US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Joint segmenting and automatic speech recognition" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,233, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Joint segmenting and automatic speech recognition" was invented by Ronny Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Shuo-yiin Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Rybach (Munich), Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Cyril Allauzen (Mountain View, Calif.), Charles Caleb Peyser (New York) and Zhiyun Lu (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint segmenting and ASR model includes an encoder and decoder. The encoder configured to: receive a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing one or more utterances; and generate...