ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,027, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CURAI INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Speech signal processing using artificial intelligence" was invented by Rhys Compton (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xavier Amatriain (Los Gatos, Calif.), Li Deng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anitha Kannan (Saratoga, Calif.), Ilya Valmianski (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jian Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of speech signal processing using artificial intelligence, includes receiving, with at least one processor, a digital speech signal, converting, with the at least one processor, the digital speech signal to text, performing self-alignment...