ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,191, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automatic speech recognition" was invented by Jing Liu (Pittsburgh), Qi Luo (Seattle), Xinyu Ren (Etobicoke, Canada), Ariya Rastrow (Seattle), Ankur Gandhe (Bothell, Wash.), Denis Filimonov (Seattle), Grant Strimel (Presto, Pa.), Andreas Stolcke (Berkeley, Calif.), Ivan Bulyko (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Rahul Pandey (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that incorporates contextual entity information when performing automatic speech processing (ASR) using a neural network architecture. The system identifies entities that may be related to the...