US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Contrastive Siamese network for semi-supervised speech recognition" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,059, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Contrastive Siamese network for semi-supervised speech recognition" was invented by Jaeyoung Kim (Cupertino, Calif.), Soheil Khorram (Redwood City, Calif.), Hasim Sak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anshuman Tripathi (Mountain View, Calif.), Han Lu (Redmond, Wash.) and Qian Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a plurality of unlabeled audio samples corresponding to spoken utterances not paired with corresponding transcriptions. At a target branch of a contrastive Siamese network, the method also includes generating a...