US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "4-bit conformer with accurate quantization training for speech recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,323, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"4-bit conformer with accurate quantization training for speech recognition" was invented by Shaojin Ding (Mountain View, Calif.), Oleg Rybakov (Mountain View, Calif.), Phoenix Meadowlark (Mountain View, Calif.), Shivani Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanzhang He (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lukasz Lew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a model includes obtaining a plurality of training samples. Each respective training sample of the plurality of training samples includes a respective speech utterance and a respective tex...