US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "System and method for spectral pooling in streaming speech processing" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,227, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for spectral pooling in streaming speech processing" was invented by Felix Weninger (Burlington, Mass.), Dario Albesano (Venaria Reale, Italy) and Puming Zhan (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for inserting a spectral pooling layer into a neural network of a speech processing system. An output of a hidden layer of the neural network is filtered using the spectral pooling layer with a non-integer stride. The filtered output is provided to a subsequent hi...