ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,219, issued on May 13, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Meaning inference from speech audio" was invented by Sudharsan Krishnaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Maisy Wieman (Boulder, Colo.) and Jonah Probell (Alviso, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method invoke virtual assistant action, which may comprise an argument. From audio, a probability of an intent is inferred. A probability of a domain and a plurality of variable values may also be inferred. Invoking the action is in response to the intent probability exceeding a threshold. Invoking the action may also be in response to the domain prob...