ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,265, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Self-training with oracle and top-ranked hypotheses" was invented by Andrew M. Rosenberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Murali Karthick Baskar (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, for each training sample of a plurality of training samples, processing, using an RNN-T model, a corresponding sequence of acoustic frames to obtain an n-best list of speech recognition hypotheses, and, for each speech recognition hypothesis of the n-best list, determining a corresponding number of word errors relat...