US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Speech recognition for language learning systems" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,777, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech recognition for language learning systems" was invented by Jie Li (Bothell, Wash.), Pralam Shah (Bothell, Wash.), Hans Hoeijmakers (San Jose, Calif.) and Soumya Saha (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling voice-based language learning are described. A system of the present disclosure supports receipt of speech inputs in a user's native language and a language the user is learning. The system runs an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component configured for transcribing speech in the native language (e.g., English) an...