US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 9 for "Speech recognition using word or phoneme time markers based on user input" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,197, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Speech recognition using word or phoneme time markers based on user input" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating target speech from background noise contained in an input audio signal includes receiving the input audio signal captured by a user device, wherein the input audio signal corresponds to target speech of multiple words spoken by a target user and containing background noise in the presence of the user device while the target user spoke the multiple words in the target speech. The method ...