ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,053, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech recognition method and related apparatus" was invented by Yongjun Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition method includes: inputting a speech into a speech recognition model which includes N hidden layers; predicting speech recognition accuracy corresponding to the ith hidden layer according to the hidden layer information and an accuracy prediction model that are corresponding to the ith hidden layer, the speech recognition accuracy indicating a degree of matching between a speech recognition result deter...