US Patent Issued to Google on July 15 for "Emitting word timings with end-to-end models" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,927, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Emitting word timings with end-to-end models" was invented by Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Basilio Garcia Castillo (Mountain View, Calif.), David Rybach (Munich), Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ruoming Pang (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a training example that includes audio data representing a spoken utterance and a ground truth transcription. For each word in the spoken utterance, the method also includes inserting a placeholder symbol before the respective word identifying a respective ground tru...