ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,553, issued on April 14, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Speech translation method, device, and storage medium" was invented by Lei Li (Beijing), Mingxuan Wang (Beijing), Qianqian Dong (Beijing) and Chengqi Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a speech translation method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: extracting, through an encoder of an end-to-end speech translation model, the semantic feature of a to-be-processed speech; decoding, through a decoder of the end-to-end speech translation model, a source language text corresponding to the semantic fe...