US Patent Issued to Google on April 21 for "Clustering and mining accented speech for inclusive and fair speech recognition" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,111, issued on April 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Clustering and mining accented speech for inclusive and fair speech recognition" was invented by Jaeyoung Kim (Cupertino, Calif.), Han Lu (Redmond, Wash.), Soheil Khorram (Redwood City, Calif.), Anshuman Tripathi (Mountain View, Calif.), Qian Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hasim Sak (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training an accent recognition model includes receiving a corpus of training utterances spoken across various accents, each training utterance in the corpus including training audio features characterizing the t...