ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,872, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Personalized multi-modal spoken language identification" was invented by Divya Neelagiri (Dublin, Calif.), Cindy Sushen Tseng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vijendra Raj Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining an audio input of a person speaking, where the audio input is captured by an electronic device. The method also includes, for each of multiple language types, (i) determining a first probability that the person is speaking in the language type by applying a trained spoken language identificat...