US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Speech recognition using cadence patterns" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,759, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Speech recognition using cadence patterns" was invented by Andrew R. Freed (Cary, N.C.), Robert Michael Hervey (Apex, N.C.) and Sorabh Murgai (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for speech recognition using cadence patterns is provided. The method includes identifying speech cadence in user speech, which includes a plurality of sounds and pauses. At least one speech cadence pattern is identified from the plurality of sounds and pauses. The user speech is transcribed, and the transcribed user speech is modified based on the...