US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Rescoring automatic speech recognition hypotheses using audio-visual matching" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,054, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Rescoring automatic speech recognition hypotheses using audio-visual matching" was invented by Olivier Siohan (Mountain View, Calif.), Takaki Makino (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Rose (Mountain View, Calif.), Otavio Braga (Mountain View, Calif.), Hank Liao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Basilio Garcia Castillo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (400) includes receiving audio data (112) corresponding to an utterance (101) spoken by a user (10), receiving video data (114) representing motion of lips of the user while the user was sp...