US Patent Issued to Google on April 7 for "Exporting modular encoder features for streaming and deliberation ASR" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,417, issued on April 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Exporting modular encoder features for streaming and deliberation ASR" was invented by Rami Magdi Fahmi Botros (Mountain View, Calif.), Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Ciprian Ioan Chelba (Mountain View, Calif.) and Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a base encoder from a pre-trained model, and receiving training data comprising a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing an utterance paired with a ground-...