US Patent Issued to Google on July 8 for "Disfluency detection models for natural conversational voice systems" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,597, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Disfluency detection models for natural conversational voice systems" was invented by Shuo-yiin Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo Li (Fremont, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Chao Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing one or more utterances. At each of a plurality of output steps, the method also includes generating, by an encoder network of a speech recognition model, a higher order feature representation for a c...