US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 17 for "Mixture-of-expert conformer for streaming multilingual ASR" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,573, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mixture-of-expert conformer for streaming multilingual ASR" was invented by Ke Hu (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Bo Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a multilingual ASR model includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames characterizing an utterance of speech. At a plurality of output steps, the method further includes generating a first higher order feature representation for an acoustic frame by a first encoder that...