US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 28 for "Multi-task learning for end-to-end automated speech recognition confidence and deletion estimation" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,460, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-task learning for end-to-end automated speech recognition confidence and deletion estimation" was invented by David Qiu (Brookline, Mass.), Yanzhang He (Mountain View, Calif.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiujia Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Liangliang Cao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ian McGraw (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a speech recognition result corresponding to a transcription of an utterance spoken by a user. For each sub-word unit in a sequence of hypothesized sub-word units of the speec...