ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,861, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Phoneme recognition-based speech recognition method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Sining Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition method includes: performing phoneme recognition on a speech signal to obtain a phoneme recognition result corresponding to a speech frame in the speech signal, the phoneme recognition result indicating a probability distribution of the corresponding speech frame in a phoneme space, and the phoneme space comprising a plurality of phonemes and a blank o...