US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Generating topic-specific language models" (California, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,157, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating topic-specific language models" was invented by David F. Houghton (Brattleboro, Vt.), Seth Michael Murray (Redwood City, Calif.) and Sibley Verbeck Simon (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speech recognition may be improved by generating and using a topic specific language model. A topic specific language model may be created by performing an initial pass on an audio signal using a generic or basis language model. A speech recognition device may then determine topics relating to the audio signal based on the words identifi...