ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,871, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Acoustic model training using corrected terms" was invented by Olga Kapralova (Bern, Switzerland), Evgeny A. Cherepanov (Adliswil, Switzerland), Dmitry Osmakov (Zurich), Martin Baeuml (Hedingen, Switzerland) and Gleb Skobeltsyn (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for speech recognition. One of the methods includes receiving first audio data corresponding to an utterance; obtaining a first transcription of the first audio data; receiving data ind...