US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Allocation of local and remote resources for speech processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,578, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Allocation of local and remote resources for speech processing" was invented by Sanjoy Ghosh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pieter Sierd van der Meulen (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speech processing tasks may be allocated at least partly to a local device (e.g., user computing device that receives spoken words) and at least partly to a remote device to determine one or more user commands or tasks to be performed by the local device. The remote device may be used to process speech that the local device could not process or understand, or for oth...