ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,050, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Voice data creation device" was invented by Taku Katou (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Yusuke Nakashima (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Taichi Asami (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice data creation device is a device configured to create voice data including an additional word which is a word to be added to a recognition target in a speech recognition system, and includes: a sentence example extraction unit configured to extract one or more text corpora including the additional word from a text corpus group including a plurality of text corpora consisti...