ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,560, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Natural human-computer interaction for virtual personal assistant systems" was invented by William C. Deleeuw (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for natural language interactions with virtual personal assistant systems include a computing device configured to capture audio input, distort the audio input to produce a number of distorted audio variations, and perform speech recognition on the audio input and the distorted audio variants. The computing device selects a result from a large number of potential speech recognition results b...