US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Sept. 8 for "End-to-end speech recognition adapted for multi-speaker applications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,590, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"End-to-end speech recognition adapted for multi-speaker applications" was invented by Niko Moritz (Allston, Mass.), Jonathan Le Roux (Cambridge, Mass.) and Takaaki Hori (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR). The system configured to collect a sequence of acoustic frames associated with a mixture of speeches performed by multiple speakers. Each frame from the sequence of acoustic frames is encoded using a multi-head encoder which encodes each frame ...