ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,875, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Phrase extraction for ASR models" was invented by Ehsan Amid (Mountain View, Calif.), Om Dipakbhai Thakkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rajiv Mathews (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of phrase extraction for ASR models includes obtaining audio data characterizing an utterance and a corresponding ground-truth transcription of the utterance and modifying the audio data to obfuscate a particular phrase recited in the utterance. The method also includes processing, using a trained ASR model, the ...