US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Parameter-efficient model reprogramming for cross-lingual speech recognition" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,086, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Parameter-efficient model reprogramming for cross-lingual speech recognition" was invented by Bo Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Nanxin Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chao-Han Huck Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.) and Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining an ASR model trained to recognize speech in a first language and receiving transcribed training utterances in a second language. The method ...