ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,088, issued on April 14, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Training a device specific acoustic model" was invented by Keyvan Mohajer (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Mehul Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Custom acoustic models can be configured by developers by providing audio files with custom recordings. The custom acoustic model is trained by tuning a baseline model using the audio files. Audio files may contain custom noise to apply to clean speech for training. The custom acoustic model is provided as an alternative to a standard acoustic model. A speech recognition system can select ...