US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 23 for "Contextual tagging and biasing of grammars inside word lattices" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,212, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Contextual tagging and biasing of grammars inside word lattices" was invented by Petar Aleksic (Jersey City, N.J.), Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar (Jersey City, N.J.) and Leonid Velikovich (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing contextual grammar selection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance. The actions include generating a word lattice that includes multiple candidate transcription...