US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 28 for "Self-supervised speech recognition" (Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,491, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self-supervised speech recognition" was invented by Cheng-I Lai (Cambridge, Mass.), Yang Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Kaizhi Qian (Champaign, Ill.), Chuang Gan (Cambridge, Mass.), James R. Glass (Winchester, Mass.) and Alexander Haojan Liu (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computer processors obtain an initial subnetwork at a target sparsity and an initial pruning mask from a pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) speech model. The one or more computer processors finetune the initial subnetwork, comprising: the one ...