US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 18 for "Conditional factorization for jointly modeling code-switched and monolingual ASR" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,914, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Conditional factorization for jointly modeling code-switched and monolingual ASR" was invented by Chunlei Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Brian Yan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for automatic speech recognition using conditional factorization for bilingual code-switched and monolingual speech may include receiving an audio observation sequence comprising a plurality of frames, the audio observation sequence including audio in a first language or...