US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 2 for "Adaptable acoustic model built with limited labeling data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,657, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adaptable acoustic model built with limited labeling data" was invented by Zhong Fang Yuan (Xi'an, China), Si Tong Zhao (Beijing), Tong Liu (Xi'an, China), Yi Chen Zhong (Shanghai) and Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for building an acoustic model is provided. The present invention may include performing contrastive pre-training of the acoustic model; building a dataset classifier using prompt engineering; performing a prediction pro...