ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,656, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Spoken language recognition" was invented by Oriol Nieto-Caballero (Oakland, Calif.), Zeyu Jin (San Francisco), Justin Jonathan Salamon (San Francisco) and Franck Dernoncourt (Spokane, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of the technology described herein employ a neural network with an efficient and lightweight architecture to perform spoken language recognition. Given an audio signal comprising speech, features are generated from the audio signal, for instance, by converting the audio signal to a normalized spectrogram. The features are input to t...