ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,983, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yui Sudo (Saitama, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakadai (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuya Hata (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition device includes: an acquisition part, acquiring a speech signal; a speech feature amount calculation part, calculating a speech feature amount; a first speech recognition part, based on the speech feature amount, performing speech recognition using a learned first E2E model, attaching a first tag to a vocab...