ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,517, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Endpointing in speech processing" was invented by Roland Maximilian Rolf Maas (Seattle), Bjorn Hoffmeister (Seattle), Ariya Rastrow (Seattle), James Garnet Droppo (Carnation, Wash.), Veerdhawal Pande (Walpole, Mass.), Maarten Van Segbroeck (San Diego), Gautam Tiwari (Fremont, Calif.), Andrew Smith (Seattle) and Eli Joshua Fidler (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech-processing system may determine potential endpoints in a user's speech. Such endpoint prediction may include determining a potential endpoint in a stream of audio data, and may additio...