US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 5 for "Predictor-corrector method for including speech hints in automatic speech recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,389, issued on May 5, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predictor-corrector method for including speech hints in automatic speech recognition" was invented by Mohamed Hariri Nokob (Milpitas, Calif.) and Kareem Aladdin Nassar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: receiving an automatic speech recognition (ASR) text transcript generated by an ASR process that encoded input audio into audio encodings and converted the audio encodings to ASR words of the ASR text transcript that correspond to the audio encodings; receiving speech hints for non-standard words, and generating alternati...