US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Phonetic similarity search for customizing automatic speech recognition" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,311, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Phonetic similarity search for customizing automatic speech recognition" was invented by Nilaksh Das (Seattle), Nicholas G Aldridge (Seattle), Lefan Zhang (Seattle), Jinglun Cai (Seattle), Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula (Seattle), Monica Lakshmi Sunkara (San Jose, Calif.), Kartik Rustagi (Sammamish, Wash.), John Baker (Bellevue, Wash.), Santosh Kumar Ameti (Bellevue, Wash.) and Katrin Kirchhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Phonetic similarity search may be performed for performing custom automatic speech recognition. A ranked list of possible texts...