US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Oct. 14 for "Streaming end-to-end speech recognition method, apparatus and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,404, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Streaming end-to-end speech recognition method, apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Shiliang Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Zhifu Gao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, and an electronic device for streaming end-to-end speech recognition are described. The method includes: extracting and encoding speech acoustic features of a received voice stream in units of frames; performing block processing, and predicting a number of activation points included in a same block that need to be encoded a...