US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 21 for "Abbreviation classification for speech synthesis and recognition" (Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,105, issued on April 21, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Abbreviation classification for speech synthesis and recognition" was invented by Mohamed Malek Abid (Waterloo, Canada) and Erwan Barry Tarik Zerhouni (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for synthesizing and/or recognizing speech. Training data is provided to a machine learning model, wherein the training data comprises a plurality of labeled examples of acronyms and initialisms. The machine learning model is trained to classify strings into an acronym class or an in...