US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Zero-shot task expansion of ASR models using task vectors" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,799, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Zero-shot task expansion of ASR models using task vectors" was invented by Kartik Audhkhasi (Mountain View, Calif.), Gowtham Ramesh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes training, using an un-supervised learning technique, an auxiliary ASR model based on a first set of un-transcribed source task speech utterances to determine a first task vector, training, using the un-supervised learning technique, the auxiliary ASR model based on a second set of un-transcribed speech utterances to ...