US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Augmenting automated speech recognition neural networks with scalable vocabularies" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,151, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Augmenting automated speech recognition neural networks with scalable vocabularies" was invented by Devang Kulshreshtha (Montreal), Saket Dingliwal (Kirkland, Wash.), Sravan Babu Bodapati (Fremont, Calif.), Veera Raghavendra Elluru (Hyderabad, India), Anubhav Mishra (San Carlos, Calif.) and Katrin Kirchhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for augmenting automated speech recognition neural networks with scalable vocabularies are described. A cluster is selected from a plurality of clusters of similar sounding words based on a score, the sco...