US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Speech recognition method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,039, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech recognition method and apparatus" was invented by Xifeng Yao (Nanjing, China) and Kaiji Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided. The speech recognition method includes: obtaining a first speech text (S510); obtaining modal information that matches the first speech text; and performing multimodal semantic understanding with reference to the first speech text and the modal information, to output an intention and a slot. According to the speech recognition method, an intent...