US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 3 for "Using prosody in spoken language understanding" (American, Canadian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,403, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Using prosody in spoken language understanding" was invented by Kai Wei (Pittsburgh), Martin Radfar (North York, Canada), Thanh Dac Tran (Arlington, Mass.), Grant Strimel (Presto, Pa.), Nathan Anthony Susanj (York, Pa.), Athanasios Mouchtaris (Pittsburgh), Maurizio Omologo (Altopiano della Vigolana, Italy) and Markus Mueller (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining and using relevant prosody information for spoken language understanding (SLU) processing are described. In some embodiments, a system determines local prosody data fo...