US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 30 for "Automated segmentation and transcription of unlabeled audio speech corpus" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,100, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automated segmentation and transcription of unlabeled audio speech corpus" was invented by Astik Biswas (Siliguri, India), Abdelmoumene Boumadane (Levallois-Perret, France), Stephane Peillon (Lannion, France) and Gildas Bleas (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining initial transcription for input natural speech; performing segmentation of initial transcription into text portions, based on punctuation marks in initial transcription; determining segment-level timestamps for text portions based on the ...