US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Speech translation using latency based filler generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,082, issued on Aug. 11.

"Speech translation using latency based filler generation" was invented by Kareem Aladdin Nassar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amrutavarsh Kinagi (San Francisco) and Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system translates audio content. Speech information is derived from the audio content in a source language. The system dynamically translates the speech information to a target language using a translatable unit (TU) model. The model determines a dynamic threshold that controls an amount of the speech information used to form TUs. Responsive to reaching a dynamic threshold for a TU, ...