US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 14 for "Two-pass end to end speech recognition" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,408, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Two-pass end to end speech recognition" was invented by Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Ruoming Pang (New York), David Rybach (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanzhang He (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rohit Prabhavalkar (Mountain View, Calif.), Wei Li (Fremont, Calif.), Mirko Visontai (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiao Liang (Redwood City, Calif.), Trevor Strohman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yonghui Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Ian C. McGraw (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chung-Cheng Chiu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-pass automatic speech recognition (ASR) models can be...