US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 30 for "Unsupervised data selection via discrete speech representation for automatic speech recognition" (California, New York, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,095, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unsupervised data selection via discrete speech representation for automatic speech recognition" was invented by Zhiyun Lu (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Wei Han (Redwood City, Calif.), Yongqiang Wang (Kirkland, Wash.), Parisa Haghani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zhehuai Chen (Edgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a corpus of unlabeled training data including a plurality of spoken utterances, each corresponding spoken utterance of the plurality of spoken utterances includes audio data characterizing th...