US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Automatic speech recognition" (Canadian, American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,480, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatic speech recognition" was invented by Jing Liu (Pittsburgh), Feng-Ju Chang (Pittsburgh), Athanasios Mouchtaris (Pittsburgh), Martin Radfar (North York, Canada), Maurizio Omologo (Altopiano della Vigolana, Italy) and Siegfried Kunzmann (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) are described. In some embodiments, an ASR component integrates contextual information from user profile data into audio encoding data to predict a token(s) corresponding to a spoken input. The user profile...