ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,058, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"End-to-end streaming keyword spotting" was invented by Raziel Alvarez Guevara (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Hyun Jin Park (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a hotword includes receiving a sequence of input frames that characterize streaming audio captured by a user device and generating a probability score indicating a presence of a hotword in the streaming audio using a memorized neural network. The network includes sequentially-stacked single value decomposition filter (SVDF) layers and each SVDF layer includes at least one...