US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Contextual biasing for speech recognition" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,800, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Contextual biasing for speech recognition" was invented by Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Golan Pundak (New York) and Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving audio data encoding an utterance and obtaining a set of bias phrases corresponding to a context of the utterance. Each bias phrase includes one or more words. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognition model, acoustic features derived from the audio to generate an output from the speech recognition model. The s...