US Patent Issued to NEC on March 24 for "Speech recognition apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,585, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Speech recognition apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Shuji Komeiji (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition apparatus (2000) acquires a plurality of pieces of audio data (20) for a source audio signal including an utterance. The speech recognition apparatus (2000) generates a candidate text group (30) for each of the plurality of pieces of audio data (20). The candidate text group (30) includes a plurality of candidate texts (32). The candidate text (32) is a candidate of a text repr...