ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,271, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Utterance classifier" was invented by Nathan David Howard (Mountain View, Calif.), Gabor Simko (Santa Clara, Calif.), Maria Carolina Parada San Martin (Boulder, Colo.), Ramkarthik Kalyanasundaram (Cupertino, Calif.), Guru Prakash Arumugam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Srinivas Vasudevan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a spoken utterance that includes a plurality of words, and generating, using a neural network-based utterance classifier comprising a stack of multiple Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) layers, a respecti...