ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,263, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for constructing speech recognition model and speech processing" was invented by Shi Yin (Shenzhen, China), Tao Huang (Beijing), Yibin Zhai (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohui Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a speech recognition model includes obtaining a target keyword; determining a synonym group semantically associated with the target keyword; training a language model based on the target keyword and the synonym group; to obtain a target language model; generating a first decoding gra...