US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle-based speech unit with hybrid language detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,735, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle-based speech unit with hybrid language detection" was invented by Gaurav Talwar (Novi, Mich.), Xu Fang Zhao (LaSalle, Canada), Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Prabhjot Kaur (Portland, Ore.) and Kenneth R. Booker (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid language identification (HLI) system includes one or more microphones configured to detect an acoustic utterance within an interior of a host system, a speaker operable for broadcasting a prompt or response within the interior of the host system, a processor, and ...