ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,595, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Deliberation by text-only and semi-supervised training" was invented by Ke Hu (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Yanzhang He (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rohit Prabhavalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sepand Mavandadi (Mountain View, Calif.), Weiran Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of text-only and semi-supervised training for deliberation includes receiving training data including unspoken textual utterances that are each not paired with any corresponding spoken utterance of no...