US Patent Issued to BEIJING TRANSTREAMS TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 4 for "Methods and devices for structured pruning for automatic speech recognition" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,794, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BEIJING TRANSTREAMS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for structured pruning for automatic speech recognition" was invented by Yongxiong Ren (San Jose, Calif.), Bingbing Li (Stafford Spring, Conn.), Yang Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Lingzhi Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for automatic speech recognition are provided. The method includes: generating a weight matrix for a layer of a plurality of layers in a neural network; dividing the weight matrix into a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of weights; selecting a set ...