ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,934, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Boosting words in automated speech recognition" was invented by Jacob Assa (New York), Alan Bekker (Givaat Shmuel, Israel) and Zach Moshe (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing automated speech recognition. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: accessing a language model that includes a plurality of n-grams, each of the plurality of n-grams comprising a respective sequence of words and corresponding LM score; selecting a target word to boost in the language model; receiving a boosting f...