US Patent Issued to Nvidia on April 1 for "Pronunciation features for language models" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,350, issued on April 1, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pronunciation features for language models" was invented by Siddha Ganju (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruthie Lyle (Durham, N.C.) and Steven Dalton (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed toward evaluating auditory inputs against a range of tolerance to provide feedback regarding pronunciation. An auditory input may be evaluated using a trained machine learning system and evaluated for similarity against a target word. Similarity may be scored and then evaluated to determine whether the similarity falls within a range of toleranc...