US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 21 for "Self-adaptive distillation" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,480, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Self-adaptive distillation" was invented by Isabel Leal (Mountain View, Calif.), Neeraj Gaur (Mountain View, Calif.), Parisa Haghani (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Farris (Mountain View, Calif.), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.), Manasa Prasad (Mountain View, Calif.), Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar (Jersey City, N.J.) and Yun Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distilling one or more trained teacher automatic speech recognition (ASR) models into a multilingual student model includes receiving a plurality of teacher training ...