US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 2 for "Inverted projection for robust speech translation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,659, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inverted projection for robust speech translation" was invented by Dirk Ryan Padfield (Seattle) and Colin Andrew Cherry (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides an approach to train translation models that are robust to transcription errors and punctuation errors. The approach includes introducing errors from actual automatic speech recognition and automatic punctuation systems into the source side of the machine translation training data. A method for training a machine translation model includes performing automatic speech recogniti...