US Patent Issued to NEC on June 10 for "Speech recognition apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,548, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Speech recognition apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Shuji Komeiji (Tokyo), Ryoji Yoshida (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition apparatus (2000) includes a first model (10) and a second model (20). The first model (10) is learned by training data with an audio frame as input data, and with, as correct answer data, compressed character string data acquired by encoding character string data represented by the audio frame. The second model (20) is a learned decoder (44) acquired by lea...