ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,555, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Joint training of speech recognition and speech synthesis models for conversational AI systems and applications" was invented by Xianchao Wu (Tokyo), Yi Dong (Lexington, Mass.) and Scott Nunweiler (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for training machine learning models. The techniques include providing a first data of a first modality as input to a first machine learning model to obtain a first output of a second modality, providing the first output of the second modality as input to a second machine learning ...