US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 23 for "Federated knowledge distillation on an encoder of a global ASR model and/or an encoder of a client ASR model" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,978, issued on June 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Federated knowledge distillation on an encoder of a global ASR model and/or an encoder of a client ASR model" was invented by Ehsan Amid (Mountain View, Calif.), Rajiv Mathews (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shankar Kumar (New York), Jared Lichtarge (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mingqing Chen (Saratoga, Calif.), Tien-Ju Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yuxin Ding (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information can be distilled from a global automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to a client ASR model. Many implementations include using an RNN-T model as the ASR model, ...