurality of reference text units has a pronunciation similar to a word in the target text unit, wherein the reference voice segment is in Chinese and the text is in Chinese characters that are divided into a first phoneme and a second phoneme and the pronunciation similarity between two Chinese characters is measured according to an average similarity per phoneme, wherein the average similarity per phoneme is obtained from a sum of the phoneme similarities of the two Chinese characters, that are being compared, divided by two; and correcting the word in the target text unit in the text using the reference text unit with the similar pronunciation.

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Claim 8:
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining a target text unit to be corrected in a text further comprises: receiving a selection by the user for text units in the text to determine the target text unit to be corrected.