US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Ontology driven contextual automated speech recognition" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,496, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ontology driven contextual automated speech recognition" was invented by Ashish R. Mittal (Bengaluru, India), Samarth Bharadwaj (Bangalore, India) and Shreya Khare (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic speech recognition (ASR) computing system and methodology are provided to predict a textual representation of received input speech data. A context acoustic biasing (CAB) engine of the ASR computing system receives historical textual content and an ontology data structure. The CAB engine matches key terms identified in ...