ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,557, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for human speech processing" was invented by Remi Louis Clement Poncot (Grenoble, France), Abbas Ataya (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Peter George Hartwell (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for human speech processing in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, human speech is received at a speech interface of the ASR system, wherein the ASR system comprises embedded componentry for onboard processing of the human speech and cloud-based componentry for remote processing of the human speech. A keyword is identified at the speech interface wi...