ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,807, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition apparatus (2000) acquires source data (10) representing an audio signal including an utterance. The speech recognition apparatus (2000) converts the source data (10) into a text string (30). The speech recognition apparatus (2000) generates a concatenated text (40) representing a content of an utterance by concatenating a text (32) included in the text string (30). Herein, texts ...