US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 29 for "Accuracy of streaming RNN transducer" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,551, issued on April 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accuracy of streaming RNN transducer" was invented by Gakuto Kurata (Tokyo) and George Andrei Saon (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for model training. The method includes training a second end-to-end neural speech recognition model that has a bidirectional encoder to output same symbols from an output probability lattice of the second end-to-end neural speech recognition model as from an output probability lattice of a trained first end-to-end neural speech recognition model having a...