US Patent Issued to THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE on Aug. 5 for "Speech processing system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,882, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Speech processing system and method" was invented by Thomas William John Ash (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Anthony John Robinson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech processing system includes an input for receiving an input utterance spoken by a user and a word alignment unit configured to align different sequences of acoustic speech models with the input utterance spoken by the user. Each different sequence of acoustic speech models corresponds to a different possible ...