US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,507, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques" was invented by Denis Filimonov (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing are described. The ASR processing may involve use of a segmenter and a decoder. The segmenter may be configured to identify audio segments, from audio data containing speech, based on word boundaries. The decoder may be configured to generate multiple word hypotheses for individual audio segments. A fixed-size representation of an audio segment may be generated. The descr...