US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Infusing knowledge graphs into automatic speech recognition" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,659, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Infusing knowledge graphs into automatic speech recognition" was invented by Monica Lakshmi Sunkara (San Jose, Calif.), Nilaksh Das (Seattle), Sravan Babu Bodapati (Redmond, Wash.) and Katrin Kirchhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for converting speech to text. In one aspect, a method for converting speech to text includes generating an initial transcript of an audio or video file. At least one named entity may be extracted from the initial transcript using entity recognition. A subset of nodes of a knowledge grap...