ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,495, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Speech to entity" was invented by Alan Bekker (Givaat Shmuel, Israel), Jacob Assa (New York), Itamar Schen (Jerusalem) and Einav Itamar (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for extracting entities from received speech. The systems and methods perform operations comprising receiving an audio file comprising speech input and processing, by a speech recognition engine, the audio file comprising the speech input to generate an initial character-based representation of the speech input. The operations further comprise pro...